Research and Research Projects at the IAS

The GIGA Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) analyses socio-economic and political affairs in East and South East Asian countries. Of particular interest to the Institute are country-specific and regional developments with relevance to German decision-makers in politics, administration, business, and society at large. Research conducted at the IAS is of a multi-disciplinary nature and combines context-sensitivity with appropriate theories and methods drawn from the social sciences.

Research at the IAS is undertaken by permanent members of staff as well as external researchers working on third-party funded projects. The IAS aims at expanding the range of research projects funded by scholarly foundations and other external sources of finance.

IAS Research Fellows participate on a regular basis in national and international conferences and symposia. All IAS researchers are also
affiliated with one of the three Comparative Area Studies Research Programmes currently existing at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.

Third-party funded projects

Current (selection):

Title	Researcher(s) involved	Source(s) of funding	Duration
Civil society organisations as supporters of authoritarian rule? A cross-regional comparison (Vietnam, Algeria and Mozambique)	Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner / Dr. Jörg Wischermann / N.N.	DFG	2013-2015
Regional Order and Regionalism in Asia	Dr. des Nadine Godehardt / Nicola Nymalm	DFG	2013
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities	Dr. Karsten Giese, Dr. Laurence Marfaing, Alena Thiel	DFG	2013-2015
New Challenges and Partnerships in the Age of Multipolarity: Indian and European Perspectives	Dr. Sandra Destradi	DFG	2013
Employment, Empowerment and Living Standard	Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jann Lay / Lena Giesbert / Dr. Daniel Neff / Sarah Linde / Will Monteith / Dr. Sebastian Prediger	KfW	2012-2014
Economies and Innovation in Asia	Prof. Dr. Erich Gundlach, Cornelis Haasnoot, Karsten Mau	Claussen-Simon-Stiftung	2010-2015
Ideological Change and Regime Legitimacy in China	Dr. Heike Holbig / Maria Bondes / Sandra Heep	BMBF	2010-2014

Concluded:

Title	Researcher(s) involved	Source(s) of funding	Duration
China's Core Foreign Policy Interests	Dr. Dr. Nele Noesselt	EU-Kommission	2012
When Mediation Fails: A Pilot Project on the Impact of Failed Mediation on the Escalation of Civil Wars	Dr. Sandra Destradi / Johannes Vüllers	Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF)	1 February.-31 July.2012
South Korea as an Emerging Power - Addressing Leadership and Followership	PD Dr. Patrick Köllner / David Shim	Korea Foundation	2011-2012
Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)	Dr. Karsten Giese, Dr. Laurence Marfaing, Alena Thiel	DFG	2011-2012
Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialogue	Dr. Margot Schüller	FP7	2008-2012
Development and implementation of schooling survey in India and Vietnam	Dr. Daniel Neff	Young Lives, Oxford University	2009-2011
Imaging Distress – The Significance of Visual Images in the Representation of North Korea	PD Dr. Patrick Köllner / David Shim	Academy of Korean Studies	2010-2011
Study on China's engagement in Southeast Asia	Dr. Margot Schüller / Dr. Marco Bünte	BMZ	2009-2010
The influence of parties, old and new civil society on social policy in India	Prof. Dr. Joachim Betz / Bianca Stachoske	DFG	2008-2010
Civil Society Action and Governance in Viet Nam	Dr. Jörg Wischermann / Dennis Eucker	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)	2008-2010
Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese-European Co-operation - BIONET	Dr. Ole Döring	EU Commission	2006-2009
Neue Herausforderungen für Deutschland im Innovationswettbewerb – Innovationsstrategien von Staat und Wirtschaft im internationalen Vergleich	Dr. Iris Wieczorek / Dr. Margot Schüller	BMBF in Kooperation mit Fraunhofer, Innovationssysteme Karlsruhe, und Georgia Tech, USA	2007-2009
Technology transfer of the triad countries to China: an uncalculable risk	Dr. Margot Schüller	Friedrich Ebert Foundation	2006-2008
Establishment of a network of China experts, ECAN II	Dr. Margot Schüller	EU Commission	2006-2008
Innovation and Contention - Protest Waves in South Korea, 1988-2005	PD Dr. Thomas Kern	VolkswagenStiftung	2006-2008

Update: April 22, 2013

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