Between January 2013 and June 2016, the Chair of International Politics coordinated the German-Tunisian research project 'Tunisia in Transition - International Relations'. Funded by the DAAD, the project established a German-Tunisian interdisciplinary junior research group focusing on the transformation of the Arab World, Tunisian foreign policy, and European policy in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). In the 2015 project year, the team prepared a collective publication on Tunisian foreign policy and Tunisia's role in the world, which has since been published by Routledge.