Current Projects
- ACONA – The Arms Control Negotiation Academy
- Arms Control in the Middle East: Between Self-Help and Cooperation (PhD Project)
- Epistemic Warfare: Deception, Communication and Hybridity in International Security (PhD Project)
- EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium
- Implementation of successful measures and processes for UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- Institutionalized Inequality in Global Governance
- Making arms control: Knowledge and expertise in and of arms control processes of emerging technologies (PhD Project)
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- 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
- Nuclear Weapons 2.0: US Nuclear Weapon Research after the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (PhD Project)
- Perspectives of Arms Control
- Radicalisation within the Normative Nuclear Order: How Challenge and Resistance to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (PhD Project)
- Steps Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
- Technology and Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control
- The CBW network for a comprehensive reinforcement of norms against chemical and biological weapons (CBWNet)
- The Crisi/es of Arms Control
- The Prohibition of Biological Weapons – a Norm of Customary International Law?
- The Role of Justice Perceptions in Treaty Interpretation Debates (PhD Project)
- Why Comply? A comparative analysis of conventional arms control in African states (PhD Project)
- “A Matter of Theology, not Evidence”: US Missile Defense and Ideational Change (PhD Project)
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- Humanitarian Military Interventions
- Legitimacy Policy through Dialogue Forums? Global Economic Institutions and their Critics
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- Modes of Decision-Making in International Organizations
- Norms, law and deviance: the international prohibition of torture (PhD Project)
- Parlamente in der Sicherheitspolitik
- Resource or Threat? On the Ambivalence of Internal Criticism in International Organization (PhD Project)
- State Capacity as a Moderating Factor for the Effects of Coercion on Compliance (PhD Project)
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- The Leibniz Research Network "Crises in a Globalised World"
- The Normative Force of Conflict: Norm Specification Through Processes of Norm Contestation (PhD Project)
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
- "Let’s fight each other another day.” How armed opposition groups manage challenges to cooperation in complex civil wars
- Democratic-Autocratic Military Interventions in the MENA Region
- Extreme Society: Radicalization and Deradicalization in Germany
- Global Crime Governance - The Privatisation of Maritime Security
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
- How Sunni Clerics in State and Religious Institutions within Arab Countries Engage with Counterterrorism Concepts (PhD Project)
- KURI “Configurations of social and political practices in dealing with radical Islam”
- More Than Just Religious Norms: Religious Civil Society Actors Between Principles and Interests (PhD Project)
- Peace Report
- PrEval - Evaluation designs for prevention measures
- PRIF@School – Network Peace Research and Educational Practice
- Recasting the Role of Citizens in Foreign and Security Policy? Democratic Innovations and Changing Patterns of Interaction between European Executives and Citizes
- Routinised Insurgent Space (RIS)
- The influence of terror on European and national identity
- Transnational Boycotts
- Variance of Salafist radicalization processes (PhD Project)
- Virtually mobilised? (Dis-)parity in mobilisation techniques of right-wing and Salafist actors in radicalisation processes (PhD Project)
- “Islamists at war”. Processes of transnationalization, institutionalization, and militarization of Islamist actors from the 1970s to the present.
Intrastate Conflict (19)
- China and the Andean region
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Democracy beyond legitimate coercion: Deadly use of force by the police in the Philippines and Brazil
- Dynamics of interaction in contexts of shrinking civic space
- Economic Modernization in Russia’s Neo-Patrimonial System (PhD Project)
- Elections in times of shrinking and closing civic and political spaces (PhD Project)
- Elite Management and Ethnic Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
- European security and Russia
- German Research Network 'External Democracy Promotion'
- German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ
- Humanitarian Military Interventions
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- One-Sided or Balanced: Which Post-Civil War Order Secures the Intrastate Peace?
- Peace and Development 2020 – An Analysis of Recent Experiences and Findings
- Radicalization of the marginalized? Dynamics of Islamist radicalization in Tunisia post 2011 (PhD Project)
- Russia's “Normative Alternative”? Political and Civil Rights’ Norms Internalization and Contestation Dynamics (PhD Project)
- Struggles over Socioeconomic Reforms: Political Conflict and Social Contention in Egypt and Tunisia post 2011 in Interregional Comparison
- The Belt and Road Initiative’s impact on conflict states
- The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present
Glocal Junctions (13)
- A new Diaspora? Reconfigurations of political positioning of Turkish institutions and Turkish people in Germany (PhD Project)
- Climate change, environmental movements and transformations of rural space in Colombia (PhD Project)
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Corona Monitor
- DFG Network “Territorializations of the Radical Right - Appropriations of Space and Discursive Framings”
- Diverging perspectives: Legitimizing regional interventions and local perceptions (PhD Project)
- Everyday Political Subjectification and the Rise of Regressive Politics. Downward mobility, urbanization and the production of space in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig
- Evils of a Global Past? Tensions between local practices and global politics in genocide commemoration
- Local perceptions of regional interventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- Nation Building and the Perpetration of Genocide: Memory, National Security, and the Cold War
- Spatial order of a divided society: Production and appropriation of conflict spaces in Mozambique (cancelled) (PhD Project)
- The Prevention Project
- Extreme Society: Radicalization and Deradicalization in Germany
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
- KURI “Configurations of social and political practices in dealing with radical Islam”
- PrEval - Evaluation designs for prevention measures
- Radicalization of the marginalized? Dynamics of Islamist radicalization in Tunisia post 2011 (PhD Project)
- RADIS - Transfer Project Social Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe
- Variance of Salafist radicalization processes (PhD Project)
- Virtually mobilised? (Dis-)parity in mobilisation techniques of right-wing and Salafist actors in radicalisation processes (PhD Project)
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ
- Heuristics and Repertoires of Collective Security: a Comparative Analysis in the Field of International Law
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
- "Let’s fight each other another day.” How armed opposition groups manage challenges to cooperation in complex civil wars
- Democratic-Autocratic Military Interventions in the MENA Region
- How Sunni Clerics in State and Religious Institutions within Arab Countries Engage with Counterterrorism Concepts (PhD Project)
- Politicising Rebel Governance
- The influence of terror on European and national identity