International Institutions
Research department II studies international institutions – organizations, regimes and conventions. International institutions have traditionally been viewed as having an important function in maintaining peace and security. However, recent studies indicate that the peacekeeping abilities of these institutions vary and that they can even have an ambivalent effect and enhance the possibility of institutional crises. In view of this, research department II concentrates on the development, design, impact, possible change and disintegration of the international institutions that are charged with facilitating and preserving peace.
Current PhD Project
- State Capacity as a Moderating Factor for the Effects of Coercion on Compliance
- The Normative Force of Conflict: Norm Specification Through Processes of Norm Contestation
Completed PhD Project
- Democratization and Promotion of the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe in Middle and Eastern Europe since 1989
- Do All Roads Lead to Rome? Institutional Roadblocks to Human Rights Mainstreaming in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Dynamics of Deviance: Torture and its Prohibition in World Politics
- Resource or Threat? On the Ambivalence of Internal Criticism in International Organizations
- A new role for NATO in the High North? The European Arctic and Russia’s war against Ukraine
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Between Facts and Doubts: Epistemic Trust in International Organisations
- Changing Norms and Practices in International Peace and Security Law
- Effects and Modes of Effects of Humanitarian Military Interventions
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- Legitimacy Policy through Dialogue Forums? Global Economic Institutions and their Critics
- Normativity of International Practices
- PATTERN: How Does the Past Matter? The Russian War of Aggression Against Ukraine and the Cold War
- Parlamente in der Sicherheitspolitik
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- The Effects of Far Right Challenges on International Organizations
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- The Leibniz Research Network "Crises in a Globalised World"
- R2P: The Various Effects of Norm Contestation
- Norm Disputes: Contestation and Norm Robustness
- Police Reform in Fragile States: The Role of International Actors
- Modes of Decision-Making in International Organizations
- Regional Security Organizations as Building Blocks of a Just World Order?
- Salafism in Germany
- Contested World Orders
- Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect
- Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON)
- The International Organization of Democratic Peace
- Parliamentary Control of Military Deployments in Democracies
- Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes
- Democracy and the Legalization of the Military Use of Force
- Justice and Peace Between the Global and the Local
Head of Research Department
Research Fellows
Associate Fellows
Office Manager
Student Assistants
- Bilmen, Ezgi
- Buchtyar, Simon
- Roth, Marie-Christine
- Schneider, Jule