Research
Ongoing research projects
- International organizations’ policies and mechanisms of conflict management in comparative perspective: Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, 2017-2020
- Domestic Preferences and EU Cooperation. Explaining Foreign Policies in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova: A Two-Level-Game Analysis (EaP_Diplo), 2018-2021
Completed research projects
- External democratization policy through regional organizations - strategies of the Council of Europe, OSCE and OAS in comparison Habilitation project, completed 3/2011
- EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development. Cooperation project with the Institute for World Economy (Rainer Schweickert) (sub-project of a larger international EU project) completed 10/2006-9/2010
- Political and Economic Challenges of Resource-Based Development in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. VW-project in collaboration with the Institute for World Economy, completed 7/2005- 12/2010
- Benchmarking European Integration 2004 Cooperation project with the Institute for World Economy (Rainer Schweickert).
- Strategies of environmental policy in young democracies: A comparison between Eastern Europe and Latin America in 2001, Ruhr University Bochum.
- Ethnic minorities and the transformation process in Poland 1999-2001, a VW research project, Ruhr University Bochum.
Ongoing Qualification works
PhD projects
- Nasibov, Murad: Civil Society under Authoritarian Rule: Cases of Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Bezkadi, Fadi: The Middle Eastern Policies of Russia and the USA: Between Cooperation and Competition
- Rothers, Simon Civil society in an autocracy: forming of interest, mobilization, communication and political culture
- Fix, Liana: The Germanification of European Policy towards Russia (successfully completed in 2019)
- Kirch, Anna-Lena: The Impact of Subregional Cooperation on European Integration (successfully completed in 2020)
Habilitation projects
- Lusine Badalyan