Category: Publications

  • Article on Feminist Foreign Policy Published Open Access

    I’m happy to announce that my co-authored article (with Annick Wibben) outlining recommendations for a German feminist foreign policy has just been published open acces by Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. The article itself is in German, but here’s the abstract: The publication of the 2023 guidelines by the German Federal Foreign Office did not spark…

  • Article on “Left Populism and Foreign Policy” Published

    I am happy to announce that my co-authored article (with Emmy Eklundh & Thorsten Wojczewski) “Left Populism and Foreign Policy: Bernie Sanders and Podemos” has just been published *OPEN ACCESS* in International Affairs (https://buff.ly/4cX25Fk). In the paper, we do three things: (1) We provide a critique of previous research on populism in IR. Although IR…

  • New op-ed on Trump

    I’m happy to announce that my new op-ed with Kimberly Wehle (U Baltimore) on the distinct lack of protests against Trump has just been published. In the piece, we briefly discuss the protests against the far right that have taken place in Germany over the past months and contrast what triggered them with the situation…

  • New Article on “Left Populism and Foreign Policy” Accepted

    I am happy to announce that my co-authored article (with Emmy Eklundh and Thorsten Wojczewski) “Left populism and foreign policy: Bernie Sanders and Podemos” has been accepted for publication by International Affairs. The article is part of a special section on “The Effects of Global Populism” (ed. Daniel F. Wajner, Sandra Destradi and Michael Zürn)…

  • New Chapter on Trumpism and Anxiety Coming Out in 2024

    I’m happy to announce that my co-authored chapter (with Dirk Nabers) on “Discourse, Fantasy and Anxiety in Trump’s America” has been accepted to be published as part of the volume Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs, edited by John P. Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael Schapira, and Karen Struve. The book will be…

  • New Medium Post on the January 6th Indictment of Donald Trump

    I’ve recently taken up writing longer posts on Medium and Substack, mainly to think through some issues that are not ready or not suitable for an academic paper and to provide easy to understand explainers mostly of current events in US and German politics and foreign policy. I will post in German or English. My…

  • Book Chapter on the Bundeswehr and German society published

    I am happy to announce that I have just published a new (German-language) book chapter on the Bundeswehr and German society. The chapter is part of the new volume Deutsche Verteidigungspolitik. Nationale Sicherheit nach der Zeitenwende (German Defense Policy: National Security after the Zeitenwende), edited by Malte Riemann and Georg Löfflmann, that was just published…

  • Article on Trump/Trumpism and the Future of Democracy Published Open Access

    My new article “If You’re Not Scared, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention: Trump, the Radicalization of the GOP, and the Future of US Democracy after the Midterms 2022” (in German) has just been published in the Austrian Journal of Political Science. The article discusses the future of US democracy after the 2022 midterm elections. Donald…

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Includes “The Politics of Military Force” among its Best Books of the Year 2022

    I’m delighted to share that Süddeutsche Zeitung has included my book The Politics of Military Force: Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse among its “Books of the Year” 2022. The book examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once…

  • Paper on Trumpism and the Future of US Democracy Accepted for Publication

    I am happy to share that my paper “If You’re Not Scared, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention: Trump, the Radicalization of the GOP, and the Future of US Democracy” (in German) has been accepted by the Austrian Journal of Political Science (ÖZP) for publication. The article discusses the future of US democracy after the end…