Franziska Boehme
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska Boehme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | Boehme |
| SIGNATURE | BOEHME F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2076-0088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Restitution of colonial heritage collections
European societies are increasingly grappling with the often violent and deceitful circumstances through which now-treasured artefacts made their way from their colonies to museums in the metropole. This article shows this emerging norm of colonial heritage restitution by describing key norm components and assessing the norm’s current strength. Moreover, the article analyses the norm’s implementation in two European states to better understand ho…
Litigating war
Does an escalation of political conflict between two states also play out in the courtroom? This paper addresses this question by analyzing Ukraine's legal claims in its case against Russian discrimination and terrorism financing at the International Court of Justice. Drawing on international law and international relations scholarship, the paper argues that the start of Russia's invasion represents a critical moment in Ukraine's legal strategy a…
Normative Expectations and the Colonial Past
I argue that the field of transitional justice is a useful lens to explore the politics surrounding apology and restitution between former colonizers and the formerly colonized. While existing scholarship has so far treated apologies and restitution of looted art restitution as separate ways of atonement, this paper investigates both as indicators of a country's norm change toward postcolonial reconciliation and justice. The paper analyzes the po…
Reactive remembrance
States are under increasing normative pressure to acknowledge and atone for past human rights violations. However, more than one hundred years after German colonial authorities committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people in today’s Namibia, the German government has neither issued an official government apology nor paid reparations. This article traces the shifting memory politics in Germany based on parliamentary records, speeches, dip…
Exit, voice and loyalty
The article examines how states talk about the International Criminal Court (ICC, or the Court) through the lens of Albert Hirschman’s exit, voice and loyalty framework. Based on a content analysis of country statements about the ICC from 2002 to 2016, I show that support for the Court remains high cross-regionally and longitudinally. Exit rhetoric remains low and only recently entered the Court discourse. Exit is moderated by states’ high loyalt…
We Chose Africa’
This article examines state cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a case study of South Africa’s non-arrest of ICC suspect-at-large, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, in June 2015. Al-Bashir’s visit to South Africa brings attention to the question of why initially Court-supportive countries fail to cooperate with the ICC. Confronted with noncooperation pressure by the African Union (AU), South Africa faced a loyalty con…
Normative Expectations and the Colonial Past
I argue that the field of transitional justice is a useful lens to explore the politics surrounding apology and restitution between former colonizers and the formerly colonized. While existing scholarship has so far treated apologies and restitution of looted art restitution as separate ways of atonement, this paper investigates both as indicators of a country's norm change toward postcolonial reconciliation and justice. The paper analyzes the po…
Reactive remembrance
States are under increasing normative pressure to acknowledge and atone for past human rights violations. However, more than one hundred years after German colonial authorities committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people in today’s Namibia, the German government has neither issued an official government apology nor paid reparations. This article traces the shifting memory politics in Germany based on parliamentary records, speeches, dip…
Exit, voice and loyalty
The article examines how states talk about the International Criminal Court (ICC, or the Court) through the lens of Albert Hirschman’s exit, voice and loyalty framework. Based on a content analysis of country statements about the ICC from 2002 to 2016, I show that support for the Court remains high cross-regionally and longitudinally. Exit rhetoric remains low and only recently entered the Court discourse. Exit is moderated by states’ high loyalt…
Restitution of colonial heritage collections
European societies are increasingly grappling with the often violent and deceitful circumstances through which now-treasured artefacts made their way from their colonies to museums in the metropole. This article shows this emerging norm of colonial heritage restitution by describing key norm components and assessing the norm’s current strength. Moreover, the article analyses the norm’s implementation in two European states to better understand ho…
We Chose Africa’
This article examines state cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a case study of South Africa’s non-arrest of ICC suspect-at-large, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, in June 2015. Al-Bashir’s visit to South Africa brings attention to the question of why initially Court-supportive countries fail to cooperate with the ICC. Confronted with noncooperation pressure by the African Union (AU), South Africa faced a loyalty con…
We Chose Africa’
This article examines state cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a case study of South Africa’s non-arrest of ICC suspect-at-large, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, in June 2015. Al-Bashir’s visit to South Africa brings attention to the question of why initially Court-supportive countries fail to cooperate with the ICC. Confronted with noncooperation pressure by the African Union (AU), South Africa faced a loyalty con…
Exit, voice and loyalty
The article examines how states talk about the International Criminal Court (ICC, or the Court) through the lens of Albert Hirschman’s exit, voice and loyalty framework. Based on a content analysis of country statements about the ICC from 2002 to 2016, I show that support for the Court remains high cross-regionally and longitudinally. Exit rhetoric remains low and only recently entered the Court discourse. Exit is moderated by states’ high loyalt…
Reactive remembrance
States are under increasing normative pressure to acknowledge and atone for past human rights violations. However, more than one hundred years after German colonial authorities committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people in today’s Namibia, the German government has neither issued an official government apology nor paid reparations. This article traces the shifting memory politics in Germany based on parliamentary records, speeches, dip…
Normative Expectations and the Colonial Past
I argue that the field of transitional justice is a useful lens to explore the politics surrounding apology and restitution between former colonizers and the formerly colonized. While existing scholarship has so far treated apologies and restitution of looted art restitution as separate ways of atonement, this paper investigates both as indicators of a country's norm change toward postcolonial reconciliation and justice. The paper analyzes the po…
Restitution of colonial heritage collections
European societies are increasingly grappling with the often violent and deceitful circumstances through which now-treasured artefacts made their way from their colonies to museums in the metropole. This article shows this emerging norm of colonial heritage restitution by describing key norm components and assessing the norm’s current strength. Moreover, the article analyses the norm’s implementation in two European states to better understand ho…
Litigating war
Does an escalation of political conflict between two states also play out in the courtroom? This paper addresses this question by analyzing Ukraine's legal claims in its case against Russian discrimination and terrorism financing at the International Court of Justice. Drawing on international law and international relations scholarship, the paper argues that the start of Russia's invasion represents a critical moment in Ukraine's legal strategy a…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Geography (2 works)