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Dr. Michael Giesen

Portraifoto Michael Giesen

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of International Relations

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Section Political and Administrative Science

    Michael Giesen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Relations. His main research interests include the emergence, design, and effect of diverse types of international organizations, especially in fields of global human rights and environmental politics.

    Since 2021, he holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, and University of Potsdam. Before joining the University of Potsdam, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bamberg in a DFG-founded project on collective agency of horizontal international organizations. During his previous research, he was a research fellow of the joint doctoral program ‘Human Rights under Pressure’ at Free University of Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a visiting research at Stanford University.

    PUBLICATIONS

    Giesen, M., Malang, T. Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations. J Int Relat Dev 25, 523–555 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00251-x 

    Giesen, M. (2023). Framing gender-based violence in multi-level contexts: a networked approach to studying adoption of the Istanbul Convention. European Journal of Politics and Gender6(1), 76-91. Retrieved Dec 10, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16693059192022

    Giesen, M. (2017). Regional Parliamentary Institutions: Diffusion of a Global Parliamentary Organizational Design?.  

    OFFICE HOUR

    During the lecture period of the winter semester 2024-2025, I offer three consultation hours per week: Wednesdays 14:30, 15:00 or 15:30.

    Please reserve a slot online in advance.

    Dr. Michael Giesen

     

    University of Potsdam
    Chair of International Relations
    August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 POTSDAM
    house 7, room 3.11