WIN - Principal Investigators
- Dr. Gordon M. Friedrichs
Gordon Friedrichs is a Senior Research Fellow in the MAGGI research group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Prior, he was a Fulbright Schuman Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame as well as a Postdoc at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Freiburg.
He specializes in international relations and comparative foreign policy analysis. His research focuses on (1) the impact of polarization and populism on democracies' foreign policymaking; (2) resilience and transformation of Global Governance; and (3) international relations of East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. More generally, he is interested in how the interplay between domestic and international politics affects states' roles in the areas of security, trade, and democracy.
He has published three books: U.S. Global Leadership Role and Domestic Polarization: A Role Theory Approach (Routledge), The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Order (co-edited with Sebastian Harnisch & Cameron Thies, Routledge), and National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World (co-edited with Michael Grossman and Francis Shortgen, Routledge). His research is also published in International Studies Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Politics, Journal of Global Security Studies, International Relations, India Review, and The Korean Journal of International Studies.
You can find more information about Gordon Friedrichs here.
Natalie Rauscher is a research associate (Post-Doc) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), Heidelberg University. Her research includes topics such as public and political discourses on the future of work and the platform economy in the USA, social movements, social media, US-American philanthropy and think tank as well as the impact of natural disasters in the USA.
In her post-doctoral project, Natalie Rauscher focuses on US-American (mega) philanthropy in the 21st century and how new actors and new modes of giving might impact trust in this sector and in wider society.
In 2021, her dissertation was published with Springer in their Contributions to Economics Series: The Future of Work in the United States - Discourses on Automation and the Platform Economy. She also publishes in journals such as Policy Advice and Political Consulting, Journal of Political Science and German Political Quarterly.
Members of the Research Project
- Stella Kim
Stella Kim is a research associate at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and is pursuing a PhD on the development of polycrises, with a focus on polycrises sparked by armed conflicts. She received her International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies, accredited from the University of Glasgow, the University of Trento and Charles University Prague in 2022. She holds a BA in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt during which she also studied at Ewha Womans University Seoul.
Previously, she worked for various European think tanks where she published papers on primarily defence strategies in the Indo-Pacific, the German Federal Ministry of Defence and the European External Action Service, which combines her research interests in security, defence, conflict analysis and diplomacy in the Euro-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific region.