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Forschungsartikel und Essays zu Politik, Entwicklung und digitaler Governance.

• Foreign Expertise and State Capacity Conditions for sustainable development and knowledge transfer — 2026-06-21 When does technical assistance produce sustainable development and durable knowledge transfer? A realist synthesis of seven cases finds that embedding experts in line ministries with enforceable handover matters more than volume of advice; parallel delivery correlates with dependency and knowledge loss when experts depart.
• Biopolitics, Necropolitics and Algorithmic Governance Life, death, and the algorithms in between — 2025-03-16 Algorithmic governance — from credit scores to border risk systems — extends biopolitical control over life and necropolitical patterns of exclusion. A systematic literature review synthesizes Foucault, Mbembe, Agamben, Esposito, Rose, and Zuboff across surveillance, health, borders, and corporate data platforms.