Team
Management
Dr. Cengiz Günay
Director
+43 (0)1 581 11 06 /16
cengiz.gunay@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Democracy and the rise of new forms of authoritarian governance, Neoliberal interventions and their effects, European Neighbourhood Policy, foreign policy-making processes, Islamism
Office Management
Academic Researchers
Clemens Binder, MA
Researcher
+43 1 581 11 06 DW 38
clemens.binder@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: European border and migration policy, critical security studies and politics of technology and security
Dr. Vedran Dzihic
Senior Researcher
+43 (0)1 581 11 06 DW 34
vedran.dzihic@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, International Institutions,...Political Reform and Transformation Processes, Social Movements and Non-State Actors, State building/Peace Building/Resilience, Comparative Research on the Causes of Wars and Conflicts, Comparative Regional Research
Dr. Thomas Eder
Post-Doc Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Chinese foreign and security policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, China and international law, European China policy
Dr.in Daniela Pisoiu
Senior Researcher
+43 1 581 11 06 - 37
daniela.pisoiu@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism, Radicalisation, Extremism, European and International Security, Social Movements Comparative Research on the Causes of Wars and Conflicts
Fellows
Müge Dalkıran, MA
Visiting Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Forced Migration, Refugee Rights, Asylum System in Turkey and Greece, EU’s Migration and Asylum Policies, EU’s Mediterranean Policies
Dr.in Nina C. Krickel-Choi
Ernst Mach Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Ontological Security, (Critical) Security Studies, State Sovereignty, International Relations Theory, East Asia (esp. Japan)
Dr.in Sanna Strand
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Military recruitment and retention in Europe; Militarism and military legitimation; Nation branding and national identity; gender relations and gender mainstreaming policies within armed forces
Affiliated Researchers
Dr. Faruk Ajeti
Affiliated Researcher
+43 1 581 11 06
faruk.ajeti@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Foreign Policy, Austrian Foreign Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, European Integration and Europeanisation. His regional focus is on South Eastern Europe and transatlantic relations.
Dr.in Irene Costantini
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Politics of international interventions in conflict affected-contexts and post-conflict transition, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region
Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Heinz Gärtner
Affiliated Researcher
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/heinz.gaertner
heinz.gaertner@univie.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Disarmament, Nuclear non-proliferation, Arms control, The Global Role of the USA,...Emerging Powers, EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Austrian Foreign, Security Policy Analysis
Dr. Christian Haddad
Affiliated Researcher
Dr. Stephan Kieninger
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: NATO, Security and Defense, Arms Control, Transatlantic Relations, Cold War History, Natural Gas Trade
Dr. Jan Pospisil
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Peace and transition processes with a focus on the wider Red Sea region and East Africa, donor politics in peacebuilding, resilience, and South Sudanese and Sudanese politics
Dr.in Julia Sachseder
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Political economy and (post)coloniality of (border) security, migration, violence and gender as well as private, non-state and corporate actors in peace and conflict
Dr. Loïc Simonet
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Oil and Gas Pipelines in International Law and International Relations, Disarmament and Arms Control, Border Walls around the world
Dr.in Saskia Stachowitsch
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Conflict and political violence,...Security Concepts
Dr. Jakub Zahora
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Critical Security Studies, political ethnography, the politics of visuality and space, humanitarianism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Interns
