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205: Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010

Carlo Koos and Matthias Basedau

204: The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP

André Bank and Roy Karadag

203: Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the “Arab Spring”

Martin Beck and Simone Hüser

202: The Consequences of Failed Mediation in Civil Wars: Assessing the Sri Lankan Case

Sandra Sandra and Johannes Vüllers

201: Seeing from Above: The Geopolitics of Satellite Vision and North Korea

David Shim

200: Rising South Korea: A Minor Player or a Regional Power?

David Shim and Patrick Flamm

199: Postwar Youth Violence: A Mirror of the Relationship between Youth and Adult Society

Sabine Kurtenbach

198: Renewables in the Energy Transition: Evidence on Solar Home Systems and Lighting-Fuel Choice in Kenya

Jann Lay, Janosch Ondraczek and Jana Stoever

197: Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective

Alexander Stroh, Sebastian Elischer and Gero Erdmann

196: The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women’s Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination

Daniel Fernando Neff, Kunal Sen and Veronika Kling

195: Institutional Conflict Settlement in Divided Societies: The Role of Subgroup Identities in Self-Government Arrangements

Alexander De Juan

194: When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations

Karsten Giese and Alena Thiel

193: Chinese Perspectives on International Power Shifts and Sino-EU Relations (2008–2011)

Nele Noesselt

192: „Informelle Politik“ und „informelle Institutionen“: Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, analytische Zugänge und Herausforderungen für das Studium autoritärer und anderer politischer Herrschaftssysteme

Patrick Köllner

191: Contested Meanings of Corruption: International and Local Narratives in the Case of Paraguay

Malte Gephart

190: India’s Turn in Climate Policy: Assessing the Interplay of Domestic and International Policy Change

Joachim Betz

189: Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research

Claudia Simons and Franzisca Zanker

188: Is There a “Chinese School” of IR?

Nele Noesselt

187: Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP’s Quest for Legitimacy

Maria Bondes and Sandra Heep

186: Domestic Security in the Maghreb: Deficits and Counter-Measures

Hanspeter Mattes

185: Credit-constrained in Risky Activities? The Determinants of the Capital Stocks of Micro and Small Firms in Western Africa

Michael Grimm

184: Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Sector

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

183: Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects

Lena Giesbert

182: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation: The Impact of Regime Evolution

Bert Hoffmann

181: State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America

Sabine Kurtenbach

180: Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa

Laurence Marfaing

179: The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?

Hugo Dobson

178: Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis

Johannes Vuellers

177: Burma's Transition to "Disciplined Democracy": Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule?

Marco Bünte

176: Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador

Anna Barrera

173: Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside

Maria Bondes

172: How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: A Comparative Study of Three World Regions

Christian von Soest, Karsten Bechle and Nina Korte

171: Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

Matthias Basedau

170: The End of the “Liberal Theory of History”? Dissecting the U.S. Congress’ Discourse on China’s Currency Policy

Nicola Nymalm

169: Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires

Matías Dewey

168: Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers and Tim Wegenast

167: It’s Not Only Rents: Explaining the Persistence and Change of Neopatrimonialism in Indonesia

Nina Korte

166: Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?

Gero Erdmann, Sebastian Elischer and Alexander Stroh

165: Spillover and Competition Effects: Evidence from the sub-Saharan African Banking Sector

Birte Pohl

164: North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation

David Shim and Dirk Nabers

163: Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Erich Gundlach and Matthias Opfinger

162: Ex oleo bellare? The Impact of Oil on the Outbreak of Militarized Interstate Disputes

Georg Strüver and Tim Wegenast

161: Transition from Democracy. Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

Gero Erdmann

160: Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda

Daniel Flemes and Alcides Costa Vaz

159: Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver and Johannes Vüllers

158: Conflict Prevention through Natural Resource Management? A Comparative Study

Annegret Mähler, Miriam Shabafrouz and Georg Strüver

157: Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? – A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Matthias Basedau and Thomas Richter

156: Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba

Bert Hoffmann

155: Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt

Juliane Brach

154: India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia

Sandra Destradi