Political Science

An investigation into private-sector coordination with paddy smallholders as poverty alleviation in Tanzania.

A timely guide to exposing systems of power. Disruption Network Lab shows how whistleblowing contributes to shaping change in our digitized world.

This study sketches the contours and contradictions of governmental knowledge production on migration in Germany between policy relevance and scientific objectivity.

A new, interdisciplinary approach to competition in world politics, offering a range of fresh insights into its historical origins and social contexts.

An exhaustive critical engagement with the idea and practice of giving nature rights.

A critical discussion of the limitations and possibilities for international solidarity in dialogue with decolonial perspectives.

The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries – including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China – but also India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. A far-flung network of trading connections has been established and, at the time of the fieldwork, thousands of petty traders were carrying their goods with them in trucks, buses, and planes, traveling once more along the routes of the old Silk Road, largely unrecognized by governments and unnoticed by foreign economic advisors. The traders, however, transport patterns of consumerism, lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs, political visions, and so on with their material goods, and in this way transsocietation along the trading networks transforms local societies.
Like the old »Silk Road,« the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; manifest evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.

This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.

This book inquires how the global is made and remade by practices of envisioning the world in political projects, in language, and literature.

Which strategies of external communication do conflict parties use during asymmetric conflicts and what shapes the selection of these communication strategies?