Anna Reuß

Dr. Anna Reuß was a research assistant at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Research and a junior member of the RISK Research Center until 2024. She completed her doctorate on security and threat perceptions in the Gulf Cooperation Council states in 2024 with summa cum laude. She received a research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for her dissertation project and was a visiting scholar at the Department of International and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in May/November 2023. In December 2019, she was a visiting fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The stay was funded by the Gulf States Program of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. At the German Armed Forces Center for Digitalization and Technology Research (dtec.bw), she investigated the potential of digitalization in conflicts and its influence on peacebuilding. As part of a NATO STO Research Task Group, she has been researching how to deal with threats in the information space since 2022 and has received, among other awards, the “Best Paper Award Early Career Scientist” from the NATO STO Research Symposium on Societal Challenges for Operations in the Information Environment. In 2016, she studied for a semester at the University of Cairo, Egypt (Faculty of Economics and Political Science). She holds a master's degree from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a bachelor's degree from the University of Bamberg.

Academic teaching:

Winter and spring trimester Module “International Law & Politics in Practice”

Fall trimester 2023 Participation in the lecture series ”Under Observation – Interactions between Research Fields and Research in Cultural and Social Sciences”

Winter semester Seminar “International Relations in the Middle East,” in the M.A. program “Political and Social Sciences,” module Peace and Conflict Studies

Winter semester Seminar “Regional Security and Conflict in the Arab World” in the M.A. program “Political and Social Sciences,” module Peace and Conflict Studies

Doctoral

More at: Doctoral and postdoctoral projects at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Research.

Research

• Conceptual and regional aspects in the context of security studies
• Securitization and discursive processes
• Institutions and their anchoring in the English School of International Relations
• Security and foreign policy of the Gulf Cooperation Council states
• Potential of digitalization in peacebuilding

Elena Glockzin

Curriculum

Elena Glockzin was a research assistant at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies until 2024. She completed her bachelor's degree in Political and Social Studies at the University of Würzburg, spending an Erasmus semester at the University of Bologna. She decided to pursue her master's degree at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she completed a trilingual (German/English/Italian) master's program in Public Policies and Administration in October 2021 with a thesis on the planned design of the EU legal framework for AI regulation. In Bolzano, she completed a five-month internship at the Eurac Research Institute for Comparative Federalism while studying.

Research

As part of the interdisciplinary research project “KOKO. Conflict and Communication” at the Center for Digitalization and Technology Research of the German Armed Forces (dtec.bw), she examined social and political conflicts in everyday life from the perspective of political (conflict) sociology. Her work focuses on the significance and dynamics of debates on political issues in everyday personal life and the role played by certain political lines of conflict. In this context, she is particularly interested in subjectification processes in conflicts over European integration processes in everyday life. To this end, the professorship organized an authors' conference with international scholars in April 2023. As part of her doctoral research, she is also investigating subjectification processes in and through conflicts in everyday life, with a particular focus on Europe-related topics and empirical research in Italy.

Academic teaching

Seminar “Europe in everyday life. The EU from an everyday sociological and conflict theory perspective,” in the B.A. program “Political and Social Sciences,” module “European Union: Political System and Foreign Relations,” spring semester 2024

Participation in the lecture series “Under Observation – Interactions between Research Fields and Research in Cultural and Social Sciences,” fall semester 2023