GIGA Experts

Democracy and Democratisation in Africa

(In-)Formal Political Institutions in Emerging Democracies

Political Representation

Parliaments in Africa

Personalization of Executive Power in Africa

Intra/inter-party competition

Sub-Sahara Africa

Ghana

South Africa

International Sanctions

Foreign Policy Analysis

Political Psychology

Leadership Trait Analysis

International Security

Sub-Saharan Africa

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 

Lebanon

Iran

Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa

Military Coups and Civilian Control of Armies

Authoritarian Regimes, Authoritarian Institutions

Regime Stability and Destabilization

Party Systems and Cleavages in the Middle East and North Africa

German Military Deployments in the MENA-Region and Sahel

Middle East

North Africa

Sudan

Sahel

Youth politics

Social movements

Transnational activism

Civil society

East Asia (especially Taiwan and Hong Kong)

Southeast Asia (especially Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia)

Executive Personalization in Latin America 

Policy-making processes in democratic and authoritarian regimes

Power relations and rule of law

Ecuador

El Salvador

Latin America and the Caribbean

Economic statecraft

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Regional Explanations for Authoritarianism

Statethood and Political Domination in the Middle East (with a focus on Jordan and Syria)

The War in Syria

Regional Politics and the Relationship between Arabism and Islamism

Jordan

Syria

Palestine/Israel

Turkey (Near East Politics)

Resources conflicts

Religion and violent conflict

Civil–military relations

Political institutions

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mali

Niger

Chad

Botswana

Peacebuilding

Intergroup Relations

Religion

Sub-Saharan Africa

Togo

Sierra Leone

Gender and Policy

Latin American Politics

Comparative Politics

Families and socio-economic inequalities

Politics and policy

Latin America

Geopolitics of Energy Transition

Indian Foreign Policy

Emerging Powers

India

Asia

Legitimacy in global governance

Science, experts, and politics

Nationalism and ethnicity in China

Global IR

China

East Asia

Civil-military relations

Democratization

Authoritarianism

East Asia

Chinese investments in Latin America

Foreign Direct Investment in China

German investments in Brazil

The political economy of energy transition

South-South and South-North relations

China

Latin America

Brazil

Amazon region

Development policy

• Impacts of digitalisation

• Microfinance, cash transfers and mobile money

• Economic inequality

Democratisation and social cohesion

• Polarisation and radicalisation

• Elite social media use

• Institutional trust

Cambodia

Kenya

World Order Narratives of the Maghreb’s Leftist Movements

States and Authoritarianism

North African Politics

Turkish foreign policy (toward Africa)

Turkey

African continent (external actors)

Tanzania (refugee policy)

Identity and identity threat

Prejudice and intolerance toward minorities

Political ideology, especially right-wing extremism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism

Human mobility within and from the Global South

Forced migration governance

Climate-related mobility

Syria

Jordan

Lebanon

Israel/Palestine

Turkey (refugee policy)

The Political Economy of AKP's Foreign Aid: A Regional Assessment of Middle East and North Africa

Middle East

North Africa

International sanctions

Persistence and change of authoritarian regimes

Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

Simbabwe

Burundi

Chinese foreign policy

connectivity & infrastructure politics

narratives in world politics

authoritarian politics

China

Fiscal Federalism

Asia

Peace Agreements and War Termination 

Complexity of Conflict Issues 

Violence and Social Change 

Elite-level and individual-level Conflict Resolution

Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement of Conflict Issues 

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

Saudi Foreign Policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa

Political Opposition in Authoritarian Regimes

Political Islam

International Relations of the Persian Gulf

Yemen

Saudi Arabia

Sub-Saharan Africa

Negotiations and stakeholder dialogue, conflict management

Transformation to sustainability, governance of sustainability transitions

Care and human flourishing

Knowledge cooperation, knowledge/science diplomacy

Scenario-building and futures scenarios

Sustainable energy, Urban mobility, Food security

Climate change, climate governance, environmental and climate justice

Asia and Pacific: Philippines, Indonesia, India, Japan

Latin America and the Caribbean: Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica

Southern Africa: South Africa

German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training (GLACIER), Principal Investigator (2021-2025)

Cuba's Transformation: Crisis, Continuity and Change in Socialist Cuba

Latin America

Caribbean

Cuba

Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa

Authoritarian learning

Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

Repression of protest movements

Algeria

Jordan

Tunisia

Democratisation (especially Sub-Saharan Africa)

Historical Institutionalism (especially Michael Mann)

Cold War Studies

Sub-Saharan Africa

DRC

Kenya

Ghana

Benin

Impacts on inter-gender relations in Libya

Libya

MENA regions

Extremism and Radicalisation

Individual Attitudes towards Punishment and Punitivity

Germany

Religion

Social Identities and Social Psychology

Moral Foundations Theory

Reconciliation

Post-Conflict Societies

Africa

The Agency of Small Powers in the Indo-Pacific

Textbook on Political Systems in Australia and New Zealand

Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries

Japan

Korean peninsula

Indo-Pacific

Migration and Refugee Studies

Critical Citizenship Studies

Border Regimes

Political Agency

Civil Society Organisations

Latin America

Central America

Mexico

Economic and social impacts of land-use change and global land acquisitions

Smallholder farming systems in developing countries

Development and Agricultural Economics

Indonesia

Civil-military relations

Democratization

Authoritarianism

Research methods

Taiwan

South Korea

Postwar Societies

Violence and Social change

Youth

Central America

Colombia

Venezuela

Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries

Structural change and its poverty and distributional implications

Natural resources, economic development and conflict

Africa

Political institutions in Latin America

Presidentialism

Latin American congresses

Latin American courts

President-Congress relations; president-court relations

Latin America

Argentina

Brazil

Violent conflicts

Germany

Central and Western Europe

Sub-Saharan Africa

Geopolitics of Tech

Digital Politics

Digital Authoritarianism

Disinformation and Counter-Disinformation

Hybrid Threats, Information Warfare, Cyber Resilience

AI and Internet Governance

South and Southeast Asia

India

Bangladesh

Indonesia

Singapore

Party systems

Sub-National Elections

Local Politics

Federalism

Democracy

Latin America, particularly Argentina and Brazil

Religion and National Identity

Marginalization and Social Inequality

Borderlands

Transitional Justice

Kinship and Ambiguous Loss

Middle East

Tunisia

Modern Iranian and Persian Gulf history

Foreign policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era

Iran-Saudi relations and regional order formation

Security in the Persian Gulf

Feminist Foreign Policy

Persian Gulf

Iran and Saudi Arabia

Economic Sanctions

Defense Alliances

Social Network Analysis

International Security

Geoeconomics

Russia's foreign and security policy towards the MENA region

Great power competition

Strategic culture

Middle East and North Africa

Russian Federation

Ukraine

Social protection mechanisms in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East during the COVID-19 pandemic

Policies on violence against women in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Policy efforts to eliminate child labor in Latin America

Latin America

Peru

Bolivia

Multipolarity, Rising Powers, and International Politics

Legitimacy and International Institutions

Populism and Foreign Policy

India

South Asia

Regional and emerging powers

Global and regional environmental politics

Global climate regime

India

BRICS

State Repression

Violent Democracies

Social Protest

Legitimisation of state-driven violence

Regime Change

Security Sector Reforms

Discursive Politics

Nicaragua

El Salvador

Central America

Latin America

Geoeconomics of the energy transition

Supply chains and climate change

Climate-conflict Nexus

Climate policy and international affairs

Executive Personalization

Global Political Economy

Structural Adjustment and Sectoral Transformation

Institutional and Material Determinants of Authoritarian Rule

Shrinking Civic Spaces

Small Gulf Monarchies

Middle East and North Africa

Autocratization, Law & Civil Resistance

Nicaragua

Central America

International Criminal Court.

Africa's International Relations and agency.

South African politics and international relations.

Transitional and transformative justice.

Reparations.

African members of the International Criminal Court.

South Africa

Foreign direct investments

Training and job creation

Africa

Digital Repression

Digital Governance

Digital Policy

Cybersecurity

Civil Society

Middle East

East Asia

Political economy

International trade

Environmental policy

Applied econometrics

Latin America (esp. Brazil)

China

Civic activism, social movements, digital activism

Digital repression in autocracies

Computational propaganda

Politics of civil society

Civil resistance

Thailand

South East Asia

International trade, global value chains, foreign direct investment

Corporate responsibility, social and environmental effects of globalization

Applied econometrics

Sub-Saharan Africa

India

Social movements and mobilization

Social (in)justice and marginalization

Islamist radicalization and political violence

Political transformation and regime change

Tunisia

Maghreb

Development Economics, Labour Markets, FDI, Trade, and Structural Change

Digitalization, Technology, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Global South, in particular Africa

Geopolitics and History of International Relations in the Middle East

Iran's foreign policy 

External actors in the African continent

Political and Electoral Behaviour

Populism (attitudes and discourse)

Far-right politics

Democratic Backsliding

Attitudes

Latin America

Brazil

United States

Democratization

Civil-Military Relations

Political Islam

Identity Politics in the Middle East

Power and Resistance

Turkey

Egypt

Democratisation in Indonesia and Malaysia

Anti-Fake News Laws in Indonesia and Malaysia

Political parties in Southeast Asia

Populism in Southeast Asia

Civil society in Indonesia and Malaysia

Foreign policy of Indonesia

Political Islam in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Drug Policy

Cannabis Legalization

Policy Processes

Judicial Politics

Morality Policies

Qualitative Research Methods

Drug Trafficking

Latin America

Mexico

Uruguay

Chile

International sanctions and interventions

Authoritarian regimes

Legitimation of political regimes

Foreign policy and development policy

Southern Africa and East Africa

South Africa

Botswana

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Kenya

The politics of the People‘s Republic of China

Digital governance

Public participation

Central-local relations

PR China

Innovation processes and networks in Japanese and Korean economy, science and society in international comparison

Digital Transformation and AI Governance in Asia in global comparison

Japan

Leftist politics

Democratisation in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Civil society

Capitalist development

Authoritarian turn and illiberal legalism

Sociology of violence 

Southeast Asia

Indonesia