12. December 24 | News

Karina Mross and Julia Leininger Contribute to Expert Exchange on Protecting Democracy in the Global North and South

Two participants, Karina Mross and Julia Leininger, both members of the network, took part in the expert exchange meeting titled “Democracy Protection in the Global North(s) and Global South(s): Strategies, Effectiveness, and Challenges” organized by IDOS on 28 November. The …

12. December 24 | News

From Research to EU Policy Circles

Sonja Grimm and Tina Freyburg presented research findings from HE projects to EU Commission officials & Horizon Europe sister and cousin projects. On 6 December, EDP network members Sonja Grimm (representing EMBRACE) and Tina Freyburg (representing REDEMOS) presented the results …

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 …

13. November 24 | News

Tina Freyburg Contributes to REDEMOS Stakeholder Conferences on Supporting Democracy in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood

As a member of the Horizon Europe-funded consortium REDEMOS, EDP member Tina Freyburg actively contributed to high-level stakeholder conferences held in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. REDEMOS focuses on exploring sustainable strategies for supporting democracy in this region. These conferences provided …

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

In: Global Society

In: PLoS ONE 19 (8)

In: International Studies Review, 26 (4)

12. December 24 | Karina Mross

The Dream of Dictatorship

Bonn, 24 April 2024.‘Under certain circumstances‚ a dictatorship is the better form of government.’ Only six out of ten people eligible to vote in Germany reject this statement outright. More than 20% at least partly agree, as a representative survey …

20. April 24 | Benjamin Schütze

Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies

19 April 2024. In this essay Benjamin Schütze discusses Germany’s support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza following the January 26, 2024 ICJ ruling, the emergence of several “red lines” in German discourse surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and the role of …