Thomas Risse has been engaged in many academic projects, both in research and teaching. Below you can find a selection of his activities.

• 2021-: Member of the Presidium and head of the scientific advisory board of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
• Until 2025: Director of the Berlin Center for Research and Graduate Training (BIRT) and the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BGTS), both being part of the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Scripts (SCRIPTS)
• Until 2023: Member of the Steering Committee 2 "Knowledge Exchange" of the Berlin University Alliance
• 2003-2005 and 2019-2022: Dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences
• 2016-2022: Member of the Senate and the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• 2007-2022: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation 
• 2006-2017: Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" (2006 – 2017)
• 2008-2018: Co-director of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" (2008 – 2018)

Thomas Risse is the author of many pulications. Below you can find a selection of more recent works. For a complete list and further information please see his CV, that is attached below.

• Forthcoming: (with Mathis Lohaus and Wiebke Vogelaar) Mapping Global IR: The Dominance of a Pluralist Core, Cambridge Elements International Relations (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press)
• Forthcoming: (with Tobias Berger, Anna Holzscheiter, and Michele Tedeschini [eds.]) Contesting Universal Human Rights. The Liberal Script and Its Many Authors (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 2026: (with David Lake and Antje Wiener [eds.]) Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press), OPEN ACCESS
• 2024: (with Tanja A. Börzel, Stephanie Anderson, and Jean Garrison [eds.]) Polarization and Deep Contestations: The Liberal Script in the United States (Oxford: Oxford University Press), OPEN ACCESS
• 2021: (with Tanja A. Börzel) Effective Governance Under Anarchy. Institutions, Legitimacy, and Social Trust in Areas of Limited Statehood (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press)
• 2021: (with David A. Lake and Lisa Martin [eds.]), Challenges to the Liberal Order. Reflections on International Organization. 75th Anniversary Issue of “International Organization”, Vol. 75, No. 2
• 2018: (with Tanja A. Börzel and Anke Draude [eds.]), The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• 2016: (with Tanja A. Börzel [eds.]) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

• 2015: (ed.) European Public Spheres. Politics is Back (Cambridge University Press)
• 2013: (ed. with Stephen C. Ropp und Kathryn Sikkink) The Persistent Power of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press)
• 2010: A Community of Europeans. Transnational Identities and Public Spheres (Cornell University Press, 2010)

Current projects:

• TRANSNORMS: Die Übersetzung internationaler Normen zwischen globalen und lokalen Arenen - DFG Reinhart-Koselleck Projekt
• De-Centering Human Rights: Liberalism, Human Rights, and the Global South
• Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS - Contestations of the Liberal Script

Completed projects (selection): 

• Global Pathways: Knowledge Diffusion in International Relations Research
• Europe´s External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders (EU-LISTCO)
• Kolleg-Forschergruppe der DFG „The Transformative Power of Europe“
• SFB 700: Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit
• SFB Projekt A1 - Beiträge zur Theoriebildung
• TRANSWORLD: Redefining the transatlantic relationship and its role in shaping global governance
• Sustainable Development Reflexive Inputs to World Organisation