Doctoral students

Current doctoral students

Niklas Krösche
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2018- )
Topic: Legitimation dynamics in the African Union

Mona Saleh
Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2018- )
Topic: Institutional overlap and the legitimacy crisis of regional organizations in Africa

Former doctoral students

Swantje Schirmer
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2018-2022)
„Why Do Regional Organizations Legitimate Via Human Rights? Set-theoretic Configurations of Localization, Agents, and Audiences of Legitimation“

Leonardo Bandarra
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Georg-August-University of Göttingen (2016-2020)
„Nuclear Latency and the Participation Puzzle: Constructing the International Non-proliferation Regime“

Mariel Reiss
Marburg University (2016-2020)
„Constructing the East African Community: The Impact of African and European Regional Organizations on the Emergence and Institutional Design of the East African Community“ (second supervisor)

Insa Ewert
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2015-2017),
„The China Watchers: EU Trade Policy in the Making“ (second supervisor)