Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki

(Please send all requests for Prof. Chojnacki through Ms. Hehn)

Research Project C2 - Variances and Consequences of Territorial Control by Non-State Actors

Areas of Expertise:

• territorial violence control
• military conflicts
• provision of security services
• actor constellations
• privatization of security
• peace strategies and und post-war orders
• Somalia

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Dr. Matthias Kötter

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal Cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

 

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Prof. Dr. Andrea Liese

Research Project D8 - “Talk, and Action”: How International Organizations React to Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• international institutions
• discourse and organisational practice in international institutions
• governance provision
• food security
• development partnerships in Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone 

 

Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler

Research Project C10 - Alternatives to State-Sponsored Security in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood (Central African Republic and South Sudan)

Areas of Expertise:

• power-sharing after peace agreements
• violent conflicts and conflict prevention
• state and statehood
• democratization processes
• German and French Africa policy
• Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Central African Republic

Prof. Dr. Stefan Esders

Research Project B10 - Legal Security and Order as Joint Tasks of Secular and Church Institutions (8th-11th Centuries)

Areas of Expertise:

• religious and political authority in the Early Middle Ages
• ancient and medieval statehood
• transition period from Antiquity to Middle Ages
• Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages

 

Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder

Research Project C6 - The Politics of State- and Security-Building in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international security interventions
• state- and security-building
• post-conflict peace-building
• Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Prof. Dr. Andrea Liese

Research Project D8 - “Talk, and Action”: How International Organizations React to Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• international institutions
• discourse and organisational practice in international institutions
• governance provision
• food security
• development partnerships in Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone 

Dr. Matthias Kötter

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

 

Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler

Research Project C10 - Alternatives to State-Sponsored Security in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood (Central African Republic and South Sudan)

Areas of Expertise:

• power-sharing after peace agreements
• violent conflicts and conflict prevention
• state and statehood
• democratization processes
• German and French Africa policy
• Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Central African Republic

 

Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder

Research Project C6 - The Politics of State- and Security-Building in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international security interventions
• state- and security-building
• post-conflict peace-building
• Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories

 

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Andrea Liese

Research Project D8 - “Talk, and Action”: How International Organizations React to Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• international institutions
• discourse and organisational practice in international institutions
• governance provision
• food security
• development partnerships in Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone 

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig

Research Project C3 - Police-Building und Transnational Security Fields in Latin America

Areas of Expertise:

• politics in Latin America
• security governance
• (transnational) policing
• transnational security fields in Latein America
• economics and politics
• South and Central America (esp. Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)

 

Prof. Dr. Markus Michael Müller

Research Project C3 - Police-Building und Transnational Security Fields in Latin America

Areas of Expertise:

• public security
• security governance
• (transnational) policing
• transnational security fields in Latin America
• (post-)colonial rule
• Mexico

 

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke

Research Project D9 - Exchange Relationships and Collective Use of Resources in Culturally Heterogeneous Areas: Latin American Frontiers, 1880 to 1910

Areas of Expertise:

• politics and history of Latin American countries
• indigenous groups in Latin America
• collective use of resources and exchange relationships on the local level

Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig

Research Project C3 - Police-Building und Transnational Security Fields in Latin America

Areas of Expertise:

• politics in Latin America
• security governance
• (transnational) policing
• transnational security fields in Latin America
• economics and politics
• South and Central America (esp. Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)

 

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Prof. Dr. Andrea Liese

Research Project D8 - “Talk, and Action”: How International Organizations React to Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• international institutions
• discourse and organisational practice in international institutions
• governance provision
• food security
• development partnerships in Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone 

 

Prof. Dr. Markus Michael Müller

Research Project C3 - Police-Building und Transnational Security Fields in Latin America

Areas of Expertise:

• public security
• security governance
• (transnational) policing
• transnational security fields in Latin America
• (post-)colonial rule
• Mexico

 

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke

Research Project D9 - Exchange Relationships and Collective Use of Resources in Culturally Heterogeneous Areas: Latin American Frontiers, 1880 to 1910

Areas of Expertise:

• politics and history of Latin American countries
• indigenous groups in Latin America
• collective use of resources and exchange relationships on the local level

Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn

Research Project B13 - Adaptation and Legitimation as Factors of Effective Governance in China, 1949-1957

Areas of Expertise:

• Chinese Communist Party
• consolidation processes in China
• governance constellations of Chinese governments
• socialist transformations, state socialism 
• refugee policy in China
• colonialism
• Chinese Criminal Law

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Dr. Matthias Kötter

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

 

Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert

Research Project B7 - Rule of Law and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• rule of law
• legal cultures
• plurality of normative regulations
• law as a normative framework for non-state justice systems
• meta-governance institutions
• Ethiopia, Ghana, Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Robin Geiß

Research Project C11 - Charting the International Legal Framework for Security Governance by External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international (humanitarian) law
• global fight against crime
• drug trafficking
• piracy
• transnational terrorism
• Somalia, Kenya, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Michael Daxner

Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan

Areas of Expertise:

• state-building
• relationship of interventionalists and intervenees
• legitimacy of interventions
• German and American homeland discourse
• intervention culture
• Southeast Europe (Balkans), Afghanistan

 

Jan Koehler

Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan

Areas of Expertise:

• civil war research
• German and international engagement
• state-building in Afghanistan
• North-Eastern Afghanistan / East-Afghanistan
• Caucasus Region
• Tadzhikistan 

 

Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder

Research Project C6 - The Politics of State- and Security-Building in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• security governance
• international security interventions
• state- and security-building
• post-conflict peace-building
• Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories

Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel

Research Project B2 - The Governance Contribution of External Actors in Areas of Limited Statehood

Areas of Expertise:

• regional organizations in America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East
• European Union, Council of Europe, OAS, African Union, ECOWAS, SADC, Mercosur, CAN, NAFTA, ASEAN, Arab League
• governance transfer
• governance standards
• governance building (capacity-/institution-building)

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Michael Daxner

Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan

Areas of Expertise:

• state-building
• relationship of interventionalists and intervenees
• legitimacy of interventions
• German and American homeland discourse
• intervention culture
• Southeast Europe (Balkans), Afghanistan

Prof. Dr. Stefan Esders

Research Project B10 - Legal Security and Order as Joint Tasks of Secular and Church Institutions (8th-11th Centuries)

Areas of Expertise:

• religious and political authority in the Early Middle Ages
• ancient and medieval statehood
• transition period from Antiquity to Middle Ages
• Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages

 

Jan Koehler

Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan

Areas of Expertise:

• civil war research
• German and international engagement
• state-building in Afghanistan
• North-Eastern Afghanistan / East-Afghanistan
• Caucasus Region
• Tadzhikistan