Dr. Mitja Sienknecht

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Portrait Foto Dr. Mitja Sienknecht (Martina Sander-Blanck)
Martina Sander-Blanck

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Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Former Visiting Researcher of the Research Department
Former Staff Member of the Research Department

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since 01/2020
Research Fellow, Chair Global Governance (Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein), University of Münster

since 01/2020
Visiting Researcher, Research Unit Global Governance, WZB

06/2017-12/2019
Research Fellow, Research Unit Global Governance, WZB

04/2016–05/2017
Senior Research Fellow, Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

12/2015
Dr. phil., European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). Dissertation title: "Entgrenzte Konflikte in der Weltgesellschaft. Eine Untersuchung kommunikativer Entgrenzungsprozesse am Beispiel des kurdischen Konfliktes in der Türkei"

01/2015–12/2015
Research Fellow in the Project “Contesting the European Border Regime: How, Where, and When Do Good Arguments Matter?”, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

2012–2014
Research Fellow in the DSF-funded project: “The discursive construction of conflict and international organizational decision-making processes between normative frameworks pf peacebuilding and securitization – the case of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI)”, at Bielefeld University

2009–2015
Research Fellow at the Chair International and European Politics (Prof. Dr. Neyer), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

02/2012–06/2012
Visting Scholar, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

2009
M.A. in International Politics and Peace Studies, University of Tübingen

01/2008–06/2008
Research Stay at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

10/2002–06/2006
B.A. in Political Science, Bielefeld University (with distinction)

Selected Publications

Sienknecht, Mitja (2019): Conflict Diplomacy – Political De-Bordering Strategies in Intrastate Conflicts, in: Special Issue of the Zefko: Studying Micro Dynamics in Civil Wars, guest editors: van der Haer, Roos/ Vüllers, Johannes/ Weidmann, Nils, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 183-211.

Sienknecht, Mitja (2018): Entgrenzte Konfliktkommunikation. Zum Aufbau von Kommunikationsstrukturen von nichtstaatlichen Konfliktparteien in das weltpolitische System, in: Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 5-35, honored with the zib Best Paper Award of the German Political Science Association, Section International Relations.

Gerst, Dominik/ Klessmann, Maria/ Krämer, Hannes/ Sienknecht, Mitja/ Ulrich, Peter (Hrsg.) (2018): Komplexe Grenzen. Aktuelle Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Grenzforschung, Sonderheft: Berliner Debatte Initial.

Sienknecht, Mitja (2018): Entgrenzte Konflikte in der Weltgesellschaft. Zur Inklusion internationaler Organisationen in innerstaatliche Konfliktsysteme, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Neyer, Jürgen/ Sienknecht, Mitja/ Martin, Luana (2017): „Kosmopolitische Verantwortung: Zwischen normativem Anspruch und politischer Praxis“, in: Daase, Christopher/ Junk, Julian/ Kroll, Stefan/ Rauer, Valentin (Hrsg.): Politik und Verantwortung. Analysen zum Wandel politischer Entscheidungs- und Rechtfertigungspraktiken, PVS-Sonderheft, Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Eppert, Kerstin/ Sienknecht, Mitja (2017) "Engaging with the “Threat”? Tracing De-securitization between UN Security Council and UN Missions”, in: Bonacker, Thorsten/ Distler, Werner/ Ketzmerick, Maria (Eds.): Securitization, Intervention and State-Building, Baden-Baden: Nomos.