Book
The Power of Dependence: NATO-UN Cooperation in Crisis Management (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Book Project
Islands of Stability: Subnational Security and Development in Fragile States. Manuscript.
How Missing Data Can Make the Global Fragility Strategy Work, Analysis, United States Institute of Peace, May 20, 2021 (with Calin Trenkov-Wermuth).
Is the Pandemic Decreasing State Capacity? Epicenter, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, May 20, 2021 (with Alexandra Norris).
Afghans Don’t Need U.S. Troops. They Need Islands of Stability, Foreign Policy, April 20, 2021 (with Taylor Whitsell).
Measuring State Fragility: A New Approach to Identifying and Strengthening Vulnerable Countries, Epicenter, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, October 2, 2020.
As the U.S. Gets More Involved in Somalia, Beware These Three Fallacies, Washington Post, July 18, 2017 (with Maximilian M. Meduna and Teresa Krug).
A Better Approach to Statebuilding: Lessons From “Islands of Stability. Foreign Affairs, January 2017.
Academic Articles & Book Chapters
International Courts and Public Opinion: Explaining the CJEU’s Role in Protecting Terror Suspects’ Rights. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 57:5 (September 2019), pp. 1091-1110 (with Vladislav Maksimov).
Abstract: Under what conditions can regional and international courts (ICs) make decisions against their governments’ preferences? To answer this much debated question, we develop a new, majoritarian model of state‐IC relations. It posits that in cases where well‐established ICs’ positions are congruent with policy‐specific public opinion in leading member states, ICs can rule against their governments’ position. We apply our approach to a series of landmark decisions by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) regarding United Nations sanctions against terror suspects. We find that the CJEU was able to harness growing public support to strengthen terror suspects’ rights, punish states for superficial compliance with its rulings and ultimately broaden the Court’s judicial review powers. Our analysis suggests that ICs can be agents of legal change and advance human rights against governments’ resistance, but this role is conditional on the presence of public support.
Related publications:
Europe struck down its data deal with the U.S. Facebook, other companies are in trouble, Washington Post, July 17, 2020 (with Vlagyiszlav Makszimov and David B. Ramsey).
Critics Claim That Europe’s Courts Are Unaccountable. Recent Cases Suggest Otherwise. JCMS Blog, June 27, 2019.
Resource Dependence Theory. In: Rafael Biermann, Joachim Koops (eds.): Palgrave Handbook on Inter- Organizational Relations in Global Politics, Basingstoke: PalgraveMacMillan, 2016 (with Rafael Biermann).
Life after Genocide: Comparing Bosnia and Rwanda. Foreign Affairs, July 2015, (with Tyler Y. Headley).
A Reluctant Warrior: The German Engagement in Afghanistan. PRIO Paper, Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo, October 2011.
NATO and the UN. Survival 51:2 (April-May 2009), pp. 5-12 (with Johannes Varwick).
Policy-Oriented Publications (Selection)
Peacekeeping During Pandemics: How the UN Can Be Part of the Solution, IPI Global Observatory, June 3, 2020 (with Tyler Y. Headley, and Alexandra Novosseloff).
Making More Out of Less: How NATO States Can Seize the Opportunities of Shrinking Resources in Afghanistan. ETH Zürich International Relations and Security Network, 24 July 2012 (with Scott Seward Smith).
On the Road to Disengagement? Envisioning a Long-Term Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Notes de la FRS, No. 05/12, Paris / Washington, DC: Fondation pour la Recherche Stratgique / Johns Hopkins University, June 2012 (with Hannes Ebert and Lindsay P. Cohn).
German version:
Regional Denken, lokal Handeln – Grundzüge einer Strategie für Afghanistan und Pakistan. In: Ursula Bitzegeio, Rana Deep Islam, Robert Schütte, Lars Winterberg (eds.): Sozial – friedlich – global? Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik heute, Berlin: LIT, 2014, pp. 219-47 (with Hannes Ebert).
NATO and the UN: Partnership with Potential? SWP Research Paper, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, January 2012.
NATO and the UN in Afghanistan: Partners or Competitors? In: Brooke A. Smith-Windsor (ed.), The UN and NATO: Forward from the Joint Declaration, Rome: NATO Defense College, May 2011, pp. 76-111.
NATO-UN Cooperation Revisited: A New Dawn? Studia Diplomatica 62:3 (2009), pp. 29-36 (with Johannes Varwick).
An Inundation of Envoys. ETH Zürich International Relations and Security Network, 24 February 2009 (with Thomas Ruttig).
EU Split on Kosovo Independence. ETH Zürich International Relations and Security Network, 13 October 2008.