Antonia Witt
Biographic Data
| ID | 279623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonia Witt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Witt |
| SIGNATURE | WITT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0841-7639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of parenting in mitigating the impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental health: Results from a population-based sample
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are well-established predictors of poor mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Maternal and paternal parenting behaviors, particularly parental warmth, rejection, and control may influence the psychological trajectories of individuals exposed to ACEs. However, the differential roles of maternal and paternal parenting behaviors remain underexplored. This study invest…
Militarization and the Hopes for African Interventions: Exploring Societal Perspectives
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions
Rule in International Politics
There is hardly any aspect of social, political, and economic life today that is not also governed internationally. Drawing on debates around hierarchy, hegemony, and authority in international politics, this volume takes the study of the international 'beyond anarchy' a step further by establishing the concept of rule as the defining feature of order in the international realm. The contributors argue that the manifold conceptual approaches to su…
How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
Although African regional interventions have tangible effects on politics and order in African states, we know little about how people living in the countries concerned experience and evaluate these interventions. The assumption in the literature is that African interventions are generally perceived as legitimate due to the interveners' cultural proximity to the contexts of intervention. Based on interview and focus group research, we present fir…
East-West differences in experienced corporal punishment: Results of a representative German study
Rule in International Politics
Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience
Pan-Africanism and references to a shared African cultural identity have an important function in the way the African Union (AU) seeks to mobilize a sense of belonging among African citizens. However, we know very little about how African citizens, in turn, relate to and identify with the AU and what shapes their sense of belonging as political subjects of the AU. In addressing this lacuna, this article takes a bottom-up perspective on the format…
Negative Posttraumatic Cognitions in 4- to 8-year-old Children following Maltreatment
The Predictors of Awareness of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence in the Media and the Influence on Actions of the Individuals
Introduction: The number of reportings on sexual abuse (SA), sexual violence (SV) cases covered in the media has risen a significant amount with most cases involving women and children. The aim of the study is to explore the questions: Are people aware of sexual abuse and sexual violence in the media? What are the predictors of awareness of sexual abuse and sexual violence? Does the awareness of sexual abuse and sexual violence in the media affec…
How to Problematize the Global
International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘truly global’, that is, more inclusive and less parochial in its language and substance. But the concept of the global underpinning this discussion is both illusive and strongly contested. It requires problematiza…
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground
International organisations (IOs) are said to command growing levels of authority. But in studying this phenomenon, scholars predominantly focus on the formal capacities member states assign to IOs. Much less attention is paid to the effects of IO authority, that is, how authority is exerted in practice and what it does within the affected societies. Based on a case study of the African Union's (AU) anti-coup regime, I make the case for a ‘bottom…
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples' relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany
Taking Intervention Politics Seriously: Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’
Scholars increasingly investigate how the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is contested and negotiated in practice. Yet little knowledge exists on the politics African regional interventions provoke in the societies affected by such interventions. Based on an analysis of media reports from Burkina Faso and The Gambia, we show that regional interventions are indeed contested locally, irrespective of the means of intervention applied.…
Problematising the Global in Global IR
International Relations (IR) has long been criticised for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. ‘Non-Western’, ‘post-Western’, and postcolonial theories have been criticising the problem of Western parochialism and have developed specific strategies of changing IR. Global IR has taken up some of these concerns and aims at changing the discipline by theorising international pol…
International Organizations under Pressure: Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times
The book reconstructs how the normative yardsticks that underpin evaluations of international organizations have changed since 1970. Based on in-depth case studies of normative change in five international organizations over a period of five decades, the authors argue that, these days, international organizations confront a longer and more heterogeneous list of normative expectations than in previous periods. Two changes are particularly notewort…
Where Regional Norms Matter: Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
Twelve years after the adoption of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, scholars and policymakers are still pondering whether the regional document has had any actual effect. Based on case studies from Madagascar and Burkina Faso, this article demonstrates the Charter's impact on political dynamics within both countries. By analysing contestations around the application of Article 25(4), which defines who is eligible to run…
Studying African interventions 'from below: Exploring practices, knowledges and perceptions
This article argues for a shift in researching African interventions: from a top-down study of African regional norms and institutions towards a view ‘from below’ on the actual practices of intervention and how they play out on the ground. Such a view is important in order to understand the contested politics of African interventions as well as disconnects between grand regional architectures and their imprints on the ground. In doing so, this ar…
Towards studying African interventions 'from below' - A short conclusion
Mandate impossible: Mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009–2013)
This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano’s mediation in Madagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President Marc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating the reestablishment of constitutional order in the context of the African Union’s anti-coup policy. While espousing the ideal of mediation as an inclusive and locally owned process, Chissano’s mandate contradicted both the rea…
Contemporary regional development in AfricaRegionalism and integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigerian relationsRegionalism in Africa: Genealogies, institutions and…
The African continent currently experiences deep transformations in the spatial organization of power, the distribution of wealth, and loyalties. One aspect of these transformations are the deepening processes of regionalization, that is the intensification of interactions of people, ideas, and goods beyond the confines of hitherto established (imagined or real) borders of social, political and economic life. Not only an increasing number of regi…
Convergence on Whose Terms? Reacting to Coups d'État in Guinea and Madagascar
Over the past decade, numerous international actors have developed policy frameworks to address and ultimately prevent the resurgence of coups d'état in Africa. By reconstructing international reactions to the coups in Guinea and Madagascar, this article analyzes whether this trend has also engendered a convergence in practice. This, it argues, involves a struggle over defining the terms of such interventions, first with regard to how to re-build…
Problematising the Global in Global IR
International Relations (IR) has long been criticised for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. ‘Non-Western’, ‘post-Western’, and postcolonial theories have been criticising the problem of Western parochialism and have developed specific strategies of changing IR. Global IR has taken up some of these concerns and aims at changing the discipline by theorising international pol…
Where Regional Norms Matter: Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
Twelve years after the adoption of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, scholars and policymakers are still pondering whether the regional document has had any actual effect. Based on case studies from Madagascar and Burkina Faso, this article demonstrates the Charter's impact on political dynamics within both countries. By analysing contestations around the application of Article 25(4), which defines who is eligible to run…
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples' relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany
Mandate impossible: Mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009–2013)
This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano’s mediation in Madagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President Marc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating the reestablishment of constitutional order in the context of the African Union’s anti-coup policy. While espousing the ideal of mediation as an inclusive and locally owned process, Chissano’s mandate contradicted both the rea…
How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
Although African regional interventions have tangible effects on politics and order in African states, we know little about how people living in the countries concerned experience and evaluate these interventions. The assumption in the literature is that African interventions are generally perceived as legitimate due to the interveners' cultural proximity to the contexts of intervention. Based on interview and focus group research, we present fir…
Militarization and the Hopes for African Interventions: Exploring Societal Perspectives
How to Problematize the Global
International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘truly global’, that is, more inclusive and less parochial in its language and substance. But the concept of the global underpinning this discussion is both illusive and strongly contested. It requires problematiza…
Taking Intervention Politics Seriously: Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’
Scholars increasingly investigate how the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is contested and negotiated in practice. Yet little knowledge exists on the politics African regional interventions provoke in the societies affected by such interventions. Based on an analysis of media reports from Burkina Faso and The Gambia, we show that regional interventions are indeed contested locally, irrespective of the means of intervention applied.…
Convergence on Whose Terms? Reacting to Coups d'État in Guinea and Madagascar
Over the past decade, numerous international actors have developed policy frameworks to address and ultimately prevent the resurgence of coups d'état in Africa. By reconstructing international reactions to the coups in Guinea and Madagascar, this article analyzes whether this trend has also engendered a convergence in practice. This, it argues, involves a struggle over defining the terms of such interventions, first with regard to how to re-build…
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions
Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience
Pan-Africanism and references to a shared African cultural identity have an important function in the way the African Union (AU) seeks to mobilize a sense of belonging among African citizens. However, we know very little about how African citizens, in turn, relate to and identify with the AU and what shapes their sense of belonging as political subjects of the AU. In addressing this lacuna, this article takes a bottom-up perspective on the format…
Studying African interventions 'from below: Exploring practices, knowledges and perceptions
This article argues for a shift in researching African interventions: from a top-down study of African regional norms and institutions towards a view ‘from below’ on the actual practices of intervention and how they play out on the ground. Such a view is important in order to understand the contested politics of African interventions as well as disconnects between grand regional architectures and their imprints on the ground. In doing so, this ar…
East-West differences in experienced corporal punishment: Results of a representative German study
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground
International organisations (IOs) are said to command growing levels of authority. But in studying this phenomenon, scholars predominantly focus on the formal capacities member states assign to IOs. Much less attention is paid to the effects of IO authority, that is, how authority is exerted in practice and what it does within the affected societies. Based on a case study of the African Union's (AU) anti-coup regime, I make the case for a ‘bottom…
Towards studying African interventions 'from below' - A short conclusion
Convergence on Whose Terms? Reacting to Coups d'État in Guinea and Madagascar
Over the past decade, numerous international actors have developed policy frameworks to address and ultimately prevent the resurgence of coups d'état in Africa. By reconstructing international reactions to the coups in Guinea and Madagascar, this article analyzes whether this trend has also engendered a convergence in practice. This, it argues, involves a struggle over defining the terms of such interventions, first with regard to how to re-build…
Mandate impossible: Mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009–2013)
This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano’s mediation in Madagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President Marc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating the reestablishment of constitutional order in the context of the African Union’s anti-coup policy. While espousing the ideal of mediation as an inclusive and locally owned process, Chissano’s mandate contradicted both the rea…
Contemporary regional development in AfricaRegionalism and integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigerian relationsRegionalism in Africa: Genealogies, institutions and…
The African continent currently experiences deep transformations in the spatial organization of power, the distribution of wealth, and loyalties. One aspect of these transformations are the deepening processes of regionalization, that is the intensification of interactions of people, ideas, and goods beyond the confines of hitherto established (imagined or real) borders of social, political and economic life. Not only an increasing number of regi…
Studying African interventions 'from below: Exploring practices, knowledges and perceptions
This article argues for a shift in researching African interventions: from a top-down study of African regional norms and institutions towards a view ‘from below’ on the actual practices of intervention and how they play out on the ground. Such a view is important in order to understand the contested politics of African interventions as well as disconnects between grand regional architectures and their imprints on the ground. In doing so, this ar…
Towards studying African interventions 'from below' - A short conclusion
International Organizations under Pressure: Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times
The book reconstructs how the normative yardsticks that underpin evaluations of international organizations have changed since 1970. Based on in-depth case studies of normative change in five international organizations over a period of five decades, the authors argue that, these days, international organizations confront a longer and more heterogeneous list of normative expectations than in previous periods. Two changes are particularly notewort…
Where Regional Norms Matter: Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
Twelve years after the adoption of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, scholars and policymakers are still pondering whether the regional document has had any actual effect. Based on case studies from Madagascar and Burkina Faso, this article demonstrates the Charter's impact on political dynamics within both countries. By analysing contestations around the application of Article 25(4), which defines who is eligible to run…
Taking Intervention Politics Seriously: Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’
Scholars increasingly investigate how the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is contested and negotiated in practice. Yet little knowledge exists on the politics African regional interventions provoke in the societies affected by such interventions. Based on an analysis of media reports from Burkina Faso and The Gambia, we show that regional interventions are indeed contested locally, irrespective of the means of intervention applied.…
Problematising the Global in Global IR
International Relations (IR) has long been criticised for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. ‘Non-Western’, ‘post-Western’, and postcolonial theories have been criticising the problem of Western parochialism and have developed specific strategies of changing IR. Global IR has taken up some of these concerns and aims at changing the discipline by theorising international pol…
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples' relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany
Negative Posttraumatic Cognitions in 4- to 8-year-old Children following Maltreatment
The Predictors of Awareness of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence in the Media and the Influence on Actions of the Individuals
Introduction: The number of reportings on sexual abuse (SA), sexual violence (SV) cases covered in the media has risen a significant amount with most cases involving women and children. The aim of the study is to explore the questions: Are people aware of sexual abuse and sexual violence in the media? What are the predictors of awareness of sexual abuse and sexual violence? Does the awareness of sexual abuse and sexual violence in the media affec…
How to Problematize the Global
International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘truly global’, that is, more inclusive and less parochial in its language and substance. But the concept of the global underpinning this discussion is both illusive and strongly contested. It requires problematiza…
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground
International organisations (IOs) are said to command growing levels of authority. But in studying this phenomenon, scholars predominantly focus on the formal capacities member states assign to IOs. Much less attention is paid to the effects of IO authority, that is, how authority is exerted in practice and what it does within the affected societies. Based on a case study of the African Union's (AU) anti-coup regime, I make the case for a ‘bottom…
Rule in International Politics
There is hardly any aspect of social, political, and economic life today that is not also governed internationally. Drawing on debates around hierarchy, hegemony, and authority in international politics, this volume takes the study of the international 'beyond anarchy' a step further by establishing the concept of rule as the defining feature of order in the international realm. The contributors argue that the manifold conceptual approaches to su…
How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
Although African regional interventions have tangible effects on politics and order in African states, we know little about how people living in the countries concerned experience and evaluate these interventions. The assumption in the literature is that African interventions are generally perceived as legitimate due to the interveners' cultural proximity to the contexts of intervention. Based on interview and focus group research, we present fir…
East-West differences in experienced corporal punishment: Results of a representative German study
Rule in International Politics
Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience
Pan-Africanism and references to a shared African cultural identity have an important function in the way the African Union (AU) seeks to mobilize a sense of belonging among African citizens. However, we know very little about how African citizens, in turn, relate to and identify with the AU and what shapes their sense of belonging as political subjects of the AU. In addressing this lacuna, this article takes a bottom-up perspective on the format…
The role of parenting in mitigating the impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental health: Results from a population-based sample
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are well-established predictors of poor mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. Maternal and paternal parenting behaviors, particularly parental warmth, rejection, and control may influence the psychological trajectories of individuals exposed to ACEs. However, the differential roles of maternal and paternal parenting behaviors remain underexplored. This study invest…
Militarization and the Hopes for African Interventions: Exploring Societal Perspectives
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Economics (5 works)