Completed dissertations
Dr. Oleksandra Keudel
"Picking sweet and sour cherries: Patronal politics and institutional mechanisms for local citizen participation in Ukraine" - 2021
Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Governance at Kyiv School of Economics
Dr. Stephan Lutzenberger
"Overcoming regional blindness - subnational authorities and compliance with EU legislation" - 2020
Educational referent for the International Youth Voluntary Service at DRK-Landesverband Saarland
Dr. Jason Hyungsup Han
"Neither war nor peaceful settlement: dynamics of unstable peace in post-Cold War Northeast Asia" - 2019
Dr. Louisa Opitz
"Déja-vu? Die Governance der europäischen Wirtschaftsunion nach der Eurokrise: eine Analyse und Erklärung ihres Governance-Wandels als Fortschreibung der deutsch-französischen Präferenzkonstellation von Maastricht" - 2019
Speaker for Federal and Länder Affairs at NRW.BANK
Dr. Ann-Sophie Gast
"Cooperation among autocracies? The Eurasian Economic Union" - 2019
Dr. Maria Debre
"The Club of Arab Monarchies – Ensuring the Survival of Authoritarian Rule through Diffusion and Regional Integration in the Gulf Cooperation Council" - 2018
Research Staff at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam
Dr. Ganyi Zhang
"Can China be a Friendly and Responsible Great Power? A research on the building of trust between China and East Asian states" - 2018
Political and Economic Analyst at GEODIS
Dr. Corinna Krome
"ASEAN and Democracy – A Contradicting Thought!?" - 2018
Lecturer at the Department for Comparative Political Science at the University of Kassel
Dr. Luisa Linke-Behrens
"Unravelling State Capacity: How Bureaucratic Resources, Efficiency, and Autonomy Affect Governance by External Actors" - 2018
Trainee at the Berlin Senatorial Administration for the Interior and Sport
Dr. Harrison Kalunga Mwilima
"How states choose: European involvement in promoting regional integration in East Africa" - 2017
Lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
Sören Stapel
"The Adoption and Design of Regional Democracy, Human Rights, and Rule of Law Institutions: The Interplay of Demands and Diffusion" - 2016
Research Staff at the Chair for Multi-Level Governance, University of Freiburg
Mathis Lohaus
"Global consensus on corruption?: international organizations, diffusion, and the design of agreements" - 2016
Research Staff at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität Berlin
Moritz Knoll
"Policy-sector specific explanations of non-compliance with European law" - 2016
Bidzina Lebanidze
"Neighborhood Europeanization in Russia’s ‘Near Abroad’. External Influence and the Failure of Democratic Consolidation in Post-Soviet States" - 2016
Research Staff at the Institute for Slavic and Caucasian Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr. Esther Thomas
"Sustainable conflict management by multinational mining companies in areas of limited statehood" - 2014
Dr. Kai Striebinger
"In for a penny, in for a pound? The domestic impact of African regional organizations on democratization processes" - 2015
former Research Staff, German Development Institute - DIE
Dr. Christine Hackenesch
"Race to the Bottom? European promotion of Good Governance in Africa and the role of China." - 2014
Program Director at the German Development Institute, research program "Inter- and Transnational Cooperation"
Asst.-Prof. Dr. Digdem Soyaltin
"Europeanisation, Norm Diffusion and Domestic Compliance in Turkey How Political Colour of Government Matter?" - 2014
Junior Professor in Political Science at the Altınbaş University
Dr. Imke Pente
"Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration in Südostasien (ASEAN) unter Berücksichtigung des Einflusses von Policies der Europäischen Union (EU)" - 2014
Project Manager at the KfW Development Bank
Dr. Stefan Skupien
"Developmental Constitutionalism" - 2014
Scientific Coordinator for Open Science (Berlin University Alliance)
Dr. Alexander Kleibrink
"Territorial politics and decentralisation in the Balkans" - 2013
Senior Policy Officer at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Dr. Torben Heinze
"A Tale of Many Stories - Explaining Policy Diffusion between European Higher Education Systems" - 2013
Administrative Director at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
Dr. Joo Hee Kim
"When East Asia meets Europe explaining the differential approaches of South Korea and Japan toward East Asian regionalism during 1998 - 2007" - 2013
Dr. Tobias Hofmann
"Institutionally Constrained Convergence of Economic Policy and Growth in Regional Integration Agreements" - 2012
Visiting Professor at the Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Esther Ademmer
"Third Rejoices: Russia, the EU, and Policy Transfer to the Post-Soviet Space" - 2013
Deputy Professor at the Christian Albrecht University Kiel & Research Staff at the Institute für the World Economy
Asst.-Prof. Dr. Gözde Yilmaz
"From the Push by European Union Conditionality to the Pull by Dissatisfaction: Exploring Europeanization of Minority Rights in Turkey" - 2012
Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Atilim University in Ankara
Dr. Aron Buzogany
"Is there an “Eastern Syndrome”? Conditionality, Compliance and state-society relations in Central and Eastern Europe" - 2012
Research Staff at the Chair of German Politics at the Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Hui-Yin Sung
"Power, Interest and Idea: An Interactive Structure-Agency Framework for the Study of EU Climate Politics" - 2011
Post-Doc Researcher at the Center for General Education, National Central University, Taiwan
Dr. Christian Grobe
"Bis die Hölle gefriert. Eine Studie über rational choice, sozialwissenschaftliche Laborexperimente und die Macht der Worte in internationalen Verhandlungen." - 2011
Co-Founder of Billie (fintech startup)
Dr. Pamela Luckau
"Matching deeds to words? The principle of conditionality in the EU´s contractual relations with the Western Balkans" - 2011
Communication, behavioral trainer, and facilitator at KellerPartner GmbH
Dr. Andres Pennycook Castro
"Chilenischer Hafen gegen bolivianisches Erdgas? Wirtschaftliche Interessen, soziale Konstruktionen und innerstaatliche Mobilisierung" - 2011
Superintendent for insolvency and entrepreneurship, Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism, Chile
Dr. Anna Kristin Müller-Debus
"Collective Action of Firms. Motivation, Facilitation, Social Engagement. A Comparative Analysis of Industry Behaviour in South Africa" - 2010
Director of Corporate Social Responsibility & Climate Strategy at Ernst&Young Global Limited
Prof. Dr. Vera van Hüllen
"It Takes Two To Tango. The European Union and Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean" - 2010
Research Staff at the Leuphana University Lüneburg
Dr. Nicole Kranz
"What does it take? Engaging Business in Addressing the Water Challenge in South Africa" - 2010
Head of Program "Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement", GIZ
Dr. Jana Hönke
"Transnational Companies and Security Governance in the Context of Limited Statehood. A Comparison of Postcolonial African 'Enclaves of Extraction" - 2010
Professor for African Sociology at the University of Bayreuth
Dr. Meike Dudziak
"Capacity, Social Capital and Compliance" - 2010
Director of usage controlling and strategic market research, Central and regional library Berlin
Prof. Dr. Sandra Eckert
"The Politics of Regulatory Reform in Europe: Delegation and Liberalisation in the Postal Sector" - 2009
Junior Professor for Politics in the European Multilevel System at Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. Osvaldo Saldias
"Supranational Courts as Agents of Regional Integration. The European and the Andean Court of Justice in Comparison" - 2009
Director of the Department "Projects in the Framework of International Cooperation" at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Prof. Dr. Diana Panke
"Talking States into Compliance? Domestic Change in the Shadow of the European Court of Justice" - 2007
Professor for Governance in Multilevel Systems, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Carina Sprungk
"How policy-shaping might (not) affect policy-taking: national parliaments in the decision-making and the transposition of EC directives" - 2007
University Management, President's Office at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
