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Dr. Swantje Renfordt
Deutscher Bundestag
Fraktionsreferentin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
E-Mail: renfordt@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Short CV / Main Fields of Interest
Ph.D. International Relations, Freie Universität Berlin (2009); Diploma in Political Science (MA Equivalent), Freie Universität Berlin (2005).
From October 2005 to October 2008, Swantje Renfordt was a research associate at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, where she joined the DFG-funded part of the project “In Search of a New Role in World Politics. The Common European Foreign, Security and Defence policies (CFSP/ESDP) in the Light of Identity-Debates in the Member States’ Mass Media”. From June 2008 till September 2008, she was a visiting student at the University of Bath (United Kingdom). From October 2005 to July 2009, Swantje Renfordt completed her Ph.D. in International Relations (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse). From July 2009 till May 2010, Swantje Renfordt was a post-doctoral fellow at the DFG-funded Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin.
Swantje Renfordt is the author of „Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit? Eine Medienanalyse europäischer und amerikanischer Debatten über den Irak-Krieg 2003“ (VDM, 2007); „Do Europeans Speak With One Another in Time of War? Results of a Media Analysis on the 2003 Iraq War”, RECON Working Paper (2007), and “Der Streit über die Irak-Resolution 1441 als ein gemeinsamer europäischer Rechtsdiskurs“, Berliner Debatte Initial, 17 (2003).
Homepage: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/forschung/international/europa/forschung/gasp/index.html
KFG Research Project
International Law in Media Discourse: An Investigation of the ‘Social Validity’ of Rules on the Use of Force in Western Mass Communication (1990-2005)
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
(2012). Framing the Use of Force: An International Rule of Law in Media Reporting. A Comparative Analysis of Western Debates about Military Interventions, 1990-2000. Baden-Baden, Nomos.
(2007). Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit? Eine Medienanalyse europäischer und amerikanischer Debatten über den Irak-Krieg 2003, Saarbrücken, VDM.
Other Articles, Book Chapters and Working Papers
(2010). “How International Law Standards Pervade Discourse on the Use of Armed Force: Insights into European and US Newspaper Debates between 1990 and 2005.” In: KFG Working Paper Series (13), May 2010, Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Freie Universität Berlin.
(2007). "Do Europeans Speak With One Another in Time of War? Results of a Media Analysis on the 2003 Iraq War". RECON Online Working Paper, University of Oslo: ARENA Centre for European Studies.
(2006). "Der Streit über die Irak-Resolution 1441 als ein gemeinsamer europäischer Rechtsdiskurs." Berliner Debatte Initial 17: 64-75.
with C. Kantner and A. Kutter (2008). "The Public Visibility of the European Union as an International Actor in the Context of Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2005/6)". RECON Online Working Paper, University of Oslo: ARENA Centre for European Studies. Paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, 27-30 March, San Francisco, USA.
with C. Kantner (2007). Public Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions in Europe and the U.S. (1990-2005). Paper presented at the Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, 28 February-3 March, Chicago, USA; as well as at the 4th ECPR General Conference, University of Pisa, 6-8 September, Pisa, Italy.
