Alumni Publications

• Annalisa Filomena (2017 – 2019) has published an assessment study with the Syngenta Foundation India called “Creating Agrarian Prosperity: Impact Assessment AE Enterprise Model”.
• Rakshit Mohan and Aditya Laxman Jakki (2017 – 2019) published the article “Sovereignty issues in the South China Sea: The Republic of the Philippines vs The People's Republic of China” in the  Maritime Affairs: Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India.
• Camilo Nieto-Matiz (2013 – 2015) is a Ph.D. candidate at the Political Science Department of the University of Notre Dame and has recently published two articles. „Democracy in the countryside: The rural sources of violence against voters in Colombia“, in the Journal of Peace Research, and “Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes“  in the Journal of Democracy and Security.
• Raphael Robiatti (2013 – 2015) is currently a Doctoral Student at the University of Erfurt. He has published a policy paper called “The Amazon Fund: Combating Deforestation for Climate Change Mitigation”.
• Malik Abduhllah Mazhar (2015 – 2017) published an article for the Bertelsmann Stiftung called “Changing Patterns of Migration from Pakistan to Germany”.
• Jorge Sellare (2012 – 2014) is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Göttingen. He has published a co-authored article called  “Do Sustainability Standards Benefit Smallholder Farmers Also When Accounting For Cooperative Effects? Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. He has also published a co-authored article called “Effects of Fair Trade on the Livelihoods of Poor Rural Workers” in Nature Sustainability. Most recently, he has published an article about Central American farmers' climate perceptions and their adaptation strategies in the Journal of Rural Studies.
• Farooq Yousaf (2012 – 2014) has just been awarded his doctoral degree by the University of Newcastle (UON). He has published a new article called “Pakistan’s “Tribal” Pashtuns, Their “Violent” Representation, and the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement” by SAGE Open. A further article, “Detriments of Colonialism on Indigenous Conflict Resolution: an Analysis of Pakistan and Tanzania”, was published in the Contemporary Justice Review. He has also recently published an article called “Pakistan’s Colonial Legacy FCR and Postcolonial Governance in the Pashtun Tribal Frontier” in the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 
• Darío Montero de Caso (2006 – 2008), currently works as Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Chile. He has recently published the article "Cultures of Democracy" at the Journal of Philosophy and Social Criticism. He also co-authored a book (in Spanish) “Investigación y Teoria Crítica para la Sociedade Actual”.

Book Contributions

In Prof. Heike Grimm’s new book “Public Policy Research in the Global South. A Cross-Country Perspective” (2019, Springer), you can find contributions from the following alumni:

• Atif Ikram Butt (2004 – 2006) wrote the chapters on “Public Policy and Ideation” and “Ideational Leadership and Legislation: The Right to Free and Compulsory Education in Pakistan.”
• Juan David Rivera Acevedo and Jorge Sellare (2012 – 2014) co-authored the chapter “The Rise of Policy-Making and Public Policy Research in Colombia.”
• Raphael Robiatti (2013 – 2015) wrote the chapter on “Re-democratization and the Rise of Public Policy as an Academic Discipline in Brazil: Push or Pull?”.
• Frank Amissa (2012 – 2014) contributed with the chapter “The Role and Activities of Policy Institutes for Participatory Governance in Ghana.” 
• Lamin O. Ceesay (2012 – 2014) wrote the chapter “The Influence of Supra-Institutions in Policy Making in Developing Countries: The Case of a Donor-Funded Community-Driven Development Program in the Gambia.”
• Fernando Luis Ramirez Gonzalez (2015 – 2017) prepared the chapter “Entrepreneurship Education and the Promotion of Startup Development: The Case of Pilar, Paraguay.”