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Cooperative Security
The close political and economic interdependence between many states means that crises and conflicts affect an increasing number of countries and regions. As a result, security risks emerge that call established political value systems into question.
The planned research program is based on an expanded concept of security that, in addition to classical security concerns, also includes other security-relevant phenomena such as climate change, poverty and hunger, and pandemics. Security challenges are to be examined in their interconnections across economic policy, domestic policy, and defense and military policy. Particular attention will be given to the Federal Republic of Germany within the European context.
The central premise of the research program is that successful and sustainable security policy in Germany can only be achieved through cooperation: between different political levels and domestic actors, as well as with European neighbors and global partners. The conditions for putting a cooperative understanding of security into practice are particularly favorable in Germany for two reasons: first, negotiation and multi-level democracy are central components of the German political system. Second, Germany’s history, geopolitical position, and size make it reliant on thinking and organizing its security in cooperative terms. “Cooperative Security” therefore serves as the central conceptual anchor of the planned research program.
PARTICIPATING RESEARCHERS
Professorship of International Relations
Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz
Junior Professorship of Security Policy and Peace
Prof. Dr. Hana Attia
Professorship for Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU
Prof. Dr. Michael Koß
Professorship for Political Science, in particular Public Policy and Law
Prof. Dr. Natascha Zaun
Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Economy
Prof. Dr. Lukas Hakelberg
Professorship of Public and International Law with a Focus on Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Jelena Bäumler*
Junior professorship of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law, in particular Environmental Law and the Law of the Sea
Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz*
Professorship for International Law and Dispute Resolution
Prof. Dr. Christian Tams*
Professorship for Economics, in particular Empirical Microeconomics
Prof. Dr. Mario Mechtel*
Professorship for Economics, in particular Empirical Macroeconomics
Prof. Dr. Florian Unger*
Professorship for Social-, Organizational and Political Psychology, especially empirical Negotiation Research
Prof. Dr. Roman Trötschel*
Professorship of Business and Social Psychology & Methods
Prof. Dr. David Loschelder*
Professorship for Psychology, in particular Cognitive-, Social- and Economic Psychology
Prof. Dr. Oliver Genschow*
Professorship Professorship for Psychology, in particular Cognitive-, Social- and Economic Psychology
Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel*
*associate professorships from other schools
Adjunct Professor
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Emeritus)
Kooperationen
In this research area, Leuphana cooperates both nationally and internationally. For many years, it has maintained a collaboration with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, within which the junior professorship “Security Policy and Peace” was jointly appointed.
Starting in 2026, Leuphana will lead the Erasmus Mundus master’s program “International Law of Security, Peace and Sustainable Development” (previously titled “International Law of Global Security, Peace & Development”). Within this framework, Leuphana cooperates with the Universities of Glasgow, Tartu, and Barcelona, the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
In addition, there are established connections with the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Activities and Announcements
- Security Research: Cooperation instead of confrontation
- Putin’s Drones in Poland – Professor Tobias Lenz in the Frankfurter Rundschau (German)
- Mandatory military service is considered appropriate - Prof. Dr. Michael Koß on Deutschlandfunk (German)
- New at Leuphana: Prof. Dr. Hana Attia – When States and international organizations punish
- Timur Sevincer is studying possibilities for communication between Palestinians und Israelis
- Leuphana Conference Week 2025: „War is a failure of humanity“
- Leuphana Conference Week 2025: Security or justice?
- Can Europe afford to go it alone on defense? Dr. Alexandr Burilkov on DW
- Prof. Dr. Christian Tams represented Zambia at the International Court of Justice
- LIAS Reading: Israel, Palestine, Germany - a triangle of responsibility
- Leuphana among the world's best locations for Political Science
- Tuesday Seminar: "Regarding the wars of others. Empathic reception of war visuals from the Russian war in Ukraine and the Israel/Gaza war"
- Ukraine war: „No peace without deterrence“
- Long-Range Weapons for Ukraine? Discussion with Dr. Alexandr Burilkov on DW
- Leuphana Conference Week 2024: Resilient democracy?
- Dr. Alexandr Burilkov comments on Russia's arms offensive (German)
- Hamas terror in Israel: "Everyone is bracing for a prolonged war"