Past Fellows

A full list of fellows is available upon request.

In the spotlight

Tilman Krueger

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Tilman Krueger is a Research Associate at the University of Bremen’s Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” and an Affiliated Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. He received a M.A. in Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and is about to submit his Ph.D. dissertation on… Read more >

Karsten Mause

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Dr. Karsten Mause is Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Muenster (Germany), and Research Affiliate of the DFG-funded Research Center “Transformations of the State” (SFB 597) at the University of Bremen. He received an M.A. in Political Science and a Ph.D. in Economics… Read more >

Ines Läufer

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Ines Läufer was a DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow in February and March 2013. Her dissertation focuses on the potential of the private individual health insurance market in the U.S. and in Germany to provide an efficient and socially desirable health care system. At AICGS, she will follow current health policy debates in the… Read more >

Svenja Post

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Svenja Post was a DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow from September until November 2012. Her research at AICGS focused on the so called ‘Comprehensive Approach’ in international conflict management and examines steps taken by the EU and U.S. to improve their conflict management coherence (Project working title: The Comprehensive Approach in Euro-Atlantic Security –… Read more >

Dominik Tolksdorf

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Dr. Dominik Tolksdorf joined AICGS as a DAAD/AICGS Fellow in September and October 2012. His research focuses on U.S.-EU cooperation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the 1990’s, transatlantic cooperation in Bosnia has often been ambiguous: While cooperation has been strong in the areas of security and defense, at times there have been… Read more >

Carsten Weiß

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Dr. Carsten Weiß is a senior research fellow at the University of Siegen and was a NRW School of Governance/AICGS Fellow from August to October 2012. His research analyzes political communication about the “middle class” in the U.S. Although a lot of sociological research about the dynamics and structure of the middle… Read more >

Tobias Hecht

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Mr. Tobias Hecht was a DAAD/AICGS Fellow from August to October 2012. His research focuses on the U.S. position on NATO enlargement. He looks at how the strategic rationale of the U.S. has changed and explores the implications of the enlargement policy for NATO as an institution. His research project encompasses the… Read more >

Seunghoon Emilia Heo

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Seunghoon Emilia Heo joined AICGS as a Reconciliation Fellow in August and September 2012. She is a JSPS Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo with joint affiliation at the United Nations University’s Institute for Sustainability and Peace. Heo’s main interests include interstate reconciliation, regional cooperation, intercultural dialogue, religious diversity and identity politics…. Read more >

Alexander Wochnik

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Alexander Wochnik is a PhD candidate at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. His thesis examines the role of non-state actors in foreign policy-making in Poland and Germany in the context of Polish-German relations. His areas of interest include Polish-German relations, foreign policy, German and Polish domestic politics and European Integration. Alexander holds a… Read more >

Ralph Buehler

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Dr. Ralph Buehler is Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning and a Faculty Fellow with the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. Originally from Germany, most of his research has an international comparative perspective, contrasting transport and land-use policies, transport systems, and travel behavior in Western Europe and North America. His research… Read more >

Cornelia Künzel

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Ms. Künzel is an AICGS Visiting Fellow in May 2012 working on a project entitled, ‘‘The support for the USA by the EU member states in the Iraq crisis 2003,” an analysis of comparative foreign and security policy.  After September 11, 2001, when ‘‘rogue nations“ like Iraq came into the focus of… Read more >