Nele Kortendiek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for International Institutions and Peace Processes. She studied political science at the Universities of Bremen and Geneva (B.A., with distinction) with a scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) as well as International Relations Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc., with distinction). From 2014 to 2017 she held a PhD scholarship of the cluster of excellence “Normative Orders” and from 2018 to 2019 she was a research associate at the Chair of International Relations at Zeppelin University. In 2019 she received her PhD from TU Darmstadt for her dissertation on global mixed migration governance, which explores informal policy making processes in and between international organizations and NGOs. During her PhD she conducted field work at the European external border in Greece as well as in Brussels, Geneva, Valletta and Warsaw. She was a guest researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford (winter 2016) and the Global Governance Unit of the WZB Berlin (summer 2018).
Since 2019, together with Lisbeth Zimmermann Nele Kortendiek directs the DFG-funded project “Open or closed contestation – conditions for policy change by civil society contestation”, which analyzes change of IOs over time as well as IO decision making processes in reaction to contestation.
Her research focusses on contestation and change in global governance. Research topics of interest include knowledge, authority and legitimacy in global governance, civil society contestation and change in international organizations, the influence of nonstate actors on world politics, European and international migration and asylum policy-making as well as normative questions of borders and democracy beyond the nation state.
