Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), invited talk, International Studies Association (ISA) Virtual Event, September 17, 2025. Recording available on ISA’s YouTube channel.

Zeitenwende: German Foreign Policy Change in the Wake of Russia’s War against Ukraine, video interview for the Let’s Talk About series, Cogitatio Press, moderated by Rodrigo Silva, January 2024. An audio version is available from the publisher.

Book summary and Q&A on Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application, QCA Expert Workshop, COMPASSS Network / ETH Zürich, April 2022 (segment starts at minute 12).

Security Cooperation in the Global North and the Ukraine War, Interview for the Bulletin Podcast, with Smriti Rai and Jesus Renzullo, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt (30 mins.), April 29, 2022.

Interview for the Bulletin Podcast, interviewed by Maria Brackin, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt (30 mins.), February 6, 2018.

• Pacifism, Isolationism or Anti-Americanism? Explaining Public Opposition to Supporting Ukraine against Russia’s War of Aggression, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, 2026

• Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for Foreign Policy Analysis, Masterclass for the Evaluation and Statistics cadres of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (online), 2026

• Uncovering Causal Symptoms: QCA in Multi-Method Research, Keynote Speaker at the 5th Annual QCA Conference of the Americas, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2026

• Set-Theoretic Analysis: Applications for Teaching in Organizational and Media Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2025

• Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Virtual Event, International Studies Association, 2025

• Zeitenwende: Assessing Germany’s Foreign and Security Policy Transformation, NATO Pre-Summit Panel, Türkiye and NATO in the Face of Transforming Security and Information-Based Challenges, Amsterdam, 2025

• Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht University School of Governance, 2025

• QCA in International Security: Research Design and Application, United States Military Academy, West Point, Department of Social Sciences (online), 2022

• The Unintended Consequences of UN Sanctions, Universität Bamberg, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2021

• Democracies and War Involvement, Zeppelin Universität, Lehrstuhl für Global Governance, 2021

• Qualitative Comparative Analysis in International Relations, Invited Roundtable, ISA Virtual Convention, 2020

• Parlamente in der Sicherheitspolitik: Erfüllungsgehilfen oder Vetospieler?, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Professur Internationale Politik, 2019

• Defense Transformation in Germany, Università di Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2019

• Teaching Foreign Policy Analysis at the Undergraduate Level, Invited Roundtable, ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, 2019

• U.S. Foreign Policy and Canada after the Elections: First Year Review, Association for Canadian Studies, Invited Roundtable, ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 2018

• Parliamentary Rebellions in Cases of War and Peace? Comparing the UK and Germany, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, PACO Lecture Series, 2017

• U.S. Foreign Policy and Canada after the Elections, Association for Canadian Studies, Invited Roundtable, ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore, 2017

• Democracies and Withdrawal from the Iraq War Coalition, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Lehrstuhl für Internationale Beziehungen, 2016

• QCA and Research Transparency, Invited Roundtable, 4th International QCA Expert Workshop, ETH Zürich, 2016

• Internationale Nachrichtenströme: Unterschiedliche Kanäle – unterschiedliche Weltanschauungen?, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Discussant, 2012

• Janus-Faced Democracy? A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Contributions to Multilateral Interventions, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Professur für Internationale Organisationen, 2010

• Janus-Faced Democracy? Democratic Foreign Policy and the Use of Force, Universität Bremen, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2009

Zeitenwende at Twilight: Will Germany’s Shift Last? Baltic Rim Economies, December 2024 (Issue 4), Centrum Balticum.

Paths towards Coalition Defection: Democracies and Withdrawal from the Iraq War, European Journal of International Security Blog, May 18, 2020.

Kriegsbeteiligung: Gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung, Katapult: Magazin für Kartografik und Sozialwissenschaft, July 6, 2016.

• Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict (2014) and “German Parliamentary Debates and Decision-Making on Afghanistan” (Orient, 2022) listed in the Deutscher Bundestag Library’s topical bibliography compiled to support the Enquete-Kommission “Lehren aus Afghanistan für das künftige vernetzte Engagement Deutschlands” — Aktuelle Bibliographien Nr. 20, December 2022.

• “Smart Sanctions: The Unintended Consequences of UN Sanctions” (Meissner & Mello, 2022) cited in a Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Deutschen Bundestages briefing on sanctions and international investment protection law, prepared in support of a Member of the Bundestag’s work on the EU’s sanctions response to Russia’s war against Ukraine — WD 2 – 3000 – 085/22, November 30, 2022.

• Research on the British House of Commons and the conflicts in Libya and Syria (West European Politics, 2017) cited in the Report of the Expert Group on Political Support for Interstate Use of Force and on Humanitarian Intervention, convened by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs and chaired by Prof. Cyrille Fijnaut, December 2019.

• “Las promesas incumplidas de Scholz a Ucrania: el ‘giro’ militar que nunca llegó”, expert comment, RTVE — Radiotelevisión Española, February 19, 2025.

• “Netherlands Divided: Middle East Tensions, Ukraine War, Trump’s Return — How Global Events Shape Dutch Public Sentiment”, expert comment, Wyoming Star, November 22, 2024.