STEPHANIE C. HOFMANN
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies International Relations • Political Science Department P.O. Box 1672 • 1211 Geneva • Switzerland [email protected] Tel: +41 22 908 5918 stephanie-hofmann.info
Current Positions
2021- Joint Chair in International Relations, EUI (from Sept. 2021)
2021- Director of the research area Europe in the World, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI (from Sept. 2021)
2017- Professor, International Relations and Political Science Department, Graduate Institute (on leave from Sept. 2021)
2020-21 Department Chair, International Relations and Political Science Department, Graduate Institute
2016- Faculty Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute
2011- Advisory Faculty, Global Governance Center, Graduate Institute
Research and Teaching Interests
international organizations | international and regional security | international relations & domestic politics nexus | global and regional orders | norms, ideologies, strategies
Education
2002-2009 Cornell University, PhD in Government Dissertation: European Security in the Shadow of NATO Committee: Peter J. Katzenstein (chair), Chris J. Anderson, and Matt A. Evangelista
2006 Cornell University, M.A. in Government
1999-2000 University of Bath, M.A. in Contemporary Trans-Atlantic Studies (with distinction), 1999–2000 Coursework at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris (Sciences Po)
1998-1999 University of Washington, Visiting Graduate Student, Political Science Department
1996-1998 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg., Zwischenprüfung in Political Science (major), Public Law and History (minors)
Additional Academic Experiences
visiting research fellow
2019 International Relations Program, NYU
2015-2016 Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Berlin Social Science Center)
2014 Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
2005-2008 Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Research Unit EU External Relations, Berlin
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visiting professorships
2015 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2014 LUISS University Guido Carli
2012 University of Basel
2011-2013 Colgate University (Geneva Program)
other positions and training
2013-2017 Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
2009-2013 Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
2011 Basin Harbor Teachers’ Workshop, Merrill Center for Strategic Studies
2009 Columbia-Cornell Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, Cornell University
2008-2009 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
2008 Bochumer Winter School 2008 – Empirical Social Research, Workshop on Quantitative Methods
2007 EU-CONSENT PhD School, University of Cambridge, “The CFSP/ESDP: Effective Multilateralism?”
2005 Institute for Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM), Arizona State University
Research and Publications
book
2013 Hofmann, Stephanie C. European Security in NATO’s Shadow. Party Ideologies and Institution Building. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. o reviewed in International Journal, International Politics Reviews (author meets critics), Journal of Common Market Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Review of International Organizations, Revue française de science politique o Hofmann, Stephanie C. 2016. “Response to Critics.” International Politics Review 4, 1: 2-4.
journal articles
forth. 2021 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Benjamin Martill. “The Party Scene: New Directions for Political Party Research in Foreign Policy Analysis.” International Affairs.
online first Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy.” German Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2019.1611783.
2020 Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Of the Contemporary Global Order, Crisis, and Change.” Journal of European Public Policy 27, 7: 1077- 1089. o featured in “Is the liberal international order in a state of terminal decline?” LSE EUROPP, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/01/07/is-the-liberal-international- order-in-a-state-of-terminal-decline/.
2020 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Frédéric Mérand. “In search of lost time: Memory- framing, bilateral identity-making, and European security.” Journal of Common Market Studies 58, 1: 155-171.
2019 Haftel, Yoram and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Rivalry and Overlap: Why Regional Economic Organizations Encroach on Security Organizations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63, 9: 2180-2206.
2 2019 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “The Politics of Overlapping Organizations: Hostage-taking, Forum shopping, and Brokering.” Journal of European Public Policy 26,6: 883-905. o featured in Washington Post Monkey Cage “Brexit will weigh heavily on European security. Here’s why.” (October 18, 2018).
2019 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Global Ordering and Organizational Alternative for Europe: NATO vs. the European Union.” Texas National Security Review (part of Policy Roundtable: Competing Visions for the Global Order, Michael C. Horowitz and Andro Mathewson, eds.) https://tnsr.org/roundtable/policy-roundtable-competing- visions-for-the-global-order/#article.
2019 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Ueli Staeger. “Frame contestation and collective securitization: the case of EU energy policy.” West European Politics 42, 2: 323-345. o also published as book chapter with the same title in Sonia Lucarelli, James Sperling, Mark Webber, eds. Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union, pp. 97-119. London: Routledge.
2017 Haftel, Yoram and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Institutional Authority and Security Cooperation within Regional Economic Organizations.” Journal of Peace Research 54, 4: 484-498.
2017 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “NATO’s Institutional Transformation: Revisiting France’s Relationship with NATO (and the Common Wisdom on Gaullism).” Journal of Strategic Studies 40, 4: 505-531.
2016 Hofmann, Stephanie C., Barbara Bravo and Susanna Campbell. “Investing in International Security: Rising Powers and Organizational Choices.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 29, 3: 831-851.
2015 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Andrew I. Yeo. “Business As Usual: The Role of Norms in Alliance Management.” European Journal of International Relations 21, 2: 377- 401.
2012 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Oliver Jütersonke. “Regional Organizations and the Responsibility to Protect in the Context of the Arab Spring.” Swiss Political Science Review 18, 1: 132-135.
2011 Beyer, Jessica L. and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Varieties of Neutrality: Norm Revision and Decline.” Cooperation and Conflict 46, 3: 285–311.
2011 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Why Institutional Overlap Matters: CSDP in the European Security Architecture.” Journal of Common Market Studies 49, 1: 101–120.
2011 Mérand, Frédéric, Stephanie C. Hofmann and Bastien Irondelle. “Governance and State Power: A Network Analysis of European Security.” Journal of Common Market Studies 49, 1: 121–147.
2010 Mérand, Frédéric, Stephanie C. Hofmann and Bastien Irondelle. “Transgovernmental Networks in European Security and Defence Policy.” European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 1, 14, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2010-005a.htm.
2009 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Overlapping Institutions in the Realm of International Security: The Case of NATO and ESDP.” Perspectives on Politics 7, 1: 45–52.
2008 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “OTAN: vers un nouveau concept stratégique?” Politique étrangère 1 (March): 105–116.
2004 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Why Am I? That is the question. Norm contestation, reinforcement and coexistence and the creation of CFSP.” Cahiers européens de Sciences Po, http://www.portedeurope.org/cahiers.asp. book chapters forthcoming Erna Burai and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Constructivism and Changing Normative Orders”. In T.V. Paul, Deborah Welch Larson, Harold A. Trinkunas, Anders Wivel, and Ralf Emmers, eds. Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190097356.013.10
3 2020 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Ueli Staeger. “Frame contestation and collective securitization: the case of EU energy policy.” In Sonia Lucarelli, James Sperling, Mark Webber, eds. Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union, pp. 97-119. London: Routledge.
2018 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Olivier Schmitt. “Diplomaties supra-étatiques.” In Thierry Balzacq, Frédéric Charillon and Frédéric Ramel, eds. Manuel de diplomatie, pp. 181-194. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po. o translated into English. 2020. “Supranational Diplomats.” In Thierry Balzacq, Frédéric Charillon and Frédéric Ramel, eds. Global Diplomacy. An Introduction to Theory and Practice, pp. 155-166. London: Palgrave.
2018 Dönges, Hannah and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Defense as Security.” In David J. Galbreath and John R. Deni, eds. Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies. London: Routledge.
2016 Mallard, Grégoire and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Legal Mimetism or Legal Mimesis? Conceptual and Methodological Reflections on the Study of Norm Diffusion.” In Vincent Negri and Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, eds. Mimesis. La formation du droit international – entre mimétisme et dissémination, pp. 89-103. Paris: Edition Pedone.
2016 Campbell, Susanna, Josiah Marineau, Tracy Dexter, Michael Findley, Stephanie Hofmann and Daniel Walker. “The impact of the Peacebuilding Architecture in Burundi.” In Cedric de Croning and Eli Stamnes, eds. UN Peacebuilding Architecture. The First 10 Years, pp. 127-144. London: Routledge.
2015 Campbell, Susanna and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Regional Humanitarian Organizations.” In Roger MacGinty and Jenny Peterson, eds. Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action, pp. 191-203. London: Routledge.
2014 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Andrew I. Yeo. “Beyond Hegemony: Norms and Alliances in Europe and Asia.” In Bruce Jentleson and Lou Pauly, eds. Power in a Complex Global System, pp. 148-163. London: Routledge.
2013 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “International Organizations and ‘Global’ Security Policy: Not Everything Hangs Together.” In Helen Canton, ed. The Europa Directory of International Organizations, 15th edition, pp. 8-12. London: Routledge.
2012 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Frédéric Mérand. “Regional organizations à la Carte: the Effects of Institutional Elasticity.” In T.V. Paul, ed. International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation, pp. 133–157. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2012 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “The Common Security and Defence Policy: Approaching Transgovernmentalism?.” In Xymena Kurowska and Fabian Breuer, eds. Explaining EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Theory in Action, pp. 41-62. Houndsmill: Palgrave.
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Les partis politiques et institutions européennes de sécurité.” In André Dumoulin and Philippe Manigart, eds. Opinions publiques et politique européenne de sécurité et de défense commune: acteurs, positions, évolutions, pp. 417–443. Brussels: Bruylant.
2008 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Ronja Kempin. “Through the Transatlantic Looking Glass: France and the U.S., yet another special relationship?” In Peter Schmidt, ed. A Hybrid Relationship – Transatlantic Security Cooperation Beyond NATO, pp. 89– 100. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2007 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Overlapping Institutions in the Realm of Security: The Case of NATO and ESDP.” In Karen Alter and Sophie Meunier, eds. The Politics of International Regime Complexity Symposium, pp. 75–89. Chicago: Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies Working Paper No. 3.
2005 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “A Comment.” In Matthew Evangelista and Vittorio Parsi, eds. Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations after Iraq, pp. 85–88. Milan: Vita e Pensiero.
4 policy papers, testimonies, and op-eds
2020 Stephanie C. Hofmann. “L’ambivalence de l’Union européenne et la résilience de l’OTAN.” Le Temps (October 8): https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/lambivalence- lunion-europeenne-resilience-lotan.
2020 Gavras, Konstantin, Thomas J. Scotto, Jason Reifler, Stephanie Hofmann, Catarina Thomson, Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen. “NATO and CSDP: party and public positioning in Germany and France.” NATO Defence College Policy Brief 11 (June).
2020 Stephanie C. Hofmann and Christian Kreuder-Sonnen. “How international organizations are stepping up to respond to the pandemic.” Washington Post (Monkey Cage) (May 4).
2020 Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette and Stephanie C. Hofmann. “Is the liberal international order in a state of terminal decline?” LSE EUROPP, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/01/07/is-the-liberal-international-order-in-a- state-of-terminal-decline/.
2018 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Brexit will weigh heavily on European security. Here’s why.” Washington Post (Monkey Cage) (October 18), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/18/brexit-will- weigh-heavily-on-european-security-heres-why/?utm_term=.09ca54e9127f.
2018 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Order, orders, ordering.” https://theglobal.blog/2018/10/02/order-orders-ordering/.
2017 contributed to Kempin, Ronja and Barbara Kunz. “France, Germany, and the Quest for European Strategic Autonomy. Franco-German Defence Cooperation in A New Era.” Notes de l’Ifri, Notes du Cerfa 141, http://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ndc_141_kempin_kunz_ france_germany_european_strategic_autonomy_dec_2017.pdf.
2017 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Trump after 100 days: innovation, unpredictability, uncertainty.” Foraus blog http://www.foraus.ch/#!/blog/c!/content-6671-trump-after- 100-days-innovation-unpredictability-uncertainty.
2016 Hofmann, Stephanie, C. “Network diplomacy and network power: a chance for the EU? Le Globe 17: 26-27, http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/about-us/globe/Globe17.pdf.
2015 Hofmann, Stephanie C. Written evidence for the UK House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee on the strategic review of the EU’s foreign and security policy, http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocumen t/eu-external-affairs-subcommittee/strategic-review-of-the-eus-foreign-and-security- policy/written/22463.html (with Ueli Staeger).
2014 Campbell, Susanna, Tracy Dexter, Michael Findley, Stephanie C. Hofmann, Josiah Marineau and Daniel Walker. Independent External Evaluation. Peacebuilding Fund Project Portfolio in Burundi, http://www.unpbf.org/wp-content/plugins/download- monitor/download.php?id=FINAL-Independent-External-Evaluation-PBF- Burundi_English-version_March2014.pdf.
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Will the ‘post-Cold War period’ ever end?” World Policy Institute Blog, July 16, http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/will-“post-cold-war-period”- ever-end.
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “The European Security Architecture: The EU Perspective.” CIG Occasional Paper, pp. 27–34.
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “OTAN: la rhétorique de l’unité.” Le Temps (Feb. 12).
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Kenneth Weisbrode. 2010. “US and Europe: Matching Words with Deeds.” New Atlanticist, http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/us-and- europe-matching-words-deeds.
2010 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Kenneth Weisbrode. “La mission clé de Catherine Ashton.” Le Temps (Jan. 6).
5 2009 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Kenneth Weisbrode. “Europe’s Love Affair with Bureaucracy.“ Foreign Policy, Dec. 28, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/28/europes_love_affair_with_bureau cracy.
2009 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Kenneth Weisbrode. “EU and NATO: Interlocking or Interblocking?” World Politics Review, May 1, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=3680.
2007 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Ronja Kempin. “France and the Transatlantic Relationship. Love me, love me not …” SWP Working Paper FG 2 2007/Nr. 04, February.
2007 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Roderick Parkes. “From Blair to Brown: All Change? New Leadership, New Priorities, New Policies.” SWP Comments (June) 13: 1–8. o abbreviated version in German: “Von Blair zu Brown: Wohin des Weges? Neue Führung, neue Prioritäten, neue Außen- und Europapolitik.“ SWP-Aktuell (July) A 41: 1– 4.
2007 Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Christopher Reynolds. “EU-NATO Relations: Time to Thaw the ‘Frozen Conflict’.” SWP Comments (June) 12: 1–9. o updated version in German: “Die EU-Nato-Beziehungen. Zeit für ein ‘Tauwetter’.” SWP- Aktuell (July) A 37: 1-8. book reviews
2019 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations. By Phillip Y. Lipscy.” Perspectives on Politics 17, 1: 295- 297.
2016 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Taking Sides in Peacekeeping. Impartiality and the Future of the United Nations. By Emily Paddon Rhoads. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 22, 4: 600-602.
2016 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action. Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert, and Marcos Tourinho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 22: 450-451.
2015 Hofmann, Stephanie C. “Heidi Hardt. Time to react: The efficiency of international organizations in crisis response. Oxford: Oxford University Press.” Review of International Organizations 10, 3: 403-407. work under review article Divergent Paths to Regime Complexity in Asia and Europe (with Andrew Yeo) book chapter Political Violence Prevention: Definitions and Implementations work in progress close to sub. The Variable Geometry of Organizational Membership: Full Members and Association Agreements (with Anamarija Andreska, Erna Burai, Juanita Uribe) close to sub. The Topology of Complexity: Institutionalization, Clustering, and Centralization (with Cédric Dupont and James Hollway) close to sub. 2010-2020: La mondialisation en recul? (with Frédéric Mérand) close to sub. Breaking bad? How and why IOs expand their role in the governance of cybersecurity (with Patryk Pawlak) close to sub. Regional security cooperation, integration and disintegration (with Amandine Gnanguenon)
6 draft The Life Cycles of International Organizations: Resilience, Innovation, Exhaustion and Decay
draft Bureaucratic Empowerment and Organizational Overlap: The European Commission and Security (with Catherine Hoeffler)
draft Providing security: A typology of security organizations
draft Circumventing or Strengthening the Formal? Informal Regional Security Initiatives in South America (with Kai Michael Kenkel)
draft Context-specific drivers of the institutional evolution of regime complexes (with Bernhard Reinsberg and Oliver Westerwinter)
in prep. Normative ambiguity, order-making and the use of force
in prep. Normative Encounters in International Order(s)
in prep. The Vitality of Regional Security Organizations (with Julia Gray and Yoram Haftel)
in prep. Ordering attempts: Is Russia constructing an order out of its own right or rather an anti-order? (with Xymena Kurowska)
Research, Workshop and Conference Grants
2020-2022 Navigating Institutional Complexity: Actors and Strategies in Densely Populated Global Governance Spaces (265,481 CHF) Principal member Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)
2018-2021 Fighting together, moving apart? European common defence and shared security in an age of Brexit and Trump (977,200 EUR) Working group leader (with Harald Schoen [PI], Filip Ejdus, Martial Foucault, Catherine Hoeffler, Pierangelo Isernia, Jean Joana, Theresa Kuhn, Matthias Mader, Bogdan Radu, Jason Reifler, Thomas Scotto, Seiki Tanaka, and Catarina Thomson) “Challenges for Europe” VolkswagenStiftung Research Grant
2017-2021 To Save and To Defend: Global Normative Ambiguity and Regional Order (957,982 CHF) Principal investigator Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant #100017_172667
2013-2015 Bad Behavior? Explaining Performance in International Peacebuilding Organizations (269,818 CHF) Co-principal investigator (with Susanna Campbell) Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant #100017_149836
2013 World Wide Webs: Network Europe and Global Governance Reloaded European Foreign and Security Policy-network conference organizer Riksbanken Jubileumsfond (125,000 CHF) and EU Institute for Security Studies (20,000 EUR)
2012 The European Political Project: From Disintegration to Integration Workshop organizer (with Catherine de Vries) Swiss National Science Foundation exploratory workshop grant (13,940 CHF), Riksbanken Jubileumsfond (12,000 CHF), the IHEID (5,000 CHF) and the University of Geneva (2,000 CHF)
2008 Walter LaFeber Grant, Cornell University (1,200 USD)
2005-2006 VolkswagenStiftung, Compagnia di San Paolo and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Grant within the joint research and training programme “European Foreign and Security Policy Studies” (32,000 EUR)
Fellowships and Awards
7 2010 German Academic Exchange Service Visiting Scholar, Université de Montréal
2008-2009 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute
2007-2008 Mellon Foundation Completion Fellowship
2007 Luigi Einaudi Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
2006 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship
2006 George McT Kahin Prize in International Relations for “most promising dissertation in IR,” Department of Government, Cornell University
2004 Carpenter Chair Fellow, Cornell University
2005-2008 ISA Travel Grant
2004-2008 Cornell Graduate School Conference Travel Grant
2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2000 M.A. with Distinction in Contemporary Transatlantic Studies
1999-2000 Fellowship from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1999 Travel grant from the European Union
1998-1999 Scholarship and travel grant from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Invited Academic Talks
Foreign Policy Research Group, University of Edinburgh (Sept. 2020); EUI (June 2020); LSE IR department (“security” and “international institutions, law and ethics” clusters) (Mar. 2020); University of Pittsburgh (Mar. 2020); EUI Max Weber workshop (May 2019); New York University (Apr. 2019); Hertie School of Governance (Mar. 2019); New York University (Apr. 2018); Joint IR Speaker Series (LMU-TUM) München (July 2017); University of Southern Denmark (Apr. 2017); GEM-STONES Methods Workshop GIGA Hamburg (Mar. 2017); SEPS seminar series, University of St. Gallen (Nov. 2016); University of Bologna (Oct. 2016); University of Pennsylvania (June 2016); LSE IPE workshop (Apr. 2016); Georgetown University (Feb. 2016); Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Jan. 2016); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Nov. 2015); Carmel Academic Center Law School faculty seminar, Haifa (Nov. 2015); Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Colloquium (May 2015); Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Sept. 2014); Columbia University SIWPS seminar series (Feb. 2014); USC Summer Program on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance (June 2013); Cambridge University (Apr. 2013); University College London (Apr. 2013); Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Theory Seminar series (Nov. 2012); Graduate Institute, Jean Monnet Seminar (Nov. 2012); USC Summer Program on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance (June 2012); Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Faculty seminar (Apr. 2012); Cornell University (Oct. 2011); USC Summer Program on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance (June 2011); Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Jan. 2011); Trinity College Dublin, Friday Seminar Series (Jan. 2011); Center of International Governance, Focus OSCE Meeting 2010 (Sep. 2010); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, TAM Friday Lectures (Aug. 2010); Université de Genève, Séminaire du staff, Département de science politique (May 2010); Université de Montréal (Feb. 2010); Dublin Summer School at the European University Institute (May 2009); European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Dec. 2008); James Madison University and Bologna University, Florence (Nov. 2008); New York University (Nov. 2008)
Conference and Workshop Presentations
(P)aper, (C)hair, (D)iscussant, (R)oundtable
2021 ISA (P)
workshop “Linking IO Authority and Overlap: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Considerations”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (P)
8 workshop “Death of International Organizations”, University of Pennsylvania (P)
2020 APSA (P); DVPW (P)
scoping workshop “Gauging Global Governance: The Effectiveness of Transnational Public-Private Governance Initiatives and Intergovernmental Organizations”, University of Sankt Gallen (D)
Opening Conference of the SCRIPTS (Contestations of the Liberal Script), Free University, Berlin
workshops on “International regime complexity”, American University & Yale University (online) (D, P)
2019 ISA (P, R); DVPW/SVPW/OEGPW (P, C, D); EISS (D, P)
ECPR Joint Sessions “Formal and Informal IGOs in Time”, Mons (P)
workshop “Causes and Consequences of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance”, EUI (P, D) (May and December)
ISA workshop “International Organization Dissolution”, University of Zurich (P, D)
workshop “The Paths of Change in International Law”, Graduate Institute (P, D)
workshop “Norms and other norms: Exploring norm relations and norm interactions in a complex global order”, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (P, D)
workshop “Military Transformation in Europe”, Center for War Studies, Southern Denmark University (D)
conference “The European Union under stress. Looking beyond the 2019 European election”, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (R)
2018 APSA (P); ECPR (D, P); ISA (C, D, P); SVPW (C, D)
workshop “Rethinking German Foreign Policy: Concepts and Cases,” Berlin (P)
workshop “Fostering Inclusive Responses to the Liberal Order’s ‘Crisis’”, Sié Chéou- Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (P)
workshop “European Security in an Age of American Restraint”, EUI (D)
CCDP research seminar series, Graduate Institute (D)
workshop “Entangled Legalities”, Graduate Institute (D)
workshop “After the end of paradigms in IR: building or burning bridges in the study of European security?”, University of Stockholm (P, D)
workshop “Competing Visions for the Global Order”, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania (P)
Academic Exchange European Alumni Retreat, Wilton Park (P)
workshop “Contemporary challenges to the liberal world order,” Vitznau (Cornell University and University of Zurich) (P)
workshop “Collective Identities and Integration of Core State Powers”, University of Amsterdam (P)
2017 EISA (P); EPSA (P); EUSA (P); ISA (P, C); ISA Hong Kong (P); SVPW (C, D)
European Election Day exploratory workshop, IHEID, Geneva (D)
Liechtenstein Colloquium on “Multilateral Responses to Emerging Threats”, Vienna
workshop “New Datasets on International and Regional Organizations – Inter- Operability, Best Practices, and the Way Forward,” University of Göttingen (P)
2016 DVPW/SVPW/OEGPW (C, D); ISA (P); SVPW (C, D)
workshop “Transnational Relations and the Transatlantic Relationship,” Georgetown University (P)
workshop “Governing the European Security Space: The EU as an Agent of Collective Securitization”, University of Bologna (P)
9 IO special issue conference, “Economics and Security Reconsidered,” University of Pennsylvania (P)
2015 CES (R); EISA (D, P); EPSA (P); ISA (P); PEIO (P); SVPW (C, D)
ISA Workshop “Overlapping Regionalisms – Drivers, Interactions, Effects,” New Orleans (P)
2014 APSA (P, R); EPSA (P); ISA (P); SVPW (C, D)
workshop “Dissemination et mimetism en droit international: Un regard anthropologique sur la formation des norms,” Graduate Institute (P)
ISA Workshop “Rising Powers and Intervention: Contested Norms and Shifts in Global Order,” Toronto (P)
workshop “Rising Powers and Intervention: Contested Norms and Shifts in Global Order,” Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (P)
2013 ECPR (P); ISA (P, R); SVPW (C, D)
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops (P, D)
2012 ISA (P); SVPW (C, D)
workshop “The European Political Project: From Disintegration to Integration,” Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (P, D)
2011 APSA (P); ECPR (P); ISA (P, R); SVPW (C, D)
2010 APSA (P); ECPR-SGIR (P); ISA (P); SVPW (C, D)
workshop “Explaining European Security and Defence Policy: Theory in Action,” Central European University, Budapest (P)
workshop “When Regions Transform: Theory and Change in World Politics,” McGill University, Montréal (P)
workshop “The European Union in International Security,” European Studies Centre/ Department of Politics and IR, Oxford University (P)
2009 APSA (P); ECPR (P); EUSA (P)
workshop “Burden Sharing in International Security Organizations: the EU, NATO and the UN,” Institute for European Studies/EU Centre of Excellence, Université de Montréal (D)
workshop “Bureaucracy at work: Role of the administrative level in ESDP,” Maastricht University (P)
2008 APSA (P); CES (P); ECPR-SGIR (P); ISA (P)
2007 EUSA (P); ISA (P)
workshop “Europa im Neuen Jahrhundert: Krise der Normalität – Normalität der Krise?,” Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (P, D)
workshop “The Politics of International Regime Complexity,” Northwestern University (P)
2006 ECSA-Canada (P); ISA (P)
2005 ISA (P)
workshop “Concepts and realities in transatlantic security relations”, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (P)
2004 APSA (P)
workshop “The European Union in the World: Security, Multilateralism and Norm Diffusion,” Ecole doctorale de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (P)
Teaching
Graduate Institute
10 Conflict and Intervention Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation (w/ Emily Meierding) Epistemology and Research Methods (w/ Oliver Jütersonke) European Foreign and Security Policy European Security Challenges and Responses Foreign Policy Analysis Global Order International Governance International Organization International Relations of the European Union International Security Regions, Power and Norms Security Governance Security Institutions and Peace Operations The EU in International Relations: Theory and Practice (faculty advisor for Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso) To Save and Defend: History and Politics of Humanitarian and Security Orgs. (w/ Davide Rodogno)
Summer and Winter Schools: Summer Programme on the United Nations and Global Challenges; Winter Programme on the United Nations and Global Challenges
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015 The European Union and Regional Security
LUISS University Guido Carli
2014 European Foreign, Security and Defense Policy (w/ Frédéric Mérand)
Colgate University (Geneva Program)
2011-2013 New International and European Security Challenges (w/ Keith Krause)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2007 Theorien der IB und ihre Relevanz für die internationale Politik
Executive Training
2020 A Crowded Space: Competition or Cooperation between EU and NATO? International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC) and the MAS in International and European Security (GCSP and University of Geneva)
2018 Policy cycle: Developing a comprehensive approach (with Gregoire Mallard), Executive Master’s in International Negotiations and Policy Making, Graduate Institute
2017 Multilateral negotiations times two: the European Union and international organizations (with Gregoire Mallard), Executive Master’s in International Negotiations and Policy Making, Graduate Institute
2016-2017 Policy-Making: Overview of the UN System (with Davide Rodogno), Executive Certificate in Advocacy in International Affairs, Graduate Institute
2015 Organized week on European Security Architecture: Institutions and Member States, European Training Course in Security Policy (ETC)
2014 War, Peace and Security, the Management of International Conflicts, Executive Master in International Politics, CERIS, Brussels
2014 Organized the week on International Relations Theory, International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC) and the MAS in International and European Security (GCSP and University of Geneva)
2013 Causes of Conflict and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms, Capacity Building in International Relations in the South Caucasus (CABIR) national training program, Baku, Tbilisi, and Yerevan
11 2012 Theories of Decision-Making, Executive Master’s in International Negotiations and Policy Making, Graduate Institute
2012 Common Foreign and Security Policy, Master of Advanced Studies, University of Basel (Europainstitut), 16-hour seminar
2011 Foreign Policy Analysis, Diplomatic Academy of Armenia, 5-day course in Yerevan organized by the College of Europe
Administrative Responsibilities
administrative committees and positions
2020- Head of Department
2018- Comité d'Institut
2017- 2019 Co-director, Executive Master in International Negotiation and Policy-Making
2016- Faculty associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
2014 MIA pre-selection for Arditi Prize
2013-2014 IHEID Publications committee
2012- Europaeum committee member
2011,12,14,15, Admissions committee for Master and PhD students 17,18, 19, 20
2012-2016 Deputy director, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
2011- Advisory faculty, Programme for the Study of International Governance / Global Governance Center
2010-2012 Political Science • International Relations Colloquium organizer
2009- Sylff steering committee member
2009-2012 Steering committee member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
job search committees
2021 Vice-president of search committee, Pictet Chair in International Relations and Political Science or Anthropology and Development
2021 Vice-president of search committee, International Relations and Political Science
2020 Vice-president of search committee for professor-of-practice, International Relations and Political Science
2020 Search committee member, Interdisciplinary Programs
2016 Search committee member, International History
2014 Search committee member, International Relations and Political Science
2011 Search committee member, International Relations and Political Science
supervision
2013,14,16-18 Applied Research Seminar / Capstone, faculty supervisor
2009- Supervision of 82 M.A. theses (54 as first reader) and 2 Postdocs
PhD supervision at IHEID second reader Hassan Farazian (defended 2010, retired) second reader Siobhan Martin (defended 2014, Head, Advance Course Development, GCSP) second reader Janis Grzybowski (defended 2014, Associate Professor in Political Science at ESPOL) second reader Velibor Jakovleski (defended 2014, Head of Research, Global Governance Center, IHEID)
12 supervisor Raphael Zaffran (defended 2016, Head, Programme development, technology- enhanced learning and partnerships, University of Geneva) second reader Michaela Racovita (defended 2017, Analyst at NATO Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre) second reader Smruthi Rammohan (defended 2017, Programme Assistant at International Security Sector Advisory Team, ISSAT/DCAF) supervisor Zuzana Hudakova (defended 2017, Postdoctoral fellow, CERI, Sciences Po Paris) second reader Hannah Dönges (defended 2018, Attaché at Auswärtiges Amt) second reader Sorina Crisan (defended 2018) second reader Kazushige Kobayashi (defended 2018, Postdoctoral fellow, IHEID) supervisor Ueli Staeger supervisor Juliette Ganne supervisor Anamarija Andreska
PhD supervision at other universities external reader Samuel Faure, Sciences Po Paris (defended 2016, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of International Relations at Sciences Po Saint-Germain) com. member Stephan Klose, VUB (defended 2019) co-supervisor Pavel Satra, Leuphana Universität external reader Jonathan Ariel, Hebrew University co-supervisor Moritz Neubert, University of Mannheim external reader Mona Saleh, Leuphana Universität
Services to the Discipline
conference organization and award committees
2021 EUSA Program Co-Chair, Biannual conference in Miami (postponed)
2020- COST delegate (COST Action ENTER, EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities)
2019- EUSA Executive Committee
2019 EUSA Haas Fund Fellowship Committee
2019- John McCain Dissertation Award selection committee, Munich Security Conference
2019 organization of doctoral workshop “(Dis)continuities in European Governance”, Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), Université de Genève
2018- ISA-UNAI committee member
2016-2018 ISA Carl Beck Award committee chair
2010-2019 Swiss Political Science Association, co-chair of the IR Section
2016, 2018 International Steering Committee member of the biennial “European Union in International Affairs” (EUIA) conference, Brussels
2015, 17, 18 Brodie Prize (best article in Contemporary Security Studies) jury member
2011 Section co-organizer at the fourth “Congrès international du réseau francophone des cinq associations de Science politique,” Brussels
external member on search committees
2020 External search committee member, International Relations search, Sciences Po Bordeaux
2019 External reviewer, Global Security & Technology Professorship, Technische Universität München
2018 External search committee member (short list), International Relations search, Leuphana Universität
2016 External search committee member, International Relations search, Université de Genève
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2016 External search committee member, International Relations search, Trinity College Dublin
2015 External search committee member, International Relations search, University of Zurich
2010 External search committee member, International Relations search, Université de Lausanne
external evaluations and academic advisory councils
2020- academic advisory council member, Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik at the Universität Hamburg
2020 EU Commission H2020 Individual Action Evaluation (Marie Curie Fellowships)
2019 EU Commission H2020 Individual Action Evaluation (Marie Curie Fellowships)
2018 Panel member of the Swedish Research Council’s Consolidator Grant Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences
2012 EU Commission FP7 Individual Action Evaluation (Marie Curie Fellowships)
reviewing and editorial boards
2021- Associate editor, Journal of International Relations and Development
2021- Editorial board member, Security Studies
2020- Editorial board member, International Politics
2019- Steering committee member, European Review of International Affairs (ERIS)
2019- Editorial board member, Global Perspectives (security section)
2016- Advisory board member, Inter-disciplinary Political Studies
2014- Editorial board member, Contemporary Security Policy
2015-2017 International security book reviewer, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
2011-2014 Editorial board member, Swiss Political Science Review
Article reviewer for American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, Critical Studies on Security, Critique Internationale, European Journal of International Relations, European Security, European Union Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Affairs, International Affairs, International Political Science Review, International Relations, International Security, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Journal of International Organizations Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, Political Science Quarterly, Public Administration, Research and Politics, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, Swiss Political Science Review, Third World Quarterly, World Politics
Book manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press
Project reviewer for Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation
Field Work
2006,07,17,18, Brussels 19 2011,14,17,19 New York City 2014, 19 Washington D.C.
14 2015, 20 Addis Ababa 2015 New Delhi 2015 Nicosia 2013 Bujumbura and collines 2005-2008, 20 Berlin 2007 Paris 2006 London
Consultancy, Policy Outreach, Assistantships
2020 Participant, Munich Security Conference
2019 Moderator, “Responsibility in cyberspace: European and East Asian perspectives,” EUCyberDirect (EUISS, GMF, SNV) and The Genron NPO, Tokyo
2019 Participant, EU-Japan cyber workshop on Responses to Malicious Cyber Attacks organized by the EUCyberDirect with Keio University Global Research Institute and Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo
2019 Moderator, “Deterrence and Cyberspace: Questioning the concept,” EUCyberDirect (EUISS, GMF, SNV), Brussels
2018 Presenter, the “Competing Visions for the World Order,” part of the The Future of the Global Order Colloquium series, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
2017-2019 Participant, three Swiss-China Dialogues on Conflict Prevention, in Geneva, New York City, and Beijing
2017 Participant, “Towards a Common Defence White Paper – France and Germany joining forces,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
2013 Independent evaluator, the UN’s Peacebuilding Fund Portfolio for Burundi
2011 Independent evaluator, the VolkswagenStiftung, Compagnia di San Paolo and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond joint research and training programme “European Foreign and Security Policy Studies”
2010 Consultant, the Centre of International Governance (CIG), OSCE program / OSCE Focus Group
2004-2005 Research assistant for Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
2002 Seminar assistant, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (liaison office to the European Union), Brussels
2002 Research associate, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (liaison office to the United Nations), New York
2000-2001 Intern, NATO Headquarters in the Defence Planning and Operations Division (DPAO), Brussels
Participation in Public Events
outside IHEID
2020 Discussant, “The Biden Presidency: Resetting Transatlantic Relations. A Schuman Conversation with David O’Sullivan, Anthony Gardner, Stephanie Hofmann and Brigid Laffan, EUI
2019 Moderator, “Défense européenne: quels rôles pour l’OTAN et l’Union?” Eurotemis conference “L’Europe de la defense”, Sciences Po Bordeaux
2019 Presentation, IHEID alumni meeting, NYC
2016 Presentation, “Quo vadis Europa? Ein Friedensprojekt am Scheideweg”, Universität Göttingen
2015 Presentation, EUI State of the Union conference, Fiesole
15 2015 Presentation, CAUX-Initiatives of Change Foundation conference “Addressing Europe's Unfinished Business”, Caux
2014 Moderator, PubAffairs Bruxelles, “EU trade policy towards the east and the west of the world” roundtable, Brussels
2013 Presentation, Swedish Institute of International Affairs 75th Anniversary Conference, Stockholm
2010 Discussant for SACEUR (Admiral) James G. Stavridis at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, Geneva
2008 Presentation, IHEID Alumni meeting, Bern
within IHEID
2020 Panel member, “Honoring Diversity in our Classroom”
2020 Discussant, “Master's Thesis Share” organized by GISA
2019 Moderator, “The European Union in a Global Storm,“ with Herman van Rompuy
2018 Presentation, IHEID lunch briefing “Trump and Brexit: New Challenges for NATO and the EU?”
2017 Moderator, “L’evolution de l’Union Europenne: quels scenarios?” with José Manuel Barroso and Andre Sapir
2017 Moderator, Junior Diplomat Initiative’s youth dialogue event “Diplomacy in times of crisis”
2017 Moderator, “Projecting stability beyond our borders”, town hall meeting with NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg”
2016 Moderator and discussant for Bill Emmott / “The Great European Disaster” movie
Professional Memberships
American Political Science Association European International Studies Association European Political Science Association European Union Studies Association International Studies Association Swiss Political Science Association
Languages
English (fluent), French (fluent), German (native speaker)
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