Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß

The MECAM Policy Talk 2025 brought together experts on and from the Maghreb as well as on and from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin for 2.5 days of intense deliberations. The blog article summarizes the main findings and presents central policy implications.

The article investigates the assumption that socioeconomic marginalization helps explain radicalization, focusing on Egypt and Tunisia after 2011. Using social movement theory and based on a comprehensive study of literature, it identifies key mechanisms linking socioeconomic factors and radicalization.

This article explores two key facets of institutionalized ethical review processes in Germany: their importance in shaping ethical research and their associated challenges. To address these challenges, this article emphasizes the need for expanding the current management of research ethics and implementing what we call “Institutionalized Research Ethics Practices’’ (IREPs).

The MECAM Policy Talk 2025 and side events connected academic insight with policy dialogue. It gathered experts and policymakers and examined Germany’s role in advancing South-South-North cooperation. A highlight was the 27 June roundtable, co-hosted with the German Africa Foundation (DAS).

Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß (Moderator), Ph.D. Kira Jumet (Speaker), Ass. Prof. Dr. Merouan Mekouar (Speaker)

This event explored the challenges particular to researchers conducting fieldwork in their home countries. Dr. Kira Jumet and Dr. Merouan Mekouar first discussed their edited volume “Doing Research as a Native” (Oxford UP, 2025) and then offered practical, hands-on advice in a workshop session.