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
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. Judith Kohlenberger
Senior Researcher
judith.kohlenberger@oiip.ac.at
Areas of Expertise: Refugee migration and integration, flight and education, the demography of displaced persons and crisis narratives
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
Dr. Loïc Simonet
Post-Doc Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Oil and Gas Pipelines in International Law and International Relations, Disarmament and Arms Control, Border Walls around the world
Fellows
Dr.in Zeynep Arkan Tuncel
Visiting Fellow
Areas of Expertise: EU foreign and security policy and hybrid threats, Turkish foreign policy, Critical IR theories, role of identity, discourses and narratives in foreign policy
Affiliated Researchers
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
Erik Isaksson, MA
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Narratives, discourses, identity, status, East Asian (particularly Japanese) international relations, Japanese politics
Osnat Lubrani, MA
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: United Nations, international humanitarian affairs, transitions from conflict to peace, development gender/women’s leadership, Ukraine, Middle East/Israel, Balkans, Pacific Small Islands developing states
Vito Morisco, MA
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: Critical terrorism studies, political violence and Islamist movements
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
Laetitia Spetschinsky
Affiliated Researcher
laetitia.spetschinsky@uclouvain.be
Areas of Expertise: Eu-Russia relations, Russian foreign policy, geopolitics of the post soviet space.
Dr.in Saskia Stachowitsch
Affiliated Researcher
Areas of Expertise: EU-Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Conflict and political violence,...Security Concepts
Dr.in Sanna Strand
Affiliated Researcher
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