The network …

… “External Democracy Promotion” (EDP) is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional working group of scholars from the social sciences. Our main focus is on international and comparative studies. Participants come from universities and research institutes in Europe.

News

12. December 24 | News

Successful Application for Network Funding by the DFG

Our application for network funding has been approved! The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved network funding for the EDP-Network for the project “On the Conceptualization and Theorization of International Democracy Promotion in Times of Global Autocratization” in the amount …

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26. June 24 | News

The EDP Network Has a New Member: Welcome, Marina Nord!

We are happy to announce that Marina Nord has joined the EDP Network as a member and are looking forward to working with her. Marina Nord is an expert in the areas of autocratization and democratization processes, with special focus …

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10. June 24 | News

Sonja Grimm Named Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the HE Project ‘InvigoratEU’

Prof. Dr. Sonja Grimm has been named Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the collaborative research project “InvigoratEU: Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe”. The InvigoratEU project, funded by Horizon Europe (2024-2027), examines the EU’s enlargement …

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20. December 23 | News

Inken von Borzyskowski Joins Oxford University as Professor of International Relations

Our member Inken von Borzyskowski joined Oxford University as Professor of the Department  International Relations this fall. Her research focuses on the domestic politics of international relations with an emphasis on international organizations and their effect on domestic conflict and …

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Publications

Julia Leininger | 2024

Religious actors and autocratization

In: Aurel Croissant / Luca Tomini (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization, London: Routledge, 289-304

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Johannes Gerschewski , Heiko Giebler, Sebastian Hellmeier, Eda Keremoğlu, Michael Zürn | 2024

The limits of sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected attitudes about Qatar

In: PLoS ONE 19(8)

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Sarah von Billerbeck , Katarina P. Coleman, Steffen Eckhard, Benjamin Zyla | 2024

Local knowledges in international peacebuilding: acquisition, filtering, and systematic bias

In: International Studies Review, 26 (4)

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EDP Wire

12. December 24 | Julia Leininger

Religious actors and autocratization

In: Aurel Croissant / Luca Tomini (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization, London: Routledge, 289-304

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12. December 24 | Leonie Holthaus

Liberal Democracy Promotion and the Observation of Democracy

In: Global Society

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