European Union (EU) funding for United Nations (UN) organisations has expanded significantly over the last two decades. The EU’s partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an important example of EU-UN cooperation, and UNDP was the fourth-largest UN recipient of...

The (im)possibility of governance of the transformation to sustainability (T2S) is driven by how the related multiple transition processes as well as the various functional, institutional and bargaining interactions among relevant agents or stakeholders can be steered. Like other transformation...

Eine erneute Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump dürfte auf alle Themen der internationalen Beziehungen enorme Auswirkungen haben; relevant sind sie aufgrund der Weltmachtstellung der USA per se für alle Akteure. Trumps politische Inhalte unterscheiden sich gravierend von früheren...

This Policy Brief addresses the challenges that Ghana faces in implementing governance norms on inter­national migration. Although Ghana has committed to the goals of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West...

This Discussion Paper makes the case for universality in United Nations (UN) development work. So far, the UN development pillar has largely remained wedded to a 20th-century approach to development cooperation that centres on two groups of states and a one-way relationship between them: rich...

Wie bedingen sich Rechenschaftslegung und organisationales Lernen im weltweit zweitgrößten bilateralen System der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ)? Wir analysieren Interviewdaten von Mitarbeitenden der beiden deutschen größten EZ-Durchführungsorganisationen: der Deutschen Gesellschaft für...

State fragility has remained a pressing challenge for international security and development policymakers for more than two decades. However, international engagement in fragile states has often failed, in part due to a lack of understanding about what constitutes state fragility. Established...

On 16 September 2023, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - all three states led by military regimes - decided to establish a new regional organisation, the Alliance of Sahel States (Alliance des Etats du Sahel - AES). This move was prompted by the worsening of the crisis within the Economic Community...

Le 16 septembre 2023, le Burkina Faso, le Mali et le Niger, trois États dirigés par des régimes militaires issus de coups d’État, ont décidé de former l’Alliance des États du Sahel (AES). Cette nouvelle organisation régionale a vu le jour dans le sillage de l’intensification de la...