Team

Prof. Dr. Karolina Milewicz
Chair of Global Political Economy
Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford

Contact Details
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4202
E-mail: karolina.milewicz@uni-bayreuth.de
Website (with list of publications): www.karolinamilewicz.com

Office: GW II: U1.27.1
Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth

Office hours: upon appointment

Kathrin Garcia
Executive Assistant

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4201
E-mail: gpe@uni-bayreuth.de / Kathrin.Garcia@uni-bayreuth.de

Office: GW II: U1.27
Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth

Dr. Kenneth Stiller, DPhil
Lecturer

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4203
E-mail: kenneth.stiller@uni-bayreuth.de

Office: GWII: U1.26
Universitätsstraße 30, 95447 Bayreuth

Office hours: upon appointment

DPhil & MPhil International Relations (Oxford); BA Economics (Mannheim)

Area of expertise: international organizations, international trade, quantitative methods, multilevel governance

Publications:

2018. For the World, for Me or for Us? The European Development Aid Regime. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 12(3):128-165.
2017. ASEAN Economic Community: Redefining the Concept of Regional Integration. Georgetown Public Policy Review 22(1).

Hayley Pring
Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte)

E-mail: hayley.pring@uni-bayreuth.de or hayley.pring@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.hayleypring.com

MPhil in International Relations (Oxford); BA(Hons) History, International Relations and Political Science (ANU).

Thesis: The reputation variable in IR

Areas of expertise: political economy, behavioral science, international organizations

Doctoral Students (at University of Oxford)

Cecilia Corsini

E-mail: cecilia.corsini@politics.ox.ac.uk

MA International Relations/ Political Science (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva). BA Liberal Arts (University College Maastricht)

Thesis: Inter-organizational competition in global humanitarian governance

Areas of expertise: humanitarian coordination, climate change and humanitarian action, global health and the politics of antimicrobial resistance

Sam Dong

E-mail: samuel.dong@politics,ox.ac.uk

MPhil International Relations (Oxford), MA Economics (Peking University), BA Economics (Chicago)

Thesis Topic: The politics of international language regimes

Areas of Expertise: Language politics; quantitative and qualitative text analysis

Kate Guy

E-mail: kate.guy@politics.ox.ac.uk

MA & BA International Affairs (Columbia University)

Thesis topic: Critical junctures, climate change, and the international order

Areas of expertise: Foreign policy and diplomacy, environment and climate change, international security

Edward L. Knudsen

E-mail: edward.knudsen@politics.ox.ac.uk

BA History & Economics (double major) (University of Wisconsin-Madison), MSc International Political Economy (LSE)

Thesis topic: Gravedigger of the present: Historical memory and the endurance of the neoliberal economic order

Areas of expertise: Political economy, economic history, ideas and economic change, transatlantic relations

Publications:

Forthcoming 2023. Governing Soft Power: A Comparative Study of External Cultural Policy (book with Helmut Anheier).
Forthcoming. The 21st Century Trust and Leadership Problem: Quoi Faire? (with Helmut Anheier).

Gemma Lligadas Gonzalez

E-mail: gemma.lligadas@politics.ox.ac.uk

MRes Legal Research, MA International Law, BA Law (ESADE Law School, University Ramón Llull)

Areas of expertise: international legal theory, public international law, international & national courts

Publications:

2021. International Legal Fragmentation As A Challenge To The Rule Of Law Principle And Inter-Judicial Coordination As A Remedy. Revista Jurídica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 43(1):169-187.

Claas Mertens

E-Mail: claas.mertens@politics.ox.ac.uk

MPhil European Politics (Oxford); BA Business (St. Gallen)

Thesis topic: Three papers on international economic conflict

Areas of expertise: Economic sanctions, trade conflict, international environmental economics, international collective action & sanctions, international business

Samuel Seitz

E-mail: samuel.seitz@politics.ox.ac.uk
Website: https://www.samuelmseitz.com/

MA Security Studies, BS International Politics (Georgetown University)

Thesis topic: The effects of status-seeking and security concerns on military organization and procurement

Areas of expertise: status-seeking, alliance politics, nuclear weapons, military strategy

Publications:

2020. The Predictable Hazards of Unpredictability: Why Madman Behavior Doesn’t Work. The Washington Quarterly 43(3):31-46 (with Caitlin Talmadge).
2017. Pushing Against the Populist Tide. Winner of the 2017 Foreign Affairs Essay Competition. Foreign Affairs, December 11, 2017.