Dr Annika Elena Poppe

Academic Coordinator
Research Department:
Research Alliance TraCe
Intrastate Conflict

Contact

E-Mail: a.poppe@prif.org

CV

since 2023	Academic Coordinator of the research center “Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe)”
since 2021	Systemic Counselor and Coach
2021 - 2023	Project and Team manager IsraAID Germany e.V.
2019 - 2022	Associate Fellow at PRIF
2017	Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize 2017 of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
2015–2019	Project Director at PRIF and Coordinator of the Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)
2015	PhD (Dr. phil.) at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
2011	Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC (fall semester)
2010–2013	PhD Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
2010–2015	Research Associate at PRIF and PhD Candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
2009–2010	Research Assistant at PRIF
2009	Magistra Artium (Political Science, American Studies)
2006–2007	Fulbright Scholarship
2005–2009	Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
2007	Master of Arts (History)
2002–2009	Study of Political Science and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt/M. and Study of History at American University, Washington, DC

Publications

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Democracy Promotion after the 2020 Presidential Election | 2020: Poppe, Annika Elena (2020): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Democracy Promotion after the 2020 Presidential Election, 27.10.2020.; Show details

US Democracy Promotion after the Cold War | 2020: Poppe, Annika Elena (2020): US Democracy Promotion after the Cold War. Stability, Basic Premises, and Policy toward Egypt, London: Routledge.; Show details

The negotiation of democracy promotion | 2019: Poppe, Annika Elena / Leininger, Julia / Wolff, Jonas (eds), (2019): The negotiation of democracy promotion. Issues, parameters and consequences, (Special issue), London: Routledge, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fdem20/26/5.; Show details

Preventing Civic Space Restrictions | 2019: Baldus, Jana / Berger-Kern, Nora / Hetz, Fabian / Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2019): Preventing Civic Space Restrictions. An Exploratory Study of Successful Resistance Against NGO Laws, PRIF Report 1/2019, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

Beyond contestation | 2019: Poppe, Annika Elena / Leininger, Julia / Wolff, Jonas (2019): Beyond contestation. Conceptualizing negotiation in democracy promotion, in: Democratization, 26:5, 777-795, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1568991.; Show details

Introduction | 2019: Poppe, Annika Elena / Leininger, Julia / Wolff, Jonas (2019): Introduction. Negotiating the Promotion of Democracy, in: Democratization, 26:5, 759-776, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1593379.; Show details

Gemeinnützigkeit in Deutschland: Karneval und Religion ja, Politik und Menschenrechte nein | 2019: Annika Elena Poppe, Jonas Wolff, Gemeinnützigkeit in Deutschland: Karneval und Religion ja, Politik und Menschenrechte nein, 2019, https://blog.prif.org/2019/02/27/gemeinnuetzigkeit-in-deutschland-karneval-und-religion-ja-politik-und-menschenrechte-nein/.; Show details

Harmony and Resilience | 2019: Poppe, Annika Elena (2019): Harmony and Resilience. US Democracy Promotion's Basic Premises, in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 15:4, 530–547, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isafpa/ory017.; Show details

Responding to Closing Civic Space: Recent Experiences from Three Global Initiatives | 2018: Hetz, Fabian / Poppe, Annika Elena (2018): Responding to Closing Civic Space: Recent Experiences from Three Global Initiatives, CSIS Human Rights Initiative Online Paper, 19.12.2018.; Show details

"Othering" Across and Beyond the Pond | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena (2018): "Othering" Across and Beyond the Pond, PRIF Blog (Repost from AICGS blog contribution), 18.12.2018.; Show details

"Othering" Across and Beyond the Pond | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena (2018): "Othering" Across and Beyond the Pond, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), 4.12.2018.; Show details

Democracy Promotion under the Current US Administration | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena (2018): Democracy Promotion under the Current US Administration, in: Poppe, Annika Elena/Richter, Solveig/Wolff, Jonas (für das EDP Netzwerk) (eds), PRIF Report, (Vol. 13).; Download publication // Show details

Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena / Richter, Solveig / Wolff, Jonas (2018): Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century, in: Poppe, Annika Elena/Richter, Solveig/Wolff, Jonas (für das EDP Netzwerk) (eds), PRIF Report, (Vol. 13).; Download publication // Show details

Democracy Promotion and the Challenge of Shrinking Civic Spaces | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2018): Democracy Promotion and the Challenge of Shrinking Civic Spaces, in: Poppe, Annika Elena/Richter, Solveig/Wolff, Jonas (für das EDP Netzwerk) (eds), PRIF Report, (Vol. 13).; Download publication // Show details

Shrinking Spaces. Eine Herausforderung der internationalen Demokratie- und Zivilgesellschaftsförderung | 2018: Baldus, Jana / Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2018): Shrinking Spaces. Eine Herausforderung der internationalen Demokratie- und Zivilgesellschaftsförderung, in: Afrika Süd, 47:5, https://www.afrika-sued.org/ausgaben/heft-5-2018/shrinking-spaces/.; Show details

Wir müssen Shrinking Spaces besser verstehen, um dem Phänomen begegnen zu können | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena (2018): Wir müssen Shrinking Spaces besser verstehen, um dem Phänomen begegnen zu können, PRIF BLOG, 23.8.2018.; Show details

Nachhaltiger Frieden: Liberal-demokratische Friedenskonzepte unter Druck | 2018: Bethke, Felix S. / Debiel, Tobias / Hartmann, Christof / Poppe, Annika Elena / Schablitzki, Jan / Wolff, Jonas (2018): Nachhaltiger Frieden: Liberal-demokratische Friedenskonzepte unter Druck, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2018, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 65-83, www.friedensgutachten.de.; Show details

We Need to Understand Why States Object to the Presence of Foreign-funded NGOs | 2018: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2018): We Need to Understand Why States Object to the Presence of Foreign-funded NGOs, PRIF BLOG, 8.1.2018.; Show details

We need to understand why states object to the presence of foreign-funded NGOs | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): We need to understand why states object to the presence of foreign-funded NGOs, Democratic Audit UK, 13.12.2017.; Show details

An Overview of Global Initiatives on Countering Closing Space for Civil Society | 2017: Baldus, Jana / Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): An Overview of Global Initiatives on Countering Closing Space for Civil Society, Washington, D.C.: CSIS Human Rights Initiative, www.csis.org/(...).; Show details

Widerstand gegen internationale Zivilgesellschaftsförderung: mehr als nur „eine illegitime Ausrede“ | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): Widerstand gegen internationale Zivilgesellschaftsförderung: mehr als nur „eine illegitime Ausrede“, BBE-Newsletter für Engagement und Partizipation in Europa (Nr. 7), 15.8.2017.; Show details

Germany Sets a Poor Example: The Case of ATTAC in Light of Globally Closing Civic Spaces | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): Germany Sets a Poor Example: The Case of ATTAC in Light of Globally Closing Civic Spaces, The International Consortium on Closing Civic Space, 17.7.2017.; Show details

The Contested Spaces of Civil Society in a Plural World | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): The Contested Spaces of Civil Society in a Plural World. Norm Contestation in the Debate about Restrictions on International Civil Society Support, in: Contemporary Politics (open access), 23:4, DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2017.1343219.; Download publication // Show details

Schlechtes Vorbild Deutschland | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2017): Schlechtes Vorbild Deutschland. Der Fall Attac im Licht globaler Einschränkungen zivilgesellschaftlicher Handlungsspielräume, PRIF Spotlight 2/2017, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

Recalibrating the interest-values-nexus. US democracy promotion in the Middle East | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena (2017): Recalibrating the interest-values-nexus. US democracy promotion in the Middle East, in: Orient, 58:2, 15–22.; Show details

Demokratieförderpolitik: Rhetorische Wende bei gleichbleibender Politik? | 2017: Poppe, Annika Elena (2017): Demokratieförderpolitik: Rhetorische Wende bei gleichbleibender Politik?, in: Fehl, Caroline/Fey, Marco (Hg.), „America first“: Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump, Frankfurt/M, 21–22, HSFK-Report Nr. 1/2017.; Show details

Ungebetene Gäste | 2016: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2016): Ungebetene Gäste. Es gibt kein Recht auf Hilfe für die Zivilgesellschaft in anderen Ländern, in: Welt-Sichten, August (8), 8–9, www.welt-sichten.org/(...).; Show details

Problematische Einmischung von außen | 2016: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2016): Problematische Einmischung von außen. Finanzierung von NGOs aus dem Ausland wird häufig eingeschränkt. Dahinter steckt mehr als reine Willkür, Frankfurter Rundschau, 14.7.2016.; Show details

The Nuclear Taboo, Battlestar Galactica, and the Real World | 2016: Fey, Marco / Poppe, Annika Elena / Rauch, Carsten (2016): The Nuclear Taboo, Battlestar Galactica, and the Real World. Illustrations from a Science-Fiction Universe, in: Security Dialogue, 47:4, 348–365, DOI: 10.1177/0967010616643212.; Download publication // Show details

Widerstand gegen internationale Zivilgesellschaftsförderung | 2016: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2016): Widerstand gegen internationale Zivilgesellschaftsförderung. Mehr als nur „eine illegitime Ausrede“, openDemocracy, 20.4.2016.; Show details

Foreign funding restrictions: far more than just "an illegitimate excuse" | 2016: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2016): Foreign funding restrictions: far more than just "an illegitimate excuse", openDemocracy, 20.4.2016.; Show details

From Closing Space to Contested Spaces | 2015: Wolff, Jonas / Poppe, Annika Elena (2015): From Closing Space to Contested Spaces. Re-assessing Current Conflicts over International Civil Society Support, PRIF Report No. 137, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

Freedom Fighter versus Civilian Power | 2014: Poppe, Annika Elena / Woitschach, Bentje / Wolff, Jonas (2014): Freedom Fighter versus Civilian Power. An ideal-type comparison of US and German conceptions of democracy promotion, in: Wolff, Jonas/Spanger, Hans-Joachim/Puhle, Hans-Jürgen (eds), The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion, London: Routledge, 37-60, https://www.routledge.com/(...).; Show details

The Normative Challenge of Interaction | 2013: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2013): The Normative Challenge of Interaction. Justice Conflicts in Democracy Promotion, in: Global Constitutionalism, 2:3, 373-406, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S204538171200024X.; Show details

The Normative Challenge of Interaction | 2012: Poppe, Annika Elena / Wolff, Jonas (2012): The Normative Challenge of Interaction. Justice Conflicts in Democracy Promotion, PRIF Working Papers No. 12, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

"Freiheitskämpfer" versus "Zivilmacht": Die USA und Deutschland im idealtypischen Vergleich | 2012: Wolff, Jonas / Poppe, Annika Elena / Woitschach, Bentje (2012): "Freiheitskämpfer" versus "Zivilmacht": Die USA und Deutschland im idealtypischen Vergleich, in: Wolff, Jonas/Spanger, Hans-Joachim/Puhle, Hans-Jürgen (Hg.), Zwischen Normen und Interessen. Demokratieförderung als internationale Politik. Studien der Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung Bd. 20, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 49-76, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/(...).; Show details

Quo vadis, Obama? | 2011: Poppe, Annika Elena (2011): Quo vadis, Obama? US-amerikanische Demokratieförderpolitik nach dem Kalten Krieg, HSFK-Report Nr. 2/2011, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

Whither to, Obama? | 2010: Poppe, Annika Elena (2010): Whither to, Obama? U.S. Democracy Promotion after the Cold War, PRIF Report No. 96, Frankfurt/M.; Download publication // Show details

Current Projects

Research Network 'External Democracy Promotion'

Completed Projects

Other professional activities

2020	Scientific advisor of the arteTV-Documentary (2020) “Im Fadenkreuz der Machthaber – Angriff auf die Zivilgesellschaft”
2019	Participant at the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy of the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
2018–2019	Member of the German-American Dialogue of the Next Generation: Global Responsibility, Joint Engagement (2018/2019)
2016 - 2020	Member of the Research Network The International Consortium on Closing Civic Space (iCon)
2015–2017	Equal Opportunities Commissioner at PRIF
2015 - 2019	Member of the Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)