Dr. Melanie Müller

Research group:

melanie.mueller@swp-berlin.org

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5393-2173

Areas of Expertise

Focus

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, political transformations in Southern Africa, resource governance and responsibility in the supply chain, GIBSA

Since January 2017 Researcher in the Research Division Africa and Middle East

2015 – 2016: Research Fellow, Free University of Berlin

2011 – 2016: PhD student, Free University of Berlin

2011 – 2016: Political analyst/freelancer, focus: resource governance and international environmental governance

Responsibility in Supply Chains
- German
Germany’s Due Diligence Act Is a Good Start

SWP Comment 2021/C 21, 22.03.2021, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021C21
- Melanie Müller
Crisis-proofing Supply Chains: “It’s about Human Rights Too”
- German
The pandemic has exposed the magnitude of global dependency on supply relationships. Melanie Müller discusses with Candida Splett how the resilience of supply chains can be improved. Human rights are an important aspect.

Point of View, 03.02.2021
Foresight*: Global Competition for Health Care Workers from Africa
- German
SWP Comment 2020/C 64, 16.12.2020, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C64
- Melanie Müller
- Judith Vorrath
Mozambique Still At Risk
- German
Despite the Peace Process, A Serious Crisis Looms

SWP Comment 2019/C 36, 19.09.2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C36
- Melanie Müller
- Laura Kotzur
Sense of Frustration
- German
The Debate on Land Reform in South Africa

SWP Comment 2019/C 22, 18.04.2019, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C22v02
- David Kipp
- Melanie Müller
EU Migration Policy Bears No Relation to Reality
- German
The EU is operating in crisis mode as regards migration policy, focusing above all on containment – wrongly, as David Kipp and Melanie Müller argue. They identify four factors that should be involved in a factual debate about sustainable migration policy.

Point of View, 28.11.2018

- Bernice McLean
- Melanie Müller
Supply Chain Disruptions and African-European Relations

Podcast in: sustainablesupplychains.org, 10.03.2021 (online)
- Melanie Müller
Adapting environmental and climate justice to local political struggles in South Africa

in: Sabrina Zajak & Sebastian Haunss (eds.), "Social Stratification and Social Movements Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship", London/New York: Routledge, February 2020, S. 109-125.
- Melanie Müller
- Richard Calland
How South Africa and Germany can help the world

in: Mail & Guardian, 30.01.2020 (online)
- Melanie Müller
- Bettina Engels
Northern theories, Southern movements? Contentious politics in Africa through the lens of social movement theory

in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies (online), 22.04.2019
- Melanie Müller
- Armin Paasch
When only the coal counts

German co-responsibility for human rights in the South African coal sector

Johannesburg: ActionAid South Africa, 2016
- Melanie Müller
- Heike Walk
Democratizing the climate negotiations system through improved opportunities for participation

in: Matthias Dietz, Heiko Garrelts (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, Abingdon 2014, pp. 31-43