Prof. Dr. Hana Attia

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C4.024
Fon  +49.4131.677-2486, hana.attia@leuphana.de
Juniorprofessor*in, Junior Professorship of Security Policy and Peace
Assoziierte/r, Leuphana Center for Cooperative Security (LCCS)

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Vita

Hana Attia is Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (Institute for Middle East Studies). She holds a PhD from the Graduate School of the Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Konstanz, Germany (2023). Her dissertation received the Leibniz Dissertation Award (2024) and the second Aquila Ascendens Prize for Exceptional Dissertations on Security Policy in Germany (2023). Prior to taking up her current position, Attia was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Salzburg (2023-2025), a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA, 2018-2023) and a guest lecturer at the University of Hamburg (2019, 2021). She was a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence American University in Washington D.C. funded by Fulbright (Dec 2021 – Apr 2022) and a Visiting Graduate Student at the Johns Hopkins University & Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) funded by the DAAD (2015 – 2016). Her research on economic coercion, economic sanctions, foreign policy, and domestic politics has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, European Economic Review, Review of International Economics, Journal for Global Security Studies, and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. Her commentary on sanctions features in news broadcasts and podcasts such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Foreign Times, and she actively engages in policy advice. A complete list of publications and other relevant professional information can be found here).

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy
    Hana Attia (Author) , 01.07.2025 , in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 21, 3 , 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Divert when it does not hurt: The initiation of economic sanctions by US presidents from 1989 to 2015
    Hana Attia (Author) , 01.02.2024 , in: Review of International Economics, 32, 1 , p. 109-131 , 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Easier In than Out: Lessons Learned from the Termination of the Iraq Sanctions Regime
    Hana Attia (Author) , Julia Grauvogel (Author) , 01.12.2023 , in: Journal of Global Security Studies, 8, 4 , 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset
    Hana Attia (Author) , Julia Grauvogel (Author) , 01.07.2023 , in: Journal of Peace Research, 60, 4 , p. 709-719 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions
    Hana Attia (Author) , Julia Grauvogel (Author) , 01.06.2023 , in: International Studies Quarterly, 67, 2 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. The Termination of International Sanctions: Actors, Processes and Consequences
    Hana Attia (Author) , Julia Grauvogel (Author) , Christian Von Soest (Author) , 01.01.2023 London , p. 101-111 , 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: nur Mittel zum Zweck : Erfolgsbedingungen von Sanktionen
    Hana Attia (Author) , Pascal Abb (Author) , Michael Brzoska (Author) , Christopher Daase (Author) , Nicole Deitelhoff (Author) , Julia Grauvogel (Author) , Anton Peez (Author) , 01.06.2022 Bielefeld , p. 111-131 , 21 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. Syria Sanctions Relief/Termination Consultation
    Hana Attia (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

  2. The Future of International Sanctions
    Hana Attia (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. Foreign Policy Reconciliation and Public Opinion
    Hana Attia (Speaker) , Anton Peez (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Economic Sanctions in the 21st Century
    Hana Attia (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Education

  5. “Human Impacts & Exploring Sanctions Termination”
    Hana Attia (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

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Press / Media

  1. Ethiopia to formally inaugurate massive and controversial Nile hydropower dam
    1 Media contribution

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  2. Podcast interview with ForeignTimes on sanctions and their consequences
    Interviewed once

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  3. Interview in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
    Interviewed once

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  4. Interview with Brut. on Egypt and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  5. TV interview with Indus News on the Iran Nuclear Deal
    Interviewed once

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Prizes

  1. Leibniz Dissertation Award 2024
    Hana Attia (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  2. Excellence in Teaching Award 2023/24
    Hana Attia (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  3. Aquila Ascendens Prize for Exceptional Dissertations 2023
    Hana Attia (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  4. RAM Award for Exceptional Theses 2018
    Hana Attia (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Teaching