Associate Member

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

Event
17.09.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Frieden retten! Friedensgutachten 2025

Book Presentation

Der Frieden ist auf dem Rückzug: Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine destabilisiert Europa, der Krieg in Gaza stürzt den Nahen Osten in Leid und Gewalt, und im Sudan hat der Konflikt die größte humanitäre Katastrophe der Welt ausgelöst. Zugleich fällt der globale Stabilitätsanker USA aus. Das Friedensgutachten 2025 zeigt, warum Europa selbst für seine Sicherheit und Verteidigung sorgen und zugleich am Ziel des Friedens festhalten muss.

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News
31.07.2025

Shaping the future - a review

As part of the exhibition "Fixing Futures. Planetary futures between speculation and control", our four-part lecture series "Shaping the future - between climate change, technology and social responsibility" took place.

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News
30.07.2025

What remains of "1968" - event review

What can we learn from the 1968 movement for our own time and where do we perhaps need new ideas and utopias? The event "Utopia and awakening of the 1968ers - What remains of political rebellion and individual self-liberation" on July 14, 2025 at the Historisches Museum was dedicated to these questions

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News
10.07.2025

Impressions from the Crisis Talk "Europe in a multipolar world"

The Crisis Talk "Europe in a multipolar world - How can the EU meet the challenges of major powers?" held on July 1, 2025 at the Representation of the State of Hesse to the European Union was dedicated to the question of how the EU should shape its influence and assume its responsibilities in this international environment.

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News
08.07.2025

Reflections on the defense of democracy - Two crises of democracy

The challenges are global, but we still act nationally. In addition, we lack the terms to orient ourselves politically and normatively. An article by Rainer Forst in the FR about the two crises of democracy.

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News
01.07.2025

How the erosion of modern governments threatens our future - Impressions from Jeffrey Kopstein's lecture

On June 16, Jeffrey Kopstein, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, gave a public lecture entitled "Trump and the Assault on the State" at the Research Centre Normative Orders. The starting point of his presentation was the observation that attacks on modern statehood are increasing in many countries: Politicians are coming to power who deliberately want to weaken or even destroy central institutions.

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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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News
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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