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142: The Formation of Preferences in Two-level Games: An Analysis of India's Domestic and Foreign Energy Policy

Joachim Betz and Melanie Hanif

141: Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

140: Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation

Dirk Kohnert

139: Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa

Sebastian Elischer

138: A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India's Involvement in Nepal (2005-2008)

Sandra Destradi

137: MDG Achievements, Determinants, and Resource Needs: What Has Been Learnt?

Jann Lay

136: Measuring Geopolitical Power in India: A Review of the National Security Index (NSI)

Karl Hwang

135: From Rivalry to Mutual Trust: The Othering Process between Bolivia and Chile

Leslie Wehner

134: Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the "Global Village"

Armando Barrientos and Daniel Neff

133: The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region: A Need for Context Analysis

Hannes Meissner

132: Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria

Miriam Shabafrouz

131: When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World

Thomas Richter

130: Religious Peace Activism – The Rational Element of Religious Elites' Decision-making Processes

Alexander de Juan and Johannes Vüllers

129: Ethnic Party Bans in East Africa from a Comparative Perspective

Anika Moroff

128: Emerging Non-OECD Countries: Global Shifts in Power and Geopolitical Regionalization

Sören Scholvin

127: In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In

Heike Holbig and Bruce Gilley

126: Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries

Tim Wegenast

125: Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems: South Africa as a Climate Power?

Babette Never

124: Regionale Ordnungen in politischen Räumen. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie regionaler Ordnungen (Regional Orders in Political Spaces. A Contribution to the Theory of Regional Orders)

Nadine Godehardt and Oliver W. Lembcke

123: Democratization via Elections in an African "Narco-state"? The Case of Guinea-Bissau

Dirk Kohnert

122: How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security: The Case of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

David Shim

121: Contested Leadership in International Relations: Power Politics in South America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Flemes and Thorsten Wojczewski

120: Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta

Annegret Mähler

119: "Dreams Don't Come True in Eritrea": Anomie and Family Disintegration due to the Structural Militarization of Society

Nicole Hirt

118: Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Miriam Shabafrouz

117: Creating Multilevel Security Governance in South America

Daniel Flemes and Michael Radseck

116: Reshaping Political Space? The Impact of the Armed Insurgency in the Central African Republic on Political Parties and Representation

Andreas Mehler

115: Contextualizing Conceptions of Corruption: Challenges for the International Anti-corruption Campaign

Malte Gephart

114: The Production of Insecurity by African Security Forces: Insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic

Andreas Mehler

113: Iran's Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah's Regime. A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Miriam Shabafrouz

112: Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance

Annegret Mähler

111: Oil-rent Boom in Iran?

Martin Beck

110: Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries

Juliane Brach and Robert Kappel

109: The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana's Elections Revisited

Heinz Jockers, Dirk Kohnert and Paul Nugent

108: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (II): The Talk of Crime and Social Changes

Sebastian Huhn

107: A Shrimp amongst Whales? Assessing South Korea's Regional-power Status

David Shim

106: Where Minds Meet: The "Professionalization" of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange

Guenter Schucher

105: The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda: Why Proportional Representation Supports the Authoritarian Regime

Alexander Stroh

104: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I): Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement

Sebastian Huhn

103: Liberalisierung in Zeiten der Instabilität: Spielräume unkonventioneller Partizipation im autoritären Regime der VR China (Liberalization in Times of Instability: Margins of Unconventional Participation in Chinese Authoritarianism)

Guenter Schucher

102: Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile's Free Trade Agreement Policy

Leslie Wehner

101: Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Approach

Sebastian Huhn

100: Ethnicity and Party Systems in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Basedau and Alexander Stroh

99: Stagnation of a "Miracle": Botswana's Governance Record Revisited

Christian von Soest

98: Indian Involvement in Afghanistan: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block to Regional Hegemony?

Melanie Hanif

97: The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad

Annette Büchs

96: The Power of Proximity: Strategic Decisions in African Party Politics

Alexander Stroh

95: Handel, Hierarchien und Kooperation in der Globalisierung (Trade, Hierarchy, and Cooperation in the Age of Globalization)

Robert Kappel and Juliane Brach

94: Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana

Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner

93: Más allá de lo económico: Los objetivos estratégicos de los TLCs de Chile y México (Beyond Economic Logic: The Strategic Goals of Chile’s and Mexico’s FTAs)

Leslie Wehner