Global Cooperation Research Papers
The ‘Research Papers’ series is intended to reflect the latest state of research at the Centre. Individual issues are based on ideas that have emerged from in-depth exploration at one of the Centre’s Research Colloquiums. Papers may be submitted either by permanent Centre staff or by visiting academics and their research partners.
ISSN 2198-1949 (Print)
ISSN 2198-0411 (Online)

Visualizing Climate Activism on Social Media – How does Fridays for Future Germany Picture Climate Action?
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David Shim
Global Cooperation Research Papers 33, Duisburg 2023
Keywords: Fridays for Future, visual activism, climate change communication, environmental communication, social movements, imaginaries/narratives, visibility
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-33
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Beyond the Local Turn: Local Orderings and Ordering of International Organizations
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Karolina Kluczewska and Anna Kreikemeyer
Global Cooperation Research Papers 32, Duisburg 2022
Keywords: Central Asia, ethnography, everyday peace, international development, international interventions, local orderings, peacebuilding, the local
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-32
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Revisiting Net Neutrality From a Polycentric Perspective: Brazilian and German Scenarios
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Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício
Global Cooperation Research Papers 31, Duisburg 2022
Keywords: Internet governance, polycentric governance, net neutrality
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-31
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Tax Robbery Incorporated: The Transnational Legal Infrastructures of Tax Arbitrage
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Philip Liste
Global Cooperation Research Papers 30, Duisburg 2022
Keywords: Cum/ex, global tax governance, legal infrastructure, transnational law, white-collar crime, finance, court ethnography, practice, expertise, law and society studies
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-30
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The Social Media Revolution and Shifts in the Climate Change Discourse
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Alena Drieschova
Global Cooperation Research Papers 29, Duisburg 2021
Keywords: Climate change, social media, Fridays for Future, climate strike, Greta Thunberg, climate skepticism, social movements, populism, discourse, aesthetics, images
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-29
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Conjuring a Cooler World? Blockchains, Imaginaries and the Legitimacy of Climate Governance
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Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Global Cooperation Research Papers 28, Duisburg 2021
Keywords: blockchain, technology, finance, governance, legitimacy
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-28
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The ‘New’ Environmental Narratives and the Resurgence of Old Debates
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Umberto Mario Sconfienza
Global Cooperation Research Papers 27, Duisburg 2021
Keywords: degrowth; environmental authoritarianism; ecomodernism; sustainable development; geoengineering
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-27
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The Causes and Effects of Hybrid Anti-impunity Commissions: Outline of a Research Agenda
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Theresa Reinold
Global Cooperation Research Papers 26, Duisburg 2020
Keywords: Hybridity; anti-impunity commissions; shared-sovereignty arrangements; International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala; Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-26
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Blurring Global Epistemic Boundaries: The Emergence of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Governance
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Andrés López-Rivera
Global Cooperation Research Papers 25, Duisburg 2020
Keywords: Boundary blurring; Traditional knowledge; Indigenous peoples; Global
environmental governance
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-25
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From the Global to the Everyday: Anti-Globalization Metaphors in Trump’s and Salvini’s Political Language
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Katja Freistein, Frank Gadinger, Christine Unrau
Global Cooperation Research Papers 24, Duisburg 2020
Keywords: Metaphors, Populist Storytelling, Narrative Analysis, (Anti-)Globalization, Migration
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-24
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The Puzzle of Reconciliation after Genocide and the Role of Social Identities: Evidence from Burundi and Rwanda
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Theresa Reinold
Global Cooperation Research Papers 23, Duisburg 2019
Keywords: reconciliation, conflict resolution, genocide, transitional justice, social identity theory, self-categorization theory, post-conflict, Ruanda, Burundi, micro-macro level
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-23
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Godot was Always There. Repetition and the Formation of Customary International Law
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Wouter Werner
Global Cooperation Research Papers 22, Duisburg 2019
Keywords: repetition, customary law, expert commitee, International Law Commission, pathways, polycentric governance
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-22
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The 'International Community' as a Legal Notion
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Christian J. Tams
With a commentary by Theresa Reinold
Keywords: international community, international law, society, United Nations, law-making
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-21
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The Resilience Turn in German Development Strategy and Humanitarian Intervention
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Jonathan Joseph
Global Cooperation Research Papers 20, Duisburg 2017
Keywords: Resilience, development, aid, policy, humanitarian, international relations, global development
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-20
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From Inaction to Restrictions: Changes in Lebanon’s Policy Responses to Syrian Mass Refugee Movement
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Zeynep Şahin Mencutek
Global Cooperation Research Papers 19, Duisburg 2017
Keywords: refugee governance, refugee policies, refugee hosting countries, Lebanon, Syrian mass flow, Syrian refugee movement, politics of refugees in Middle East
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-19
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Involvement and Impact of External Actors on Constitution Making in South Sudan and Somaliland: A Comparative Study
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Katrin Seidel
Global Cooperation Research Papers 18, Duisburg 2017
Keywords: Constitution making, Rule of Law, South Sudan, Somaliland
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-18
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Cooperation and Closure in Bilateral Trade Negotiations
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Larry Crump
Global Cooperation Research Papers 17, Duisburg 2017
Keywords: Cooperation and closure, bilateral negotiation, free trade agreements (FTA), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-17
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The Politics of Aid and Poverty Reduction in Africa: A Conceptual Proposal and the Case of Mali
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Isaline Bergamaschi
Global Cooperation Research Papers 16, Duisburg 2016
Keywords: Politics of aid, aid dependency, poverty reduction, ownership, appropriation, crisis, Mali, international political economy, development studies, development anthropology, public policy and policy tools
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-16
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World Courts as Guardians of Peace?
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Christian J. Tams
Global Cooperation Research Papers 15, Duisburg 2016
Keywords: International courts, international law, collective security, legalisation of international relations, dispute settlement, arbitration
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-15
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Cultural Bias in the Perception of Foreign-Policy Events
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Felix S. Bethke
Global Cooperation Research Papers 14, Duisburg 2016
Keywords: Cultural bias, international cooperation, international conflict, foreign policy, event perception
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-14
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Environmental Politics and the Human Being: A New Interdisciplinary Perspective on Motivational Processes and Sustainable Change Behaviour
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Bettina Burger-Menzel
Global Cooperation Research Papers 13, Duisburg 2016
Keywords: Global environmental politics, human motivation, cognition, sustainability, systemic change
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-13
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Restitution or Cooperation? Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Cultural Development in Africa
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Sarah Van Beurden
Global Cooperation Research Papers 12, Duisburg 2015
Keywords: Development, cooperation, restitution, Africa, museums
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-12
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Conceptualising Local Ownership as ‘Reflexive Cooperation’: The Deferral of Self-government to Protect ‘Unequal’ Humans?
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Pol Bargués-Pedreny
Global Cooperation Research Papers 11, Duisburg 2015
Keywords: Peacebuilding, local ownership, self-government, hybridity, reflexive cooperation
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-11
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Globalization, Social Identity, and Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis of Their Linkages and Effects
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Gianluca Grimalda, Nancy Buchan, Marilynn Brewer
Global Cooperation Research Papers 10, Duisburg 2015
Keywords: Globalization, social identity, cooperation, cosmopolitanism
DOI: 2198-0411-GCRP-10
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Why Empathy is not the Best Basis for Humanitarianism
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Fritz Breithaupt
Global Cooperation Research Papers 9, Duisburg 2015
Keywords: Humanitarianism, empathy, narrative, self-loss, conflict, sadism, we-identity
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-9
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Humanitarianism’s Contested Culture in War Zones
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Thomas G. Weiss
With commentaries by David Chandler and Dennis Dijkzeul
Global Cooperation Research Papers 8, Duisburg 2014
Keywords: Humanitarianism, humanitarian business, ethics, marketization, militarization,international relations, globalization, development cooperation, global cooperation
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-8
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‘It Will Always Be with Us’: Corruption as an Ontological Fact among Kenyan Luo
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Mario Schmidt
Global Cooperation Research Papers 7, Duisburg 2014
Keywords: Cooperation, corruption, development aid, gift, Kenya, Luo
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-7
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Culture, 'Relationality', and Global Cooperation
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Morgan Brigg
Global Cooperation Research Papers 6, Duisburg 2014
Keywords: Culture, relationality, cultural difference, conflict resolution, global governance, cooperation research, chaos theory, non–linearity, unknowability, becoming, non-western traditions
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-6
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Global Cooperation and Economies of Recognition: The Case of NGOs
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Volker M. Heins
Global Cooperation Research Papers 5, Duisburg 2014
Keywords: Global Governance, International NGOs, Theories of Recognition, Practices of Intervention, Ethical Witnessing, Harm Conventions
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-5
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Is India Fit for a Role in Global Governance? The Predicament of Fragile Domestic Structures and Institutions
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Herbert Wulf
Global Cooperation Research Papers 4, Duisburg 2014
Keywords: Conflict, development, domestic structures, economic growth, federalism, foreign policy, global governance, hybridity, India, internal security, poverty, socio-economic development, regionalism, resilient institutions, soft power, tradition and modernity
DOI: 10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-4
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New Alterities and Emerging Cultures of Social Interaction
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Christian Meyer
With commentaries by Stephen Brown, Daniel Gaus, and Dirk Messner
Global Cooperation Research Papers 3, Duisburg 2013
Keywords: Social and Cultural Change, Cultural Heterogeneity, Alterity, Social Interaction, Dementia, Robots, Virtual Agents, Globalization
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Rethinking the Legitimacy of Global Governance. On the Need for Sociological Research and Philosophical Foundations
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Dirk Peters
With commentaries by Frank Gadinger and Daniel Gaus
Global Cooperation Research Papers 2, Duisburg 2013
Keywords: Crises of legitimacy, global governance, research methodology, philosophy, normative concepts, pragmatic sociology
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The Behavioural Dimensions of International Cooperation
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Dirk Messner, Alejandro Guarín, and Daniel Haun
Global Cooperation Research Papers 1, Duisburg 2013
Keywords: Global Cooperation, human behaviour, reciprocity, evolution, trust, international relations, climate change, commons, G-20
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