Dr Dirk Peters

Dr Dirk Peters

Senior Researcher
Project Leader
Member of the Executive Board
Research Department:
International Institutions
Knowledge Transfer

Contact

E-Mail: peters @prif .org

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CV

2020–2024Member of the Executive Board
2012Visiting Fellowship at Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg
2008Ph.D. at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
since 2007Senior Researcher at PRIF
2003Visiting Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, and at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
2000–2007Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, International Relations Unit, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2000Research Fellow and Lecturer, Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen and in the research project “German foreign policy since unification”, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
1992–1999Student of Political Science and German Linguistics at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Expertise

Dr Dirk Peters is working on the following issues:

  • Security Policy of the European Union
  • German Foreign Policy
  • Parlaments and military operations

Publications

Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit | 2024

Christian, Ben / Peters, Dirk (2024): Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 1–27, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2319720.

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Decoupling and the “New Cold War”: Cautionary Lessons from the Past | 2023

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2023): Decoupling and the “New Cold War”: Cautionary Lessons from the Past, PRIF Blog, 24.4.2023.

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Multilateralismus als Rahmenordnung: Zur Krise und Zukunft der multilateralen Weltordnung | 2023

Christian, Ben / Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Kroll, Stefan / Lesch, Max / Peters, Dirk (2023): Multilateralismus als Rahmenordnung: Zur Krise und Zukunft der multilateralen Weltordnung, PRIF Report 2/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2302.

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Drifting Apart: Examining the Consequences of States' Dissociation from International Cooperation - A Framework | 2022

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2022): Drifting Apart: Examining the Consequences of States' Dissociation from International Cooperation - A Framework, in: Historical Social Research, 47:2, 7–32, DOI: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.14.

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Brexit: The Perils of Dissociation by Negotiation | 2022

Peters, Dirk (2022): Brexit: The Perils of Dissociation by Negotiation, in: Historical Social Research, 47:2, 138–163, DOI: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.19.

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Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO | 2021

Peters, Dirk (2021): Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (Hg.), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 32–38, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/18395.pdf.

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Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO | 2021

Peters, Dirk (2021): Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (Hg.), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 88–93, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/18395.pdf.

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Eine militärisch autonome EU? | 2021

Peters, Dirk (2021): Eine militärisch autonome EU? Europäische Sicherheit und transatlantische Partnerschaft nach Afghanistan, PRIF Spotlight 17/2021, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2117.

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The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future | 2021

Peters, Dirk (2021): The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 29–35, www.library.fes.de/(...).

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Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Was will Europa? Strategische Autonomie aus friedenspolitischer Perspektive | 2021

Dembinski, Matthias / Friesendorf, Cornelius / Fuhrhop, Pia / Hegemann, Hendrik / Kunz, Barbara / Niemann, Holger / Peters, Dirk / Schröder, Ursula / Zellner, Wolfgang (2021): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Was will Europa? Strategische Autonomie aus friedenspolitischer Perspektive, 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 2021, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 116-135, www.friedensgutachten.de.

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The UK Discourse on NATO's Future | 2021

Peters, Dirk (2021): The UK Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO: Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 80–85, www.library.fes.de/(...).

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Justifying Inequality as Equality: Germany and the Reform of Voting Weights in the Council of the European Union | 2020

Peters, Dirk (2020): Justifying Inequality as Equality: Germany and the Reform of Voting Weights in the Council of the European Union, in: Global Society, 34:3, 370–387, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2020.1739631.

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Krise internationaler Institutionen | 2020

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2020): Krise internationaler Institutionen, in: Bösch, Frank/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Kroll, Stefan (Hg.), Handbuch Krisenforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 135–154, https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658285708.

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Dissoziation als Friedensstrategie? | 2019

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2019): Dissoziation als Friedensstrategie? Konturen eines Forschungsprogramms, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 26:2, 89–105, DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2019-2-88.

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Exclusive Club Under Stress | 2019

Peters, Dirk (2019): Exclusive Club Under Stress. The G7 between Rising Powers and Non-state Actors after the Cold War, in: Stephen, Matthew/Zürn, Michael (eds), Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 124–164, https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198843047.001.0001/oso-9780198843047-chapter-4.

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Justice and Peace | 2019

Fehl, Caroline / Peters, Dirk / Wisotzki, Simone / Wolff, Jonas (eds), (2019): Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

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The role of justice in international cooperation and conflict | 2019

Fehl, Caroline / Peters, Dirk / Wisotzki, Simone / Wolff, Jonas (2019): The role of justice in international cooperation and conflict. Introduction, in: Fehl, Caroline/Peters, Dirk/Wisotzki, Simone/Wolff, Jonas (eds), Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 3-28.

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Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt | 2019

Bethke, Felix S. / Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Hofmann, Gregor P. / Junk, Julian / Marauhn, Thilo / Niemann, Holger / Peez, Anton / Peters, Dirk / Ulbert, Cornelia / Wisotzki, Simone / Witt, Antonia (2019): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt, 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 2019, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 115-135, www.friedensgutachten.de.

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Actor, network, symbol: The Inter-Parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP | 2019

Peters, Dirk (2019): Actor, network, symbol: The Inter-Parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP, in: Raube,Kolja/Müftüler-Baç, Meltem/Wouters, Jan (eds), Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations. An Essential Companion, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 158–173, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438850.00018.

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The Brexit Fiasco | 2019

Peters, Dirk (2019): The Brexit Fiasco. Lessons for Involving Parliament in Foreign Policy, PRIF BLOG, 29.3.2019.

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The Power of Justice. How Procedural Justice Concerns Affect the Legitimacy of International Institutions | 2019

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2019): The Power of Justice. How Procedural Justice Concerns Affect the Legitimacy of International Institutions, in: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 25:1, 149-170, https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/25/1/article-p149_9.xml.

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Nach vorn, um nicht zurückzufallen | 2018

Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2018): Nach vorn, um nicht zurückzufallen. Deutsch-französische Initiativen zur Zukunft der EU-Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, PRIF Spotlight 6/2018, Frankfurt/M.

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Große Vision, kleiner Schritt. Macrons Interventionsinitiative und die Folgen | 2018

Peters, Dirk (2018): Große Vision, kleiner Schritt. Macrons Interventionsinitiative und die Folgen, PRIF BLOG, 9.7.2018.

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Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Wozu Institutionen? Friedensarchitektur in der Krise | 2018

Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk / Witt, Antonia / Zellner, Wolfgang (2018): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Wozu Institutionen? Friedensarchitektur in der Krise, 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, 105-123, www.friedensgutachten.de.

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Eine Armee für die Europäische Union? | 2018

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2018): Eine Armee für die Europäische Union? Europapolitische Konzeptionen und verteidigungspolitische Strukturen, PRIF Report 1/2018, Frankfurt/M.

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Parliaments in Security Policy | 2018

Mello, Patrick A. / Peters, Dirk (eds), (2018): Parliaments in Security Policy. Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence, (Special Issue "British Journal of Politics and International Relations" 20:1), Table of Contents at SAGE Journals.

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Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence | 2018

Mello, Patrick A. / Peters, Dirk (2018): Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence, in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20:1, 3–18, DOI: 10.1177/1369148117745684.

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Actor, Network, Symbol: The Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP | 2017

Peters, Dirk (2017): Actor, Network, Symbol: The Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP. PACO Working Paper No. 3, (Download pdf, 572kb).

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EU-Sicherheitspolitik und Brexit: | 2017

Peters, Dirk (2017): EU-Sicherheitspolitik und Brexit:. Das „hung parliament“ als Chance, PRIF Blog, 5.7.2017.

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Parlamente in der Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Streitkräfteeinsätzen im Licht der Forschung | 2017

Peters, Dirk / Mello, Patrick A. (2017): Parlamente in der Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Streitkräfteeinsätzen im Licht der Forschung, in: S+F: Sicherheit und Frieden, 35:2, 53–59, DOI: 10.5771/0175-274X-2017-2-53.

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European Security Policy for the People? | 2016

Peters, Dirk (2016): European Security Policy for the People? Public Opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, in: Michael Smith (ed.), European Security. Critical Concepts in Military, Security and Strategic Studies, (The Evolving European Security Agenda, Vol. 4), London: Routledge, 68-91.

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The Balance of Power | 2015

Peters, Dirk (2015): The Balance of Power, in: Jørgensen, Knud Erik/Aarstad, Åsne Kalland/Drieskens, Edith/Laatikainen, Katie/Tonra, Ben (eds), SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy, London: SAGE, https://uk.sagepub.com/(...).

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Forschungsdesign und positivistische Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen | 2015

Peters, Dirk (2015): Forschungsdesign und positivistische Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen, in: Masala, Carlo/Sauer, Frank (Hg.), Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

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Parliamentary Control of CSDP | 2014

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2014): Parliamentary Control of CSDP. The Case of the EU's Fight Against Piracy off the Somali Coast, in: European Security, 23:4, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2014.896341.

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Institutional Justice as a Condition for the Regional Acceptance of Global Order | 2014

Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2014): Institutional Justice as a Condition for the Regional Acceptance of Global Order. The African Union and the Protection of Civilians, PRIF Report No. 130, Frankfurt/M.

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Feedback Loops in a World of Complexity | 2014

Gadinger, Frank / Peters, Dirk (2014): Feedback Loops in a World of Complexity. A Cybernetic Approach at the Interface of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations Theory, in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29:1, DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2013.872599.

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European security policy for the people? Public opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence policy | 2014

Peters, Dirk (2014): European security policy for the people? Public opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence policy, in: European Security, 23:4, 388-408, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2013.875531.

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Parliaments at the Water's Edge | 2013

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2013): Parliaments at the Water's Edge. The EU's Naval Mission Atlanta, in: Crum, Ben/Fossum, John Erik (eds), Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International Politics. The European Union and Beyond, Colchester: ECPR Press, 105–123.

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Executive Privilege or Parliamentary Proviso? | 2013

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2013): Executive Privilege or Parliamentary Proviso? Exploring the Sources of Parliamentary War Powers, in: Armed Forces & Society, DOI: 10.1177/0095327X12472878.

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Zwischen Effizienz und Legitimität | 2012

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2012): Zwischen Effizienz und Legitimität. Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen im weltweiten Vergleich, in: Friedens-Warte, 87:2–3, 69–87.

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Theoretische Grundlagen zur Analyse internationaler Organisationen | 2012

Peters, Dirk (2012): Theoretische Grundlagen zur Analyse internationaler Organisationen, in: Freistein, Katja/Leininger, Julia (Hg.), Handbuch Internationale Organisationen. Theoretische Grundlagen und Akteure, München: Oldenbourg, 3-27.

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Parliamentary Control of Military Missions: The Case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta | 2011

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2011): Parliamentary Control of Military Missions: The Case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta, RECON Online Working Paper Nr. 24.

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Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen in westlichen Demokratien | 2011

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen in westlichen Demokratien. Forschung DSF No. 28, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung.

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Common Foreign and Security Policy | 2011

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Common Foreign and Security Policy, in: Heinelt, Hubert/Knodt, Michèle (eds), Policies within the EU Multi-Level System: Instruments and Strategies of European Governance, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 39-58.

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Between Military Effciency and Democratic Legitimacy | 2011

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Between Military Effciency and Democratic Legitimacy. Mapping Parliamentary War Powers in Contemporary Democracies, 1989-2004, in: Parliamentary Affairs, 64, 175–192.

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A Divided Union? | 2011

Peters, Dirk (2011): A Divided Union? Public Opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, in: RECON Online Working Paper, 19, http://www.reconproject.eu/(...).

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Parliaments and European Security Policy | 2010

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2010): Parliaments and European Security Policy. Mapping the parliamentary field, in: European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 14:1, http://eiop.or.at/....

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Parliamentary War Powers Around the World, 1989-2004 | 2010

Wagner, Wolfgang / Peters, Dirk / Glahn, Cosima (2010): Parliamentary War Powers Around the World, 1989-2004. A New Data Set, Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Occasional Paper 22, Genf, https://www.dcaf.ch/....

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Parlamentsvorbehalt oder Exekutivprivileg? | 2010

Wagner, Wolfgang / Peters, Dirk (2010): Parlamentsvorbehalt oder Exekutivprivileg? Ursachen unterschiedlicher Entscheidungsverfahren beim Einsatz von Streitkräften, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 17:2, 203–234.

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External Threat and Democratic Institutions | 2010

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2010): External Threat and Democratic Institutions. The Parliamentary Control of Military Missions, Working Paper No. 29 (2010-03), Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam.

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Constrained Balancing | 2010

Peters, Dirk (2010): Constrained Balancing. The EU's Security Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave, https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230242142.

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The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy | 2008

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2008): The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy, in: RECON Report, 6, http://www.reconproject.eu/(...).

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Parliaments and European security policy | 2008

Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2008): Parliaments and European security policy. Mapping the Parliamentary Field, in: Peters, Dirk/Wagner,Wolfgang/Deitelhoff,Nicole (eds), The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy, RECON Report No.6, Oslo: ARENA - Centre for European Studies, 3–27.

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Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik | 2008

Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, in: Hubert Heinelt und Michèle Knodt (Hg.), Politikfelder im EU-Mehrebenensystem: Instrumente und Strategien europäischen Regierens, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2008, S. 43-60.

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Ansätze und Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse | 2007

Dirk Peters, Ansätze und Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse, in: Siegmar Schmidt/Gunther Hellmann/Reinhard Wolf (Hg.), Handbuch zur deutschen Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden (VS Verlag), 2007, S. 815-835.

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Die Europäische Union | 2005

Katharina Holzinger/Christoph Knill/Dirk Peters/Berthold Rittberger/Frank Schimmelfennig/Wolfgang Wagner, Die Europäische Union. Theorien und Analysekonzepte, Paderborn (Schöningh/UTB), 2005

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The Debate about a New German Foreign Policy | 2001

Dirk Peters, The Debate about a New German Foreign Policy, in: Rittberger, Volker (Hg.): German Foreign Policy Since Unification: Theories and Case Studies, Manchester (Manchester University Press), 2001, S. 11-33.

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