Talks

This page lists recorded videos, podcasts, invited talks, and policy commentary.

Videos

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).

Podcasts

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.

Invited Talks

  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht University School of Governance, 2025
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis in International Relations, Invited Roundtable, ISA Virtual Convention, 2020
  • 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
  • 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

Commentary

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 WarEuropean Journal of International Security Blog, May 18, 2020.

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