Associate Member

Jens Steffek

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Project management: Knowing the Rules and Acting Politically. Friedrich Kratochwil and his Critics | Research Focus 4 – Overstretched Orders: Global Governance between De- and Renationalization

Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Legitimation through international law and legitimation of international law | Research field 3

Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: The justification narrative of “good functional governance” | Research field 3
Project management: Ambivalent universalization of democracy | Research field 3

Subject areas
Political science

Main research
Politics and history of international organizations, theory of international relations, transnational social actors, theory of democracy

  • Biografische Angaben

    Since 2023: Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance”

    2017-2019: Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

    Since 2010: Professor of Transnational Governance at the Institute of Political Science

    2008-2009: University Lecturer in Political Science, Jacobs University Bremen

    2006-2007: Visiting Professor, International University Bremen

    2003-2008: Research Assistant (C1), University of Bremen

    2002-2003: Research assistant, University of Bremen

    2002: Doctorate in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence

    2001-2002: Research Associate, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Florence

    1998: Magister Artium in Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

    Certified research assistant, Technical University of Munich

    1996-1998: Research Assistant, Foundation for Science and Politics, Ebenhausen

    1993-1998: Permanent freelancer, Süddeutsche Zeitung

    1991-1992: Civilian service, Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V.

    1991: Abitur, grammar school in Icking/Upper Bavaria

  • Publikationen

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News from the research center

Event
10.02.2027 | Frankfurt am Main

Shifting Visions of Peace and Security

Panel Discussion, Lecture Series

Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times” mit Lisbeth Zimmermann (Goethe University/Normative Orders), Antonia Witt (PRIF), Siddarth Tripathi (University of Erfurt). Moderation: Jonas Wolff (Goethe University/PRIF/Normative Orders).

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Event
03.02.2027 | Frankfurt am Main

AI, War, and Big Tech

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Ingvild Bode (University of Southern Denmark)im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
16.12.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

International arms control in a world of uncertainties

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Malte Göttsche (TU Darmstadt/PRIF) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
02.12.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Enabling Authoritarianism: UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
25.11.2026 | Frankfurt

Deterrence in “Post-Liberal Times“

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Maria Mälksoo (Copenhagen University) (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
18.11.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

The Case for (Neo)colonialism: Neotrusteeship in International Relations as the ‘Imperial Mind’ of the ‘Colonial Present’

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Nick Lemay-Hébert (Manchester University) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
28.10.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Postliberal vs. liberal Perspectives on Peace and Security and Crises

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase (Goethe-Universität/PRIF/Normative Orders) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Peace and Security in Post-Liberal Times”.

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Event
02.02.2027 | Frankfurt

Klassenjustiz, race und abolitionistische Demokratie

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Daniel Loick (Amsterdam) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Ist das Recht am Ende?" im Wintersemester 2026/2027. Organisiert von Klaus Günther und Benno Zabel.

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Event
19.01.2027 | Frankfurt

Nach der Normativität. Zum Verhältnis von Politik und Recht unter komputationalen Bedingungen

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall (Frankfurt am Main) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Ist das Recht am Ende?" im Wintersemester 2026/2027. Organisiert von Klaus Günther und Benno Zabel.

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