Books:
Universalization of Human Rights? The Effectiveness of Western Human Rights Policies towards Developing Countries after the Cold War. With Case Studies on China. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Univ. Diss., 2004, 593 p.
Human Rights Law, Culture, and Economics: An Intersectionalist Investigation. With Case Studies on the Death Penalty (in China and in the United States) and Immigration Policies in Europe. De Grüyer (Brill) publisher (to be submitted in June 2026).
Internationale Menschenrechtspolitik – ein Lehrbuch. Verlag Barbara Budrich (angefragt) 2026/27
Edited Books:
China and Autocracy: Its Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy. London: I.B. Tauris 2020
Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Governance in der internationalen Politik – Konflikt oder Konvergenz im Wunschkonzert der Ziele? Lit-Verlag, Münster, Jan. 2017.
Menschenrechte, Bildung und Entwicklung – Bestandsaufnahme ihrer Zusammenhänge. Festschrift für Prof. Karl-Peter Fritzsches 65. Geburtstag“, Co-Herausgeber Malte Brosig, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Oktober 2015.
Journal Articles:
Peer-reviewed, under peer-reviewing, and to be submitted:
Mediation, War, and Peace Security Missions: Some Lessons from the Legacy of the Minsk Agreement and the OSCE Mission during the Russian and Ukrainian War since 2014”, together with Martin Schmid, to be submitted to Journal of International Organization and Develoopment, April 2026
„Governing Refugee (Im)Mobility through Shared Responsibility? Paradoxes, Tensions and Possibilities“, to be submitted to Journal of Migration Studies, May 2026
„Combating Cyber Hate Speech Criminality: How Algorithms Are Challenging Democratic Institutions and Changing Judicial Action against Violence“, to be submitted to Perspectives on Politics, May 2026
Rethinking Human–Nature Relationships: Daoism’s Contribution to Transcultural Sociotechnical Imaginaries, (2022) Co-Author Zhanli Sun, Special Issue “Geographies of Imaginaries and Environmental Governance”, Professional Geographer, https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00330124.2022.2075404
„Bridging Ethics and Cross-Border Reproduction Technology through Transnational Health Governance? A Feminist and Philosophical Reflection“, Journal of Business Diversity, 20 (4): 126-44, 2020
„Eine Historiographie der Kontingenzen – zur Rolle der Menschenrechte in der internationalen Politik,“ Buchrezension „Die Ambivalenz des Guten. Menschenrechte in der internationalen Politik seit den 1940ern“ von Jan Eckel, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, In Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft im Metropol-Verlag, 2015, S. 1001-02.
„European Migration Law and Practices between Integration, Imagination and Exclusion“ paper room at the academic.edu (since 2014).
“Gerechtigkeits- und Geschichtspolitik in Ostasien – Trostfrauen als Beispiel“, Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Jg. 8 (1), S. 136-59, 2014
„Ein Tor geöffnet zu deliberativ gefundenen Menschenrechten? Zu Fricks Suche nach einem Grundkonsens“, Erwägen Wissen Ethik (EWE), herausgegeben von Frank Benseler, Bettina Blanck, Reinhard Keil, Werner Loh, Jahrgang 24, Heft 3, 2013/14, Paderborn: Verlag Lucius & Lucius, S. 210-12, ISSN: 1610-3696.
„International Security, Development and Human Rights – Policy Conversion or Conflict?“, Journal of International and Global Politics, Vol. 3 (2): 75-108, April 2012.
http://www.lindenwood.edu/jigs/
Menschenrechte – Zum Politischen und Gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungsgewinn seit 1948,“ Fachzeitschrift Siegen: Sozial (SI:SO) Analyse Berichte Kontroversen (interdisziplinäre erziehungs- und sozialwissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift der Studiengänge Soziale Arbeit Universität Siegen Fakultät II, Frühling 2012
“The Models of Peace in Asia”, In: S+F. Sicherheit und Frieden – Security and Peace (4/2005), Jg. 23, pp. 216-221.
Buchbeiträge
“Two Competing Dragons: China and Taiwan in Latin American and Caribbean Regions in Uncertain Times”, together with Wolfgang Muno, Christian Pfeiffer, and Eduardo Fidel Pastrana Buelvas, in China’s 2025 Vision in Practice, Volume II: Emerging ‚Beijing Consensus‘ and Changing Global Power Paradigm, edited by Young-Chan Kim, Springer, 2026
“Do Peace Missions Matter in Africa?”, in Legalization as Practice: The Legalization of Human Rights Laws Prohibiting Torture and Other Forms of State-Sanctioned Violence in Africa, edited by Stacey M. Mitchell and Veraline Nchotu, London: Routledge, 2025, pp. 131-48.
„The Power of Regional Peripheries: The Making and Unmaking of Legalization of Human Rights in Mali“, in Legalization as Practice: The Legalization of Human Rights Laws Prohibiting Torture and Other Forms of State-Sanctioned Violence in Africa, edited by Stacey M. Mitchell and Veraline Nchotu, pp. 239-56, London: Routledge, 2025, pp. 239-56.
„Governing Uncertainties during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Change of the Science-Policy Interfaces and Its Impacts upon Gender in Europe“, in Governing Uncertainties in Global Politics, edited by Anastasia Shesterinina and Miriam Matejova, London: Routledge, pp. 117-135, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003426080/uncertainty-global-politics-miriam-matejova-anastasia-shesterinina
„The Prospect of Democracy in China: One-Man Rule and Institutional Change”, In China and Autocracy –Its Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy, edited by Hasenkamp, Miao-ling Lin, pp. 11-40 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)
„Eliminating and Raising Tigers and Flies. The Paradox of China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign.“ In China and Autocracy –Its Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy, edited by Hasenkamp, Miao-ling Lin, pp. 77-100 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)
„China’s authoritarianism goes global? Domestic and international dimensions“, In China and Autocracy –Its Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy, edited by Hasenkamp, Miao-ling Lin, pp. 1-8 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)
„China’s autocracy, global democracy and their limits in an age of uncertainty“, In China and Autocracy –Its Political Influence and the Limits of Global Democracy, edited by Hasenkamp, Miao-ling Lin, pp. 201-15 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)
„Transitional Justice in Ostasien: Die Suche nach Gerechtigkeit aus globaler und lokaler Perspektive,“ in Handbuch Transitional Justice, herausgegeben von Anja Mihr, Gert Pickel und Susanne Pickel, Wiesbaden: Springer VS Sozialwissenschaften, 2017, pp. 495-522, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-02392-8
“Menschenrechte und Nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Politik des Klimawandels – neue Ansätze und ihre Implikationen” in Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Governance in der internationalen Politik – Konflikt oder Konvergenz im Wunschkonzert der Ziele? herausgegeben Hasenkamp, Miao-ling, Lit-Verlag, Münster (Jan. 2017), 39-68.
“Menschenrechte und Nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Politik des Klimawandels – überlappende Dimensionen und ihre Implikationen” in Menschenrechte, Bildung und Entwicklung – Bestandsaufnahme ihrer Zusammenhänge. Festschrift für Prof. Karl-Peter Fritzsches 65. Geburtstag, Co-Herausgeber Malte Brosig, Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 231-254.
„Human Rights Education and the Diversity of Religions“, Co-Autor Karl-Peter Fritzsche, In: Human Rights and Religions. Band VI der Reihe „Internationales Menschenrechtsforum Luzern (IHRF)“, Stämpfli Verlag Bern, Nov. 2009, p. 421-428.
„The Return of Confucianism? Moral Education as Human Rights Education in China“, In Geiger, Gunter (Ed.). The Fight of Human Rights for Universal Recognition: Case Studies on Human Rights and Women Rights in Asia. Verlag Barbara Budrich, p. 56-65 (Dec. 2010).
“Human and Women Rights of Female Migrant Workers in China,“ In Geiger, Gunter (Ed.), The Fight of Human Rights for Universal Recognition: Case Studies on Human Rights and Women Rights in Asia. Verlag Barbara Budrich, p. 66-81 (Dec. 2010).
“Western Human Rights Diplomacy – A Critique,” in: 1999 Annual Conference Report published by the Chinese Research Association of Social Sciences in Germany.
Public Documents/Reports and Others:
„Democracy in Taiwan and Its Implications for China.“ In Taiwan in Movement. 100 Jahre Republik China. Eine Publikation herausgegeben von der Deutsch-Chinesischen Gesellschaft e. V. – Freunde Taiwans, 2014, ISBN 3-924171-75-0
Report „Religions-Geschichtsschreibung als Ort des Gesprächs – Hans Joas erinnerte an David Humes Inspiration,“ im Rahmen der OvGU Vorlesung 12. Nov. 2012, In uni:report, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Januar 2013.
Workshop „Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Governance in der internationalen Politik – Konflikt oder Konvergenz im Wunschkonzert der Ziele?“ im Rahmen des 25. DVPW-Kongresses in Tübingen, 27./28. September, organisiert vom Arbeitskreis „Menschenrechte“, In Rundbrief der DVPW, Herbst Ausgabe, DVPW, Nov. 2012.
Tagungsbericht „Menschenrechte ohne Bildung?“ anlässlich des 60. Geburtstages von Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Fritzsche, Inhaber des UNESCO-Lehrstuhls für Menschenrechtsbildung, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Mitte April 2010, In uni:report, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Juni 2010.
„A Common History of East Asia? Dealing with the Memories of War in Japan, China and Korea”, In: International Human Rights Research, <http://www.ihrr.net>.
„China in Africa – New Perspectives und Challenges“, Sammelvorträge vom 32. Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag, Bremen, In: http://www.kirchentag.de/service/presse/dokumente-und-nachrichten/dokumente.html, 4 p.
Tagungs-Papiere und –Aktivitäten
Co-Investigator, Pre-Conference Research Workshop “Human Rights Hierarchies, Regime Complexes, and Governance Practices”, together with Stacey Mitchell and George Andreopoulos, ISA’s Annual Convention, Columbus, 22nd-25th March 2026
Initiator and Organisation of a Series of Virtual Events (Three Parts) “Global Migration Governannce at a Crossroads: The Narrative of Global Responsibility and Its Legal and Ethical Implications, together with Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies (ENMISA), International Ethics (IETHICS), and International Law (ILAW) Sections, ISA (Between Nov. 2025 and Jan. 2026)
Paper presentation “(De)Gendering Online-Radiclaisation: Are Cyber Security Regulations on the Right Track?” Annual Meeting of British International Studies Association (BISA), Belfast, 18 June 2025.
Paper presentation “Is There an Elephant in the Room? The Public Authority of International Courts in Political Universes”, co-author with Stacey Mitchell, Research Workshop, organized by the School of Law, Glasgow University, co-sponsored by the Working Group “Law and Politics”, British International Studies Association (BISA), Section “International Law” of the ISA, and European Society of International Law (ESIL), Glasgow, 29. May 2025.
Paper presentation “The Use of Manless Automatic Weapons and its Ethical Implications”, ISA, Annual Convention 2-5 March 2025, Chicago/USA
Paper presentation „Winning Hearts and Minds in International Mediation Missions: Some Messages from the OSCE’s Involvemetns in the Ukraine Conflict between 2014 and 2022“, co-author Martin Schmidt, ISA Annual Convention „Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies“, April 3rd-6th, 2024, San Francisco, US
Paper presentation „Combating Cyber Hate Speech Criminality: How Algorithms Are Changing Judicial Action against Violence“, BISA, Glasgow, June 21-23, 2023
Participant in the Roundtable „Problematic Peacebuilding: A Comparative Analysis“, ISA Annual Convention „Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity“, March 15th-18th, 2023, Montreal, Canada
Paper presentation „Can Mediation and Preventive Diplomacy still Work? the Role of International Organizations in an Age of Hybrid Geopolitics among Great Powers“, ISA Annual Convention „Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity“, March 15th-18th, 2023, Montreal, Canada
Paper presentation „Governing Uncertainty during the Corona Pandemic: Knowledge Transfer, Policy-Making and Gender in Global Health Politics“, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Nashville/US, 28. March 2022
Paper presentation „Combating Cyber Hate Speech Criminality: How Algorithms Are Changing Judicial Action against Violence“, ISA Annual Convention, Nashville/US, 30 March 2022
Paper presentation „Does Iron Rule Prevail? Authority, Culture, Anti-Pandemic Measures in Different Regimes. With the Focus on China’s and Germany’s Pandemic Politics“, Virtual Congress of the German Association of Political Science (DVPW), 14-16. Sept. 2021
Paper presentation „Ethical Foreign Policy as Multi-Level Governance Challenges“, 7th Joint Human Rights Conference, International Studies Assocation (ISA), 14-16 June 2021
Paper presentation “Education with Civic Engagement: Some Toolbox and Experiments“, 2021 Annual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), 6.-9.
Paper presentation „Governing Uncertainty during the corona pandemic: Knowledge
Transfer, Policy-Making and Gender in Global Politics“, 2021 Annual Convention, ISA, 6.-9. Apr.
Paper presentation “Education with Civic Engagement: Some Toolbox and Experiments“, 2021 Annual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA), 6.-9.
Paper presentation „Governing Uncertainty during the corona pandemic: Knowledge
Transfer, Policy-Making and Gender in Global Politics“, 2021 Annual Convention, ISA, 6.-9. Apr.
Participant of a Round Table discussion „Pedagogical Approaches to IR Theory in Introductory Courses“, 2021 Annual Convention, ISA, 6.-9.
Organisation des Panels “Demokratie und Menschenrechte in Gefahr? Das Erstarken des Rechtspopulismus und seine Effekte und Implikationen”, 27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW “Grenzen der Demokratie”, 25.-28. September 2018, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Paper “Towards an Integrated European Defense Union? The Impact of Brexit on Franco-German Defense Cooperation Policy Preferences”, International Studies Association (ISA), 59th Annual Convention, 5th April 2018, San Francisco/USA
Paper “Re-negotiating the city: surveillance and refugee integration in German urban Communities“ in the Working Group “Cities and the Contentious Politics of Migration”, International Studies Association (ISA), 59th Annual Convention, 3rd April 2018, San Francisco/USA
Paper “Gendering Health Risks in Global Environmental Governance – A Critical Examination“, International Studies Association (ISA) 58th Annual Convention, 22. Feb. 2017, Baltimore/USA
Paper “Synergizing Islam and Gender in Peacebuilding? Some Messages from Afghanistan“, ISA) 58th Annual Convention, Feb. 24, 2017, Baltimore/USA
Paper „International Criminal Court as a Site to Combat Transnational Terrorism“, International Studies Association (ISA) 57th Annual Convention, Atlanta/US, March 19, 2016
The organization and discussant of Roundtable „The EU as a Normative Actor of Global Justice – Normative Backgrounds, Mechanisms, Experiences and Limitations“, ISA 57th Annual Convention, Atlanta/US, March 17, 2016
Poster presentation “Reframing European Refugee Policies – Governance between Anti-Terror War and Humanitarianism,” MPSA 73rd National Conference, Chicago, April 17, 2015
Paper “Human Rights and Sustainable Development in the Politics of Climate Change,” MPSA 72nd National Conference, Chicago, April 4, 2014
Paper “Towards a Chinese Brand of Democracy? Models, Dynamics and Limitations,” ISA 55th Annual Convention Toronto, March 29, 2014
Paper “Searching for Economic Security – Big Government, Small Government or A Supranational Solution?”, PSS-ISA (the Peace Science Society-International Studies Association), Joint Conference, Budapest/Hungary, June 27 – 29, 2013.
Paper „European Migration Law and Practices between Integration, Imagination and Exclusion,” Mid West Political Science Association (MPSA) 71st National Conference, Chicago, April 13, 2013.
Workshop-Organisation für das Tagungsprogramm des Arbeitskreises „Menschenrechte“, Kongress der Deutscher Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), Tübingen, 24-28. Sept. 2012
Discussant of the Panel “IR Theory and Identity” with two papers “A Chinese School of IR Theory” by Yu Bao and “Taiwan’s Identity Construction through Economic Development” by Lee Jyun-yi, MPSA 70th National Conference, Chicago, April 14, 2012
Paper “Transnational Discourse versus Indigenous Knowledge? Some Reflections upon the Anti-Privatization Movements in Latin America”, MPSA 70th National Conference, Chicago, April 12-15, 2012
Paper “Normative Responsibilities of transnational Corporations – A New Global Justice Project?” ISA 53rd Annual Convention 2012 San Diego, April 1-4, 2012
Paper “Human Rights Meet Legislation – Cross-Cultural Political and Legal Perspectives. With Case Studies on the Issue of Death Penalty,“ Aug. 19, 2011, WISC 2011, Porto University, Porto, Portugal.
Discussant of the panel “Energy Issues and Its Implications on Regional and International Security,” Aug. 20, 2011, WISC 2011, Porto University, Porto, Portugal.
Chair/Discussant of the Panel “The Chinese Puzzle: Democracy versus Autocracy”, ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, March 16, 2011
Paper “Seeking Justice between the Global and the Local – An East-Asian Perspective,” ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 17, 2011
Organization/Chair of the Panel “Modeling Justice in Global Governance: Norms, Mechanisms and Effects,” at the ISA 52nd Annual Convention 20112011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 17, 2011
Chair/Discussant of the Panel “International Law – How does it work locally?”, ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, March 17, 2011
Discussant of the Poster Session “Human Rights in China”, ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, March 18, 2011
Chair of the Panel “Africa and the World Order,” ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, March 19, 2011
Chair of the panel “China Rising?”, ISA 52nd Annual Convention 2011, Montreal, March 19, 2011
Paper “International Security, Development and Human Rights – Policy Conversion or Conflict?” at the 10th International CISS Millennium Conference “Global Cooperation: Alliances, Institutions, and International Relations”, July 4-5, 2010, Venedig, Italy
Paper „Governing the Darfur Crisis – A Postcolonial Feminist and Anthropological Perspective,“ International Studies Association (ISA), Feb. 17-20, 2010, New Orleans, USA
Paper „Struggle for Whose Justice? Gender and Power in Indigenous Movements,“ Arbeitskreis “Politik und Geschlecht” der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), DVPW Kongress Kiel 21.-25. Sept. 2009
Paper „Towards Human Security Governance? Integrated Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone and Burundi,“ Co-Author Oliver Westerwinter, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Potsdam 2009, 10.-12. Sept. 2009
Paper „Human Rights, Environment and Indigenous Peoples – A Case of Developing A Holistic Integrity Model,” Arbeitskreis „Menschenrechte“ der DVPW mit dem Thema “Zum Aufschwung wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und kultureller Rechte”, 26./27. Okt. 2007, Nürnberg (Rathaus)
Paper „Agenda Misfit. Inkongruente Menschenrechts-Diskurse in einer asymmetrischen Beziehung. Das Recht auf Gesundheit in Afrika als Beispiel“, Siebte Tagung des Arbeitskreises „Soziologie der Internationalen Beziehungen“ (SiB) der DVPW, 16./17. Nov. 2007, Berlin.