Workshop on “Strange Political Bedfellows”

Taking place at the Harnack House, Berlin, and hosted by Afiq bin Oslan (Senior Research Fellow at the MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance)

Lectures

WEDNESDAY, 8TH APRIL

Pawan Kumar Sen, Himalaya Comprehensive Research
Restructuring the Nepali State through an Unprecedented Alliance of Political Parties

Jungho Sun, National University of Singapore
Electoral Incentives for Partisan Defection in Co-Sponsorship: Evidence from South Korea

Juan Carlos Alcazar-Gonzales, Universidad Católica de Santa María
Voting Together, Speaking Separately: Hostile Coalitions to Remove Dina Boluarte

Lasha Salamashvili, Ilia State University
How Non-Violent Movements Facilitate Strategic Cooperation in Georgia

Yunus Poblome, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University
Inter- and Transnational Populist Identity Construction by the Radical Right at CPAC Hungary 2025

Patrick Michael Ogeto, Laikipia University & University of Cape Town
Facing East or West? The Dilemma in Contemporary African Presidency: A Case Study of Kenya

Thu-Ngan Phan, Independent Researcher
Breaking the Landlock Curse: US–Mongolia Rare Earths Diplomacy

SiLang Huang, University of Toronto
Canada–China Climate Collaboration and the Symbolic Politics of an Unlikely Alliance

Keynote Lecture
Raisa Sherif, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance
Experiments on Environmental Behaviours

THURSDAY, 9TH APRIL 2026

Giang Truong Nguyen, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Legitimacy-Trading Among Political Rivals in Southeast Asia

Kareen O. Miels, State University of Northern Negros
Horizontal Decentralization and the Alliances of Negros Occidental

Matthieu de Castelbajac, Universidad de los Andes
Co-Creation of Antagonism: A Lexical Analysis of Legal Mobilisations over Abortion in Colombia