Dr. Mark Furness
Department
Inter- and Transnational Cooperation
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Political Science
Work areas
- EU foreign relations
- EU development policy
- Security and development
Regional expertise
- Africa
- The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- South Asia
Vita
| since 1/2018 | 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" |
| 1/2010-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Department "Bi- und multilaterale Entwicklungspolitik" |
| 2004-2009 | Freie Universität Berlin Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European integration Research Fellow |
| 7/2009 | Freie Universität Berlin PhD in Political Science |
| 2003-2004 | Australian National University MA (Hons), International Relations. |
| 2000-2002 | University of Canterbury BA (Hons) History, Diplomacy and International Relations. |
Expertise work for
- advisory council Eine-Welt-Promotoren-Programme
Refereed Publications
- Bergmann, Julian / Ina Friesen / Mark Furness (2025)
EU-Africa cooperation on security, peace and humanitarian aid in the post-Cotonou era: an asymmetric partnership
in: Sophia Price / Mark Langan (eds.), Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement: exploring African Agency amid the 'New Scramble', Abingdon: Routledge, 92-110 - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2024)
Two norms collide: EU policy on fragile and conflict-affected countries
in: JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies, first published 11.09.2024 - Houdret, Annabelle / Mark Furness (2024)
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 23.07.2024 - Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Mark Furness / Annabelle Houdret / Tina Zintl (2024)
Drivers of change in social contracts: building a conceptual framework
in: Mediterranean Politics, first published 17.07.2024 - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2023)
The EU's approach to fragile states: conflicting norms, practices, and lessons learnt
in: David Carment / Yiagadeesen Samy (eds.), Handbook of Fragile States, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 369-384 - Loewe, Markus (ed.) (2021)
Framing the emergence of new social contracts in Middle East and North African countries
in: World Development, special issue - Brand, Alexander / Mark Furness / Niels Keijzer (2021)
Promoting policy coherence within the 2030 Agenda framework: externalities, trade-offs and politics
in: Politics and Governance 9 (1), 108 - 118 - Furness, Mark / Luciana-Alexandra Ghica / Simon Lightfoot / Balázs Szent-Iványi (2020)
EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity
in: Journal of Contemporary European Research 16 (2), 89 - 100 - Furness, Mark / Bernhard Trautner (2020)
Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected MENA countries: Whither Iraq and Libya?
in: World Development 135, 1-12, article 105085 - Furness, Mark / Thomas Henökl / Tobias Schumacher (2019)
Crisis, coordination and coherence: European decision-making and the 2015 European neighbourhood policy review
in: European Foreign Affairs Review 24 (4), 447-458 - Furness, Mark (2019)
‘Donorship' and strategic policymaking: Germany's MENA aid programme since the Arab uprisings
in: Development Policy Review 38 (S1), 070-090 - Furness, Mark (2018)
European neighbourhood policy decision-making at critical junctures: EU institutions, the member states and neighbourhood countries
in: Tobias Schumacher / Andreas Marchetti / Thomas Demmelhuber (eds.), The Routledge handbook on the European neighbourhood policy, London: Routledge, 200-210 - Furness, Mark (2017)
Priorities for international cooperation with Libya: a development perspective
in: Mediterranean Politics 22 (4), 545-552 - Furness, Mark / Stefan Gänzle (2017)
The Security–Development Nexus in European Union foreign relations after Lisbon: policy coherence at last?
in: Development Policy Review 35 (4), 475-492 - Bodenstein, Thilo / Jörg Faust / Mark Furness (2017)
European Union development policy: collective action in times of global transformation and domestic crisis
in: Development Policy Review 35 (4), 441-453 - Furness, Mark (2016)
EU engagement in fragile and conflict-affected countries: comprehensive policy, fragmented operations
in: Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Casjen Mahn / Mario Negre (eds.), The fragmentation of aid: concepts, measurements and implications for development cooperation, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 107-120 - Furness, Mark / Stefan Gänzle
(2016)
The European Union’s development policy: a balancing act between ‘A more comprehensive approach’ and creeping securitization
in: Stephen Brown / Jörn Grävingholt (eds.), The securitization of foreign aid, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 138-162 - Furness, Mark / Gorm Rye Olsen (2015)
Europeanisation and the EU's comprehensive approach to crisis management in Africa
published on European Politics and Society DOI:10.1080/23745118.2015.1075779 - Guarín, Alejandro / Mark Furness / Imme Scholz / Silke Weinlich (2013)
Wirtschaftliche, politische und soziale Auswirkungen des Aufstiegs neuer Mittelschichten
in: Andreas Nölke / Christian May / Simone Claar (Hrsg.), Die großen Schwellenländer: Ursachen und Folgen ihres Aufstiegs in der Weltwirtschaft, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 21-41 - Mackie, James / Stephan Klingebiel / Pedro Martins (eds.) (2013)
European Report on Development 2013: Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future
Brussels: European Commission - Furness, Mark (2013)
Who controls the European external action service? Agent autonomy in EU external policy
in: European Foreign Affairs Review 18 (1), 103 - 126 - Furness, Mark (2012)
The Lisbon treaty, the European external action service and the reshaping of EU development policy
in: Stefan Gänzle / Sven Grimm / Davina Makhan (eds.), The European Union and global development: An 'Enlightened Superpower' in the Making? Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 74-93 - Khasabova, Alina / Mark Furness (2010)
Defining the role of the European Union in managing illegal migration in the Mediterranean Basin: policy, operations and oversight
in: Ivan Ureta / Derek Lutterbeck (eds.), Migration, development and diplomacy: perspectives from the Southern Mediterranean, Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Pr.,191-217 - Bodenstein, Thilo / Mark Furness (2009)
Separating the willing from the able: is the European Union’s mediterranean policy incentive compatible?
in: European Union Politics 10 (3), 381 – 401
Non-refereed Publications
- Furness, Mark (2024)
The European Neighbourhood Policy South: addressing the autocracy dilemma
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), 36-39 - Keijzer, Niels / Svea Koch / Mark Furness (2024)
The Global Gateway: juggling self-interest, geopolitical competition and developmental aspirations
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), 8-9 - Megatrends Afrika (ed.) (2024)
Joint Futures: ideas for Germany’s Africa Policy - Ideen für die deutsche Afrikapolitik
in: Megatrends Working Paper 12 - Furness, Mark (2024)
The global gateway in the Southern neighbourhood: the dilemma of investing in authoritarian MENA countries
in: EuroMeSCo Policy Brief 143, Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) - Furness, Mark (2024)
Transnational cooperation and social contracts
in: Sven Grimm / Stephan Klingebiel (eds.), Transnational cooperation – an explorative collection, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability, 24-27 - Furness, Mark (2024)
The EU’s Global Gateway and China’s Belt and Road: two strategies and two realities for the Southern Mediterranean
in: IEMed. Policy Study 8, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) / Centre for Transportation Studies for the Western Mediterranean (CETMO), Barcelona: European Instutute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), 12 - 21 - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2023)
The EU Global Gateway and North Africa: Practical and Moral Challenges
published on megatrends-africa.de, Blog Joint Futures 31, 04.12.2023 - Bodenstein, Thilo / Mark Furness (2023)
European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings: a window of opportunity missed
in: UNU-WIDER Working Papers - Furness, Mark / Niels Keijzer (2022)
Europe’s global gateway: a new geostrategic framework for development policy?
(Briefing Paper 1/2022) - Furness, Mark / Markus Loewe (2021)
Europa sollte die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Nahen Osten und Nordafrika stärker auf die Gesellschaftsverträge fokussieren
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 7/2021) - Furness, Mark / Markus Loewe (2021)
Focussing European cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa on social contracts
(Briefing Paper 18/2021) - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
Le contrat social: un nouveau concept pour la coopération avec les pays de la région MENA touchés par des conflits
(Briefing Paper 10/2020) - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika: auch in konfliktbetroffenen Ländern neue Gesellschaftsverträge unterstützen
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 7/2020) - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
Development cooperation with conflict-affected MENA countries: refocussing on the social contract
(Briefing Paper 7/2020) - Bauer, Steffen / Julian Bergmann / Clara Brandi / Mark Furness / Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Gabriela Iacobuta / Julia Leininger / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2019)
An agenda for Europe in the world
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2019)
Die "Europäische Friedensfazilität": gute Idee mit großen Risiken
published on peacelab.blog, 29.05.2019 - Furness, Mark (2018)
The OECD Resilience Task Force: supporting a new social contract for the Middle East and North Africa
MENA-OECD Resilience Task Force Annual Meeting, Jeddah 4 – 5 December 2018; Background Paper for Session 1: Rebuilding a Social Contract Based on Social Dialogue - Furness, Mark (2018)
Strategic policymaking and Germany’s MENA aid programme
in: Orient 59 (4), 23-32 - Furness, Mark / Niels Keijzer (2018)
Should the European neighbourhood instrument be included in the proposed ‘single instrument’?
published on ettg.eu June 14, 2018 - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2018)
Eine Europäische Friedensfazilität könnte einen pragmatischen Beitrag zur Friedensförderung weltweit leisten
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 7/2018) - Furness, Mark / Julian Bergmann (2018)
A European peace facility could make a pragmatic contribution to peacebuilding around the world
(Briefing Paper 6/2018) - Furness, Mark (2018)
Strategic policymaking and the German aid programme in the MENA region since the Arab uprisings
(Discussion Paper 5/2018) - Furness, Mark (2016)
Policy coherence for development and the security-development nexus in EU external relations
in: European Parliament Directorate-General for External Policies (ed.), EU policy coherence for development: the challenge of sustainability (Workshop), 22-35 - Keijzer, Niels / Mark Furness / Christine Hackenesch / Svea Koch (2015)
"Towards a new partnership between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries after 2020"
Contribution of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) to the EU public consultation - Furness, Mark / Stefan Gänzle (2015)
EU foreign relations after Lisbon: tackling the security-development nexus?
Univ. of Agder: Department of Political Science and Management (ISL Working Papers 3/2015) - Furness, Mark (2015)
Deauville partnership MENA transition fund: follow-up to 30 June 2015 progress report, options and next steps
Interne Stellungnahme für das BMZ - Koch, Svea / Mark Furness (2015)
Herausfordernde Komplexität
in: E+Z Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit 56 (3), 30-31 - Koch, Svea / Mark Furness (2015)
Challenged by complexity
in: D+C Development and Cooperation 42 (3), 30-31 - Furness, Mark / Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer (2014)
The future of the ACP-EU partnership post-2020: options for Germany and the EU
Interne Stellungnahme für das BMZ - Furness, Mark (2014)
Ordnung ins Chaos bringen
in: Welt-Sichten 11/2014, 63 - Furness, Mark (2014)
Deauville partnership MENA transition fund: priorities for the German G7 presidency in 2015
Interne Stellungnahme für das BMZ - Furness, Mark (2014)
African-European relations
in: Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (eds), Africa Yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2013, Leiden: Brill, 27-40 - Klingebiel, Stephan / Mark Furness / Heiner Janus / Mario Negre (2014)
The EU can contribute more than aid to the global development agenda
in: Thomas Fues / Jiang Ye (eds.), United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development: perspectives from China and Europe, Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), 169-183 - Furness, Mark (2014)
Let’s get comprehensive: European Union engagement in fragile and conflict-affected countries
(Discussion Paper 5/2014) - Furness, Mark (2013)
Africa-Europe relations
in: Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (eds.), Africa Yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2012, Leiden: Brill, 31-45 - Furness, Mark (2013)
Der Wandel kommt nicht von außen
in: Welt-Sichten 11/2013, 60-61 - Furness, Mark / Frank Vollmer (2013)
EU Joint Programming: Lehren aus dem Südsudan
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 10/2013) - Furness, Mark / Frank Vollmer (2013)
EU joint programming: lessons from South Sudan for EU aid coordination
(Briefing Paper 18/2013) - Furness, Mark / Heiner Janus / Stephan Klingebiel (2013)
Post-2015: the EU can contribute more than aid to the global development agenda
(Briefing Paper 7/2013) - Furness, Mark / Mario Negre (2012)
Kann die Europäische Union Ungleichheit in Entwicklungsländern bekämpfen?
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 17/2012) - Furness, Mark / Imme Scholz / Alejandro Guarin (2012)
Das Wachstum der neuen Mittelschichten in Entwicklungsländern: wiederholt sich die Geschichte des Westens?
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 16/2012) - Furness, Mark / Imme Scholz / Alejandro Guarín (2012)
History repeats? The rise of the new middle classes in the developing world
(Briefing Paper 19/2012) - Furness, Mark (2012)
African-European relations
in: Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (eds.), Africa Yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2011, Leiden: Brill, 29-43 - Furness, Mark / Mario Negre (2012)
Can the EU confront inequality in developing countries?
(Briefing Paper 14/2012) - Hackenesch, Christine / Mark Furness (2012)
Strategic partnership: an analysis of cooperation between the European Union and Africa
in: DE Magazin Deutschland 2/2012, 46-47 - Hackenesch, Christine / Mark Furness (2012)
Strategische Partnerschaft: seit 2007 verbindet die EU und Afrika eine strategische Partnerschaft: eine Anlayse
in: DE Magazin Deutschland 2/2012, 46-47 - Loewe, Markus / Steffen Bauer / Clara Brandi / Michael Brüntrup / Mark Furness / Alejandro Guarín / Heiner Janus / Stephan Klingebiel / Svea Koch / Timo Mahn / Nicole Rippin / Imme Scholz / Peter Wolff (2012)
Towards a post-2015 development framework: contribution of DIE to the public consultation of the European Commission
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Bauer, Steffen/ Carmen Richerzhagen / Clara Brandi /Florence Dafe / Mark Furness / Christian von Haldenwang / Annabelle Houdret / Heiner Janus / Oliver Johnson / Markus Loewe / Pieter Pauw / Anna Pegels / Isabel van de Sand / Waltina Scheumann / Imme Scho (2012)
Ensuring sustainable development globally: EU follow-up to Rio+20
Contribution of German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) to the EU Public Consultation - Gavas, Mikaela / Svea Koch / Oladiran Bello / Jeske van Seters / Mark Furness (2011)
The EU's multi-annual financial framework post-2013: options for EU development cooperation
European Think-Tanks Group (Briefing Paper) - Furness, Mark (2011)
The European neighbourhood policy: everything but incentives
in: Thomas Fues / LIU Youfa (eds.), Global governance and building a harmonious world: a comparison of European and Chinese concepts for international affairs (Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) , Studies 62),117-134 - Furness, Mark / Davina Makhan (2011)
EU global development policy: the public goods conundrum
The Broker 26 (10), 24-30 - Furness, Mark (2011)
Die Finanzierung von Sicherheit und Entwicklung: der Problemfall Afrikanische Friedensfazilität
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 11/2011) - Furness, Mark (2011)
Sustaining EU financing for security and development: the difficult case of the African peace facility
(Briefing Paper 7/2011) - Furness, Mark (2010)
The European External Action Service: a new institutional framework for EU development cooperation
(Discussion Paper 15/2010) - Furness, Mark (2010)
Africa European relations
in: Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (eds.), Africa Yearbook: policy, economy and society south of the Sahara in 2009, Leiden: Brill, 31-43 - Furness, Mark / Alina Khasabova (2008)
Defining the role of the European Union in managing illegal migration in the Mediterranean basin: policy, operations and oversight
GO-EuroMed Working Paper 0805 - Furness, Mark (2008)
Exporting the security community? The EU and regional security cooperation in the Mediterranean
in: Studia Diplomatica 61 (4), 5 – 26 - Furness, Mark / Pablo Gándara / Andreas Kern (2008)
GO-EuroMed: the political economy of Euro-Mediterranean governance
Report for GO-EuroMed Brussels Conference 27-28 November 2008
Opinion Pieces
- Furness, Mark (2025)
The Two-State Solution is Dead. What Does This Mean for Europe?
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 23 June 2025 - Furness, Mark (2025)
International development cooperation is in Germany’s national interest
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 27 January 2025 - Furness, Mark / Max-Otto Baumann (2024)
German support for Israel’s government damages the rules-based order
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 2 May 2024 - Furness, Mark (2023)
Europe should prepare to support long-term Palestinian state-building
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 20 December 2023 - Furness, Mark / Tina Zintl (2023)
Germany should host an international donor conference to plan for the aftermath
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 26 October 2023 - Koch, Svea / Niels Keijzer / Mark Furness (2023)
The European Union’s Global Gateway should reinforce but not replace its development policy
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 28 February 2023 - Furness, Mark / Julian Bergmann (2022)
Powerful EU support to Ukraine would defeat Russian war aims
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 9 May 2022 - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2021)
Why the next German government needs a long-term approach to Tunisia and Morocco
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 22 November 2021 - Claes, Thomas / Mark Furness (2021)
Germany and Europe need to provide stronger support to COVID-19 recovery in the MENA region
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 8 March 2021 - Furness, Mark (2021)
The 2021 ENP South Communication: A ‘renewed partnership’ but ‘old issues’ remain
published on ettg.eu, 23.02.2021 - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2020)
Strengthening the EU’s Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding Capabilities
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 5 October 2020 - Trautner, Bernhard / Mark Furness (2020)
How the international community can support Lebanon’s reset
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 17 August 2020 - Houdret, Annabelle / Mark Furness (2020)
Europe can and must prevent a humanitarian disaster!
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 9 March 2020 - Furness, Mark / Julian Bergmann (2019)
How to strengthen the EU as a force for global peace
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 28 October 2019) - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2019)
European arms sales risk undermining development in North Africa
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 8 April 2019) - Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2018)
EU financing for peace and security post 2020 – towards a European Peace Facility (EPF)?
published on European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) March 6, 2018 - Houdret, Annabelle / Mark Furness (2018)
Germany and Europe cannot give up on North Africa
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 26 February 2018 - Furness, Mark (2017)
Prioritäten und strategische Orientierung der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit der MENA-Region
Published on International Development Blog, 13.04.2017 - Trautner, Bernhard / Mark Furness (2017)
Trump, the Middle East and Germany
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 19 January 2017) - Furness, Mark (2016)
Treating migration as a security threat won’t make it go away
published on The Broker 21 December 2016 - Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Mark Furness / Annabelle Houdret / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl (2016)
A new social contract for the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 5 December 2016) - Furness, Mark / Isabel Schäfer (2015)
The 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy Review: more realism, less ambition
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 26 November 2015) - Fiedler, Charlotte / Mark Furness / Jörn Grävingholt / Julia Leininger (2015)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development needs a coherent focus on governance and peace
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 12 October 2015) - Furness, Mark / Annabelle Houdret (2015)
What should (and what should not) be done to ease the Syrian refugee crisis?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 8 September 2015) - Loewe, Markus / Annabelle Houdret / Mark Furness (2015)
Don’t blame Islam for the murders in Paris
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 21 January 2015) - Furness, Mark / Jodie Keane (2014)
A global economy that works for the good of all: responsible trade and financial policy coordination
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 25 August 2014) - Furness, Mark / Svea Koch (2014)
Germany's global ambition must have a European dimension
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 12 February 2014) - Furness, Mark (2013)
What the EU could contribute, with a little EU-phoria
The Broker Online, 10 September 2013 - Bader, Julia / Mark Furness (2012)
Wahlen in Myanmar: Zeichen eines „burmesischen Frühlings“?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 02.04.2012) - Loewe, Markus / Mark Furness (2011)
Kooperation wofür? Europas Hilfe für Nordafrika nutzte bisher vor allem den autoritären Herrschern dort
in: Die Zeit 24.02.2011, 33 - Furness, Mark (2011)
Der Südsudan beginnt bei Null
in: Die Zeit, 19.01.2011 - Furness, Mark (2010)
Entwicklungspolitik in kleinen Schritten
in: Die Zeit, 01.03.2010