Foreign Policy / International Relations
Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law
Department of Law
Public Law
Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- International law
- Human rights
- German and foreign constitutional law
Friederike Beier
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Gender and Diversity
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Feminist state theory
- Social reproduction / care work
- Gender in global governance
- Time theory and policy
- Equality policy
- Feminist theory
Dr. David Bosold
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Graduate School of North American Studies
Lansstraße 5-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Canada
- Canada (energy policy)
- Canada (foreign and security policy)
- Canada (economic policy)
- Canada (Arctic policy)
Dr. Achim Brunnengräber
Privatdozent
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Research Centre for Sustainability (FFN)
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Energy turnaround, international climate policy
- Management of radioactive waste / nuclear waste
- Global governance / multi-level governance
- International organizations and environmental regimes
- Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
- New social movements
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Professor of History
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
History and Cultural History:
- International history
- North American history
- Modern history, 19th - 21st century
- History of the USA: Culture, history, politics, diplomacy
Politics and Society:
- US foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- Humanitarian intervention
- Nation branding — self-projection and performance of nations
- Public diplomacy / cultural diplomacy
Culture and Media:
- Emotions / history of emotions
- Media history
- Music history
Continents and Regions:
- USA, North America
- Transatlantic relations
- History of US-Japanese relations
Boris Ginzburg
Institute for East European Studies
Politics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Homepage
Please note
Interviews are also possible in Russian language
Areas of Expertise
- post-Soviet region / Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
- German-Russian relations
- political impact of sanctions on autocracies
- Non-systemic opposition in Russia
- organized crime in the post-Soviet space
- Israeli foreign policy
Jannis Grimm
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Protest and social movements
- Civil society
- Radicalization and political violence
- Human rights violations and state violence
- Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
- North Africa
- Near/Middle East
- Democratization and social transformation
- Arab Spring
- Islamism
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Research ethics
- Safe field research
- Research conditions in authoritarian contexts
Prof. Dr. Tobias Hofmann
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for International Relations
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- European integration (European Union)
- International relations (economic relations, conflicts)
- International organizations (free trade agreements, World Trade Organization, United Nations)
- Political institutions (Europe, USA, Asia)
- Political economy (trade, investment, exchange rates)
Sebastian Hoppe
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
- politics and economy in the Russian Far East
- Russian-Chinese relations
- regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Jan Koehler
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"
Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan
Goßlerstr. 2-4, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- German and international commitment
- State-building in Afghanistan
- Northeast Afghanistan / Eastern Afghanistan
- Caucasus
- Post-Soviet Union
- Conflict research
Dr. Heike Krieger
Professor of Law and Judge in the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin
Department of Law
Public Law, Public International Law
Van't-Hoff-Straße 8, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- United Nations
- German armed forces abroad
- Martial law
- International and European human rights protection
- European Court of Human Rights
- Constitutional jurisdiction
- Protection of fundamental rights
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Lena Partzsch
Professor of Comparative politics
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Department of Comparative Politics with a focus on environmental and climate policy
Ihnestraße 22, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental policy
- Climate policy
- Development policy
- ethical consumption
- certification
- supply chain laws
Dr. Ingo Peters
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Transatlantic relations
- EU / NATO / OSCE
- German foreign policy
- Security policy
- EU external relations
- Conflicts in Europe
- Self-determination
Louisa Prause
Political Scientist
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Junior Research Group: "Global Change - Local Conflcts?"
Boltzmannstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Conflicts over land, mining, and resources
- Social movements in Africa
- Land grabbing
- Development cooperation
- Western Africa
Dr. Julia Püschel
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of foreign trade
- Economics of the labor market
- Economic inequalities
- History of ideas in economics
Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
- Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
- Foreign reporting, War reporting
- Image of Islam
- Media and the Middle East conflict
- Media and migration / refugees
Dr. Thomas Risse
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization and American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War
- European integration
- Europe and Russia
- America and Europe
- Current issues in European politics
- EU Presidency
- “EU foreign affairs”
- International relations in light of the Geneva Convention and UN Human Rights Declaration
- Fragile states
- Governance export
Dr. Thomas Rixen
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
International and Comparative Political Economy
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Political economy
- Globalization
- International tax policy
- Financial markets
- Tax havens
- Tax competition
- Inequality
- Regulation
Dr. Tobias Rupprecht
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Cluster of Excellence ”Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”
Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29, 14195 Berlin
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Political economy of state socialism in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia
- Role of economists in transformation processes
Dr. Regine Schönenberg
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Organized crime
- Natural resource management
- Land management
- Intercultural learning
- Biography research
- Scenario research
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Mihai Varga
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
- Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe
Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Political Science
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. security policy
- International institutions
- Global governance
- Diplomacy
Dr. Sabine von Oppeln
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- European Union
- German and French European policy
- German-French relations
- Comparative politics in France and Germany
Martin Wagner
Institute for Eastern Europe
History of Eastern and Central Eastern Europe
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia/the Soviet Union, 19th to 21st century
- History of China, 19th to 21st century
- History of relations between China and Russia, 17th to 21st century
Peggy Wittke
Department of Law
Public Law
Institute of Administrative Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, International Law
Van’t-Hoff-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- United Nations
- Model United Nations
- Model European Union
Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and history of modern Japan
- Intellectual history of East Asia
- International relations of East Asia
- Relations between Japan and China
- Law in East Asia
- Human rights in East Asia
Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Global governance
- G8/G20 Summit
- EU treaties
- International organizations
- International legalization and international rule of law
- Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
- War and new forms of violence
- Peace
- Humanitarian intervention
- Transnational social movements
- NGOs
- Protest / resistance
- Ruling authority in an international system