Book
The Domestic Politics of Aid: Development Policies among Emerging Middle Powers Palgrave Macmillan | International Studies (forthcoming)
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Baydag, R. M. & Villanueva Ulfgard, R. (2025). Populist narratives and personalized national role conception in middle powers: The cases of Mexico and Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Politics & Policy 53, 1-14. [open access here]
Baydag, R. M. (2024). Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: The case of Mexican development policy. Contemporary Politics, 1-23. [open access here]
Baydag, R. M. & Klingebiel, S. (2023). Partner country selection between development narratives and self-interests: A new method for analysing complex donor approaches. Review of Development Economics 27(2), 1199-1223 (First published: 27 October 2022). [open access here]
Book chapters
Baydag, R. M. (2024). Positions of Established and Emerging Powers Towards Climate Finance: The Cases of Germany and Korea, in Klingebiel, S. et al. (eds.) Emerging trends in international development and green transitions: A focus on Korea and Germany. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 39-52. [open access here]
Baydag, R. M. (2021). Middle powers in international development cooperation: Assessing the roles of South Korea and Turkey, in Chaturvedi, S. et al. (eds.) The Palgrave handbook of development cooperation for achieving the 2030 agenda: Contested collaboration. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [open access here]
Discussion papers
Baydag, R. M., Klingebiel, S. & Marschall, P. (2018). Shaping the patterns of development cooperation: A comparative analysis of seven bilateral donors and the European Union. Discussion Paper 22, Bonn: German Development Institute. [available here]
Manuscripts under review
“Forum: Dialogue Instead of Mutual Neglect? International Political Economy Meets Foreign Policy Analysis” (co-editor with S. Fouquet).
Work in progress
„Interests, ideas, leaders: What drives development policy in emerging OECD donors?“
“Europe’s geoeconomic turn without aid? Domestic politics of German and British development policy preferences.”
„Dividing at Home, cooperating abroad: Turkey’s populist foreign aid policy.“
“Parsing populist leaders’ policy space: Domestic politics theories of IPE, personalistic-plebiscitary decision-making, and international economic conflicts” (co-authored with S. Fouquet).
“Like-mindedness in flux? Geopolitics, ideational trajectories, and the politics of OECD enlargement” (co-authored with S. Klingebiel).
Others
„A micro-research on the materialities of programming languages: Using the example of an array in Java versus Python“ (with Anaïs Siebers), appears on the website of the Ruhr University Science and Technology lab (RUSTlab). [available here]