Research in progress

Book project

  • The Domestic Politics of Aid: Development Policies among Emerging Middle Powers (forthcoming).

Populism and foreign policymaking

  • Parsing populist leaders’ policy space: Domestic politics theories of IPE, personalistic-plebiscitary decision-making, and international economic conflicts (with S. Fouquet).
  • Dividing at home, cooperating abroad: Turkey’s populist foreign aid policy (for a special issue at TWQ).
  • Impact of populism on development policy (with N. Keijzer, C. Hackenesch and J. Bergmann).

Geopolitics and global economic governance

  • Europe’s geoeconomics turn without aid? Domestic politics of German and British development policy preferences.
  • Who Belongs? Competing Logics of Like-Mindedness within International Organizations (with S. Klingebiel).

Bridging IPE and FPA 

  • Forum: Dialogue Instead of Mutual Neglect? International Political Economy Meets Foreign Policy Analysis  (revise & resubmit, co-edited with S. Fouquet)
  • Interests, ideas, leaders: What drives development policies of emerging OECD donors?