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The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) is an independent research organization financed primarily by the Danish government. It performs research and analysis on a variety of issues within three basic areas -- globalization, security and development. The Working Papers Series specifically focuses on human rights in Denmark and abroad, foreign policy, security and conflict, and international development policy.

Publishers: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Publications: A Typology of Domestic Private Land-Based Investors in Africa. Evidence from Tanzania’s Timber Rush
The Political Economy of Land and Natural Resource Investments in Africa: An Analytical Framework
Tanzania´s Oil and Gas Contract Regime, Investments and Markets
Rights to Land and Extractive Resources in Tanzania: The Return of the State
Rights to Land and Extractive Resources in Tanzania: The History
Corridors of Trade and Power: Economy and State Formation in Somali East Africa
On Taxes and Suspicion: Ambivalences of Rule and the Politically Possible in Contemporary Hargeisa, Somaliland
Stabilizing Niger: The Challenges of Bridging Local, National and Global Security Interests
Multi-Layered Security Governance as a Quick Fix? The Challenges of Donor-Supported Bottom-Up Security Provision in Ituri (DR Congo)
Governing Economies in Areas of Limited Statehood: Anthropological Perspectives
Enter and Exit: Everyday State Practices at Somaliland´s Hargeisa Egal International Airport
Concessions and Conflicts: Mapping Oil Exploration in Somalia and Ethiopia
Islamic State Enters Al-Qaeda´s Old Hotbed: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Danish Experiences in Integrating International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in Capacity Building
The Dual History of 'Securitisation'
Masculinity and Mass Violence in Africa
Foreign Policy Identity Crises and Uses of the 'West'
Global Political Ethnography: A Methodological Approach to Studying Global Policy Regimes
Caught Between Apprehension and Comprehension: Dilemmas of Immersion in a Conflict Setting
Non-State Armed Groups in the Myanmar Peace Process
On the Frontier between ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Politics of Migration in Burkina Faso and the Failure of Emigration Policies
Trading Houses during and since the Great Commodity Boom: Financialization, Productivization or?
Cooperation or Conflict in the Arctic
The Cyberwar Mirage and the Utility of Cyberattacks in War
Migration and Social Mobility in Burkina Faso
Gender Equality and Land Administration: the Case of Zambia
The Development of Natural Resource Linkages in Mozambique
From Enclave to Linkage Economies?
Ghana’s Land Reform and Gender Equality
Size and Influence: How Small States Influence Policy Making in Multilateral Arenas
Migration Brokerage, Illegality, and the State in Anglophone Cameroon
Foreign Investment in Uganda's Oil Sector: Linkages and Issues for the Local Economy
Between Clumsy Hans and Thumbelina?
Power and Change: Locating Institutional Change Theories in a Power Context
Women, Donors and Land Administration
Decentralization and Implementation of Climate Change Policy in Uganda
Climate Change and Rural Institutions in Nepal
Climate Change and Rural Institutions in Central Viet Nam
The Climate Change Agenda in Zambia National Interests and the Role of Development Cooperation
Commodity Derivatives: Financialization and Regulatory Reform
Theoretical Approaches to Human Smuggling
Private Military and Security Companies - From Mercenaries to Intelligence Providers
Japanese and South Korean Environmental Aid
Implementing National Environmental Frameworks at the Local Level
Implementing National Environmental Frameworks at the Local Level
Extremely Stealthy and Incredibly Close: Drones, Control, and Legal Responsibility
Land Tenure under Transition
Environmental Governance of Uranium Mining in Niger
The Political Settlement, Growth and Technical Progress in Bangladesh
EC Consultation : Towards a Post-2015 Development Framework
Rescuing Migrants in Libya
Land Tenure and Economic Activities in Uganda: a Literature Review
Governing Arab Reform
Understanding Institutional Change
Bahrain and the Global Balance of Power After the Arab Spring
Developing a Palm Oil Sector
Growing but not Transforming: Fragmented Ruling Coalitions and Economic Developments in Uganda
Continuity and Change in Tanzania’s Ruling Coalition
The Political Economy of the Fisheries Sector in Uganda
Pigs, Prawns and Power Houses: Politics in Water Resources Management
Coalition-Driven Initiatives in the Ugandan Dairy Sector
Mozambique Synthesis Analysis: Between Pockets of Efficiency and Elite Capture
Security Sector Reform and the Dilemmas of Liberal Peacebuilding
´Let Us Rebuild Our Country´: Migration-Development Scenarios in Ghana
Political Challenges to Developing Non-Traditional Exports in Ghana
Growth Without Economic Transformation
Competitive Clientelism, Easy Financing and Weak Capitalists
Policy Making and Implementation in Agriculture
The New Global Economic Council
Adjusting to Multipolarity in the World Bank
Liberal or Illiberal?
Engaging in Productive Sector Development: Comparisons Between Mozambique and Ghana
Reconsidering West African Migration
Experiences of Plantation and Large-Scale Farming in 20th Century Africa
No Easy Way Out
The Impact of Global Crises, Trade Finance and Aid on Export Flows
Intervention Hangovers in Stabilisation Operations
What Drives States to Support the Development of Productive Sectors?
How Countries Become Rich and Reduce Poverty
From Watch-Dogs to Nation-Builders
Coping with Poverty and Institutionalised Practices
Video-Recorded Decapitations
Global Shocks and Their Impact on Low-Income Countries
Shared Memories? Politics of Memory and Holocaust Remembrance in the European Parliament 1989-2009
The Academia and Foreign Policy Making
Poverty and Access to Water and Water Governance Institutions in Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province, Vietnam
Of Maps, Law, and Politics
The EU's Legal Ties with Its Former Colonies
Values Promotion and Security Management in Euro-Mediterranean Relations
Entrepôt Politics
The Georgian-Russian Conflict: a Turning-point?
Reforming Global Banking Rules
Ex-Combatants, Returnees, Land and Conflict in Liberia
Caught in the Middle
Power Analysis: Encyclopedia Entries
Betwixt and Between
The Charisma of Authenticity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Homegrown Terrorism in the West, 1989-2008
Much Ado About Nothing?
Developing Technological Capabilities in Agro-Industry
The Normative Divide in International Society
The Contested Role of Community Policing
Governing by 'Consensuses'
The Rise and Fall of the
External Democracy Promotion in Ukraine and Moldova
Cartography and Geopolitics in the Arctic Region
Cargo Cult in Africa
Sovereignty at Sea
Conflict and Cooperation in Local Water Governance: Inventory of Local Water-Related Events in Namwala District, Zambia
Conflict and Cooperation in Local Water Governance: Inventory of Local Water-Related Events in Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province, Vietnam
Cooperación y Conflicto en torno a la Gestión Local del Agua en el municipio de Condega, Nicaragua
Conflict and Cooperation in Local Water Governance: Inventory of Local Water-related Events in Douentza District, Mali
Conflict and Cooperation in Local Water Governance
'Old' Versus 'New' Europe
Furthering Democracy Through the European Union's Development Policy
The Multiplicity of Climate and Rural Risk
China and the South China Sea
Unintended Effects of Development Aid
NATO and the (Re-)Constitution of Roles:
The Russo-Georgian War and Beyond
From Network to Class?
Sarkozysm: New European and Foreign Policy into Old French Bottles?
Skilled Migration: Boon or Bane?
State Elites and the New Poverty Agenda in Bangladesh
Aid, Paris and the Private Sector
The Legacies of the Holocaust and European Identity After 1989
Governing Khat
When Two Aspire to Become One
The Mozambican PRSP Initiative
Reframing the Aid Debate
Regulating Reciprocal Distances
How New Will the Next Regulatory Regime Be?
On the Measure of Power and the Power of Measure in International Relations
Culture, Agency and Power
Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars
The Central Margins: Congo's Transborder Economy and State-Making in the Borderlands
The Future of European Development Cooperation
Institutional Development or Direct Support to the Poor
Ownership and the Donor-Recipient Relationship
The New ´New Poverty Agenda´ in Ghana
The New Poverty Agenda in Uganda
Strategies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
Difference within Similarity
Are Financial Markets Embedded in Economics Rather than Society?
European Food Safety Regulation and the Developing Countries
It's Not About Regulation...
How the Market for Standards Shapes Competition in the Market for Goods
Revenue Effects of Participation in Smallholder Organic Cocoa Production in Tropical Africa
¿Seguridad de tenencia o seguridad social?
Third Generation Civil-Military Relations and the 'New Revolution in Military Affairs'
A Linguistic Turn of Terrorism Studies
Privatization of Land and Indigenous Communities in Latin America
Localizing Private Social Standards
Bringing in the Americans?
South Africa’s Medical Brain Drain
A Strategic Framework and Toolbox for Action Research with Small Producers in Value Chains
Integrating Poverty, Gender and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis
Rules of Origin and the European Union’s Preferential Trade Agreements
Sub-Saharan Africa and the 'Resource Curse'
Bono’s Product (RED) Initiative
Organized Labour and the Social Regulation of Global Value Chains
Shifting Financial Flows to Low-Income Countries
An Accounting Method-Based Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conformity to Certified Organic Standards for Spices in Tanzania
(How) Does Aid Work?
'Cast the Net Wider': How a Vision of Global Halal Markets Is Overcoming Network Envy
Between Bureaucracy and the People: A Political History of Informality
Análisis de perfiles de pobreza en la cordillera del Tunari
'Crisis? What Crisis?' Anatomy of the Regulatory Failure in Finance
Hidden Leverage and a False Sense of Security
The End of a Great Illusion: Credit Crunch and Liquidity Meltdown
Emerging Multinationalists
International Trade in Health Services: Assessing the Trade and the Trade-Offs
Institutional Capacity for Standards Conformity Assessment
Perspectives on Access to and Management of Natural Resources
The Europeanization of Europe - The Transfer of Norms to Europe, in Europe and From Europe
The Refugee, the Sovereign and the Sea: EU Interdiction Policies in the Mediterranean
Kvinder i militante radikale islamistiske grupper i Europa
´These Young Men Show No Respect for Local Customs´
Studying Violent Radicalization in Europe II
Studying Violent Radicalization in Europe I
Sustainability Standards and Coffee Exports From Tanzania
Nuclear Weapons: Implications for Africa
Changing Concepts of Risk, Security and War
What's in it for Labour? Private Social Standards in the Cut Flower Industries of Kenya and Tanzania
Access to Water and Payment for Environmental Services, Jequetepeque Watershed, Peru
Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy
The Spice Industry in Tanzania: General Profile, Supply Chain Structure, and Food Standards Compliance Issues
Harmonisation and Alignment: The Double-Edged Swords of Budget Support and Decentralised Aid Administration
The Economics of Certified Organic Farming in Tropical Africa: A Preliminary Assessment
The Extraterritorialisation of Asylum and the Advent of
Local Stakeholders' Use of Forest Reserves in Kasyoha-Kitomi Forest Landscape, Uganda and Nguru South Forest Landscape, Tanzania
Theorising International Relations: Lessons from Europe's Periphery
Re-Reading Weber, or: The Three Fields for the Analysis of Power in International Relations
The Economic Impact of a Ban of Imports of Air Freighted Organic Products to the UK
Democratic Governance in Post-Conflict Liberia
Agro-Commodity Dependence and Recent Trends in Agro-Commodity Markets
Rural Childhoods In Egypt's Desert Lands
A New Transatlantic Relationship?
The Role of Freight Transport in Economic Development
The Changing Context for Small Farms and Implications for Their Future
Human Security and Peacebuilding through a Gender Lens
State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique: The Legible Space between State and Community
Jihad in Denmark
De-Racialising Exploitation: 'Black Economic Empowerment' in the South African Wine Sector
Weak Links in the BEE Chain? Procurement, Skills and Employment Equity in the Metals and Engineering Industries
The Chimera of Redistribution: 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE) in the South African Fishing Industry
Socio-Economic Transformation in South Africa Black Economic Empowerment and Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
WTO vs. BEE: Why Trade Liberalisation May Block Black South Africans' Access to Wealth, Prosperity or Just a White-Collar Job
Breeding Fat Cats: Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment, and Namibia's Post-Colonial Elite Formation
The Logic of Black Economic Empowerment
To BEE or not to BEE? South Africa's 'Black Economic Empowerment' (BEE), Corporate Governance and the State in the South
Better (RED) than Dead: 'Brand Aid', Celebrities and the New Frontier of Development Assistance
The Rise and Fall of Mass Taxation in Uganda 1900-2005
Iran and the New Geopolitics of Oil
The Role of Militias and Other Paramilitaries in African (un)Civil Wars
Political Islam in Kenya
Interim Return and Palestine: On Politics, Terminology and Structural Invisibility
Poor People in Environmental Management in Uganda and Tanzania
Egyptian Youth and the European Eldorado: Journeys of Hope and Despair
Integration without Joining? Neighbourhood Relations at the Finnish-Russian Border
The Eastern Neighbours of the European Union as an Opportunity for Nordic Actors
An Overview of the Certified Organic Export Sector in Uganda
Recognition and Democratisation: 'New Roles' for Traditional Leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa
Security Sector Reform and its Role in Challenging of Radicalism
Counter Radicalization Development Assistance
Islamist Radicalization and Developmental Aid in South Asia
The Role of Islamic Charities in International Terrorist Recruitement and Financing
Identifying Entry Points of Action in Counter Radicalisation
Women and Radicalization
Making Governance Work Against Radicalisation
A Privileged Partnership? EU-Russian Relations in a Comparative Perspective
Culture of Cooperation? Civil-Military Relations in Danish Homeland Security
Outsourcing Migration Management
A Time Like no Other: Russian Politics after the End of History
An Evaluation Of Alternative Development Strategies for Robusta Coffee in Uganda
Security Sector Reform in Fragile States
From (Alleged) Unipolarity to the Decline of Multilateralism?
Bans, Tests and Alchemy: Food Safety Standards and the Ugandan Fish Export Industry
Growing Authoritarianism in the
Can NEPAD Succeed Without Prior Reform?
The US and Transatlantic Relations: On the Difference Between Dominance and Hegemony
A Special Part of Europe: Nation, State and Religion Among Orthodox South Slavs
Trade in the Small- and Micro-Enterprise Sector in Kenya and Other Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
The Development of the Informal Small-Enterprise Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa
Farewell to Conscription? The Case of Denmark
Peace, Aid and Renewed Anti-Colonial Resistance: The Development of Secular Palestinian NGOs in the Post-Oslo Period
Regional Histories of Development and Security
Development of African Freight Transport: The Case of Kenya
Indigenous Peoples, Gender, and Natural Resource Management
EU's Neighbourhood Policy - A Question of Space and Security
International Engagement in Failed States
The Long and Winding Road to Arab Democracy
The Pros and Cons of Subsidiarity: The Role of African Regional and Subregional Organisations in Ensuring Peace and Security in Africa
Security Models and their Applicability to the Gulf
Privatisation of Conflict, Security and War
Asian Ballistic Missiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Missile Defence in the United States
What Happened to the Iraqi Marsh Arabs and their Land?
Danish and British Popular Euroscepticism Compared
Carry on Killing: Global Governance, Humanitarianism and Terror
The Logic of Piloting and Trans-Border Regionalism: The Project-Oriented Approach in EU-Russian Cooperation
Opportunities and Pitfalls in the Migration-Development Nexus: Somaliland and Beyond
Taxpayer's Rights and Obligations: Analysis of Implementation and Enforcement Mechanisms in Uganda
Russian Conservatism in the Putin Presidency
Access to ARV Treatment - Aid, Trade and Governance in Uganda
Marginality or Provinciality: Pskov and Ivangorod at the Intersection of Russia's Trans-Border Relations
Migrant Transfers as a Development Tool: The Case of Morocco
The Development Dimension of Migrant Transfers
Migrant Transfers as a Development Tool: The Case of Somaliland
The EU's Security Policy Towards the Mediterranean
Greenland, Denmark and the Debate on Missile Defense
Refugees, Security and Development
Dynamics of Return and Sustainable Reintegration in a
Conflicting Motivations: The Private Sector and International Conflict
Cooperation or Democratisation? The EU's Conflicting Mediterranean Security Discourses
Concepts and Experiences with Demand Driven Advisory Services
From Water 'Wars' to Water 'Riots': Lessons from Transboundary Water Management
The Russian Northwestern Federal District and EU's Northern Dimension
Basis for Poverty Reduction? A Rich Civil Society, Farmer Innovation and Agricultural Service Provision in Kabale, Uganda
Gendered District Poverty Profiles and Poverty Monitoring Kabarole, Ma Masaka, Pallisa, Rakai and Tororo Districts, Uganda
Vernacular Security: Governmentality, Traditionality and Ontological (In)Security in Indonesia
Afghanistan: Lessons Learned from a Post-War Situation
'Self-Fulfilling Geopolitics'? Or: the Social Production of Foreign Policy Expertise in Europe
Between Grassroots and Governments: Civil Society Experiences with the PRSPs
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