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| 1st Issue August 2025EditorialTime is running, and we’d once again like to remind you of our open call for panels for our flagship conference next year in Antwerp: just over three weeks to go before the call closes! Our latest blog post sheds light on mini- and mulitlateralism, and we’ve got two more calls out: one for a workshop in December in Manchester, and one for new editors for our journal, the EJDR. Our thematic focus is on trade today.From our BlogUS Abdication of Leadership and the “Rise of the Rest”: What does this Mean for International Cooperation?Our latest blog explores which actors and coalitions worldwide could help plug the normative and humanitarian gap currently being widened by Trumpism and related geopolitical selfishness among great powers: « International organization is increasingly structured along the lines of minilateralism, representing cooperation between the smallest possible number of countries needed to have the largest possible impact on solving a particular problem » Read moreTo the blog overview (Re-)establishing Political Economy in Dev. StudiesCall for Workshop Papers, Manchester, 04-05 December 2025 (Early Career Researchers)This workshop aims to forefront early-career scholarship in political economy. In particular, the workshop will focus on exhibiting the added value of political economy perspectives to development studies and social sciences more generally. Submission deadline is 20 September Read more EJDR – Open Call for Editors, New IssueWe are happy to announce an open call for editors for our journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR). This is an exciting opportunity for academics and research-active professionals working in the field of international development to join an interdisciplinary team of Editors to manage one of the leading journals in this area. Read the call And we’d like to share that a new issue is out which is available here Highlight: Strengthening Social Protection Systems…in complex humanitarian settings. Framework and policy guidebook This open access book by UNU-WIDER offers a practical roadmap for how integrated, inclusive, and shock-responsive social protection systems can strengthen resilience in fragile and crisis-affected settings. Drawing on evidence from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Sudan, and Jordan, it shows how national systems can link with humanitarian responses to deliver faster, fairer, and more sustainable support across crisis cycles. Read more Thematic Focus: Trade Biofuels and trade policies to mitigate food price shocks: Reinforcing global food markets OECD – OECD Development Centre OECD/DC The Global South and US trade policy: structural exposure and economic vulnerability in selected Latin American countries Melike Döver, Martin Middelanis – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Geopolitical risks and economic expectations: the role of trade linkages Antoine Cornevin – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Policy Coherence in the Time of Economic Insecurity: Balancing the Sustainable Trade and Development Playbook of the New European Commission Journal of Common Market Studies – Frederik Stender, Tim Vogel, Niels Keijzer – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The Global South and US trade policy: structural exposure and economic vulnerability in selected African countries Frederik Stender, Tim Vogel, Lukas Kornher et al. – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Patterns and Correlates of Supply Chain Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa Jaime de Melo & Jean-Marc Solleder – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) Revisiting the impact of trade facilitation measures in Africa: A structural gravity approach The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development – Mengistu Alamneh Wassie, Lukas Kornher, Chahir Zaki – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) | Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEFPremium Members Publication Picks Tales and plays in the flames: How stories and theatrics converge fire disaster knowledge and action in marginalized contexts International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction – Beatrice Hati – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) EU engagement in fragile settings: What role for cities and local/regional governments and how best to support them? Jean Bossuyt, Martina Sainaghi – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) ‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus The Journal of Peasant Studies – Melanie Sommerville, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu – Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Reducing Inequalities Despite Climate change? Rethinking Progress Towards Reducing Income Inequalities and the Impact of Climate Change in Developing Countries David Mensah Otoo, Michael Danquah, Bazoumana Ouattara – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) The everyday of inundation: livelihoods and lifeways dimensions of flooding experience in Amazonian Peru Environmental Hazards – Jennifer C. Langill, Christian Abizaid – Department of International Development King’s College London (DID) Integrated justice approach to land reform: Why is it important and how? Cynthia Embido Bejeno – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) A Global Review of Climate Change and Social Protection in Protracted Crisis Contexts Carolina Holland-Szyp, Jan Selby – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) The stabilization and destabilization of marine carbon observations: Co-producing knowledge in murky waters Maritime Studies – Ramona Haegele – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Climate Change, Conflicts and Food Security in North Darfur State, Sudan: Risks and Implications Elamin Akoy, Adam Sabbil, Mohammed B. Altoom, Salih Nurain, Emad Eldeen Sali – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)Read more about EADI Members Policy Publication Picks by Members What Makes Land Use and Climate Change Programming Deliver Adaptation Benefits? Kathryn Cheeseman – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Beyond a checkbox: a practical guide to implementing diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging strategies Tâmara Andrade – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The cost of doing politics in Uganda: Perspectives on violence against political candidates Matthew Gichohi, Gerald Kagambirwe Karyeija, Stella Kyohairwe, Vibeke Wang, Pär Zetterberg – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Rethinking agricultural and rural training systemically with a range of actors at territorial level. How can agriculture and rural training (FAR) be “massified”? Carole Lambert, Christophe Lesueur, Cécile Patat, Gauthier Ricordeau, Betty Wampfler – The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) The Long Road to cooperation and integration across Africa Jaime de Melo – Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI) China and Russia challenge the Arctic order: But understanding how means looking beyond their partnership Patrik Andersson – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) The Zambia Revenue Authority corporate income tax panel K. Vuoristo, K. Adu-Ababio, E. Lungu, J. Msoni, J. Musalale – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Picks from International Partner Networks Executive Director, Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme Deadline: 07 September 2025 – International Science Council ISC Cuidados en contextos de ruralidad en América Latina y el Caribe Multiple – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Diálogo de saberes. La transición histórica hacia la sustentabilidad de la vida E. Leff (coord) – The Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Global Affairs Khushwant Singh – International Partnership on Religion and Development PaRD |
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| Jobs1 Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Manager (m/f/d, TV-L 13 100%) Deadline: 31 August 2025 – Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF Un·e postdoctorant·e en économie du développement Deadline: 31 August 2025 – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI) Postdoc position in Farmers’ perceptions on Feed Ingredients from organic Waste for Green Transition Deadline: 31 August 2025 – Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC) -Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Maastricht (FASOS) Senior Researcher Position: Peace Research Deadline: 01 September 2025 – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) See more job offers on the EADI website Opinions Sudanese higher education in crisis Muna Elgadal, Rebecca Glade – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI) Brown gold rush – unleashing sanitation’s rich potential Lyla Mehta – Institute of Development Studies (IDS) From CBA19 to the global climate negotiations: nature must take centre stage Nicola Sorsby & Marcio Halla – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Building bridges: Synergies between feminist economics and development studies in times of crisis DSA – Development Studies Association (DSA) Critical accounts of the polycrisis: doing development differently Maria Gavris – Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath (CDS) A Year in the MPP: Growth, Connection and Everything in Between Margarida Leite Magalhaes – UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology UNU-MERIT Safeguarding tomorrow – social protection in focus Sami Husa & Timothy Shipp – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Calls Call for Papers – AI for the Global Majority: Charting a Way Forward Deadline: 31 August 2025 – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Call for papers: Expert Roster, Inclusive Growth in Mozambique Annual Conference: 12 November 2025 – 13 November 2025 Deadline: 07 September 2025 – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) AAC RIED 262 (2026|3) L’aide internationale en « crise » ? / International aid in “crisis”? / ¿La ayuda internacional en «crisis»? ->19 sept 2025 Deadline: 19 September 2025 – Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV) Call for papers: South Asia’s Courtesan, Hereditary, and Temple Performers: Expanding Discourse and Disrupting Histories Deadline: 01 November 2025 – The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) See more calls on the EADI Website Training Autumn School: Indigenous Knowledge and Practice: an optimistic response to the global funding crisis? 03-04 September 2024, May DSA Ireland Why Media Matters for Global Development School of Global Development, University of East Anglia MOOC – Water Cooperation and Diplomacy IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) Decent work and economic growth: Achieving SDG 8 6-weeks massive open online course (MOOC) – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Open online course on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and how it can help to achieve the SDGs United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) See more courses and tranings on the EADI website |