Haug, Sebastian
Dr. Sebastian Haug
Department
Inter- and Transnational Cooperation
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Political Science and Geography
Work areas
- United Nations
- Global power shifts
- China’s role in global governance
- South-South and triangular cooperation
Regional expertise
- East Asia
- Latin America
- Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Responsibilities in education and training
- Co-lead of the ”Decolonising“ Working Group at IDOS
- Global power shifts, North-South relations and the United Nations
Vita
| since 8/2020 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Senior Researcher, Research Department “Inter- and Transnational Cooperation” |
| 10/2015-7/2020 | University of Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Christ's College |
| 03/2018-07/2019 | German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) ESRC Visiting Fellow |
| 01/2017-04/2017 | Colegio de México and Instituto Mora Visiting Fellow and Visiting Lecturer |
| 04/2017-07/2017 | Istanbul Policy Center and Koç University Visiting Fellow |
| 10/2016-03/2017 | New York University Visiting Researcher, Center on International Cooperation |
| 05/2013-07/2015 | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Policy and Research Specialist, Mexico City |
| 09/2012-04/2013 | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Policy Analyst, Beijing |
| 10/2011-07/2012 | University of Oxford Master of Science (MSc) in Global Governance and Diplomacy |
| 01/2011-07/2011 | Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Visiting Student (Master of Arts) in International Relations |
| 06/2010-09/2010 | Transparency International (Uganda) Programme Assistant |
| 09/2009-05/2010 | University of St Andrews Visiting Student (BA Honours) in International Relations |
| 10/2007-07/2011 | Freie Universität Berlin Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science |
| 09/2006-09/2007 | Espace Social Télé-Service asbl, Brussels Social worker |
Awards
- Mercator Fellow on International Affairs (2012)
- Vice-Chancellor's Award, University of Cambridge (2015)
- Moody Stuart Scholar, University of Cambridge (2016)
- Kurt Hahn Award, University of Cambridge (2019)
Member of
- Editorial Board, Third World Quarterly (Taylor & Francis), London, United Kingdom
- Advisory Board, Global Report on South-South and Triangular Cooperation, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, New York City, USA
- Advisory Board, Dr. Jenö Staehelin Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
- Ernst Mach Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) (2021)
Refereed Publications
- Baumann, Max-Otto / Haug, Sebastian (2024)
Embracing universality: toward the future of United Nations development work
in: International Studies Perspectives, first published 18.11.2024 - Taggart, Jack / Sebastian Haug (2024)
De jure and de facto inclusivity in global governance
in: Review of International Studies, first published 26.09.2024 - Haug, Sebastian / Rosemary Foot / Max-Otto Baumann (2024)
Power shifts in international organisations: China at the United Nations
in: Global Policy 15 (S2) Special Issue, 5-17 - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug / Silke Weinlich (2024)
From developing country to superpower? China, power shifts and the United Nations development pillar
in: Global Policy 15 (S2) Special Issue, 51-61 - Haug, Sebastian / Laura Trajber Waisbich (2024)
Comprehensive power shifts in the making: China's policy transfer partnerships with the United Nations
in: Global Policy 15 (S2) Special Issue, 62-73 - Haug, Sebastian (2024)
Mutual legitimation attempts: the United Nations and China's Belt and Road Initiative
in: International Affairs, 100 (3), 1207-1230 - Haug, Sebastian / Jack Taggart (2024)
Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex
in: Global Policy 15 (1), 128-134 - Haug, Sebastian / Supriya Roychoudhury (2023)
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims
in: International Affairs 99 (2), 531–549 - Haug, Sebastian / Cynthia M. Kamwengo (2023)
Africa beyond ‘South-South cooperation’: a frame with limited resonance
Journal of International Development 35 (4), Special Issue: China and India in Africa, 549-565 - Haug, Sebastian / Nilima Gulrajani / Silke Weinlich (2022)
International organizations and differentiated universality: reinvigorating assessed contributions in United Nations funding
in: Global Perspectives 3 (1), article 39780 - Haug, Sebastian (2022)
Beyond mainstreaming? Past, present and future of UN support for South-South and triangular cooperation
in: Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 10 (1), 15-44 - Haug, Sebastian / Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner / Günther Maihold (2021)
The ‘Global South’ in the study of world politics: examining a meta category
in: Third World Quarterly 42 (9), 1923-1944 - Trajber Waisbich, Laura / Supriya Roychoudhury / Sebastian Haug (2021)
Beyond the single story: ‘Global South’ polyphonies
in: Third World Quarterly 42 (9), 2086-2095 - Haug, Sebastian (2021)
A Thirdspace approach to the ‘Global South’: insights from the margins of a popular category
in: Third World Quarterly 42 (9), 2018-2038 - Haug, Sebastian (2019)
The flamingo’s neck: exploring sustainable development realities in Turkey
in: Johanna Chovanec / Gabriele Cloeters / Onur inal / Charlotte Joppien / Urszula Woźniak (Hrsg.), Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum (Band IV), Berlin: Springer, 93-115 - Haug, Sebastian (2019)
Let’s focus on facilitators: life-worlds and reciprocity in researching ‘Southern’ development cooperation agencies
in: Emma Mawdsley / Elsje Fourie / Wiebe Nauta (eds.), Researching South-South Development Cooperation, London: Routledge, 155-170 - Kim, Sung-Mi / Sebastian Haug / Susan Harris Rimmer (2018)
Minilateralism revisited: MIKTA as slender diplomacy in a multiplex world
in: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 24 (4), 475 - 489 - Haug, Sebastian (2017)
Exploring ‘Constructive Engagement’: MIKTA and global development
in : Rising Powers Quaterly 2 (4), 61-81 - Haug, Sebastian (2012)
Translocal dimensions in the social context of corruption: insights from Uganda
St Anne’s Academic Review (STAAR) 4, 35-40
Non-refereed Publications
- Haug, Sebastian (2024)
Stimme des Südens? BRICS bei den Vereinten Nationen
in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 74 (49-51), 32-37 - Taggart, Jack / Sebastian Haug (2024)
Why formal inclusion is not enough in global governance
published on https://www.bisa.ac.uk, 27.09.2024 - Haug, Sebastian (2024)
The European Union and the United Nations: exploring new opportunities in times of fiscal pressure
in: Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (eds.), The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 62-65 - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug (2024)
Universality in action: why and how United Nations development work should engage with high-income countries
(Discussion Paper 5/2024) - Baumann, Max-Otto / Haug, Sebastian (2024)
Financing the United Nations: status quo, challenges and reform options
New York: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Haug, Sebastian / Jack Taggart (2024)
Transnationalisation light: non-state inclusion and North/South differentials in global development governance
in: Sven Grimm / Stephan Klingebiel (eds.), Transnational cooperation – an explorative collection, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability, 28-32 - Haug, Sebastian (2023)
Triangular cooperation with the Arab region: policies, perspectives and practices of DAC members
in: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (2023) - Haug, Sebastian / Weinlich, Silke (2023)
Funding South-South and triangular cooperation at the United Nations: what do we know?
in: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation / UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office (Hrsg.), Financing the UN Development System: Choices in Uncertain Times, New York City: Dag Hammarskjölf Foundation and UN Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, 190-197 - Haug, Sebastian (2023)
Book review: Managing money and discord in the UN: budgeting and bureaucracy (by Ronny Patz and Klaus Goetz)
in: The Review of International Organizations, 1-5 - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug (2023)
How China is reshaping UN development work
published on The Loop, 14.07.2023 - Haug, Sebastian / Han Cheng / Laura Trajber Waisbich (2023)
Accelerating SDG implementation through triangular cooperation: a roadmap for the G20
in: Task Force 6: Accelerating SDGs—Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda (July 2023) - Haug, Sebastian / Nilima Gulrajani / Silke Weinlich (2023)
Funding multilateralism: strengthening the United Nations through assessed contributions
in: Task Force 7: Towards reformed multilateralism: transforming global institutions and frameworks (June 2023) - Waisbich, Laura Trajber / Sebastian Haug (2022)
Partnerships for policy transfer: how Brazil and China engage in triangular cooperation with the United Nations
(Discussion Paper 15/2022) - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug/ Silke Weinlich (2022)
China's expanding engagement with the United Nations development pillar: the selective long-term approach of a programme country superpower
Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung / German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), November 2022 - Weinlich, Silke / Nilima Gulrajani / Sebastian Haug (2022)
Re-discovering assessed contributions in the UN system: Underexploited, yet full of potential
in: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (eds.), Financing the UN Development System: Joint Responsibilities in a World of Disarray, Uppsala/ New York: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 127-130 - Weinlich, Silke / Nilima Gulrajani / Sebastian Haug (2022)
Reinforcing United Nations funding: how the G7 can strengthen multilateralism
in: T7 Task Force International cooperation for the global common good, 03.05.2022 - Gulrajani, Nilima / Sebastian Haug / Silke Weinlich (2022)
Fixing UN financing: a pandora’s box the World Health Organization should open
in: ODI Briefing/Policy Paper, published on odi.org, 26.01.2022 - Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Turkey: all alone in global space?
in: IWM Post 128 (Fall/Winter 2021), 16 - Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation: work in progress at the United Nations
(Discussion Paper 15/2021) - Haug, Sebastian (2018)
Towards ‘Constructive Engagement’: MIKTA and global development
in: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia (ed.), MIKTA: The current condition and way forward, Jakarty: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (reprint) - Haug, Sebastian (2018)
Global development and colonial power: German development policy at home and abroad (book review)
in: Journal of Development Studies 55 (2) 328-329 - Kim, Sung-Mi / Sebastian Haug / Susan Harris Rimmer (2017)
MIKTA: towards a strategy to promote multilateral diplomacy and a rules-based International order
Policy Report, Seoul: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea - Haug, Sebastian (2016)
Still in its infancy: UN country-level support for South-South Cooperation in middle income countries
in: United Nations System Staff College and Hertie School of Governancep, UN Reflection Series 2016: development cooperation, policy advice and middle income countries - Proceedings, Berlin: Neopuli GmbH, 85-102 - García, Paola / Sebastian Haug / Nils-Sjard Schulz (2015)
Towards a global partnership for development: the United Nations and Mexico’s South-South cooperation
Mexico: UNDP - Haug, Sebastian (2014)
Aufstrebende Geberländer: China, Mexiko und Süd-Süd-Kooperation
in: Internationale Politik, Sonderausgabe Januar/Februar 2014 - Renfei, Liu / Karthik Nachiappan / Sebastian Haug (2013)
Reconfiguring Global Governance: Effectiveness, Inclusiveness and China’s Global Role
Report of High-Level Policy Forum on Global Governance, UNDP
Opinion Pieces
- Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug (2024)
Why UN financing matters for effective multilateralism
published on theglobalobservatory.org, 18.06.2024 - Haug, Sebastian (2023)
Wie China seine Macht in der UN ausbaut
published on Welt.de, 22.09.2023 - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug (2023)
How China is reshaping UN development work and the implications
published on www.passblue.com, 20.07.2023 - Haug, Sebastian (2022)
The ‘Global South’ and research on world politics
published on theloop.ecpr.eu, 07.09.2021 - Haug, Sebastian (2021)
What or where is the ‘Global South’? A social science perspective
published on blogs.lse.ac.uk, 28.09.2021 - Baumann, Max-Otto / Sebastian Haug / Silke Weinlich (2021)
Germany’s next federal government and the United Nations
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 15 September 2021 - Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Supporting South-South cooperation: three things the UN should keep in mind
published on blogs.die-gdi.de, 02.06.2021
Projects
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Highlight
Mutual legitimation attempts: the United Nations and China's Belt and Road Initiative
Haug, Sebastian (2024)
in: International Affairs, 100 (3), 1207-1230
Highlight
Power shifts in international organisations: China at the United Nations
Haug, Sebastian / Rosemary Foot / Max-Otto Baumann (2024)
in: Global Policy 15 (S2) Special Issue, 5-17
Highlight
Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex
Haug, Sebastian / Jack Taggart (2024)
in: Global Policy 15 (1), 128-134
Highlight
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims
Haug, Sebastian / Supriya Roychoudhury (2023)
in: International Affairs 99 (2), 531–549