H Pfeifer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Pfeifer |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfeifer |
| SIGNATURE | PFEIFER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1631-128X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The internationalization of intrastate conflict
The internationalization of intrastate conflicts has become a defining trend in 21st-century organized violence, marked by external actors providing militarily relevant support—such as troops, arms, or intelligence—to domestic warring parties. While research examines various dimensions of this phenomenon, systematic analysis of macro-level trends and their drivers remains limited. This article addresses this gap through three contributions. First…
Trusting under Extreme Uncertainty? Trust Relations and Institution-Building under Isis Governance in Iraq
How do trust relations evolve in situations of extreme uncertainty, such as during civil war, when both institutions and trust are precarious? Existing research in political science, conflict studies, and International Relations often assumes that trust either precedes institutions or emerges from them, leaving a critical gap in understanding how both develop simultaneously in conditions of systemic rupture, when system trust is suspended. This a…
Islamists and the Global Order
Studies the ways in which Islamists engage with, rather than fight, the Western-dominated global order Critically re-evaluates the prevalent assumption of Islamists rejecting or opposing the Western-dominated world order Introduces a discursive lens to comprehend the complex dynamics of world order, offering a nuanced perspective on how Islamists intricately navigate, challenge, and aspire to reshape the contours of a global order under Western h…
Kontrollierte Politisierung
Im Zuge der Erarbeitung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie Deutschlands führte das federführende Auswärtige Amt eine quantitativ und qualitativ beispiellose Beteiligungsserie durch. Im Sommer 2022 bot das Ministerium hierzu verschiedene Dialog- und Beteiligungsformate quer durch die Republik an, bei denen sich zufällig ausgewählte Bürger*innen mit ihren Meinungen einbringen und Empfehlungen ausarbeiten konnten. Diese innovative Öffnung de…
Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War
One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As we argue, however, this binary has recently come under increased scrutiny in light of real-world developments in armed conflicts. The article builds on newer scholarly contributions that have exposed the porous boundaries between state and non-state actors and orders while demonstrating a striking conve…
Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda
The introduction to the special issue starts from the observation that the political nature of rebel governance is so far understudied. Moving beyond the functionalism and instrumentalism inherent in parts of the literature, we propose a politicisation of the rebel governance paradigm through a spatial and temporal widening of analytical approaches. To address the methodological localism of existing research, rebel governance should be studied ac…
Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Over the last decade, relations between the state and its citizens have changed in the fields of diplomacy and, more generally, foreign policy in some Western democracies. Both sides have begun to transform their roles through novel formats of citizen dialogue and participation. The full breadth and depth of these phenomena remain understudied, despite the fact that they constitute an important catalyst of the apparent ‘societisation’, or even fu…
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level
This article analyzes how and why foreign policy (FP)-makers use dialogue and participation processes (DPPs) with (groups of) individual citizens as a source of public opinion. Taking Germany as a case study and drawing on DPP initiatives by the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA) since 2014, we analyze the officials’ motivation for establishing such processes and find four different sets of motivation: (1) image campaigning, (2) educati…
Deliberating Foreign Policy
Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses citizen participation in German foreign policy by comparing deliberative-participatory processes implemented by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) an…
The Normative Power of Secularism. Tunisian Ennahda's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and the State (2011–2016)
By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's discourse (2011–2016) as an attempt to navigate between standards of recognition imposed on them by the normative power of secularism on the one hand, and wh…
Turquerie
Shortly after Mass on 17 September 1719, three hundred men in janissary uniform marched through the gates of Dresden. A century earlier, the din of their drums would have caused panic in the city. Instead, as the soldiers advanced towards the palace, Italian acrobats rushed to wrap their turbans for the evening’s entertainments, servants prepared coffee and arranged half-moon tables for the banquet, and artisans adjusted the ears on a wax-sculptu…
Paul Tournier and ‘Médecine de la Personne’—The man and his vision
Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda
The introduction to the special issue starts from the observation that the political nature of rebel governance is so far understudied. Moving beyond the functionalism and instrumentalism inherent in parts of the literature, we propose a politicisation of the rebel governance paradigm through a spatial and temporal widening of analytical approaches. To address the methodological localism of existing research, rebel governance should be studied ac…
Deliberating Foreign Policy
Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses citizen participation in German foreign policy by comparing deliberative-participatory processes implemented by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) an…
Turquerie
Shortly after Mass on 17 September 1719, three hundred men in janissary uniform marched through the gates of Dresden. A century earlier, the din of their drums would have caused panic in the city. Instead, as the soldiers advanced towards the palace, Italian acrobats rushed to wrap their turbans for the evening’s entertainments, servants prepared coffee and arranged half-moon tables for the banquet, and artisans adjusted the ears on a wax-sculptu…
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level
This article analyzes how and why foreign policy (FP)-makers use dialogue and participation processes (DPPs) with (groups of) individual citizens as a source of public opinion. Taking Germany as a case study and drawing on DPP initiatives by the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA) since 2014, we analyze the officials’ motivation for establishing such processes and find four different sets of motivation: (1) image campaigning, (2) educati…
Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War
One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As we argue, however, this binary has recently come under increased scrutiny in light of real-world developments in armed conflicts. The article builds on newer scholarly contributions that have exposed the porous boundaries between state and non-state actors and orders while demonstrating a striking conve…
Paul Tournier and ‘Médecine de la Personne’—The man and his vision
Paul Tournier and ‘Médecine de la Personne’—The man and his vision
Turquerie
Shortly after Mass on 17 September 1719, three hundred men in janissary uniform marched through the gates of Dresden. A century earlier, the din of their drums would have caused panic in the city. Instead, as the soldiers advanced towards the palace, Italian acrobats rushed to wrap their turbans for the evening’s entertainments, servants prepared coffee and arranged half-moon tables for the banquet, and artisans adjusted the ears on a wax-sculptu…
The Normative Power of Secularism. Tunisian Ennahda's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and the State (2011–2016)
By critically engaging the literature on the inclusion-moderation hypothesis, this paper seeks to show how the normative structure of secularism constitutes, enables, and restricts the discursive space in which Islamists can justify political action. It analyzes changes in Tunisian Ennahda's discourse (2011–2016) as an attempt to navigate between standards of recognition imposed on them by the normative power of secularism on the one hand, and wh…
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level
This article analyzes how and why foreign policy (FP)-makers use dialogue and participation processes (DPPs) with (groups of) individual citizens as a source of public opinion. Taking Germany as a case study and drawing on DPP initiatives by the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA) since 2014, we analyze the officials’ motivation for establishing such processes and find four different sets of motivation: (1) image campaigning, (2) educati…
Deliberating Foreign Policy
Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses citizen participation in German foreign policy by comparing deliberative-participatory processes implemented by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) an…
Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Over the last decade, relations between the state and its citizens have changed in the fields of diplomacy and, more generally, foreign policy in some Western democracies. Both sides have begun to transform their roles through novel formats of citizen dialogue and participation. The full breadth and depth of these phenomena remain understudied, despite the fact that they constitute an important catalyst of the apparent ‘societisation’, or even fu…
Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War
One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As we argue, however, this binary has recently come under increased scrutiny in light of real-world developments in armed conflicts. The article builds on newer scholarly contributions that have exposed the porous boundaries between state and non-state actors and orders while demonstrating a striking conve…
Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda
The introduction to the special issue starts from the observation that the political nature of rebel governance is so far understudied. Moving beyond the functionalism and instrumentalism inherent in parts of the literature, we propose a politicisation of the rebel governance paradigm through a spatial and temporal widening of analytical approaches. To address the methodological localism of existing research, rebel governance should be studied ac…
Islamists and the Global Order
Studies the ways in which Islamists engage with, rather than fight, the Western-dominated global order Critically re-evaluates the prevalent assumption of Islamists rejecting or opposing the Western-dominated world order Introduces a discursive lens to comprehend the complex dynamics of world order, offering a nuanced perspective on how Islamists intricately navigate, challenge, and aspire to reshape the contours of a global order under Western h…
Kontrollierte Politisierung
Im Zuge der Erarbeitung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie Deutschlands führte das federführende Auswärtige Amt eine quantitativ und qualitativ beispiellose Beteiligungsserie durch. Im Sommer 2022 bot das Ministerium hierzu verschiedene Dialog- und Beteiligungsformate quer durch die Republik an, bei denen sich zufällig ausgewählte Bürger*innen mit ihren Meinungen einbringen und Empfehlungen ausarbeiten konnten. Diese innovative Öffnung de…
Trusting under Extreme Uncertainty? Trust Relations and Institution-Building under Isis Governance in Iraq
How do trust relations evolve in situations of extreme uncertainty, such as during civil war, when both institutions and trust are precarious? Existing research in political science, conflict studies, and International Relations often assumes that trust either precedes institutions or emerges from them, leaving a critical gap in understanding how both develop simultaneously in conditions of systemic rupture, when system trust is suspended. This a…
The internationalization of intrastate conflict
The internationalization of intrastate conflicts has become a defining trend in 21st-century organized violence, marked by external actors providing militarily relevant support—such as troops, arms, or intelligence—to domestic warring parties. While research examines various dimensions of this phenomenon, systematic analysis of macro-level trends and their drivers remains limited. This article addresses this gap through three contributions. First…
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