Research

Research at the Center is organized in projects, grouped around major themes. The Center is currently undergoing a process of re-structuring. Additional projects are in preparation, and new information will be added to this page as they are being organized.

Development Models

• Globalization, China, and Global Political Economy                                                                         Researcher: Tony McGrew
  
• Religion and Social Development in China
  Researcher: Liu Yi
• Alternative Conceptualizations of Development and World Order: Globalist Visions from the Global South, 1950-1975                                                                                                                                   Researcher: Dena Freeman
  

Sustainable Development / Waste Management

• Sustainable Development Goals
  Researchers: Zarkamol Munisov, Aminata Yattara, Yelif Ulagpan
  
• Waste Management
  Researcher: Iris Borowy
• Pour Me a Cold One: A Cold War History of Beverage Containers                                                 Researcher: Viktor Pál
  
• Challenges and Opportunities of Robotic Waste                                                                                 Researcher: Peter Kirby
  

 Health

• Deodorizing China: An Environmental History in the Realm of Olfaction                                                                    Researcher: Huang Xuelei
• The History of Pharmacy during the Period of the late Qing and Republican China                                                                                                                                                                                                Researcher: Huang Yun
• Environmental Toxins  Collaboration with the Deadly Dreams Network                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Researcher: Iris Borowy

International Organizations

• NATO CCMS
  Researcher: Zhang Yong-an

• Waste Studies at International Organizations
  Researcher: Iris Borowy
• A Proposal on the Research Project on the Relevance of ECOWAS to Violent Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Peacebuilding in West Africa: The Case of Mali                                                          Researcher: James Olusegun Adeyeri
  

Past Projects

• Coastal Cities                                                                                                                                                 Researcher: Romain Dittgen

• Sustainable Development Goals
  

  Felix Amoh-Siaw, Munkhbileg Batmunkh, Catherine Kuamoah, Elorm Ewurama Kumah, Yelif Ulagpan, Aminata Yattara

• World Mobility History                                                                                                                                  Researcher: Gijs Mom

• Landed Aristocracy in Pakistan
  Researcher: Mazhar Abbas
• War Veterans and Development during the Cold War
  

        Researcher: Angel Alcalde

• Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Agrarian Development

       Researcher: James Lin

        Researcher: Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach

• China's Investment in the West and its Impact on International Development                                   Researcher: Zhiqun Zhu