Research projects
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NATO and Gender Knowledge Production
The project explores how NATO uses and produces gender knowledge in its implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. I explore how new, feminist-informed gender knowledge can emerge and take hold amidst rising global anti-gender campaigns.
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Innovating to Enhance Dialogues on Migration Policies and Practices – INNOVATE
The INNOVATE research consortium will focus on strengthening the interaction between migration research and migration policy.
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Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene
Machin and Wissenburg oversee the composition and editing of some 40 chapters by 50-60 renowned authors in environmental political theory and related disciplines for a handbook that will be published by Edward Elgar in late 2023 or early 2024.
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Synergizing Sustainability
This project aims to better understand how policy-making for agricultural development in the Sahel results in synergies, as well as frictions and trade-offs between different development goals, such as agricultural development and food security.
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GAPs
What are the trajectories, infrastructures, and diplomacies that shape the EU’s governance of return migration? What are the effects and human rights costs of this return governance?
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Democratic innovations & populism: For better or worse?
This project of Dr Kristof Jacobs investigates the effects of democratic innovations (e.g. citizen-initiated referendums, participatory budgeting and citizens’ assemblies) on populist citizens.
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N-SAFE
The N-SAFE project examines the newly emerging role played by non- governmental organisations (NGOs) as they partner with governments around the world in the global fight against illegal fishing.
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Tracing Syrian Refugee Return Dynamics across South/North Divides
This multidisciplinary project examines the connections between European return decisions.
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(De)legitimation and international order
In this project, with funding by the GLOCAL hotspot, we are constructing a new dataset on the (de)legitimation of international order that will allow us to close these conceptual and empirical gaps.
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Constructing Neoclassical Realism
This project seeks to explore and critically reflect on the politics of contemporary neoclassical realist (NCR) theorising in International Relations.
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Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA)
The Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) dataset measures positions and attitudes of over 250 parties on key attributes.
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EU Solidarity and Risk-sharing During COVID-19
This project examines the conditions under which European citizens support international cooperation in controversial policy areas.
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C-LIMES: Constructing the Limes
In this project, we not only investigate the impact of this border on migration and the import of goods and crops in antiquity, but also focus on how the limes becomes visible as cultural heritage today.
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Project Moral Injury
A substantial number of (former) military and police personnel, who work as both performers and targets of violence in high-risk environments, develop ‘moral injury’. To tackle this, comprehensive knowledge about moral injury is needed.
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Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?
In conflict-affected settings, land tenure security of smallholders is seen as essential to prevent local land disputes and sustain peace, enable recovery of rural livelihoods, and advance ecologically.
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Vive la Commune! Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire
This interdisciplinary research project seeks to approach ‘democracy’ as the subject of conflict and contestation. In light of this objective, our aim is to show how ‘The Commune’ has been the subject of political conflict and debate.
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The power of inaction and ambivalence in transnational refugee governance
Lebanon and Turkey increasingly pressure the Syrian refugees they host to return to their country of origin. This project investigates how such contested return dynamics are influenced by EU-actors’ positioning.
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Vive la Commune! Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire
This interdisciplinary research project seeks to approach ‘democracy’ as the subject of conflict and contestation and hypothesize that ‘The Commune’ may be regarded as the key signifier of a long-standing democratic repertoire in its own right.