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Serving as Committee Chair for the International Studies Association
The President of the International Studies Assocation (ISA), Siba Grovogui, has appointed me to serve as Chair of the ISA Committee on Dissertation Completion Fellowships for a one-year term, until March 2026. I originally joined the committee in 2024, following my appointment by then-ISA President Marijke Breuning. In this role, I am fortunate to work alongside a group of esteemed… Continue reading →
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Open Access Article Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs
The Cambridge Review of International Affairs published my open access article “The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine“. Building on my recent work on German foreign policy change, this article examines national role contestation within the traffic-light coalition under Chancellor Scholz (2021–2024). Hence, emphasis is placed on policy differences between… Continue reading →
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Zeitenwende at Twilight — Article in Baltic Rim Economies
The December issue of Baltic Rim Economies includes a short piece of mine: “Zeitenwende at Twilight: Will Germany’s Shift Last?“. This article is part of a special issue on Germany’s Political, Economic, and Environmental Development. The contribution reflects on the transitional phase that Germany currently finds itself in, after the collapse of the “traffic light” coalition in November 2024, before… Continue reading →
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European QCA Conference at Tilburg University
On December 10-12, the European QCA Conference took place at Tilburg University, organized by Roel Rutten, Lien Denoo, Giulia Bazzan, Jiahe Wang, and Steven van den Oord. As in previous years, in Zurich and Antwerp, this entailed a Paper Development Workshop where empirical QCA applications were discussed in small panels with two experts and three to four paper-givers each. I… Continue reading →
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Papers Presented at First MethodsNET Conference
On October 31 and November 1, I participated in the first MethodsNET Conference at UC Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Founded in late 2021, MethodsNET is a network and community of methods experts and practitioners that hosts and supports methods training and development, including the Summer School in Social Sciences Methods at the Università della Svizzera italiana, among others. I presented… Continue reading →
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Workshop beim Bundesnachrichtendienst
Am 10./11. Oktober habe ich im Konferenzzentrum des Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND) an einem Workshop zum Thema “Integrierte Sicherheit für Deutschland? Die Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” teilgenommen. Die Veranstaltung wurde von Holger Janusch und Thomas Dörfler von der Hochschule des Bundes für Öffentliche Verwaltung (HS Bund) organisiert. Die Beiträge des Workshops sollen im kommenden Jahr in einem Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für… Continue reading →
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QCA Workshop at the 28th Summer School in Lugano, Switzerland
During the week of August 19-23, 2024, I returned to the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, to teach Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) at the 28th Summer School in Social Science Methods. The intensive course covers the foundations and advanced uses of QCA and its application in R, based on my book Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research… Continue reading →
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Registration Opened for QCA Workshop at 28th Summer School in Lugano
Registration has opened for the 28th Summer School in Social Science Methods at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. As in previous years (see impressions here), I am offering a week-long in-presence workshop on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), taking place August 19-23, 2024. Throughout the workshop, participants are introduced to the foundations and advanced functions of QCA, while… Continue reading →
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Joining the Editorial Board of International Studies Quarterly
I’m honored to have joined the editorial board of International Studies Quarterly (ISQ), under the new lead editors Sam R. Bell, Elena McLean, and Jeffrey Pickering, and their team of associate editors, who picked up the reigns of ISQ from former lead editors Brandon Prins and Krista Wiegand at the start of 2024. ISQ remains the flagship journal of the… Continue reading →
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QCA in Large-Scale Educational Assessment, Workshop at University of Oslo
On January 18/19, I gave a workshop on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Large-Scale Educational Assessment at the University of Oslo, Norway. The two-day workshop was organized by Associate Professor Nani Teig for members of the research group “Large-Scale Educational Assessment” (LEA) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. Besides providing a thorough introduction to QCA and its application in R,… Continue reading →