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Publication: Highlights 2024

Islamists and the Western-dominated world order

Hanna Pfeifer’s monograph examines the complex relationship of Islamist groups to the Western-dominated global order – from resistance to some aspects to the recognition of others.

Pfeifer, Hanna: Islamists and the Global Order. Between Resistance and Recognition, Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Diplomatic conferences and international order

This edited volume looks at the significance of conference diplomcay for the international order from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Schindler, Sebastian/Daase, Christopher/Seibel, Wolfgang (eds.): Conference Diplomacy and International Order: From the Congress of Vienna to the G7, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

A century of anarchy?

Hendrik Simon’s book deconstructs the myth of a “free right to war” in the 19th century and maps the birth of the modern international order.

Simon, Hendrik: A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and, the Birth of Modern International Order, Oxford University Press, 2024.

China, Pakistan and the belt and road initiative

The edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Pakistan's economy, poli­tics and society.

Abb, Pascal/Boni, Filippo/Karrar, Hasan H. (eds.): China, Pakistan and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Experience of an Early Adopter State, Routledge, 2024.

The rise of the right in times of crisis

Daniel Mullis’s book examines why right-wing movements are so successful in times of crisis, and under what conditions their narratives can succeed in the so-called center of society.

Mullis, Daniel: Der Aufstieg der Rechten in Krisenzeiten: Die Regression der Mitte, Reclam, 2024.

Further Publication Highlights

Dissertations 2024

Academic education and career promotion are of curical importance to PRIF. As a non-university research institute of the Leibniz Association, the doctoral program is entirely dedicated to the Leibniz motto “theoria cum praxi”: a holistic education that enhances competences in scientific and practical areas and opens up promising career prospects.

The three dissertation projects by Jana Baldus, Anna-Katharina Ferl and Sascha Hach deal with current challenges and opportunities of arms control such as normative conflicts in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NVV), the regulation of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) or the emergence of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). More about the dissertations, written as part of the project “Perspectives on Arms Control” in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, can be found in the article “Engage in Dialogue – Stay in Dialogue – Develop Perspectives”.

Dr. Jana Baldus

Who is (the) Radical? Radicalisation, Polarisation, and the Emergence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Dr. Anna-Katharina Ferl

Knowledge Production in Arms Control: Legalisation, Imagination, and the Process of Regulating Autonomous Weapons Systems

Dr. Sascha Hach

Rule & Resistance in the Nuclear Order. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Product of a Subversive Struggle

Dr. Mikhail Polianskii

The cumulative dissertation “Better Shared Than Dead? Russia’s Dissociation from the post-Cold War European Security Order” by Mikhail Polianskii examines Russia’s alienation from the normative framework of European security. Considering the role of European institutions, he argues that they are not only victims of the authoritarian turn of the Kremlin regime, but also causal for the Russian dissociation from the fundamental pillars of the European security architecture.

Dr. Linda Schlegel

In her dissertation project “Storytelling against Extremism: How Insights on Narrative Persuasion and Storytelling Can Improve Theory and Practice of Digitial Narrative Campagins against ’Homegrown’ Extremism”, Linda Schlegel analyzes how good storytelling strengthens the impact of digital narrative campaigns against extremism. By focusing on digital narratives of violence, she sheds light on an aspect that has received little attention so far.

Dr. Simone Schnabel

Simone Schnabel’s dissertation „Radicalization of the Marginalized? Dynamics of Islamist Radicalization in Tunisia post-2011“ examined how the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) legitimized their increasing interventions. Focusing on the intervention in Burkina Faso, she analyzes how citizens in the affected countries themselves assessed these interventions.

Dr. Rebecca Wagner

In her dissertation „The Shrinking of Civic Space in Electoral Processes: Empirical Evidence on Restrictions, Responses, and Electoral Resilience“ Rebecca Wagner analyzes the restrictions on civil society organizations in the electoral context. Based on a case study of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and a global survey of election observers, she explores how organizations resist these restrictions.

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Inventory

• 65,408 books, including 4,311 E-Books (without national licences). Additional access to 40,000 more e-books and over 1,300 electronic Journals, ca. 8,850 ound volumes of journals and over 70,000 documents of gray literature.

New acquisitions

• New acquisitions: 531 titles in print and 638 e-books

Open Access

• peer-reviewed journal articles in open access: 27, which means 63% could be published open access
• 4 monograph in open access

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