E2: Interdependencies between Global and Local Levels in Conflict Mediation and Trust Building in Regional Conflicts

Dr. Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
Foto: Tiraspol, Transnistria, 2017 © Nadja Douglas

Description

Regional conflicts in the territory of the former Soviet Union are the result of processes of disintegration and disentanglement at the local and regional level, but have also been significantly shaped by sweeping changes in the geopolitical order. These changed framework conditions not only have an impact on the conflicts themselves, but also on the way conflicts are handled.

Therefore, the project will shed light on the dynamics and interdependencies between the international and local levels and develop a testable hypothesis on how the former affects the latter in the context of confidence-building measures. The starting point is an ongoing study on the case of Transnistria, in which the broad spectrum of confidence-building measures (CBM) as well as the success or failure of individual measures are examined retrospectively. A particular focus will be placed on the economy and trade on the one hand, and security policy and military transparency on the other. One of the goals of the project is to build a data collection on CBMs in the context of regional conflicts.

Key questions

  • How do developments on the international level affect those on the local ones in the context of confidence-building measures?

Methodology and sources

  • Document analysis
  • Process tracing of CBMs
  • Qualitative interviews
  • Analysis of co-variances of events on the local and international level

Project team

Dr. Nadja Douglas

Nadja Douglas is a political scientist and a researcher at ZOiS.

Nadja Douglas studied Political Science, Philosiophy and History at the University of Bonn and the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  In the context of her doctoral thesis (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017), she spent a considerable amount of time in various parts of Russia. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked as a Liaison Officer for the German OSCE Chairmanship 2016 at the OSCE Mission to Moldova and as an advisor on security and defence policy at the German Bundestag. She also held positions at the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Development and Peace Foundation in Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the editorial team of Russland Analysen.

CV Nadja Douglas

Dr. Nadja Douglas

Nadja Douglas is a political scientist and a researcher at ZOiS.

Nadja Douglas studied Political Science, Philosiophy and History at the University of Bonn and the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  In the context of her doctoral thesis (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017), she spent a considerable amount of time in various parts of Russia. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked as a Liaison Officer for the German OSCE Chairmanship 2016 at the OSCE Mission to Moldova and as an advisor on security and defence policy at the German Bundestag. She also held positions at the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Development and Peace Foundation in Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the editorial team of Russland Analysen.

CV Nadja Douglas

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