New Publication by Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and Florence Dafe! This commentary examines the political power of digital multinational companies (MNCs). Our review of the existing literature finds that comparative scholarship has focused on state-business relationships at the country level and… [read more]

New Publication by Andreas Ullmann! The book Innovations in Human Rights – Concepts, Data, and Measurement provides a practical framework for conceptualizing and analyzing human rights issues such as oppression, human rights compliance, and transitional justice in an increasingly tense global human… [read more]

New Publication by Florence Dafe and Mary Abounabhan in the Journal of New Political Economy! This article examines how the rise of FinTech companies has affected the power of commercial banks. Dafe ad Abounabhan employ comparative case studies of Kenya and Nigeria to explore how the rise of… [read more]

New Publication by Florence Dafe and Radha Upadhyaya in the Journal of Competition & Change! This article advances our understanding of the political power of digital platform companies by uncovering its underexplored flipside: platform disempowerment. Dafe and Upadhyaya argue that controlling an… [read more]

On Thursday, February 12, 2026, as part of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), The Bavarian Scientific Alliance for Peace, Conflict, and Security Research (FoKS) and AmerikaHaus Munich hosted the panel discussion “Defuse it or Lose it: How to Defuse Interdependence without Blowing up the Liberal… [read more]