PhD and Habilitation Projects

Steve Biedermann - Informal International Governmental Organizations 

Christopher Brucker -External link International Norms as Strategic Resources in Secession Conflicts

Sebastian Hoppe -External link The Political Economy of Rent and the Making of State Strategy in Putin's Russia

Roman Labunski - The Russia-Ukraine Conflict: A Clash of Civilizations? Critical Discourse Analysis from the point of view of Critical Geopolitics

Ivan Laškarin -External link Minority Groups between Secessionism and Irredentism: A Comparative Study

Phuong Anh Nguyen - The Road to Reconciliation between Vietnam and the United States from 1975 to 1995

Bidzina Lebanidze - de Old Wine in a New Bottle? Critical Appraisal of the Resilience Paradigm in the EU's New Global Agenda

Géza Tasner - Strategic Competition in Secessionist Conflicts

Sung Jin Park - Politics of Memory in post-Conflict Societies

Shota Shvelidze - Political Meaning of Reconciliation Concept in Georgian-Abkhaz Post-Violent Conflict: Analyzing Georgia's State Peace Policy (First supervisor: Prof. Martin Leiner)

Sebastian Relitz (2021) Conflict Resolution in De Facto States: The Practice of Engagement without RecognitionExternal link (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann, Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolff)

Christian Opitz (2019) Between formality and informality. Structural conditions of influence in an international organization using the example of civil crisis management in the European Union (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann, Second Supervisor: Dr. Viktoria von Groddeck)

Johannes Gold (2018)  Interethnic Relations in Post-War Societies: Everyday Life and Conflict in the Multiethnic City of Prizren External link (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann, Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anton Sterbling)

Carolina Rehrmann (2018)  The Cyprus Conflict: A Social-Psychological Discourse Analysis (First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann, Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leiner )

Matthias Schulze (2017)  From Cyber-Utopia to Cyber-War. Advocacy Coalitions and the Normative Change in Cyberspace External link (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann, Second supervisor: Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty)

Mladen Mrdalj (2015) Stasis among Powers. The Destruction of Yugoslavia after the Cold War  External link(First supervisor: Prof. Amilcar Barreto; Third supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann)

Martin Beischl (2013) The European policy of Croatian parties: models, priorities and development prospects External link (First supervisor: Dr. Olaf Leiße; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann)