Completed dissertations
Dr. Lunting Wu
"Competing Foreign Normative Powers in Latin America: Comparative Study on China and the European Union" - 2023
Lecturer at Berlin School of Economics and Law
Prof. Dr. Oleksandra Keudel
"Picking sweet and sour cherries: Patronal politics and institutional mechanisms for local citizen participation in Ukraine" - 2021
Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Kyiv School of Economics
Dr. Stephan Lutzenberger
"Overcoming regional blindness - subnational authorities and compliance with EU legislation" - 2020
Director of studies at Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen
Dr. Jason Hyungsup Han
"Neither war nor peaceful settlement: dynamics of unstable peace in post-Cold War Northeast Asia" - 2019
Dr. Louisa Opitz
"Déja-vu? Die Governance der europäischen Wirtschaftsunion nach der Eurokrise: eine Analyse und Erklärung ihres Governance-Wandels als Fortschreibung der deutsch-französischen Präferenzkonstellation von Maastricht" - 2019
First Speaker for ESG and Rating, section Capital Markets at NRW.BANK
Dr. Ann-Sophie Gast
"Cooperation among autocracies? The Eurasian Economic Union" - 2019
Prof. Dr. Maria Debre
"The Club of Arab Monarchies – Ensuring the Survival of Authoritarian Rule through Diffusion and Regional Integration in the Gulf Cooperation Council" - 2018
Professor for International Relations at Zeppelin-Universität Friedrichshafen
Dr. Ganyi Zhang
"Can China be a Friendly and Responsible Great Power? A research on the building of trust between China and East Asian states" - 2018
Political and Economic Analyst at GEODIS
Dr. Luisa Linke-Behrens
"Unravelling State Capacity: How Bureaucratic Resources, Efficiency, and Autonomy Affect Governance by External Actors" - 2018
Head of Department for Digitalisation and Controlling at Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Berlin
Dr. Harrison Kalunga Mwilima
"How states choose: European involvement in promoting regional integration in East Africa" - 2017
Lecturer of Europe-Africa Relations at Centre international de formation européenne & Lecturer at Berlin School of Economics and Law
Dr. Sören Stapel
"The Adoption and Design of Regional Democracy, Human Rights, and Rule of Law Institutions: The Interplay of Demands and Diffusion" - 2016
Research Staff at Center for International Relations, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Mathis Lohaus
"Global consensus on corruption?: international organizations, diffusion, and the design of agreements" - 2016
Research Staff on the project „TRANSNORMS - Translating International Norms between the Global and the Local“ at Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Moritz Knoll
"Policy-sector specific explanations of non-compliance with European law" - 2016
Dr. Bidzina Lebanidze
"Neighborhood Europeanization in Russia’s ‘Near Abroad’. External Influence and the Failure of Democratic Consolidation in Post-Soviet States" - 2016
Associate Professor of International Relations at Ilia State University Tbilisi; Senior Analyst at Georgian Institute of Politics & Research Staff at Institute for Slavic and Caucasian Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Esther Thomas
"Sustainable conflict management by multinational mining companies in areas of limited statehood" - 2014
Water Stewardship Managing Technical Consultant at Environmental Resource Management; ERM Alliance for Water Stewardship
Dr. Kai Striebinger
"In for a penny, in for a pound? The domestic impact of African regional organizations on democratization processes" - 2015
Group Leader at Berlin Senate Department for Labour, social affairs, equality, integration, diversity and anti-discrimination
Dr. Christine Hackenesch
"Race to the Bottom? European promotion of Good Governance in Africa and the role of China." - 2014
Researcher in the programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation" at German Institute of Development and Sustainability
Dr. Digdem Soyaltin
"Europeanisation, Norm Diffusion and Domestic Compliance in Turkey How Political Colour of Government Matter?" - 2014
Assistant Professor for Politics and Public Policy at University of Aberdeen
Dr. Imke Pente
"Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration in Südostasien (ASEAN) unter Berücksichtigung des Einflusses von Policies der Europäischen Union (EU)" - 2014
Country Coordinator Malawi & South Africa at the KfW Development Bank
Dr. Stefan Skupien
"Developmental Constitutionalism" - 2014
Scientific Coordinator for Open Science at Berlin University Alliance
Dr. Alexander Kleibrink
"Territorial politics and decentralisation in the Balkans" - 2013
Senior Policy Officer at Federal Ministry for Education and Research
Dr. Torben Heinze
"A Tale of Many Stories - Explaining Policy Diffusion between European Higher Education Systems" - 2013
Administrative Director at Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie Magdeburg
Dr. Joo Hee Kim
"When East Asia meets Europe explaining the differential approaches of South Korea and Japan toward East Asian regionalism during 1998 - 2007" - 2013
Assistant Professor at Pukyong National University Department of Political Science and Diplomacy
Prof. Dr. Tobias Hofmann
"Institutionally Constrained Convergence of Economic Policy and Growth in Regional Integration Agreements" - 2012
Visiting Professor at the Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Esther Ademmer
"Third Rejoices: Russia, the EU, and Policy Transfer to the Post-Soviet Space" - 2013
Department Manager at Regional Direction Hessen, Federal Agency for Employment
Prof. Dr. Gözde Yilmaz
"From the Push by European Union Conditionality to the Pull by Dissatisfaction: Exploring Europeanization of Minority Rights in Turkey" - 2012
Professor for International Relations at Atilim Universität Ankara
Dr. Aron Buzogany
"Is there an “Eastern Syndrome”? Conditionality, Compliance and state-society relations in Central and Eastern Europe" - 2012
Assistant Professor at Institut für Wald-, Umwelt- und Ressourcenpolitik Wien
Dr. Hui-Yin Sung
"Power, Interest and Idea: An Interactive Structure-Agency Framework for the Study of EU Climate Politics" - 2011
Dr. Christian Grobe
"Bis die Hölle gefriert. Eine Studie über rational choice, sozialwissenschaftliche Laborexperimente und die Macht der Worte in internationalen Verhandlungen." - 2011
Co-Founder of Billie (fintech startup)
Dr. Pamela Luckau
"Matching deeds to words? The principle of conditionality in the EU´s contractual relations with the Western Balkans" - 2011
Professor für Communication and Leadership at SRH Fernhochschule – The Mobile University & Founder and Managing Director at Pamela Luckau Mentalkompass GmbH
Dr. Andres Pennycook Castro
"Chilenischer Hafen gegen bolivianisches Erdgas? Wirtschaftliche Interessen, soziale Konstruktionen und innerstaatliche Mobilisierung" - 2011
Professor for Public Law at Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Chile
Dr. Anna Kristin Müller-Debus
"Collective Action of Firms. Motivation, Facilitation, Social Engagement. A Comparative Analysis of Industry Behaviour in South Africa" - 2010
Director at European Climate Hub
Prof. Dr. Vera van Hüllen
"It Takes Two To Tango. The European Union and Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean" - 2010
Managing Director at German Political Science Association (DVPW) & Adjunct Professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Dr. Nicole Kranz
"What does it take? Engaging Business in Addressing the Water Challenge in South Africa" - 2010
Cluster Coordinator „Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management“ at GIZ
Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke
"Transnational Companies and Security Governance in the Context of Limited Statehood. A Comparison of Postcolonial African 'Enclaves of Extraction" - 2010
Professor for Sociology in Africa at Universität Bayreuth
Dr. Meike Dudziak
"Capacity, Social Capital and Compliance" - 2010
Director of usage controlling and strategic market research at Central and regional library Berlin
Prof. Dr. Sandra Eckert
"The Politics of Regulatory Reform in Europe: Delegation and Liberalisation in the Postal Sector" - 2009
Professor for Comparative Politics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Dr. Osvaldo Saldias Collao
"Supranational Courts as Agents of Regional Integration. The European and the Andean Court of Justice in Comparison" - 2009
Director of the Department "Projects in the Framework of International Cooperation" at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Prof. Dr. Diana Panke
"Talking States into Compliance? Domestic Change in the Shadow of the European Court of Justice" - 2007
Professor for International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Carina Sprungk
"How policy-shaping might (not) affect policy-taking: national parliaments in the decision-making and the transposition of EC directives" - 2007
Head of Appointments & Tenure Track Programme at Executive Board of Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
