War
Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law
Department of Law
Public Law
Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- International law
- Human rights
- German and foreign constitutional law
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Jannis Grimm
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Protest and social movements
- Civil society
- Radicalization and political violence
- Human rights violations and state violence
- Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
- North Africa
- Near/Middle East
- Democratization and social transformation
- Arab Spring
- Islamism
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Research ethics
- Safe field research
- Research conditions in authoritarian contexts
Dr. Anna Karla
Professor of Modern History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute
Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are also possible in French.
Areas of Expertise
- Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Revolutions
- First World War
- Weimar Republic
- France
Dr. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Police in the United States
- Protests
- Social control
- Surveillance
- Counterinsurgency
- Political violence
Dr. Christine Knaevelsrud
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Clinical-Psychological Intervention
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Psychological effects of war, torture, and civilian trauma
- Online therapy
Dr. Jan Koehler
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"
Research Project C9 - Aid, Minds, Hearts: A Longitudinal Study of Governance Interventions in Afghanistan
Goßlerstr. 2-4, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- German and international commitment
- State-building in Afghanistan
- Northeast Afghanistan / Eastern Afghanistan
- Caucasus
- Post-Soviet Union
- Conflict research
Dr. Heike Krieger
Professor of Law and Judge in the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin
Department of Law
Public Law, Public International Law
Van't-Hoff-Straße 8, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- United Nations
- German armed forces abroad
- Martial law
- International and European human rights protection
- European Court of Human Rights
- Constitutional jurisdiction
- Protection of fundamental rights
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and history of modern Japan
- Intellectual history of East Asia
- International relations of East Asia
- Relations between Japan and China
- Law in East Asia
- Human rights in East Asia
Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Global governance
- G8/G20 Summit
- EU treaties
- International organizations
- International legalization and international rule of law
- Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
- War and new forms of violence
- Peace
- Humanitarian intervention
- Transnational social movements
- NGOs
- Protest / resistance
- Ruling authority in an international system