Luisa Linke holds a BA in European Studies from Maastricht University and an MA in International relations from Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, and Universität Potsdam. From 2014 to 2017, she has been a Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 700 at Freie Universität Berlin and a Research Affiliate at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies. Since 2018, she works as Research Fellow at the Center for European Integration at FU Berlin.

• Statehood and Sovereignty
• Non-Western / Global International Relations
• Comparative Regionalism

(in preparation). The Global IR Debate in the Classroom. With Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Ingo Peters, Laura Appeltshauser and Alina Kleinn. In: Theorizing International Politics from the Global South: A World of Difference. Edited by Nizar Messari, Arlene B. Tickner and L.H.M. Ling. London: Routledge.

(2018). Unravelling State Capacity: How Bureaucratic Resources, Efficiency, and Autonomy Affect Governance by External Actors. phD thesis, Otto-Suhr-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. 19 February 2018.

(2017). Statehood and External Governance. With Tanja A. Börzel. Paper presented at the conference “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”, Freie Universität Berlin, 24-25 June 2017.

(2017). Unravelling State Capacity: How Resources, Bureaucratic Efficiency and Embedded Autonomy affect External Actors’ Governance. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Baltimore, USA, 21-25 February 2017.

(2017). Measuring Statehood on a Sub-National Level: A Dialogue among Methods. With Angela Heucher and Leon Schettler. SFB 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” Working Paper Series No. 71. Freie Universität Berlin. Download 

(2016). Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Can External Authority Compensate for Limited Statehood? With Lisa van Hoof-Maurer. SFB 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” Working Paper Series No. 70. Freie Universität Berlin.

(2016). Contesting the Secularization Paradigm. A Study of Religion-State Connections in Iranian IR. In: Studying International Relations Scholarship: Between Divides and Diversity. Edited by Ingo Peters and Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar. Palgrave Series of International Relations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2016). Introduction to Part II: Practicing diversity? IR scholarship beyond the West. With Yi-Jin Chen, Julita Dudziak and Sabine Mokry. In: Studying International Relations Scholarship: Between Divides and Diversity. Edited by Ingo Peters and Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar. Palgrave Series of International Relations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2015). Global IR in Teaching. Presidential Roundtable at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in New Orleans, USA, 21-25 February 2015.

(2015). Contesting the Secularization Paradigm in Iranian IR. Paper presented at the conference “Between Divides and Diversity” at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, USA, 15-16 February 2015.

(2015). South American Regionalism: Explaining the Foundation of UNASUR. Kolleg-Forschergruppe “Transformative Power of Europe” Working Paper Series No. 67. Freie Universität Berlin.