Citizens in Foreign Policy

Media, Talks & Conferences

Conference papers (selection)

2024

  • Opitz, Christian. “Vom Bürgerrat zur Gesellschaft: Wie deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung politisches Vertrauen generalisieren kann”, Academic Convention of the German Political Science Association, Göttingen.

2023

  • Opitz, Christian, Anna Geis, and Hanna Pfeifer. “Public Diplomacy in Germany: Engaging the “Public” on Foreign and Security Policy since 1990”, European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC), Potsdam.

2022 

  • Geis, Anna, Christian Opitz, and Hanna Pfeifer. “Recasting the role of citizens in foreign and security policy? Citizens’ dialogues and the development of Germany’s first National Security Strategy”, Workshop “Creating Change through Participation and Deliberation”, Research Unit Democratic Innovations, GU Frankfurt.
  • Geis, Anna, Christian Opitz, and Hanna Pfeifer. “Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Preliminary Insights and a New Research Agenda”, Korean Association for Public Diplomacy (KAPD) Annual Conference, Seoul (online).
  • Geis, Anna, Christian Opitz, and Hanna Pfeifer. “Recasting the Role of Citizens in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Preliminary Insights and a New Research Agenda”, European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC), Athens.

2021 

  • Opitz, Christian, Anna Geis, and Hanna Pfeifer. “The Citizens‘ Turn in Security Policy. Promises and Pitfalls of a New Role for Citizens in Democratic Security”, Workshop on Democratic Security. Concepts, Practices and Consequences, European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), University of Macedonia Thessaloniki (online).
  • Opitz, Christian, and Hanna Pfeifer. “How Should We Normatively Assess Democratic Quality in the Field of Foreign and Security Policy? A First Approximation”, panel on Citizen Participation, Legitimacy, and Trust, Conference of the Political Studies Association (PSA), Queens University Belfast (online).
  • Opitz, Christian, Hanna Pfeifer, and Anna Geis. “Politicisation Bottom-up? Citizen Participation in German Foreign and Security Policy”, panel on the Politicisation of Foreign and Security Policy, Sixth Open Conference of the Section International Relations of the DVPW, Freiburg.

2019

  • Opitz, Christian, Hanna Pfeifer, and Anna Geis. “Negotiating Foreign and Security Policy at the ‘Heart of Society’? Evidence from Germany”, Workshop on The Politics of Security Knowledge Negotiation, Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Mons.

2016

  • Geis, Anna, and Hanna Pfeifer. “Dilemmas of Democratic Legitimation in the Discourse of Responsibility in German Foreign Policy”, authors‘ workshop on Politics and Responsibility, Normative Orders Cluster, Frankfurt. 

Invited talks (selection)

2024

  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Invited talk on „Democratic Innovations in Foreign and Security Policy“ in the context of a class on „Constitution, État, Démocratie“ at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2022

  • Geis, Anna. Invited panelist on the panel “Decision-making and mandating discourse (on German military missions abroad)”, Workshop on “Securing Peace Abroad” at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum.

2021

  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Invited panelist on the expert panel on the Security Strategy of a New German Government, Citizen Workshop on Security, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt (online).
  • Geis, Anna. Keynote „German Security Culture“ to the Citizen Workshop on Security, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt.

2019

  • Geis, Anna, and Hanna Pfeifer. Invited talk on “Negotiating Foreign and Security Policy at the ‘Heart of Society’? Evidence from Germany”, colloquium of the Department of Democracy and Democratisation, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Berlin.
  • Geis, Anna. Keynote „Security Culture as Dialogue Culture“ to the Citizen Workshop on Security, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt.

2018

  • Geis, Anna. Invited panelist to the Workshop “Strategy-Making” of the German Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), Berlin.

Science communication (selection)

2022

  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Invited panelist on the National Security Strategy in Light of the Russian War on Ukraine, Kick-off Event of the Regional Research Center Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe), Hessische Landesvertretung Berlin. 
  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Invited Expert to the Public Hearing of the Foreign Council of the German Bundestag on „System Competition“ between Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian States. Strategies of Action in Order to Preserve the Rule-based International Order, Bundestag, Berlin.
  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Policy Advice for the Federal Foreign Office in the Context of the National Security Strategy, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Auswärtiges Amt Berlin (online).

2021

Media and Podcasts (selection)

2023

  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Guest on the live podcast “Science S*heroes – Women and Non-binary Persons in Academia on Democratic Innovations in Foreign and Security Policy”, Futurium Berlin.
  • Pfeifer, Hanna. Episode with Gunther Hellmann, Julian Garritzmann and Rikki Dean on “A New Role for Citizens in Democratic Foreign and Security Policy”, podcast series by Rikki Dean, Julian Garritzmann and Hanna Pfeifer for the MA Comparative Democracy at Goethe University Frankfurt, podcast Talk Social Science To Me, Goethe University Frankfurt.

2021