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22 April 2025

Latin America at a Crossroads: Navigating US-China Tensions in a Multipolar World

Webinar, 22 April 2025, 19.00 CET

Join us for the first webinar of our Working  GroupLatin American Development Studies!

Online Event: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Time: 7:00 PM…

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)…

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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…

The New Washington Dissensus: Trump’s Five Principles for Development Cooperation

Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The Trump administration has set out to radically reshape U.S. foreign aid, pushing the “America First” agenda to ensure every dollar spent abroad serves American interests. The latest indication…

Analyzing Community Representation in the Kenyan Aid Chain

Maaike Matelski, Lise Woensdregt - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Within the field of development research and practice, there is a growing awareness that interventions aimed at supporting emancipation struggles in the Global South should prioritize local actors and…

Member Publications

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(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…

Decolonising Research: Tackling obstacles and working through challenges

Joseph Gascoigne, Saba Joshi, Jonathan Ensor et al. - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)
This working paper incorporates insights from the University of York’s Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) Decolonising Development Research Podcast series with existing literature to…

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Postdoctorant·e: projet de recherche Inégalités économiques et comportements de prévention face aux risques naturels

Deadline: 15 April 2024
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Senior Researcher (f/m/diverse) “Transformation of political (dis-)order”

Deadline: 23 April 2025
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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18-Month Postdoc on the project: Energy Futures & Techno-Political Transition - the case of Germany

Deadline: 01 May 2025
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Professor of Urban Development / Professor of Practice in Urban Development

Deadline: 14 May 2025
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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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Revue internationale des études du développement (RIED) - Appel permanent - Dossiers thématiques

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Sorbonne Development Studies Institute (IEDES)
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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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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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Call for nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research

Deadline: 24/04/2025
International Science Council ISC
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Publications

Nuestra América, Estados Unidos y China

G. Merino, L. Morgenfeld (Coord) - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Economía política y cultura

C. Bolaño - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO
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Green industrialisation in an age of disruption: Africa, Europe and the global economy

Alfonso Medinilla, Koen Dekeyser, Poorva Karkare - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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The Lobito Corridor: Between European geopolitics and African agency

Poorva Karkare, Bruce Byiers - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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Powering Change: The Critical Role of Women and Youth in Sustainable Energy Transformation

Bipasha Baruah, Ann Kingiri, Daniel Musyoka et a;/ - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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