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Research
GPPi is committed to high-quality research on governance in our key focus areas. GPPi furthers its knowledge base by working with leading universities and research institutions in Europe, the United States and China as well as other global knowledge networks. GPPi has received research grants from the European Commission, the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), the German Marshall Fund of the US, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, among others.
The results of the institute’s research are easily accessible to the broader public through the publications section on our website.
Current projects
October 2009 – June 2013
Humanitarian Assistance: Truly Universal?
This research project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the norms, interests, policies and operational procedures shaping the humanitarian aid of selected non-Western donor countries.
May 2010 – September 2013
Strategic Management in Peace Operations
A research project that asks about the relationship between the institutional structure of interventions and their ability to strategically create and implement policy in post-conflict police reform at the examples of Afghanistan and Kosovo.
January 2012 – December 2013
Transatlantic Responses to Critical Issues in European Security
This is a two-year research and dialogue program jointly implemented by GPPi and the Brookings Institution focusing on two key priority areas of the transatlantic alliance: energy and defense.
November 2012 – April 2015
Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect
Together with academic partners in Europe, Brazil, China and India, this research project analyzes the evolution of global norms with a focus on the Responsibility to Protect.
September 2012 – September 2017
Political Prisoners and Human Rights Compliance
Why do oppressive states release dissidents from jail – and does it matter? The aim of the project is to add to the current empirical and theoretical knowledge about human rights compliance by focusing on the release of political prisoners and on the role they play in promoting further human rights reform.
September 2012 – September 2017
Explaining Intermediary Censorship: Why Western Web Firms Curtail Freedom of Expression
This project furthers the scholarship on transnational business behavior by analyzing the extent to which global human rights norms impact Western technology firms that carry out censorship and surveillance when operating in authoritarian states.
February 2009 - ongoing
Global Climate Governance and the Making of China's Climate Change Policy
This research endeavor is based on the premise that more effective engagement of China on climate change should be based on an understanding of China's interests, domestic actors and mechanisms of decision-making.
Completed projects
December 2010 – February 2012
Origins of Strategy for Justice and Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Focusing on how Germany, the United States, NATO and the EU make strategic choices about justice and security sector reform, this pilot study analyzed the interplay of politics and bureaucracy in complex foreign policy decisions.
August 2011 – February 2012
Food Security: A Mapping of European Approaches
The German Marshall Fund of the United States asked GPPi to head up a study on European approaches and activities supporting food security in Sub-Saharan Africa.
February 2011 – January 2012
Human Rights and Global Governance: Will China’s Rise Lead to a New Normative Order?
As China rises, what will be the consequences for the international order with respect to human rights? This research project analyzes China’s position on human rights in the UN.
January 2010 – January 2012
Common Goals – Different Approaches?
Jointly implemented by GPPi and Brookings, this two-year research and dialogue program focuses on transatlantic cooperation around global energy issues.
February 2007 – January 2012
Learning to Build Peace? The United Nations, Peace Operations and Organizational Learning
Tracing the evolution of UN peacekeeping and its quest to remake itself into a learning organization, this multi-year academic study analyzes organizational learning in a complex international bureaucracy.
January 2008 – January 2012
The European Union, China and Global Governance
Perceptions, Misperceptions, and Convergences
February 2007 – December 2011
EU Foreign Policy Towards China
The project aimed to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich analysis of the institutional politics of EU-China relations.
May 2010 – September 2010
UN-Business Partnerships since 2000
This project aimed both to summarize the evolution of UN-Business partnerships over the last 10 years while also drawing out key trends shaping the...
April 2011 – August 2011
Towards Global Partnerships 2011
GPPi, together with the UN Global Compact Office, developed the Secretary-General’s report "Towards Global Partnerships," presented at the 66th session of the General Assembly.
April 2010 – June 2011
Uniting on Food Assistance
Promoting Evidence-Based Transatlantic Dialogue and Convergence
December 2010 – May 2011
Sino-African Energy Relations
In partnership with Climate Focus, this project analyzed the opportunities and challenges connected with increased Chinese involvement in Africa's renewable energy sector.
February 2007 - May 2011
Learning to Build Peace? Developing a Research Framework
The United Nations, transitional administration, strategic planning and organizational learning
November 2009 – April 2011
Joint Stakeholders in Global Energy Governance?
Prospects for joint global problem-solving between the EU and China
July 2008 - December 2010
Learning in EU Peace Operations?
This research project analyzed organizational learning in EU civilian crisis management operations.
February 2006 - October 2010
The New Protectorates
International administration and the dilemmas of governance
June 2008 – April 2010
"Brusselisation" and the Emergence of a Strategic Culture in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
With the 10th anniversary of the British-French St. Malo summit in December 2008 it is time to take stock on how...
June 2009 – January 2010
Role and Success Factors of Round Tables
In Germany and abroad, traditional governmental and administrative functions are reaching their limits...
January 2008 - December 2009
Changing Rules of the Game
Global energy governance in the 21st century
February 2009 – December 2009
Public-Private Partnerships for Education
GPPi supported the International Institute for Educational Planning in conducting research on including private actors to finance the expansion of education and to improve the quality of education.
January 2008 - December 2009
Raising the Bar
Enhancing transatlantic governance of disaster relief and preparedness
April 2009 – August 2009
Common Objective, Diverging Regimes?
Prospects and Challenges in Building a Global Carbon Market
January 2009 – July 2009
Towards Global Partnerships: Development of the Secretary-General’s Report
Developing the UN Secretary-General's Report "Towards Global Partnerships," presented at the 64th session of the General Assembly...
October 2007 - February 2008
The Role of Private Donors in International Development
Private donors are playing an increasingly significant role in international development...
March 2007 – August 2007
Towards Global Partnerships: Development of the Secretary-General’s Report
Developing the UN Secretary-General’s Report "Towards Global Partnerships," presented at the 62nd session of the General Assembly...
March 2006 – June 2007
Corporate Engagement in Disaster Preparedness and Humanitarian Response
In recent years commercial actors have begun to play a growing role in development assistance and conflict prevention.
April 2006 - September 2006
Teaching Case Development for the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance
GPPi developed a teaching case for the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance 2006 organized by the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius.
October 2005 - June 2006
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development History Project
MMSD was an independent two-year process of research and consultation in the mining and minerals sector, which was officially completed in 2002...
January 2004 - May 2006
Seed Initiative Research & Learning Channel
The Seed Initiative aims to inspire, support and build the capacity of locally-driven entrepreneurial partnerships...
January 2005 - September 2005
The Kimberley Process
Teaching Case for the Hertie School of Governance
January 2005 - September 2005
The Financial Action Task Force
Teaching Case for the Hertie School of Governance
December 2003 - March 2005
Exploring and Analyzing Accountability in Global Governance
Accountability has emerged as one of the key approaches in the search for new modes of democratic governance beyond the nation-state...
May 2004 - December 2004
The World Commission on Dams
Teaching Case for the Hertie School of Governance
June 1999 – December 1999
Global Public Policy Case Studies
In 1999, the team for what was then the Global Public Policy Project commissioned case studies on new forms of collaboration between the public sector, civil society and business.