Research in progress

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).
• Europäische populistische radikale Rechtsparteien und Entwicklungspolitik: Mechanismen der (missbräuchlichen) Aneignung (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  (co-edited with S. Fouquet).
• Interests, ideas, leaders: What drives development policies of emerging OECD donors?