Anna Geis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Geis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Geis |
| SIGNATURE | GEIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Helmut Schmidt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7593-2625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics
This forum proposes a practice-oriented approach to (de)legitimation processes in world politics. Drawing on international practice theory and visual IR, among other fields, our approach offers an important extension of existing literature on (de)legitimation that mostly concentrates on discursive (de)legitimation. Instead, this forum focuses on a broader variety of practices of (de)legitimation, such as bodily gestures and visual (de)legitimatio…
Kontrollierte Politisierung: Bürgerdialoge im Rahmen der Entwicklung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie in Deutschland
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…
The Russian War Against Ukraine and Its Implications for the Future of Liberal Interventionism
The Russian war against Ukraine has already had crucial implications for the future of liberal interventionism. Drawing on current debates in IR about the transformation of the global world order, the article outlines how processes of global reordering affect (liberal) interventionism at different scales. The article argues that what has become known as the liberal international order is in retreat, at the expense of liberal peace-oriented intern…
Global consequences of the war in Ukraine: The last straw for (liberal) interventionism
The interpretation of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a “turning point” indicates that long-established parameters of securing peace in international politics will change. This article tentatively assesses consequences of this war for the agenda of international peacebuilding and for wider interventionist practices in contemporary violent conflict settings. It is argued that the ongoing war speeds up a preexisting phase of profou…
Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Preliminary Insights and a New Research Agenda
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: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy
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: Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany
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…
From liberal interventionism to stabilisation: A new consensus on norm-downsizing in interventions in Africa
This article traces recent changes of the practices and justifications of the use of force in intervention, in the context of African security governance, highlighting how these changes interact with norm transformations at the scale of the global order. In doing so, it conveys how a long-standing pattern of norm contestation between international and African actors over external intervention vs sovereignty, has started to give way to a mutually …
Hybridity and Friction in Organizational Politics: New Perspectives on the African Security Regime Complex
Security governance in Africa constitutes a web of interactions between national, regional, and international organizations. This emerging ‘African security regime complex' receives growing attention in International Relations debates on international organizations (IOs). Most analysis, however, follows institutionalist and problem-solving approaches, centred on regulatory concerns. We offer a different perspective. Moving beyond dominant perspec…
Outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace: The ambivalence of liberal interventionism
Why has interstate war declined and why do states refrain from territorial conquests in the post-Second World War order? The 1928 Peace Pact cannot account for these remarkable developments. This article argues that outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace. International Relations debates on the influence of weapons of mass destruction, democratic regime types and political cultures on interstate behaviour provide further import…
Recognition in International Relations
Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills. This volume assembles contributions from International Relations, Political Theory and International Law in order to sh
Regieren Mit Mediation: Das Beteiligungsverfahren Zur Zukünftigen Entwicklung des Frankfurter Flughafens
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Comparing the notions of ‘rogue’ and ‘evil’ in international politics
The existence and use of ‘evil’ in international politics
The ‘Concert of Democracies’: Why some states are more equal than others
Der Aufstieg der Legitimitätspolitik: Rechtfertigung und Kritik politisch-ökonomischer Ordnungen
How far is it from Königsberg to Kandahar? Democratic peace and democratic violence in International Relations
Over the last two decades, there has been a ‘democratic turn’ in peace and conflict research, that is, the peculiar impact of democratic politics on a wide range of security issues has attracted more and more attention. Many of these studies are inspired by Immanuel Kant's famous essay on ‘Perpetual Peace’. In this article, we present a critical discussion of the ‘democratic distinctiveness programme’ that emerged from the Democratic Peace debate…
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
From Democratic Peace to Democratic War
The “democratic peace” is not only a fancy idea of academia, most prominently advanced by the philosopher of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant in his famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795), but two hun
Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace
Anna Geis, Lothar Brock and Harald Mller 2006. All rights reserved. The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors look across International Relations, political theory, political philosophy and sociology.
Regieren mit Mediation
Anna Geis analysiert ein umstrittenes neues Konfliktregelungsverfahren, das zwischen politischer Steuerung und Eigendynamik überraschende Wirkungen entfaltet. Die gewählte Regierensperspektive eröffnet dabei eine neue Forschungsblickrichtung auf "Mediation".
Regieren mit Mediation: Das Beteiligungsverfahren zur zukünftigen Entwicklung des Frankfurter Flughafens
Hybridity and Friction in Organizational Politics: New Perspectives on the African Security Regime Complex
Security governance in Africa constitutes a web of interactions between national, regional, and international organizations. This emerging ‘African security regime complex' receives growing attention in International Relations debates on international organizations (IOs). Most analysis, however, follows institutionalist and problem-solving approaches, centred on regulatory concerns. We offer a different perspective. Moving beyond dominant perspec…
How far is it from Königsberg to Kandahar? Democratic peace and democratic violence in International Relations
Over the last two decades, there has been a ‘democratic turn’ in peace and conflict research, that is, the peculiar impact of democratic politics on a wide range of security issues has attracted more and more attention. Many of these studies are inspired by Immanuel Kant's famous essay on ‘Perpetual Peace’. In this article, we present a critical discussion of the ‘democratic distinctiveness programme’ that emerged from the Democratic Peace debate…
From liberal interventionism to stabilisation: A new consensus on norm-downsizing in interventions in Africa
This article traces recent changes of the practices and justifications of the use of force in intervention, in the context of African security governance, highlighting how these changes interact with norm transformations at the scale of the global order. In doing so, it conveys how a long-standing pattern of norm contestation between international and African actors over external intervention vs sovereignty, has started to give way to a mutually …
Deliberating Foreign Policy: Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany
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…
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy
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…
Outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace: The ambivalence of liberal interventionism
Why has interstate war declined and why do states refrain from territorial conquests in the post-Second World War order? The 1928 Peace Pact cannot account for these remarkable developments. This article argues that outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace. International Relations debates on the influence of weapons of mass destruction, democratic regime types and political cultures on interstate behaviour provide further import…
The ‘Concert of Democracies’: Why some states are more equal than others
From Democratic Peace to Democratic War
The “democratic peace” is not only a fancy idea of academia, most prominently advanced by the philosopher of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant in his famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795), but two hun
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Comparing the notions of ‘rogue’ and ‘evil’ in international politics
The existence and use of ‘evil’ in international politics
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics
This forum proposes a practice-oriented approach to (de)legitimation processes in world politics. Drawing on international practice theory and visual IR, among other fields, our approach offers an important extension of existing literature on (de)legitimation that mostly concentrates on discursive (de)legitimation. Instead, this forum focuses on a broader variety of practices of (de)legitimation, such as bodily gestures and visual (de)legitimatio…
The Russian War Against Ukraine and Its Implications for the Future of Liberal Interventionism
The Russian war against Ukraine has already had crucial implications for the future of liberal interventionism. Drawing on current debates in IR about the transformation of the global world order, the article outlines how processes of global reordering affect (liberal) interventionism at different scales. The article argues that what has become known as the liberal international order is in retreat, at the expense of liberal peace-oriented intern…
Regieren mit Mediation
Anna Geis analysiert ein umstrittenes neues Konfliktregelungsverfahren, das zwischen politischer Steuerung und Eigendynamik überraschende Wirkungen entfaltet. Die gewählte Regierensperspektive eröffnet dabei eine neue Forschungsblickrichtung auf "Mediation".
Regieren mit Mediation: Das Beteiligungsverfahren zur zukünftigen Entwicklung des Frankfurter Flughafens
Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace
Anna Geis, Lothar Brock and Harald Mller 2006. All rights reserved. The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors look across International Relations, political theory, political philosophy and sociology.
From Democratic Peace to Democratic War
The “democratic peace” is not only a fancy idea of academia, most prominently advanced by the philosopher of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant in his famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795), but two hun
How far is it from Königsberg to Kandahar? Democratic peace and democratic violence in International Relations
Over the last two decades, there has been a ‘democratic turn’ in peace and conflict research, that is, the peculiar impact of democratic politics on a wide range of security issues has attracted more and more attention. Many of these studies are inspired by Immanuel Kant's famous essay on ‘Perpetual Peace’. In this article, we present a critical discussion of the ‘democratic distinctiveness programme’ that emerged from the Democratic Peace debate…
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
Der Aufstieg der Legitimitätspolitik: Rechtfertigung und Kritik politisch-ökonomischer Ordnungen
The ‘Concert of Democracies’: Why some states are more equal than others
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Comparing the notions of ‘rogue’ and ‘evil’ in international politics
The existence and use of ‘evil’ in international politics
Recognition in International Relations
Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills. This volume assembles contributions from International Relations, Political Theory and International Law in order to sh
Regieren Mit Mediation: Das Beteiligungsverfahren Zur Zukünftigen Entwicklung des Frankfurter Flughafens
Outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace: The ambivalence of liberal interventionism
Why has interstate war declined and why do states refrain from territorial conquests in the post-Second World War order? The 1928 Peace Pact cannot account for these remarkable developments. This article argues that outlawing war is not enough to promote international peace. International Relations debates on the influence of weapons of mass destruction, democratic regime types and political cultures on interstate behaviour provide further import…
From liberal interventionism to stabilisation: A new consensus on norm-downsizing in interventions in Africa
This article traces recent changes of the practices and justifications of the use of force in intervention, in the context of African security governance, highlighting how these changes interact with norm transformations at the scale of the global order. In doing so, it conveys how a long-standing pattern of norm contestation between international and African actors over external intervention vs sovereignty, has started to give way to a mutually …
Hybridity and Friction in Organizational Politics: New Perspectives on the African Security Regime Complex
Security governance in Africa constitutes a web of interactions between national, regional, and international organizations. This emerging ‘African security regime complex' receives growing attention in International Relations debates on international organizations (IOs). Most analysis, however, follows institutionalist and problem-solving approaches, centred on regulatory concerns. We offer a different perspective. Moving beyond dominant perspec…
Engaging with Public Opinion at the Micro-Level: Citizen Dialogue and Participation in German Foreign Policy
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: Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany
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…
Global consequences of the war in Ukraine: The last straw for (liberal) interventionism
The interpretation of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a “turning point” indicates that long-established parameters of securing peace in international politics will change. This article tentatively assesses consequences of this war for the agenda of international peacebuilding and for wider interventionist practices in contemporary violent conflict settings. It is argued that the ongoing war speeds up a preexisting phase of profou…
Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Preliminary Insights and a New Research Agenda
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…
The Russian War Against Ukraine and Its Implications for the Future of Liberal Interventionism
The Russian war against Ukraine has already had crucial implications for the future of liberal interventionism. Drawing on current debates in IR about the transformation of the global world order, the article outlines how processes of global reordering affect (liberal) interventionism at different scales. The article argues that what has become known as the liberal international order is in retreat, at the expense of liberal peace-oriented intern…
Kontrollierte Politisierung: Bürgerdialoge im Rahmen der Entwicklung der ersten Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie in Deutschland
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…
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics
This forum proposes a practice-oriented approach to (de)legitimation processes in world politics. Drawing on international practice theory and visual IR, among other fields, our approach offers an important extension of existing literature on (de)legitimation that mostly concentrates on discursive (de)legitimation. Instead, this forum focuses on a broader variety of practices of (de)legitimation, such as bodily gestures and visual (de)legitimatio…
Political science (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (11 works) · International relations (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works)