Welcome!

I am Managing Director of the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Bonn and Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Chair in International Relations, Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn.

I am also Non-resident Visiting Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Global Affairs (CGA) at New York University.

My main areas of research and expertise are

• soft power;
• power and global power shifts;
• German-American and transatlantic relations;
• U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. presidency;
• Europe’s role in an age of great-power competition;
• charismatic leadership and individual agency;
• history and historical analogies in global politics;
• International Relations theory.