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242: Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World

Julian Culp and Johannes Plagemann

241: Iran and the Arab Spring: Between Expectations and Disillusion

Henner Fürtig

240: Peace is Better Business, and Business Makes Better Peace: The Role of the Private Sector in Colombian Peace Processes

Angelika Rettberg

239: Diffusion versus Strategic Action? The Creation of West African Constitutional Courts Revisited

Alexander Stroh and Charlotte Heyl

238: What Drives Interstate Balancing? Estimations of Domestic and Systemic Factors

Pascal Abb

237: Rethinking the Consultation-Conflict Link: Lessons from Bolivia's Gas Sector

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

236: The Eritrean Diaspora: Savior or Gravedigger of the Regime? Diaspora Responses to the Imposition of UN Sanctions

Nicole Hirt

235: Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes

Julia Grauvogel and Christian von Soest

234: Mind the Gap: An Annotated Overview of Datasets in the Study of Institutions and Conflict in Divided Societies

Nadine Ansorg, Matthias Basedau, Felix Haass and Julia Strasheim

233: Productive Power and Policy Change in Global Finance: An Analysis of China's Financial Policy Framing in the Bretton Woods Institutions

Sandra Heep

232: Informal Institutions in Autocracies: Analytical Perspectives and the Case of the Chinese Communist Party

Patrick Köllner

231: Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger

Sebastian Elischer

230: Are All Dictators Equal? The Selective Targeting of Democratic Sanctions against Authoritarian Regimes

Christian von Soest and Michael Wahman

229: International Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes: Toward a Conceptual Framework

Gero Erdmann, André Bank, Bert Hoffmann and Thomas Richter

228: Civic Organizations in Vietnam's One-Party State: Supporters of Authoritarian Rule?

Jörg Wischermann

227: Resource Scarcity, Spite and Cooperation

Sebastian Prediger, Björn Vollan and Benedikt Herrmann

226: Toward the Green Economy: Assessing Countries' Green Power

Babette Never

225: The Impact of Fuel Ownership on Intrastate Violence

Tim Wegenast

224: Convergence, Divergence and a Complex Interplay: Chile and the International and Transnational Anti-Corruption Campaign

Malte Gephart

223: Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Experience

Stephan Rosiny

222: The Effects of Regime Cooptation on the Geographical Distribution of Violence: Evidence from the Syrian Civil War

Alexander De Juan and André Bank

221: Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia

Kerstin Nolte

220: Why is Prior Consultation Not Yet an Effective Tool for Conflict Resolution? The Case of Peru

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Riccarda Flemmer

219: Politische Transformation und Gewalt in Tunesien, Ägypten und Libyen seit 2011: Ein Forschungsaufriss

Hanspeter Mattes

218: From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy: Regimes of Exception in Bolivia 2000-2010

Claire Wright and Ana Soliz Landivar

217: Explaining the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology in Developing Countries

Birte Pohl and Peter Mulder

216: The Reform of China's Energy Policies

Joachim Betz

215: Long-Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East: A Configurational Comparison, 1945-2012

André Bank, Thomas Richter and Anna Sunik

214: Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In

Nele Noesselt

213: China's Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Changing Roles and Structural Conditions

Pascal Abb

212: Sanctions and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era

Christian von Soest and Michael Wahman

211: Mapping Political Violence – The Approaches and Conceptual Challenges of Subnational Geospatial Analyses of Intrastate Conflict

Alexander de Juan

210: Subjective Risk and Participation in Micro Life Insurance in Ghana

Lena Giesbert

209: What Friends Are Made Of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China

Georg Strüver

208: The Nature and Role of Regional Agreements in International Environmental Politics: Mapping Agreements, Outlining Future Research

Jörg Balsiger, Miriam Prys and Niko Steinhoff

207: Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America

Daniel Flemes and Leslie Wehner

206: The Politics of Contestation in Asia: How Japan and Pakistan Deal with their Rising Neighbors

Hannes Ebert, Daniel Flemes and Georg Strüver

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 Destradi 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 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