International Security
Research department I studies the classic field of international security policy: States seek security, their own, that of their citizens, and of political, economic, and environmental relationships. How states pursue this goal is crucial for the maintenance of peace and the risk of violent conflict. The department’s empirical work focuses on those practices and strategies of states that are associated with military violence or that seek to prevent or limit its application. Highest priority is given to the latest developments and dynamics in warfare, the transformation of norms and rules regarding the legitimate use of force, and arms control. Besides conducting basic theoretical research, research department I has a long-standing expertise in policy consultation and an ongoing interest in the policy issues of arms control, disarmament and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Within the new research program Coercion and Peace (2018), research department I examines how technological, political, and normative change influences states’ abilities to use coercion and how that impacts national and international security and global peace. Research in this context covers three areas: (1) security policy and world order, (2) military strategy and the use of force, and (3) arms control and technology. Coercion is addressed in its military and non-military dimensions.
In context of the previous research program Just Peace Governance (2011-2017), research focused on the relevance of justice conflicts in states’ foreign and security policy. Research department I examined the role of justice in hegemonic conflicts and how justice-related arguments make negotiating arms control and disarmament more difficult.
Current PhD Project
- Arms Control in the Middle East: Between Self-Help and Cooperation
- Epistemic Warfare: Deception, Communication and Hybridity in International Security
- Making arms control: Knowledge and expertise in and of arms control processes of emerging technologies
- Nuclear Weapons 2.0: US Nuclear Weapon Research after the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- Radicalisation within the Normative Nuclear Order: How Contestation and Resistance to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
- Rule and Resistance in the Nuclear Order. Colonial Imprints in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Anti-Colonial Revolt in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- The Role of Justice Perceptions in Treaty Interpretation Debates
- Why Comply? A comparative analysis of conventional arms control in African states
- “A Matter of Theology, not Evidence”: US Missile Defense and Ideational Change
Completed PhD Project
- Functional Change in Conventional Arms Control in Europe
- Metanorms, Justice Claims and the Contestation of the Responsibility to Protect
- Permissive Effects of International Norms: Napalm and the Long Non-Emergence of the Norm Against Cluster Munitions
- Proactivism and State Identity: Irish and Canadian Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Policy
- ACONA – The Arms Control Negotiation Academy
- Dealing with contestations and backlashes of gender equality in peacebuilding
- EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium
- New Forms of Warfare: The Transformation of War
- Norm linkage as politics of legitimacy: The interaction of protection and prosecution norms in humanitarian intervention debates
- Norm-Based Security Structure: Conventional Arms Control in Europe
- Perspectives of Arms Control
- Steps Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
- Technology and Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control
- Teilprojekt InRa-Studie
- The CBW network for a comprehensive reinforcement of norms against chemical and biological weapons (CBWNet)
- The Crisi/es of Arms Control
- Implementation of successful measures and processes for UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- Conditions for Successful Governance in the Conflict Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty
- Institutionalized Inequality in Global Governance
- From Biological Disarmament to Biosecurity: Securitization or Humanization of Biological Weapons Control After September 11, 2001?
- Salafism in Germany
- "Rogue States", "Outlaws", and "Pariahs": Dissidence Between Delegitimization and Justification
- A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers
- Contested World Orders
- The Prohibition of Biological Weapons – a Norm of Customary International Law?
- Technology and Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control
- Justice and Compliance: Explaining the Effectiveness of International Regimes
- Antinomies of Democratic Arms Control in the 1990s
- Arguing and Bargaining
- Causes of the Differences in War Involvement of Democracies since 1990
- Democracies and the "Revolution in Military Affairs"
- The Imperial Discourse. The Liberal World-View Between Global Governance and Neo-Conservatism
- The Transformation of Arms Control. Norm Dynamics and Notions of Justice in Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
- To Save Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
- Functional Change in Conventional Arms Control in Europe
- Wars of Democratic States since 1990
- Missile Defense Research
- Preparation for the NPT Review Conference 2010: Proposals for the Norwegian Presidency of the Seven Nations Initiative
- Steps Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
- Transparency as a Prerequisite of Arms Control
- Buch, Henrike
- Demirci, Irem
- Filzinger, Finja
- Lehmann, Tobias
- Linder, Janne
- Lüdke, Louise
- Perras, Clara
- Schmidt, Lilith