Curriculum Vitae - Dr. Julian Junk
Julian Junk joined the working group “International Organizations” (Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase) and the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” in April 2010. Since January of 2013, he has been a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK) in the research department “International Organizations and International Law”. In Frankfurt, he is working on the research projects “Transformation of Security Culture” “Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect”, and “Widerstand – Guerilla – Terrorismus. Transnationale Eskalationsmechanismen gewaltsamer Dissidenz”. From 2006 to 2010, he was a research fellow at the University of Konstanz in the Department of Public Administration and Management and in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Norm and Symbol”. He implemented the SFB research project “Casualties of the New World Order: the Political Construction of Success and Failure of International Interim Administrations”. He is currently co-leader of the research projects “Administrative Science Meets Peacekeeping” and “Coping with the complex side of bureaucracy: Taking a closer look at the internal dynamics of United Nations peace operations” both of which are funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research.
Julian Junk was a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in the fall of 2007, at the School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at the Columbia University in New York throughout 2008, and at the Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) throughout 2009. In addition, he has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) since 2009 and at the Center for Global Politics at the Free University Berlin since 2011.
He studied Public Administration and Management with a major in International Organizations and European Integration at the University of Konstanz, at the University of Lund (Sweden) and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) d' Aix en Provence (France).
His research focuses on the planning and implementation of humanitarian interventions and international peace operations, on the management of international organizations, on the influence of the media on foreign and security policy, and on research methods.
Main Research Interests
- International Organizations and Management and Organization Studies
- UN Peace Operations (among others Sudan/South Sudan/Darfur, Kosovo, Bosnia, and East Timor) and Humanitarian Interventions
- Security Policy and Security Culture
- African Security Architecture
- Foreign Policy Analysis / Media Analysis
- Qualitative Research Methods (among others Method Combinations, Case Study Designs, and Content Analysis)
Research Projects
- Project 1: Transformation of Security Culture
(with Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase, Dr. Stefan Engert, Georgios Kolliarakis, Philipp Offermann, and Dr. Valentin Rauer, all Goethe University Frankfurt)
(the project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research)
(with Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
(the project is implemented at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in cooperation with the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Compagnia die San Paolo).
- Project 3: Widerstand – Guerilla – Terrorismus. Transnationale Eskalationsmechanismen gewaltsamer Dissidenz
(with Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase, Janusz Biene, Daniel Kaiser, and Holger Marcks, all Goethe University Frankfurt)
(the project is part of a research group “International Dissidence – Rule and Resistance in Global Politics”, which is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase and Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff; it is funded by the German Research Foundation).
(with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel and Frederik Trettin, Konstanz University)
(the project is funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research)
