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Hanna Pfeiffer

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof Dr Hanna Pfeifer (1987) is an assistant professor of political science with a focus on radicalization and violence research (funded by the Johanna Quandt Jubilee Fund) at the department of social sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) where she heads the research group on terrorism. Before coming to Frankfurt in 2020, she was a research associate at HSU Hamburg, OvGU Magdeburg, and the Munich School of Philosophy. In 2018, she was a DFG research fellow at the POLIS department of the University of Cambridge. She obtained her PhD at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg in 2017 after holding scholarships by the German National Academic Foundation and the Max Weber Foundation / Orient Institute Beirut. Her research focuses on processes of order-making and political violence of, and the relationship between, states and armed non-state actors in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as democratic and non-democratic foreign and security policy.

  • Publikationen

    Pfeifer, Hanna. 2024. Islamists and the global order: Between resistance and recognition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Schwab, Regine, and Hanna Pfeifer, eds. 2023. “Politicising the rebel governance paradigm.” Special issue. Small Wars & Insurgencies 23, no. 1. Pfeifer, Hanna, and Regine Schwab. 2023. “Politicising the rebel governance paradigm: Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda.” Introduction to the special issue. Small Wars and Insurgencies 23, no. 1: 1–23. Geis, Anna, Christian Opitz, and Hanna Pfeifer. 2022. “Recasting the role of citizens in diplomacy and foreign policy: Preliminary insights and a new research agenda.” The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 17, no. 4: 1–14. Opitz, Christian, Hanna Pfeifer, and Anna Geis. 2022. “Accessing public opinion at the microlevel: Citizen dialogue and participation in German foreign policy.” Foreign Policy Analysis 18, no. 1, 1–20. Geis, Anna, Maéva Clément, and Hanna Pfeifer, eds. 2021. Armed non-state actors and the politics of recognition. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Pfeifer, Hanna, Christian Opitz, and Anna Geis. 2021. “Deliberating foreign policy: Perceptions and effects of citizen participation in German foreign policy.” German Politics 30, no. 4: 485–502.

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Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
Institute of Political Science
Room 3.G 001 (PEG) | HPF 28
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

News from the research center

News
30.06.2025

Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

The article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich has just been published open access in the European Journal of Political Theory (EJPT). Ulrich brings the perspective of radical realism into a productive dialog with Adorno's critical theory.

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30.06.2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay awarded the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Prize 2025

Prof. Dr. Franziska Fay (Junior Professor of Ethnology with a focus on Political Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and former postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University) receives the Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose University Award 2025 in the category Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Publication
25.06.2025 | Online article

Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

Ulrich, Amadeus (2025): Ideology and suffering: What is realistic about critical theory? European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251351782

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24.06.2025

New series “Vertrauensfragen” in the Frankfurter Rundschau initiated by Hendrik Simon

Democracy thrives on debate - if it serves the joint search for solutions. There is often a problem with this cooperation. The new FR series “Vertrauensfragen”, initiated by Hendrik Simon (Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) Frankfurt location at Goethe University's Research Centre Normative Orders ), examines why this is the case and how we can do better.

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Publication
23.06.2025 | Working Paper

Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina

Moreno, Guadalupe (2025): “Untrustworthy Authorities and Complicit Bankers: Unraveling Monetary Distrust in Argentina”. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Discussion Paper 25/3.

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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Publication
19.05.2025 | Anthology

Klimaethik. Ein Reader

Sparenborg, Lukas; Moellendorf, Darrel (Hrsg.) (2025) : Klimaethik. Ein Reader. Suhrkamp.

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19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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Event
17./18.07.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Multiple Mobilities and Migrations in African and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Media

Workshop
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