Book (forthcoming)
The Domestic Politics of Aid
Development Policies among Emerging Middle Powers
R. Melis Baydag
Palgrave Macmillan Cham | International Political Economy Series
[open access here]
Journal articles
(*= peer reviewed)
Baydag, R. M. (forthcomnig). The political economy of aid giving: A literature review. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.
* Baydag, R. M. (2025). Domestic ideas and interests in development cooperation of emerging donors: The case of Mexican development policy. Contemporary Politics 31(5), 684-706. [open access here]
* 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. & 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. [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. Palgrave Macmillan Cham , 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, policy briefs and others
Keijzer, N. & Baydag, M. (2025). Turkey, the EU, and China in the world: Does turbulence lead to convergence? ETTG Blog. [available here]
Crumpton, B., Baydag, M., Keijzer, N., Rocca, C., & Erforth, B. (2025). Digital transformation in Africa: From gaps to goals. ETTG Policy Brief 7/2025. European Think Tanks Group. [available here]
Baydag, R. M. & Villanueva Ulfgard, R. (2025). Not all populists turn inward – and for a reason: Mexican and Turkish development cooperation in an era of global fragmentation. In S. Klingebiel & A. Sumner (eds.) Development and Development Policy in the Trump Era (IDOS Discussion Paper 23/2025). German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). [available here]
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. (DIE Discussion Paper 22). German Development Institute. [available here]
„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]
Work in progress
„Interests, ideas, leaders: What drives development policies of 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.“ (for a special issue at TWQ).
„Parsing populist leaders’ policy space: Domestic politics theories of IPE, personalistic-plebiscitary decision-making, and international economic conflicts“ (co-authored with S. Fouquet).
„Who belongs? Competing logics of like-mindedness within international organizations“ (co-authored with S. Klingebiel).