GIGA Working Papers
The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) is the largest German and one of the largest European research institutes of area and comparative area studies. Its research is focused on political, economic and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as North Africa and the Near and Middle East. The GIGA Working Paper Series disseminates the research results of work in progress prior to publication to encourage the exchange of ideas and academic debate.
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- Why is Prior Consultation Not Yet an Effective Tool for Conflict Resolution?
- Politische Transformation und Gewalt in Tunesien, Ägypten und Libyen seit 2011
- Explaining the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology in Developing Countries
- From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy
- The Reform of China's Energy Policies
- Long‐Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East
- Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
- China's Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Changing Roles and Structural Conditions
- Sanctions and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era
- Mapping Political Violence
- What Friends Are Made Of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China
- The Nature and Role of Regional Agreements in International Environmental Politics
- Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America
- The Politics of Contestation in Asia
- Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk?
- The Political Economy of Regional Power
- Political Change in the Middle East
- Political Change in the Middle East
- Seeing from Above: The Geopolitics of Satellite Vision and North Korea
- The Consequences of Failed Mediation in Civil Wars: Assessing the Sri Lankan Case
- Rising South Korea: A Minor Player or a Regional Power?
- Postwar Youth Violence
- Renewables in the Energy Transition: Evidence on Solar Home Systems and Lighting-Fuel Choice in Kenya
- Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective
- The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India
- Institutional Conflict Settlement in Divided Societies
- When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness
- Chinese Perspectives on International Power Shifts and Sino-EU Relations (2008–2011)
- Contested Meanings of Corruption
- India’s Turn in Climate Policy
- Finding the Cases that Fit
- Is There a “Chinese School” of IR?
- Frames We Can Believe In
- Credit-constrained in Risky Activities?
- Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations?
- Domestic Security in the Maghreb: Deficits and Counter Measures
- Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana
- The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation
- State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America
- Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal
- The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?
- Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis
- Burma’s Transition to “Disciplined Democracy”: Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule?
- Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law
- Revisiting the Resource–Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries
- Who Drives Change?
- Negotiating Political Spaces
- How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration
- Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering
- The End of the "Liberal Theory of History"?
- Fragile States, Robust Structures
- Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict?
- It’s Not Only Rents
- Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?
- Spillover and Competition Effects
- North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation
- Religiosity as a Determinant of Happiness
- Ex Oleo Bellare?
- Transition from Democracy
- Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda
- Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats?
- Conflict Prevention through Natural Resource Management?
- Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not?
- Civil Society 2.0? How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes
- Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa
- India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka
- Neopatrimonialism in Latin America
- The Media Activism of Latin America’s Leftist Governments
- Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique
- Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation
- Lessons to be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance
- Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana
- Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana
- Too Many Resources or Too Few?
- Verschiebung der globalen Machtverhältnisse durch den Aufstieg von Regionalen Führungsmächten
- On the Economics of Regional Powers
- Private Security in Guatemala: The Pathway to Its Proliferation
- ¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia?
- The Formation of Preferences in Two-level Games
- Bolivia’s New Constitution
- Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans?
- Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies
- A Regional Power Promoting Democracy?
- MDG Achievements, Determinants, and Resource Needs
- Measuring Geopolitical Power in India
- From Rivalry to Mutual Trust
- Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the "Global Village"
- The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region
- Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace?
- When do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade?
- Religious Peace Activism
- Ethnic Party Bans in East Africa from a Comparative Perspective
- Emerging Non-OECD Countries: Global Shifts in Power and Geopolitical Regionalization
- In Search of Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary China
- Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries
- Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems
- Regionale Ordnungen in politischen Räumen
- Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”?
- How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security: The Case of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Contested Leadership in International Relations
- Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse?
- Dreams Don't Come True in Eritrea
- Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War
- Creating Multilevel Security Governance in South America
- Contextualizing Conceptions of Corruption
- Reshaping Political Space?
- The Production of Insecurity by African Security Forces
- Iran's Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah's Regime
- Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability?
- Oil-rent Boom in Iran?
- Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries
- The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 - a Convenient Myth?
- The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (II)
- A Shrimp Amongst Whales?
- Where Minds Meet: The "Professionalization" of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange
- The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda
- The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I)
- Liberalisierung in Zeiten der Instabilität
- Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile's Free Trade Agreement Policy
- Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica
- Ethnicity and Party Systems in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
- Stagnation of a 'Miracle': Botswana's Governance Record Revisited
- Indian Involvement in Afghanistan
- The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad
- The Power of Proximity: Strategic Decisions in African Party Politics
- Handel, Hierarchien und Kooperation in der Globalisierung
- Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana
- Más allá de lo económico: Los objetivos estratégicos de los TLCs de Chile y México
- Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue
- Bringing Hirschman Back in
- Civilising Globalism: Transnational Norm-Building Networks - A Research Programme
- Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel's Middle East Policies
- The Chinese Meaning of Just War and Its Impact on the Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China
- Breaking the "Insecurity Trap"? How Violence and Counter-Violence Are Perpetuated in Elite Power Struggles
- AIDS, Access to Medicines, and the Different Roles of the Brazilian and South African Governments in Global Health Governance
- Constraints to Economic Development and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
- A History of Nonviolence
- Not Always in the People's Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements
- EU-African Economic Relations
- Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life
- Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State
- Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership: Developing a Research Framework for the Study of Regional Powers
- Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda
- Developing a Contextually Relevant Concept of Regional Hegemony
- Do Qualitative Data Help in Addressing Central American Violence?
- Structural Stability: On the prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management
- The Evolution of Cleavages in the Indonesian Party System
- Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea
- Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Laws and the Construction of Drug- and Gender-Related Violence
- Gain Seeking in a "Double Security Dilemma": The Case of OPEC
- The "Ambivalence of the Sacred" in Africa: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries
- Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya
- China, Japan and the Quest for Leadership in East Asia
- Promoting Peace and Democracy Through Party Regulation?
- Discourse on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: National Patterns of Attention and Cross-border Discursive Nodes
- Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains: The Case of Small Producers in Honduras
- The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa
- Oligopolies of Violence in Post-Conflict Societies
- Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States
- The Role and Development of Technology-Intensive Suppliers in Resource-Based Economies
- Why Is Liberal Peace-Building so Difficult?
- Seeking Opportunities: Migration as an Income Diversification Strategy of Households in Kakamega District in Kenya
- Emerging Middle Powers’ Soft Balancing Strategy
- Transitions from Charismatic Rule: Theories of Leadership Change and Cuba’s Post-Fidel Succession
- Campaigning for the Japanese Lower House
- Prestando acuerdo: El Senado frente a los nombramientos del Poder Judicial en la Argentina democrática (1983-2006)
- Conceptualising Regional Power in International Relations
- Patronage-Preserving Federalism?
- The Potential of Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) in Enhancing the Credibility of Reform
- Crises, Hegemony and Change in the International System
- African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions
- Boda-bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya
- Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
- The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS
- Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation - An African Case: Zambia
- Political Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Southeast Asia
- Crafting Political Institutions in Africa
- The EU’s Foreign Policy after the Fifth Enlargement
- Securing Household Income among Small-scale Farmers in Kakamega District
- Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa
- The Emergence of a New ‘Socialist’ Market Labour Regime in China
- Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries
- Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia
- Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership
- Measuring the Capability to Raise Revenue
- Construyendo Inseguridades
- Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers
- How Does Neopatrimonialism Affect the African State?
- Decentralisation in Uganda: Exploring the Constraints for Poverty Reduction
- Potencias regionales en la política internacional: conceptos y enfoques de análisis
- Macht und Machthierarchien in den internationalen Beziehungen
- Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited
- Political Discourse in Football Coverage
- Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor
- Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS
- Brazil’s Nuclear Policy
- The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil
- A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States
- Economic Growth and Poverty
- Guatemala in the 1980s: A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide?
- Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China
- Towards a Dynamic Model of the Interplay between International Institutions
- Neopatrimonialism Revisited
- Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas
- Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China’s Emerging Virreal Places
- Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies
- Factionalism in Political Parties
- La problemática de la defensa y el rol del Ministerio de Defensa Nacional en el Paraguay
- Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation
- Die Institutionalisierung von Parteien und die Konsolidierung des Parteiensystems in Indien
- Culture and Collective Action – Japan, Germany and the United States after September 11, 2001
- The LDP at 50: The Rise, Power Resources, and Perspectives of Japan’s Dominant Party
- Global Health Governance
- Formale und informelle Politik aus institutioneller Perspektive
- ¿Hacia una comunidad regional de seguridad?
- Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction
- Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism
- Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Nuevas amenazas, hipótesis de conflicto y política de defensa en Paraguay
- Institution Building in Mercosul’s Defence- and Security Sector (II).
- A estratégia amazônica do Exército brasileiro e o surgimento de uma comunidade de segurança no Sul da América Latina
- Institution Building in Mercosul’s Defence- and Security Sector (I). Brazil’s Defence Cooperation
- Exit, Voice, and the Lessons from the Cuban Case.
- Chile: Lineamientos tras la compra de armas en un contexto sudamericano de integración y democracia
- Councils of Elders? The Senates and its Members in the Southern Cone
- Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa
- Südamerikas sicherheitspolitische Transparenz auf dem Prüfstand (III).
- Südamerikas sicherheitspolitische Transparenz auf dem Prüfstand (II).
- Faktionalismus in politischen Parteien
- Militär und Parlament in Lateinamerika
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers und internationale Sozialfonds:
- Südamerikas sicherheitspolitische Transparenz auf dem Prüfstand (I).
- Die Institutionalisierung politischer Parteien in Südkorea
- Das Parteiensystem in der Türkei
- Entsteht im Südlichen Lateinamerika eine Sicherheitsgemeinschaft? Ausgangslage, Stand und Perspektiven aicherheitspolitischer Kooperation
- Die gesellschaftliche Anbindung der indischen Parteien
- Los Senadores y el Senado en Argentina y Brasil: informe de una encuesta
- Die gesellschaftliche Anbindung der marokkanischen Parteien
- Radiografía del senado uruguayo: Informe de la encuesta 2002
- Die Gemeinschaftsverbundenheit formaler und informeller Politik
- Radiografía del Senado de Chile: informe de la encuesta 2002
- El bicameralismo en las constituciones de América Latina
- Partidos legislativos en los bicameralismos latinoamericanos
- El bicameralismo en América Latina
- El TLCAN: una convergencia inesperada con el modelo de la Unión Europea
- Funciones y funcionamiento de los senados en los sistemas bicamerales de América Latina: un enfoque comparado
- Instituciones y mecanismos de decisión en procesos de integración asimétricos: el caso MERCOSUR
- Tansania: Informelle und formelle gesellschaftliche Verankerung politischer Parteien in Afrika
- Die gesellschaftliche Verankerung politischer Parteien in Südkorea
- La solución de controversias en el TLCAN: un esbozo sobre su desempeño y retos
- Die Sahel- und Sahara-Staatengemeinschaft (SinSad)
- Faktionalismus in Japanischen Parteien: Eine Annäherung aus Konzeptioneller und Komparativer Perspektive
- Gewaltsame Konflikte in Nordafrika/Nahost: Analytische Defizite, Schwierige Früherkennung und limitierte Interventionsmöglichkeiten
- Globalization: News Media, Images of Nations and the Flow of International Capital with Special Reference to the Role of Rating Agencies
- Global Governance and the Evolution of a New Role of International Financial and Economic Institutions for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Dimensionen Politischer Repräsentation und Interessenvermittlung durch Parteien im Interregionalen Vergleich
- Informale Politik im Internationalen Vergleich: Ein Forschungsaufriss
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