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Hanna Pfeifer

  • 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

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