New Fellows at the Centre

Upcoming Fellows in May 2016

Dr. A. Burcu Bayram

Fellow, May – August 2016

Research Project: Decision Maker Perceptions of Negotiation Legitimacy in

Multilateral Trade Diplomacy

Burcu Bayram is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her PhD in 2011 at the Ohio State University with specialization in International Relations, Political Psychology, and Interdisciplinary Survey Research, followed by a one year tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the McEwan University in Alberta, Canada.

Research Interests: International Organization and Law

Political Psychology

Public Opinion

International Relations Theory

Behavioral Economics

Survey and Experimental Methods

More information: http://burcubayram.net/Welcome.html

Prof. Faten Ghosn

Senior Fellow, May – August 2016

Research Project: Getting to the Table & Getting to Yes: A New Outlook on

Negotiations

Faten Ghosn studied Public Administration and Political Science at the American University in

Beirut and received her PhD in 2006 at the Pennsylvania State University with a Dissertation

in International Relations. She was an Adjunct Professor at The Fund for American

Studies/Georgetown University from 2010-2013. In 2006 she joined the School of Government

and Public Policy and Faculty of the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies and

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, first as an Assistant Professor

and since 2013 as an Associate Professor.

Research Interests: Political Negotiation

Conflict Management

Middle Eastern Politics

International Organizations

More information: https://sgpp.arizona.edu/user/faten-ghosn

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Upcoming Fellows in June 2016

Prof. Galya Ruffer

Senior Fellow, June – December 2016

Research Project: Does the Refugee Convention Regime Contribute to Refugee

Protection? Understanding ‘Success’ in the Implementation of

Refugee Status Determination Systems through a Case Study

of the Emerging Asylum Systems in Turkey and Israel

Professor Ruffer is the founding Director of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the

Northwestern University in Illinois, USA. Her work centers on refugee rights and protection,

regional understandings of the root causes of conflict and refugee crises, rule of law and the

process of international justice with a particular focus on the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

She has published on the role of experts in the refugee status determination process,

testimony and justice in the DR Congo, asylum law and policy, human rights litigation in

transnational courts and immigrant incorporation and integration in Europe. Her new

research focuses on refugee protection outside of the international legal framework.

Research Interests: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies,

Citizenship,

Comparative Constitutionalism,

Testimony and International Criminal Justice;

Conflict Studies

More information: http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/galya-

ruffer.html

Dr. Jennifer Gronau

Postdoc Fellow, June 2016- May 2017

Research Project: External Legitimation Dynamics and Internal Working

Practices of Transnational Clubs of States

Since April 2015 Jennifer Gronau works as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political

Science at the University Osnabrück. She wrote her dissertation on „self-legitimation of the

G7/G8 and the G20 from 1975 respectively 1999 until 2014“ within the DFG-funded research

group »Staatlichkeit im Wandel« in Bremen. From 2007-2014 she did research within the

project »Die Legitimation politischer und ökonomischer Ordnungen« and also focused on

empirical legitimation of the UNO, EU and IMF. In 2008 she was a guest researcher at the G8

Research Group at the University of Toronto.

Research Interests: International Institutions and Organisations

Informal governance-arrangements

Legitimation and Legitimacy within post-national

constellation

Social movements and NGOs

Quantitative and qualitative methods

More information: http://www.sozialwissenschaften.uni-osnabrueck.de

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Current Fellows at the Centre

Gerardo Bracho

Senior Expert Fellow, April 2016- March 2017

Research Project: The rise and fall of the modern aid industry: the Development

Assistance Committee and the impact of the Southern

Cooperation providers

After his Master in Development studies at the University of Sussex, Bracho made his PhD in Economic History at the Oxford University on “Unconcluded thesis on the transition to a market economy in Russia”. Since 1990 Bracho has been working as a Mexican diplomat. He worked at the Mexican Embassy in Moscow and London and was a Mexican delegate in Paris to the OECD. From January 2012 to April 2013 I was posted in Mexico City as Deputy Director-General at the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before returning to the OECD as Senior Policy Advisor at the Development Cooperation Directorate. Since January 2015 he has been working for AMEXCID again.

Research Interests: Mexican foreign policy Development Agencies in Emerging Powers OECD and international cooperation More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-1/gerardo-bracho/

Dr. Paula Castro

Postdoc Fellow, March 2016 – February 2017

Research Project: Cooperating for the climate: States’ positions on burden

sharing of climate change mitigation and finance

After finishing her MSc in Environment and Development at the University of Reading, Castro

worked until 2007 as consultant on political, social, technical and environmental aspects of

biofuels in Peru. She joined the University of Zurich in 2007 as research assistant working on

her PhD on “The CDM and incentives for climate change mitigation in developing countries “.

Since 2011 she is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Economy and

Development at the University of Zurich.

Research Interests: Environmental policy and politics

International climate policy

Market mechanisms

Political economy

International negotiations

Renewable energy

Biofuels

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-1/paula-

castro/

Prof. Larry Crump

Senior Fellow, March – June 2016

Research Project: Global Governance Revisited via three Levels of Analysis

Currently Crump is working as Senior Lecturer and Research Ethics Advisor at the Business

School of the Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. He published on multiparty negotiation

as well as Theory and practice of public dispute resolution. He was an International Scholar at

the Kyung Hee University of the Repubic of Korea and worked for several years at the Sophia

University in Tokyo.

Research Interests: International Negotiation

Multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations

WTO, APEC and G20

Turning point theory, Linkage theory,

Coalition/Alliance theory

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-3/larry-

crump/

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Prof. Isabel Feichtner

Fellow, April – September 2016

Research Project: The Concept of Common Heritage of Humanity: How Can It Be Operationalized To Resolve Conflicts Over the Exploitation of Natural Resources Beyond Territorial Jurisdiction?

Since 2011 Feichtner works as Assistant Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt for Law and Economics. Before she was a Legal Advisor on the Reform of International Environmental Governance of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law as well as Teaching Assistant at the NYU School of Law. She did her Doctoral Thesis on “Stability and Flexibility in International Public Law. The Law and Politics of WTO-Waivers” in 2010 after her First and Second State Exam in 1999 and 2004.

Research Interests: Transnational Resource Law, Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, International Institutional Law Theories of Justice

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-1/isabel-feichtner/

Dr. Elisabetta Nadalutti

Postdoc Fellow, September 2015 – August 2016

Research Project: Within the EU-ASEAN-NAFTA cross-border regionalism:

cooperation with(out) an ethical cross-border governance? A

comparative perspective analysis’ Before coming to Duisburg, Elisabetta Nadalutti worked as Senior Researcher at the Faculté

des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l'Education at the University

of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on EU and Southeast-Asia cross-border regions. In 2013

she was a Visiting Researcher at the United Nations Univeristy in Brugge and in 2012 a post-

doctoral researcher at the ANU Centre for European Studies at the Australian National

University in Canberra. In January 2012 she gained her PhD in Philosophy at University of

Bath, Department of Politics and International Relations.

Research Interests: Comparative Politics

Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

Human Rights

More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-2/elisabetta-nadalutti/ Dr. Mariana Nardone

Postdoc-Fellow, April 2016 – March 2017

Research project: UNHCR-NGO cooperation in “traditional”, “emerging” and

“new” refugee resettlement countries from a neo-

institutionalism perspective

Currently Nardone is working as consultant for the InterAmerican Heart Foundation on the

Research project on “Child and youth obesity in Argentina (funded by UNICEF). From 2013

until spring 2015 Nardone was a Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology

in Brisbane. Before working in Brisbane Nardone finished her PhD in Social Sciences at

FLACSO- Argentina in Buenos Aires in 2013 and worked as Lecturer at the Del Salvador

University in Buenos Aires.

Research Interests: Migration and refugees

Social capital

Urbanization

Civil society in Latin America

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-2/mariana-nardone/

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Prof. Sigrid Quack

Senior Fellow, April – September 2016

Research project: Contested authority in transnational governance: The

epistemic, organizational and institutional dimensions

Since 2013 Quacks has been working as Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-

Essen, with a focus on Comparative and Transnational Sociology. As Leader of the Research

Group on Institution Building across Borders she is also affiliated with the Max Planck

Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. From 1993 until 2007 Quack worked as

researcher and project leader at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung while

finishing her habilitation at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2007.

Research Interests: Globalization and institutional change International standard setting (labour, environment, culture, finance) Comparative economic and organizational sociology Professions, expertise and transnational regulation

More information: https://www.uni-due.de/soziologie/quack.php

Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa Fellow, July 2015 – June 2016

Research Project: What if we took autonomous recovery seriously? A democratic

critique of contemporary western ethical foreign policy

After completing a PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Ghent University in

Belgium Olivia Rutazibwa has focused her research on the motivations and effects of western

ethical foreign policy in the Global South. As a visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security

Studies in Paris Rutazibwa did fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland. From 2010 to

2013 she worked as a journalist at the Brussels based monthly magazine, MO*. She is

currently a lecturer in International Development and European Studies at the University of

Portsmouth in the School of Languages and Area Studies.

Research Interests: Motivations and Effects of western ethical foreign politicy in

the Global South

International Development Studies and Security Issues

Francophone Africa

International Relations

State- and peace building, (humanitarian) interventions

Democracy and democratization

EU Studies (global actor, foreign policy)

Area Studies (sub-Saharan Africa)

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/olivia-rutazibwa/

Dr. Shirin Saeidi

Postdoc Fellow, May 2015 – April 2016

Research Project: Insurgent Citizens: Democratization and the Hizbollah

Movement in Iran Shirin Saeidi completed a PhD from Cambridge University, UK in the Faculty of Politics and

International Studies on the Topic “Hero of Her Own Story: Gender and State Formation in

Contemporary Iran”. She studied a Master of Arts in Political Science at George Mason

University.

Research Interests: State Formation

Citizenship

Gender and Sexuality

Qualitative Methodologies

Democracy and Democratization

Iranian Studies

Middle East Studies

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/shirin-saeidi/

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Dr. Andrea Schapper

Fellow, April – September 2016

Research project: Righteous Climate Policies: Exploring State-Society

Interactions for Institutionalizing Human Rights into Climate

Treaties

Currently Schapper works as a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling,

UK. From 2012 until 2015 she was working as a Lecturer in International Relations at the

Technische Universität Darmstadt. In 2011 she finished her PhD at the Bremen International

Graduate School of Social Sciences which was based on her conducted field research in

Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia and Zambia.

Research Interests: International relations

Global and transnational governance

Human rights

Climate change and development

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-3/andrea-schapper/

Prof. Ulrich Schneckener

Senior Fellow, April – September 2016

Research project: Depoliticization or (Re-)Politicization? The “politics of

legitimacy” in European Security

Currently Schneckener works as Professor for International Relations & Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Centre for Democracy and Peace Research at University of Osnabrück. From 2006 until 2009 he was Head of the Research Group on “Global Issues”, German Institute for International and Security Affairs at the Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik (SWP), Berlin. Before he was Senior Researcher at the University Bremen, where he finished his PhD in 2000.

Research Interests: Theories and concepts of International Relations Global Governance International State- and Peacebuilding Non-state violent actors Terrorism More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/ulrich-schneckener/

Dr. Katrin Seidel

Postdoc Fellow, September 2015 – August 2016

Research Project: Involvement and impact of external actors on constitution

making on South Sudan and Somaliland: A comparative

perspective Since 2012 Katrin Seidel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department ‘Law & Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her research focuses on South Sudan’s Constitutional Genesis in the Context of Legal Pluralism. Seidel studied law as well as African and Asian studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2012 she finished her doctorate thesis on ‘Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia: Interdependent Relationships Between Islamic Law and State Law’.

Research Interests: Legal anthropology, legal pluralism, legal theory,

Statehood, governance, constitutionalism, judicial designs,

Mobility of legal concepts,

Citizenship, autochthony, cultural translation

Rule of law

More information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-3/katrin-seidel/

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Dr. Balraj Sidhu

Fellow, February – April 2016

Research Project: International Environment Court: A Legal Study of an Ideal

Currently Sidhu is Senior Research Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in International

Environmental Law at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and Executive Director of

the Centre for Advanced Study on Courts and Tribunals. Sidhu finished her Ph.D. in

International Law on “International Environmental Dispute Settlement with Special Reference

to the Proposed International Environment Court” in 2012 and was Visiting Research Scholar

in Copenhagen, DAAD Visiting Fellow in Freiburg as well as Senior Visiting Research Fellow in

Liverpool.

Research Interests: Environmental Law

Environmental Courts and Tribunals

Arctic Governance

Dispute settlement

More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/de/fellows/forschungsbereich-3/balraj-sidhu/

Dr. Holger Straßheim

Fellow, April – September 2016

Research project: Globalizing expertise: the case of behavioural governance

Since 2011 Straßheim works as Assistant Professor at the Humbolt University Berlin. Until 2014 he was also project director of the research project “Studying the Changing Orders of Political Expertise (SCOPE)” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He was Visiting Professor at the University Bremen and University of Technology in Darmstadt. From 1999 until 2009 Straßheim was Research Fellow at the WZB and finished his PhD in 2010 at the University of Tübingen.

Research Interests: Public Policy and Governance

Expertise and Politics

Organisations and Networks

Labor market and social state

More Information: http://www.gcr21.org/fellows/research-unit-4/holger-strassheim/

Prof. Dvora Yanow

Senior Fellow, April 2016 – March 2017

Research project: Citizen-making by the numbers: Counting, category-making, and the state

Currently Yanow works as Guest Professor for the Social Sciences Department of the Wageningen University, the Netherlands. From 2005 to 2010 she was Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam. Before she was Professor at the Department of Public Affairs and Administration at the California State University. She did her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on “Planning, Policy, and Organizational Studies” in 1982.

Research Interests: Categories and immigration, nationality, and race-ethnicity

Interpretive policy analysis

Ways of knowing and doing

Practices studies

Social Science research ethics

More Information: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Persons/prof.dr.-D-Dvora-

Yanow.htm