Principal Investigator

Tobias Wille


  • Biografische Angaben

    Tobias Wille is Professor (W1) of Political Science with a focus on international security at Goethe University Frankfurt and scientific coordinator of the research initiative "ConTrust: Trust in Conflict". His research focuses on trust and mistrust in international politics, international security issues and diplomacy. He studied political science, philosophy and economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Yale University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his doctorate at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in New York with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission.
  • Publikationen

    Wille, Tobias; Benjamin Martill (2023): „Trust and Calculation in International Negotiations: How Trust Was Lost After Brexit“, in: International Affairs. Online first. Wille, Tobias (2023): „Bureaucracy and the Everyday Practices of Contested State Diplomacy: The Paradigmatic Case of Kosovo“, in: Review of International Studies. Online first. Wille, Tobias (2021): „Politik und ihre Grenzen in Clausewitz’ Denken über den Krieg“, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 62/1, 45-67. Schindler, Sebastian; Wille, Tobias (2019): „How Can We Criticize International Practices?“, in: International Studies Quarterly 63/4, 1014-1024. Schindler, Sebastian; Wille, Tobias (2015): „Change in and through Practice: Pierre Bourdieu, Vincent Pouliot, and the End of the Cold War“, in: International Theory 7/2, 330-359.

News from the research center

News
09.02.2026

On the topicality of the concept of violence based on Camus and Derrida

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt from the University of St. Gallen gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence as part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", she gave a lecture on democracies and the concept of violence. Under the title "Defending democracies. On the topicality of the concept of violence in Camus and Derrida", the philosopher discussed forms of violence and revolt and categorized them with regard to a democratic setting.

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Publication
04.02.2026 | Journal article

New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts

Wille, Tobias; Simon, Hendrik; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Wheeler, Nicholas J.; Holmes, Marcus; Rathbun, Brian C.; Acharya, Amitav; Mitzen, Jennifer (2026): „New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts“. In: International Studies Review 28 (1), viaf027.

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News
02.02.2026

States competing for people - David Owen on civil geopolitics

As part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads - The Future of Democracy", David Owen from the University of Southampton presented his concept of civil geopolitics.

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News
20.01.2026

Christine Hentschel on reorientation in catastrophic times

As part of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy", the sociologist spoke about living in and dealing with catastrophic times. Against the backdrop of the destruction of living conditions, wars, permanent crises and threats to democracy, Hentschel addressed the infiltration of the catastrophic into everyday social life and a changing activist and literary approach to the future.

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Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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Publication
19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Chapter

Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?

Günther, Klaus (2025): „Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?“. In: Zabel Benno; Singelnstein; Tobias und Burchard, Christoph (Hrsg.): Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen. Velbrück Wissenschaft, S. 207-241.

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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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