Donya Ahmadi is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen. She teaches various courses at the department of International Relations and International Organization, including a MA Research Seminar titled 'Race, Class, and Gender Intersectionality'. Her current research project concerns the (re)-gendering of contemporary Iranian historiography, through documenting and highlighting the crucial role played by women activists in the political developments of 20th and 21th century Iran.

Relatedly, her broader research addresses an intersectional feminist critique of Iranian nationalism, and its historical and contemporary manifestations through gendered processes and embodied practices of assimilation.

International political theory, biopolitical theory, critical perspectives on development and environmental politics

Energy Security
Energy Policy
Turkish Politics and Turkish Energy Policy

Theoretical, Historical and Critical Approaches to War and Peace; Knowledge in International Politics; Peace and Conflict Studies; Interpretive and Creative Methods; Arts&Crafts in International Relations

Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, discourse analysis, EU-Turkey relations, the Kurdish issue

The Caspian Sea,  Azerbaijan, Energy Geopolitics, and Security & Cooperation in Eurasia, Climate Change, Infrastructure Politics, Transnational Corporations.

Political philosophy; international political theory; critical development studies; critical environmental studies; political ecology.

Autonomous Weapons Systems; AI in Military Applications.

Humanitarian Interventions and Peacekeeping, Armed Conflict, International Development, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (esp. diamonds and gold), African Politics and Security

International economics; Globalization; International trade, Economics of agglomeration, International transfers, Exchange rates, International macroeconomics
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Anno is a researcher at the Data Research Centre, working on the H2020 project 'Cutting Crime Impact' and his doctoral dissertation on law enforcement and Big Data.

In addition, he has 7+ years experience in innovation in education through running simulations for universities, ministries and the Royal Military Academy as a training and educational tool. He has also designed and delivered advanced courses at Utrecht University and Liverpool Hope University.

Foreign Policy Analysis, EU-Russia relations, Central/Eastern Europe, Populism in International Relations, EU External Action

My research is generally concerned with the roles of emergent technologies, non-state actors and expert knowledge in contemporary global governance. In particular, I study the on-going and varying implications of big data and blockchain technologies at the intersections of global environmental, financial and security governance. 

History of International Political Thought, History of International Relations, Medieval Canon and Roman Law, Politics of History, Historical Narratives in Contemporary Populism, Early Exploration, Religion in International Relations.

Dr. Jesse Crane-Seeber holds a BA in “Resisting Hegemony,” a major of his own design, from Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY, USA), and a PhD in International Relations from American University (Washington, DC, USA). His research has covered the US military as a sociological worksite, as an occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a symbolic cornerstone of masculinity in US culture, and a productive site of desire.

His recent work has contributed to critical security studies, particularly in theorizing embodiment and desire in militarized cultures and institutions. He is currently completing his book, Fetishizing the Tactical, which traces the history and diffusion of de-politicized tactical training from the US military into US society and around the world, with the goal of understanding the sociocultural basis of permanent unwinnable wars and their racialized and gendered effects. His work has been published in a number of journals, including International Political Sociology, Critical Military Studies, Critical Studies on Security, and The International Feminist Journal of Politics. He has also published chapters on methodology in Critical Security Studies, the politics of gender and sexuality across time, as well as intersections between popular culture and militarization.

Dr. Crane-Seeber has previously served as Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King's College London (UK), Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC, USA) and Teaching Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA). He also held Postdoctoral Fellowships at North Carolina State University and the Bremen International Graduate School for Social Sciences (Bremen, Germany).

PhD candidate at the Kennisplatform Leefbaar en Kansrijk Groningen, studying the social consequences of gas extraction in the region. The Kennisplatform is an institute that gathers and shares relevant knowledge and research for social policy in Groningen. We aim to stimulate collaborations in the area and to create more attention for societal impact. We bring people and knowledge together in the hope of contributing to a society where industry, state and society are in harmony.
My research explores avenues to reconciliation between groups in the aftermath of gas extraction in the province. I focus on intergroup relations, for example between industry, residents, the government, and science.

International Affaris, Communications, Public Relations, Policy Research, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Electoral Management

African studies, international relations and development studies, cultural heritage, non-western history, history of European expansion, history of Dutch foreign policy (colonial policy, development policy)

IR Theory / Political Thought / Human Rights / History and Theory of International Law / Migration Ethics

Philanthropy, External Relations, International Foundations

Intra-European migration, (Transnational) party organization; Attitudes towards the EU; Mixed methods research

(Global) Media, Cultural Industries, Internet Governance, Gender and Technology, Critical Theory and Decoloniality

International Financial Markets, International Political Economy, Comparative Politics, International Economics, European Political Economy, EU Macroeconomic Governance

Biopolitics, (pandemic) temporalities, critical security/border studies

Bharath is a political geographer focusing on new media, political communication, and cultures of hate and intolerance online using computational and qualitative methods.  

Research Interests  

- Hate, Intolerance, and Prejudice in Europe and North America
- Racism and Bigotry in Digital Propaganda
- Regulatory Responses to Extremism Online
- Social Media and Political Culture
- Disinformation, Social Media Manipulation, and Digital Advertising 

Methodological Interests  

- Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis
- Social Network Analysis
- Visual Methods 

Biography  

Prior to joining the University of Groningen, Bharath was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. At the OII, he contributed to three projects: (1) the Computational Propaganda Project, where he contributed to analysis of Russian social media manipulation in the United States; (2) the VOX-Pol Project, where he contributed research on digital cultures of the far right in Europe and North America; and (3) the Data Science in Local Government Project, where he contributed survey design and data analysis to understand the state of the art of data science techniques used in local government in the UK (2017-2018).

Bharath completed his PhD in Geography at UCL in 2017, funded by the Bonnart Trust (www.fbbtrust.org.uk). From 2014 to 2017, he was also Senior Researcher at Tell MAMA (www.tellmamauk.org), a British charity that monitors and supports victims of anti-Muslim hate crime. Bharath has commented widely on issues related to disinformation on social media, Russian involvement in the 2016 United States election, hate speech, and the radical right in the UK Houses of Parliament, United Nations, and international media outlets. His recent publications have appeared in journals including the Journal of International Affairs and European Societies. 

International Strategy & Relations; USA & Canada; Mobility; Communication

After completing her PhD at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2016, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen. She is the author of "Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis" (Palgrave, 2017). Her other publications include peer-reviewed articles on nationalism, sexuality, and social networks, as well as regular blog posts at “The Duck of Minerva”. Lisa's research is situated on the intersection of political theory, international relations, media and cultural studies. 

Public Affairs & Public Engagement

My main areas of interest are: democracy and authoritarianism; the European Union and the Eastern Partnership; and post-Soviet politics.   

International sanctions, EU Foreign Policy, Illicit Trade

Coordinator of cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe (EU, Western Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia), Coimbra Group representative and member of the working group on Academic Exchange & Mobility, Erasmus+ institutional coordinator, KA103 and KA107 project coordinator.

Critical Security Studies, Resilience, Peace Processes

Acquisition of Capacity Building projects;
Management of Capacity Building projects in sub Saharan Africa;
Management Erasmus+ project.

East Asian Studies, with a focus on modern day Mongolia

History and Theory of European co-operation and integration; Dutch foreign policy; China-EU relations

Regional Seas Governance

Social and political theories of international relations, critical theory and international relations, world society studies, security studies, politics of global order

Study councellor Humanitarian Actions, liaison officer Humanitarian Organisations, Expertise on Eastern European and Russian Higher education area, internship supervisor, programme coordinator Honours programme Arts

- Public international law
- International and European human rights law
- Socio-economic human rights law
- Access to modern energy services / energy poverty
- Disaster management / international disaster law
- Environment/climate change (litigation)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Extra-territorial/transnational human rights law
- New/critical approaches to IL / feminist approaches

Political economy of European integration, Enlargement of the European Union and transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe.

Global governance of climate adaptation.

International Relations Theory, International Political Theory, Normative IR Theory, Critical Theory, Arctic Security, Arctic International Relations and Governance.

ethics and world politics/global political economy; theory of international relations

Critical Security Studies, European Studies, EU enlargement

international political economy; global politics; international trade; corporate power; economic measurement.

- Early Modern Geopolitical Epistemologies (esp. the XVIC Hispanic Empire)
- Historical Epistemology and International Relations
- The Politics of Global Connectivities
- Geopolitics and Connectivity
- Mapping, critical cartography, and spatial epistemologies 
- The Politics of Uncertainty
- Biopolitics of Security
- Post-structuralism in International Relations
- Insurance and liberal governance

Modern political history
Russia and the former Soviet Union
Authoritarian regimes
Political-economic institutions

I am a sociologist specialized in the making of memories and heritage work in the Middle East and North Africa. My research interests analyze memorial practices, social movements, and racialization in the Modern MENA region. I lecture on political sociology, cultures studies, and sociology of international relations.

PhD candidate and MSc in International Relations at the University of São Paulo (USP). Bachelor in Economics from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and lato-sensu specialist in Economic Analysis from Fundacao Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas (FIPE). He is the Head of Foreign Trade analysis at the Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP). In addition to international trade and negotiations, he has experience in corporate and financial planning. Lecturer of postgraduate courses in International Business (Anhembi-Morumbi, ESPM and FECAP) and undergraduate (Sao Judas). He was assistant editor of Pontes, a publication of the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). His academic research line focuses on International Political Economy.

Energy Security, Energy Transition, Critical Geopolitics, Sustainability, Global Energy Governance, International Conflict Management.

As a historian I am specialised in (post)colonial Dutch-Indonesian relations. As International Relations assistent professor my main subject is Asia and especially East Asia/China. 

- The European geopolitics of soil - Political ecology - Political philosophy

IR theory; Critical Security Studies; Decolonial Thought; Politics of Knowledge Production

My research expertise is on the history of international thought (1800s-on), with special interest on concepts of geopolitics, territory, political spatiality, and global environment governance. In my present work I am interested in tracing how geographers and international thinkers wrote about the connections between environmental crises and world orders, from the 1890s-1960s. In tracing these histories, I want to contribute towards new critical stances about the geopolitics of the Anthropocene today. In previous work, drawing on my doctoral thesis, I analyzed nineteenth century debates about the politics of territorial order, through the unusual imaginations of three anarchists.

European Integration, EU foreign policy, EU-Russia relations, Central and Eastern European countries

My research is positioned within the emerging field of Critical European Studies. I am interested in questions of Europeanization, citizenship, and (dis)integration and focus on South-East and East-Central Europe.

My research centres on the relationship between popular culture and global politics with a focus on imaginings of contemporary conflict and environmental concerns. My teaching experience is broad, but I focus on security studies, cultural approaches to war, theories of IR, and research methods. Check out my new article in International Relations: Assemblages of Conflict Termination.

ASEAN Economic Integration, Politics of Trade Policy, Public Sector. 

Political subjectivities and temporality in IR, classical reception, populism

Chinese studies; International Relations; Development Studies; International Comparative Education; International Development Cooperation; International Organizations and the UN; Policy Analysis.

Lars Rensmann has left the University of Groningen in April 2022 to become Professor of Political Science and Comparative Government at the University of Passau. https://www.phil.uni-passau.de/en/lehrstuehle/prof-lars-rensmann/ Lars Rensmann is Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen. He serves as the Chair of the Department of European Languages and Cultures and as Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics. He is a member of several Editorial Boards. Before joining RUG, he served as Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, where he is still a Visiting Professor. Prior to his return to Europe, he was the DAAD Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Rensmann holds a BA in Political Science from Luther College, Iowa, and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin. Other previous academic appointments and visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, LMU Munich, and the University of Haifa, among many others. Fields of research: comparative politics & government in Europe and the US and in global perspective; European and American political cultures, parties, systems, and crises of democracy; European and American radical right and populist parties; populist parties in government; social media and digital populism; conspiracy myths, racism, antisemitism and counter-cosmopolitanism in Europe and the US; European, American, and global politics and sports; German politics in European context; European and global political theory; history of international political, democratic and critical theories and their contemporary relevance; human rights and politico-cultural legacies of the Holocaust and genocide; the politics of climate change in Europe and the US. In 2019, Prof. Rensmann received the Faculty of Arts' "Lecturer of the Year" Award.

History and Theory of International Relations and International Law; Politics of Globality; Mapping and Critical Cartography; Imperial Germany

Russian-Western relations; Russian and post-Soviet politics; Brexit; critical and sociological approaches to IR; revolutions

- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Comprehensive Internationalisation
- Inclusive Organizational Culture
- Intercultural Competence Development (IDI certified)
- Policy Advise & Implementation
- Project management
- Active Bystander Trainer (UG-certified)

Jaana Serres is an anthropologist with a focus on global flows of popular culture in Africa and the Middle East. Her research investigates the moral dimension of contemporary capitalism through the lens of media and digital economies. From 2018 to 2021, Jaana was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard scholar in the social anthropology of Africa at Oxford University, where she completed her PhD on the global boom of Nigerian music. Prior to her academic career, she practiced law in New York, Paris and London.  

Critical Security Studies, International Relations Theories, European Security and Defence, Political Philosophy

Theories of International Relations, Visual Studies, Political Geography/Critical Geopolitics, Theories of Discourse, East Asian Studies

Early Modern South Asia; Early Modern Global History; History of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in India and Asia; Indian Ocean Port Cities and Trading Communities; Social History of Knowledge; SondToll Registers Online

Contemporary South and Southeast Asian history; history of North-South relations since the 19th century; internationalisms after 1945

Gender Inequality, Globalization, Redistribution, Inequality, Discrimination, Social Conflicts, International Conflicts

European integration and institutions
State theory and institutionalism
Concept analysis and qualitative methods
Italian politics

European integration, memory studies, contemporary continental political theory, twentieth century intellectual history

conflict and security studies; political ecology; political geography

Security studies

Global Politics of Disease and Health
International Political Sociology
Critical Security Studies

European social and economic law, the four economic freedoms of the internal market, 'balancing' social and economic law; Free trade agreements between the EU and third countries, e.g. Japan

International politics in the Arctic; China-EU foreign direct investment; unintended effects of international cooperation

IR Theory, Security Studies, European Studies, Global Governance, Energy & Geopolitics

Religion and diplomacy, secularism, refugees and forced migration, human rights, development, global justice, globalization, climate change

Latest publication: Rensmann, L., & de Zee, T. (2022). The Pandemic Factor: The COVID-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Federal Election Campaign. German Politics and Society, 40(4), 69-103. (link)

International strategy and policy advice
International relations management

Democratization, Regime change, International Politics, China, Belt and Road Initiative, Asia

Governance and Innovation
Digital Governance
Sustainability
State of Emergency and Humanitarian Action
Interdisciplinary Research and Education Management