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24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway
We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!
23 October 2025

Global Development and Cooperation in a Geopolitical Era: Intersectoral Challenges and Complex Agendas amid Contestation and Crisis, 23–24 October 2025, Kraków, Poland

Call for Workshop Papers. Deadline: 31 August 2025

We are pleased to announce the theme of the upcoming APISA in Europe and EADI workshop.

This event is organised by APISA and EADI and the Centre for…

06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

International Security and Development Center (ISCC), Berlin, Register by 05 October!
Every year, the EADI Research Communications Working Group organizes a workshop for communicators working in the field of development. The goal of…
14 November 2025

Activating Gender Justice: From Research to Collective Praxis for Social Change, 13 - 14 November 2025, Lisbon, Portugal 

Join us for a transformative one-and-a-half-day event in Universidade de Lisboa's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, that brings together…

04 December 2025

‘(Re-)establishing Political Economy in Development Studies, 04-05 December 2025, Manchester

Call for Workshop Papers: submit by 20 September 2025
Funded by EADI and the Development Studies Association (DSA), linked to the joint EADI/DSA Politics and Political Economy of Economic Transformation…
29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

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Merit, Meritocracy, and Decolonising Knowledge for Development

Amitabha Sarkar - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
I grew up in a family shaped by the complexities of colonial misadventure in Calcutta, a refugee past marked by economic hardship and structural violence. For my mother, merit was the only way out.…

Convergence, Divergence, Flatlining or Plateau: What has Happened to Inequality between and within Countries over the Last Decade?

Saumik Paul, Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Understanding inequality trends remains central to assessing both development progress and global justice. Two major dimensions—inequality between countries and inequality within countries—have long…

US Abdication of Leadership and the “Rise of the Rest”: What does this Mean for International Cooperation?

Brendan M. Howe - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The demise of the liberal international order (LIO) is a prominent topic of conversation among contemporary academics and practitioners. The first administration of Donald Trump disdained…

Development in the Trump Era: What’s Next for Global Development Cooperation?

Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has reignited deep uncertainty about the trajectory of global development cooperation. Long before 2025, the multilateral system was already under…

Universalisms and their Discontents

Brendan M. Howe - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The contemporary inter-paradigm debate in Development Studies can be characterised as between advocates of a ‘universal’ global development experience (both positive and negative), and those…

Member Publications

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Syria in Transition. Mapping the local and transnational actors shaping politics in Syria.

Hetav Rojan - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s journey from jihadist commander to self-crowned president in Damascus is a fitting vignette for the volatility of Syrian politics. It is a reminder that in Syria today, the seemingly…

Strengthening social protection systems in complex humanitarian settings. Framework and policy guidebook

Sami Husa, Patricia Justino & Rodrigo Oliveira - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
This guidebook offers a practical roadmap for how integrated, inclusive, and shock-responsive social protection systems can strengthen resilience in fragile and crisis-affected settings. Drawing on…

Ideologically Motivated Sexual Grooming

Mariz Tadros, Grant Sinnamon, Abira Ashfaq et al. - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abuse:…

Wellbeing and Policy. Evidence for Action

Marie Briguglio, Natalia V. Czap, Kate Laffan (eds.) - Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI)
As wellbeing becomes an increasingly explicit policy goal in countries across the world, the demand for evidence upon which to base intervention is growing. Featuring 41 contributing authors from 18…

De/Colonising Palestine. Contemporary Debates

Riccardo Bocco, Ibrahim Saïd (eds.) - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
This volume seeks to contribute to the broader project of decolonisation by bringing together diverse perspectives for a critical examination of the Palestine Question. It aims to challenge dominant…

Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change

V. Bye, P. Inglês, A. Orre, J. Pearce, R. Soares de Oliveira (eds.) - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, social, and economic affairs. Just over half of the life of the…

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Research Assistant (f/m/diverse), Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems”

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Head of Research Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems” / Professorship in Göttingen (f/m/diverse)

Deadline: 17 September 2025
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Teaching Fellow in Global Development (ATS1322), Fixed Term 6 Months

Deadline: 22 September 2025
School of International Development, University of East Anglia (DEV)
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W2 Professorship for Urban and Regional Geography

Deadline: 28 September 2025
Department of Geography, University of Bonn (GIUB)
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Associate position of assistant

Application Deadline: 30 October 2025
Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO)
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Calls

Call for papers: special issue Revue internationale des études du développement: "International aid in “crisis”?"

Deadline: 19 September 2025
Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES)
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Governing Planetary Defense: Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat

Deadline for submissions: October 2025
Institute of International Relations (IIR)
Deadline for submissions: October 2025
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AAC RIED 262 (2026|3) L’aide internationale en « crise » ? / International aid in “crisis”? / ¿La ayuda internacional en «crisis»? ->19 sept 2025

Submission Deadline: 19 September 2025
Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique pour l'Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV)
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Call for papers: ‘(Re-)establishing Political Economy in Development Studies’

Submission Deadline: 20 September 2025
Development Studies Association (DSA)
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Call for Papers - Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Submission Deadline: 29 September 2025
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)
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Publications

Economic self-interest in German development policy: what might that look like?

Tilman Altenburg, Babette Never & Rita Strohmaier - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Let’s be honest – both Sweden and Germany need the immigrants

Global Bar Magazine
Jana Kuhnt & Mark Furness - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Beyond nature-based solutions: the case for integrated nature-climate action

Journal of Applied Ecology
Hollie Folkard-Tapp, Idil Boran, Sander Chan et al. - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Russia's role in UN development work: influence without investment?

Anna Novoselova - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Autocrats and their business allies: the informal politics of defection and co-optation

Government and Opposition
Semuhi Sinanoglu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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