Dr. Sascha Werthes is a graduate of the Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg and obtained a PhD in Political Science from the Philipps-University Marburg.

Before joining the Goethe-University Frankfurt in April 2013, he was lecturer in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University Duisburg-Essen as well as Associate Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF). He has also taught at the Philipps-University Marburg and Brethren Colleges Abroad and was Visiting Lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (SEPHS-Lecturer Mobility Grant). From 2006 to 2011 he co-chaired together with Dr. David Bosold the Working Group on Human Security at the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg. In 2010, Sascha Werthes together with Christian Büger won a research grant for a project on „Governing and Regulating Contemporary Piracy” by the “Profilschwerpunkt ‘Wandel von Gegenwartsgesellschaften‘” at the University Duisburg-Essen. Before he took up his first academic position, he was awarded a PhD-scholarship by the German Foundation for Peace Research.

General Research and Teaching Areas:

• International Relations
• UN Studies
• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Diplomacy, International Sanctions Policy
• Security Studies
• Theory and Practice of Human Security