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12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

Call for Abstracts: Submit and register by 31 March

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

06 November 2025

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

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Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

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29 June 2026

Save the Date: 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)…

21 May 2025

Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era, Workshop, Bonn, 21 May 2025

Call for expressions of interest as participants and inputs - EADI Global Crises & Development Group & German Institue of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Submit by 14 February 2025 (We anticipate a workshop of maximum 30 people)

Time: 21 May, 2025, 09.30-12.30 CET

Venue: German Institute of…

12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

Call for Abstracts: Submit and register by 31 March

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

06 November 2025

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

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

29 June 2026

Save the Date: 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)…

21 May 2025

Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era, Workshop, Bonn, 21 May 2025

Call for expressions of interest as participants and inputs - EADI Global Crises & Development Group & German Institue of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Submit by 14 February 2025 (We anticipate a workshop of maximum 30 people)

Time: 21 May, 2025, 09.30-12.30 CET

Venue: German Institute of…

12 June 2025

EADI-ELTE PhD Symposium for Hungary and Romania

Call for Abstracts: Submit and register by 31 March

The international symposium organized by the Department of Global and Development Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and the…

06 November 2025

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

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

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Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

Carla Maria Friederike Diem - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
“I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation letter to the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A provocation, yes – but also a belief. A…

Global and International Development Against all Inequalities

Alessandra Mezzadri - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Since its inception after World War II, Development Studies has been deeply intertwined with the socio-economic transformation of formerly colonized countries. Initially, the discipline was tasked…

Is the Green Transition an Opportunity for Structural Industry Transformation in the Global South?

Jiayi Wang, Ragdad Cani Miranti - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Across the world, countries are facing a critical juncture in their structural transformation. In the Global South, the intensifying climate is leaving countries vulnerable to significant economic…

“Vulnerable Research” in a Time of Climate Change and Coloniality

Charlotte Weatherill - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The role of the academy in empire and colonial violence is the main theme of Babel: An Arcane History, a book by R. F. Kuang. Having wrestled with his own complicity in a system that also provides him…

The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and…

Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

Carla Maria Friederike Diem - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
“I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation letter to the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A provocation, yes – but also a belief. A…

Global and International Development Against all Inequalities

Alessandra Mezzadri - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Since its inception after World War II, Development Studies has been deeply intertwined with the socio-economic transformation of formerly colonized countries. Initially, the discipline was tasked…

Is the Green Transition an Opportunity for Structural Industry Transformation in the Global South?

Jiayi Wang, Ragdad Cani Miranti - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Across the world, countries are facing a critical juncture in their structural transformation. In the Global South, the intensifying climate is leaving countries vulnerable to significant economic…

“Vulnerable Research” in a Time of Climate Change and Coloniality

Charlotte Weatherill - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The role of the academy in empire and colonial violence is the main theme of Babel: An Arcane History, a book by R. F. Kuang. Having wrestled with his own complicity in a system that also provides him…

The EU’s Deforestation Regulation: Chances for Inclusive Sustainable Forest and Agricultural Commodity Chains

Marcelo Inacio da Cunha, George T. Mudimu - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
It is undisputable that addressing deforestation, biodiversity loss, and climate change requires a collectively effort globally. Although the private sector – as a key element of forest and…

Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

Carla Maria Friederike Diem - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
“I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation letter to the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A provocation, yes – but also a belief. A…

Member Publications

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EADI members

Development Actors and their Indigenous Other. Knowledge Production and Negotiation in the Upper Baram (Malaysia)

Agathe Le Vaslot - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’…

Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships

L.M. Lundsgaard-Hansen, Z. Chi Aye, M. Douangphachanh et al - Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) (KFPE)
This report provides recommendations for funding institutions to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships

International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, and Convergence

Sandrine Kott, Eva-Maria Muschik & Elisabeth Roehrlich - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna
The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and…

Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

Jennifer Steeves Nina Schoonman Anshuman Karol et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured…

(Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.) - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

Development Actors and their Indigenous Other. Knowledge Production and Negotiation in the Upper Baram (Malaysia)

Agathe Le Vaslot - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of development projects articulated towards the ‘empowerment’ of so-called beneficiaries, particularly in contexts affecting indigenous peoples’…

Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships

L.M. Lundsgaard-Hansen, Z. Chi Aye, M. Douangphachanh et al - Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) (KFPE)
This report provides recommendations for funding institutions to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships

International Organizations and the Cold War: Competition, Cooperation, and Convergence

Sandrine Kott, Eva-Maria Muschik & Elisabeth Roehrlich - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna
The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and…

Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

Jennifer Steeves Nina Schoonman Anshuman Karol et al. - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured…

(Un)Settling Place. Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Nanneke Winters, Heike Drotbohm, and Yaatsil Guevara González (eds.) - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
This book recentralizes the 'out-of-the-way' places that migrants occupy as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. People who are “on the move” often inhabit places that are…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environment and Energy Economics (F/M/D)

APPLICATION DEADLINE : MAY 9th, 2025
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Professor of Urban Development / Professor of Practice in Urban Development

Deadline: 14 May 2025
Global Development Institute (GDI)
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Postdoctoral position :Open Call for Application for the SNSF Project “Labor Market Changes and Gender Polarization in Deindustrializing Societies”

Deadline to apply : 15 May 2025
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Directeur Executif (F/H/D) Académie de droit international humanitaire et des droits humains à Genève

Deadline to apply : 19.05.2025
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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W1 Professorship in Development Economics with a focus on Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, or Asia (f/m/d)

Application Deadline: 22 May 2025
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Revue internationale des études du développement (RIED) - Appel permanent - Dossiers thématiques

No deadline
Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES)
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Open call: Colección Miradas Latinoamericanas: un Estado del Debate

Deadline : 15/09/24
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Call for Papers. For Vol 1:1 of the SAQAN Journal for Quality Assurance in Higher Education

International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education INQAAHE
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Revue internationale des études du développement (RIED) - Rubrique Figures du développement

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Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES)
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Conference Calls: Agri4D Conference (23-25 September 2025) – Call for Abstracts

Submission Deadline: 08 May 2025
Swedish Development Research Network SweDev
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Publications

The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Raschi, F.; Zambernardi, L. - Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (UNIBO)
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Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 2015

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES
M. Ceccorulli - Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (UNIBO)
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The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil: Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation

F. Odilla - Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (UNIBO)
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Diagnóstico exploratorio sobre extensión universitaria en 8 universidades públicas del Estado español

MURILLO HIDALGO, Iris - Instituto de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional: Universidad del Pais Vasco (HEGOA)
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Class and kinship in problem debt. Navigating the “debt maelstrom” in the Netherlands

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Burgt, H.G.J. van der; Beuving, J.J.; Gesthuizen, M.J.W.; Meijl, A.H.M. van - Department of Anthropology and Development Studies (CAOS)
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