Personal profile

Markus Hochmüller holds a PhD in Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin). His thesis with the title „The Struggle over Security in Post-War Guatemala – Knowledge, Practices and Effects of a Transnational Field“ assesses transnational security governance reforms in Guatemala and the role of expertise in post-conflict reform processes. His research interests include peace- and statebuilding, security governance, policing and violence as well as expertise and knowledge production. Since Fall 2017, Markus is a lecturer in international relations at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and an associated fellow of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe „The Transformative Power of Europe“.

Teaching

Graduate courses

• Winter 2017/18 - Statebuilding and Security Sector Reform in the Global South (Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science,   Freie Universität Berlin)
• Summer 2013 - Staatlichkeit. Lokale und transnationale Prozesse in Lateinamerika (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, with Manuela Boatcă)
• Summer 2012 - Demokratisierung in Lateinamerika (DAAD-Graduiertenakademie, Wandlitz, Brandenburg, with Marianne Braig)

Undergraduate courses

• Winter 2013/14 - Entre el orden y la represión: discursos y prácticas policiales en Europa y su ‘exportación’ a América Latina (Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University, Term I 2014)
• Summer 2013 - Organisierte Kriminalität und Sicherheits-Governance in Mexiko und Zentralamerika (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)

Publications

Journal articles

• “From Regime Protection to Urban Resilience? Assessing Continuity and Change in Transnational Security Governance Rationales in Guatemala.” In: Geoforum 84 (2017), 389-400 (with Markus-Michael Müller). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.01.003

• “Locating Guatemala in Global Counterinsurgency.” In: Globalizations 13/1 (2016), 94-109 (with Markus-Michael Müller). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14747731.2015.1050850#.VYBQZUbChzY

• “Encountering Knowledge Production: The International Crisis Group and the Making of Mexico's Security Crisis.” In: Third World Quarterly 35/4 (2014), 705-722 (with Markus-Michael Müller). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2014.924069

Journal special issues

• “Transnationale Dynamiken lateinamerikanischer Sicherheit und Justiz,” Kriminologisches Journal 4/2016 (with Lars Ostermeier). http://www.krimj.de/index.php/de/home-alt/14-aktuelle-ausgabe/62-ausgabe-nr-4-2016

• “Politics, Societies and Cultures in Contemporary Central America,” CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2014) (with Alexandra Ortiz Wallner) http://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/142/pdf_68

Edited volume

• Politik in verflochtenen Räumen. Los espacios entrelazados de lo político: Festschrift für Marianne Braig, Berlin: edition tranvía / Verlag Walter Frey (2013) (with Anne Huffschmid, Teresa Orozco Martínez, Stephanie Schütze and Martha Zapata Galindo).

Book chapters

• “Countering Criminal Insurgencies: Fighting Gangs and Building Resilient Communities in Post-War Guatemala.” In: Louise W. Moe and Markus-Michael Müller (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the “Local Turn” in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), 163-186 (with Markus-Michael Müller). http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-58877-7_8

• “Politik in verflochtenen Räumen / Los espacios entrelazados de lo político: Einleitung.” In: Markus Hochmüller, Anne Huffschmid, Teresa Orozco Martínez, Stephanie Schütze and Martha Zapata Galindo (eds.): Politik in verflochtenen Räumen. Los espacios entrelazados de lo político: Festschrift für Marianne Braig, Berlin: edition tranvía / Verlag Walter Frey (2013), 9-24 (with Anne Huffschmid, Teresa Orozco Martínez, Stephanie Schütze and Martha Zapata Galindo).

• “Einleitung: Von failed states und Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit: organisierte Kriminalität, Gewalt und Staat in Lateinamerika.” In: Günther Maihold and Daniel Brombacher (eds.): Gewalt, Organisierte Kriminalität und Staat in Lateinamerika, Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2013), 9-23 (with Günther Maihold).

• “Die Kolumbianisierung der mexikanischen Drogenökonomie? Kartelle und kriminelle Netzwerke im Vergleich.” In: Günther Maihold and Daniel Brombacher (eds.): Gewalt, Organisierte Kriminalität und Staat in Lateinamerika, Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2013), 57-84.

Book reviews

• David Carey Jr., (2013): I Ask for Justice. Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944, Austin: Texas University Press. CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2015), 18-20. http://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/173/pdf_103

• Levenson, Deborah T. (2013): Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death. Durham and London: Duke University Press. CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2014), 33-36. http://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/104/pdf_50

• Kuzmarov, Jeremy (2012): Modernizing Repression: Police Traning and Nation Building in the American Century. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. geschichte.transnational (2014). http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/20166.pdf

• Müller, Markus-Michael (2012): Public Security in the Negotiated State: Policing in Latin America and Beyond. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2013), 32-34. http://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/74/pdf_22

• O’Neill, Kevin Lewis and Kedron Thomas (eds.) (2011): Securing the City – Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Durham and London: Duke University Press. CROLAR – Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2012), 11-13. www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/download/33/pdf 

Other publications

• “Editorial. Lateinamerika: Transnationale Dynamiken der Sicherheit und Justiz.” In: Kriminologisches Journal, 4/2016 (with Lars Ostermeier). https://content-select.com/de/portal/media/view/5835620b-1ed0-4c8c-aed6-0214b0dd2d03

• “Cantar contra el olvido o la re-construcción de la memoria.” In: Revista Istmo, 23 (2011) (with Gabriel Caballeros Gálvez and Sabine Erbrich). istmo.denison.edu/n23/proyectos/01_caballeros_erbrich_hochmueller_form.pdf