International Security and Conflict Studies

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The research interests of Professor Anna Geis and her team include critical security studies, security governance, international political theory, democracies’ foreign and security policy, the liberal world order and its challenges. For detailed information, please consult research or the individual pages of the team members.

News

The Study Commission of the German Parliament on lessons from Afghanistan for Germany’s comprehensive international engagement in the future has published its final report on 27 January 2025. It has published its interim report (352 pages) on 19 February 2024. Both reports and other documents of the committee work can be found here. Professor Anna Geis was a permanent expert in this committee.

Nora Stappert/Frank Gadinger/Stanislav Budnitsky/Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt/Anna Geis/ David Shim/Laurenz Krumbacher/Siddharth Tripathi 2025: Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics, in: International Studies Review, 27:1, viae042, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae042

Anna Geis/Nicole Deitelhoff/Carlo Masala (eds.) 2024: Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die Internationalen Beziehungen, Special Issue of Zeitschrift fuer Internationale Beziehungen, 31: 2.

Christian Opitz/Hanna Pfeifer/ Anna Geis 2024: Kontrollierte Politisierung: Bürgerdialoge im Rahmen der Entwicklung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie in Deutschland, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-024-00548-9. Open Access.

Christian Opitz 2024: Democratic innovations beyond the deliberative paradigm: a re-conceptualization based on Luhmann’s systems theory, in: Democratization. Open access.

Christian Opitz 2024: Democratic Innovations Administered: The Organisational Embeddedness of Public Administrators’ Attitudes Towards Participatory Policy Making, in: Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 20: 1. Open access

News from research:

The DFG-funded research project “Recasting the role of citizens in foreign and security policy?” has a new website. For information, publications and further reading on the project, please visit citizens-in-foreign-policy.com.

Teaching:

Prof. Dr. Anna Geis:
After prior registration by email.

Dr. Charalampos (Babis) Karpouchtsis
After prior registration by email.

Alexandra Friede
After prior registration by email.