Dr. Leonie Holthaus
Research Associate
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Contact
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Leonie Holthaus works as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the chair for “Transnational Governance”. Her research is focused on the theory and history of international relations, international organizations and civil society, and democratization, in particular in the region of the Middle East and North Africa and the Gulf Monarchies.
Her recent research approaches democracy promotion and democracy promotion expertise from sociological and practice theoretical perspectives. In this contexts, she cooperates with Prof. Dr. Michael Christensen (Carleton University) and members of the network External Democracy Promotion. More recently, she became interested in climate activism and emotions.
Among Leonie’s international cooperation partners is Prof. Dr. Michael Christensen. She is also a member of the network External Democracy Promotion https://www.external-democracy-promotion.eu/
Interview
Dr. Leonie Holthaus hat ein kurzes Interview zur WM 2022 und der Lage der Menschenrechte in Katar gegeben:
Research interests
Civil Society
Democratization
International Relations
International Organizations
Postcolonial Studies
Practice Theory
Qualitative Methodologies
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| 10/2017 – | Senior Research Fellow, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
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| 04/2020 – 09/2020 | Acting Professor of International Politics, Potsdam University, Germany |
| 10/2015 – 10/2017 | Senior Research Fellow, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Associative of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Research Network, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 10/2010 – 09/2015 | Research Fellow, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Associative of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Research Network, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 10/2010 – 02/2011 | Associate Lecturer, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany |
| 08/2009 – 07/2014 | Freelance work (Lecturer at ‘European Union Days’ at High Schools) with the Institute of Political Education of the State Hessen, Wiesbaden, Germany |
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10/2007 – 07/2010 |
Student Assistant at the Chairs of Prof. Dr. von Bredow, Prof. Dr. Berg-Schlosser, and Prof. Dr. Noetzel, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany |
| Academic Education | |
| 05/2011 – 12/2015 | PhD (summa cum laude) “Justifications of International Functionalism;” Supervision by Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Prof. Dr. Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 10/2004 – 05/2010 | State examination in Political Science, German Language and Literature; Graduation (High Distinction), Philipps-University Marburg, Germany |
| 08 – 12/2006 | Visiting Student at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
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Professionalization |
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06/2020 – 11/2021 |
ProProfessur – Mentoring Hessen, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Mentor: Prof. Dr. Tina Freyburg, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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Visiting Research Fellowships |
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| 02 – 03/2020 | Erasmus Staff Exchange/Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
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11/2017 |
Erasmus Staff Exchange, Division of History and Politics, University of Stirling, Scotland |
| 02 – 03/2016 | Visiting Research Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia |
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10/2015 |
Erasmus Staff Exchange, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales |
| 04 – 07/2012 | Research stay, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Collaboration (Selection) |
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| National | Prof. Dr. Marina Mateo Martinez (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich) |
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Dr. Henrike Knappe (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam) |
| Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolff (Goethe University, Frankfurt) | |
| International |
Prof. Dr. Sarah Bush (Yale University) |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Christensen (Carleton University) | |
| Knowledge Transfer and Policy Advice (Selection) | |
| 2020 | Democracy promotion and German development cooperation/Mercator Science-Policy Fellowship Programs |
| 2017 – | Civil society aid in Tunisia/Knowledge sharing and policy advise for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Tunis, Tunisia |
| 2015 | Modern slavery in the Arab Gulf/Knowledge sharing with Amnesty International |
| University Service | |
| 2021 | nization and Moderation of the Eugen-Kogon-Lecture „Decline of the Left, the Rise of Populism and Democratic Dissatisfaction”, Prof. Dr. Sheri Berman (Columbia University), online, December 2, 2021, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2020 – | Member of the Working Group on Sustainability, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2021 | Coordinator of the Presentation of the Institute of Political Science at the ‘Hochschul- und Berufsinformationstage’ (Higher Education Information Days), Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2019 | Member of the Appointments Committee for the Full Professorship “Peace and Conflict Studies”, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2016 – 17 | Member of the Appointments Committee for the Full Professorship “Administrative Studies and Public Policy”, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2015 | Member of the Appointments Committee for the Junior Professorship on “Models of Housing and Energy Policy”, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2014 – 15 | Member of the Selection Committee “Peace and Conflict Studies”, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2012 | Member of the Working Group on the Introduction of Cumulative Dissertations at the Institute of Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany |
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Ad hoc reviewing for |
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| Current Sociology | |
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Democratization |
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European Journal of International Relations |
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Global Policy |
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International Studies Quarterly |
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Modern Intellectual History |
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Review of International Studies |
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| Voluntas – International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations | |
| Membership in Scientific Associations | |
| 2016 – | European International Studies Association |
| 2013 – | International Studies Association |
| 2010 – | German Political Science Association |
| 2008 – 12 | German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation |
| Invited Talks | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2022): Rereading Pierre Bourdieu in view of Global Political Sociology, research colloquium of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, June 29, 2022. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2019): Die Ursprünge von Global Governance: Vom 19. Jahrhundert zu den Vereinten Nationen, research colloquium of Dr. Siegfried Schieder, Heidelberg University, Germany, June 5, 2019. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2016): International Analogies: International Thought and the Reconfiguration of Democratic Ideas, research seminar of the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia, March 3, 2016. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2015): International Analogies and Domestic Reform Proposals, research seminar of the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, October 8, 2015. | |
| Panel, Workshop and Conference Organization | |
| Organizer of the workshop “Herrschaftslegitimation, Magnet der Kritik, oder unpolitisches Sportereignis? Analysen der FIFA 2022 in Katar” (Preliminary title: Legitimizing power, magnet of criticism, or apolitical sports event? Analyses of the FIFA 2022 in Qatar), Schader Stiftung/Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, October 27, 2022. | |
| Organizer of the panel “Doing Historical Practice Theory”, European International Studies Association (EISA) Pan-European Conference on International Relations (PEC), Athens, Greece, September 1 – 4, 2022. | |
| Organizer of the panel “Practice Theoretical Perspectives on Diplomacy and the Foreign Policy of the European Union”, EISA PEC, Athens, Greece, September 1 – 4, 2022. | |
| Organizer of the panel (with Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolff, Goethe University Frankfurt) “Democracy Promotion as a Changing Constellation of Practices”, ISA Annual Convention, Nashville, United States of America, March 28 – April 2, 2022. | |
| Organizer of the panel (with Prof. Dr. Felix Rösch, Coventry University) “Doing Historical Practice Theory”, ISA Annual Convention, Nashville, United States of America, March 28 – April 2, 2022. | |
| Organizer of the panel (with Dr. Andrea Schapper, Stirling University) “International Practices and Knowledge Diffusion: Academic and Practical Knowledge”, EISA Annual Convention, online, September 13 – 17, 2021. | |
| Organizer of the workshop (with Prof. Dr. Sarah Bush, Yale University) “Theories and Practices of Democracy Promotion”, Technical University of Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 13, 2019. | |
| Organizer of and panelist at the panel “Democracy Beyond the National Frontier: Transnational Democracy in Historical, Normative, and Contemporary Perspective”, at the Annual Convention of German Political Science Association “The Frontiers of Democracy”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 25 – 28, 2018. | |
| Organizer of the workshop “The Hundred Years’ Crisis: Global Order in Historical Perspective” of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, Germany, July 6, 2018. | |
| Organizer of and panelist at the panel “Changing Images of Germany in International Relations”, at the Annual Convention of the ISA, San Francisco, United States of America, April 4 – 7, 2018. | |
| Co-organizer of the workshop “Huns, Prussians and Peaceniks: Changing Images of Germany in International Relations”, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 8 – 9, 2016. | |
| Co-organizer of the workshop “Jenseits der Anarchie: Weltordnungsentwürfe im frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert“ (Beyond Anarchy: World Order Proposals of the Early Twentieth Century), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, July 12 – 13, 2013. | |
| Organization of the panel “Interrupting Autocratic Rule in the MENA” at the 3rd Annual Graduate Conference “The Dynamics of Normative Orders: Persistence, Motion, Rupture” by the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 18 – 20, 2010. | |
| Organizer of the panel “New Liberalism and International Relations” at the 3rd Annual Graduate Conference “The Dynamics of Normative Orders: Persistence, Motion, Rupture” by the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 18 – 20, 2010. | |
| Conference and Workshop Activities | |
| Discussant at the workshop „Democracy and Practices of Global Order“, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, July 14 – 15, 2022. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2022): Towards the analysis of change in EU democracy promotion, paper presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, Luiss University, Rome, Italy, June 8 – 10, 2022. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie and Wolff, Jonas (2022): Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Nashville, United States of America, March 28 – April 2, 2022. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2019): Revisiting the Origins of Democracy Assistance, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the ISA, Toronto, Canada, March 27 – 30, 2019. | |
| Member of the roundtable “Leveraging Innovative Scholarship for Progressive Social Transformation II: From the World to Academia” at the Annual Convention of the ISA, Toronto, Canada, March 27 – 30, 2019. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2018): Die Genese der pluralistischen Demokratiekonzeption und –kritik, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the German Political Science Association “The Frontiers of Democracy”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 25 – 28, 2018. | |
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Holthaus, Leonie (2018): The Evolution of Democracy Assistance in Historical Perspective, paper presented at the workshop “The Hundred Years' Crisis: Global Order in Historical Perspective” of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, Germany, July 6, 2018. |
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| Holthaus, Leonie (2018): Was versprechen historische und praxistheoretische Ansätze für die Demokratieförderungsforschung? Paper presented at the workshop “International Democracy Promotion”, Research Network External Democracy Promotion, Lüneburg, Germany, June 29 – 30, 2018. | |
| Steffek, Jens and Holthaus, Leonie (2017): The Social-Democratic Roots of Global Governance: From the Colonies to the United Nations, paper presented at the German Political Science Association, International Relations Conference, Bremen, Germany, October 4 – 6, 2017. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2017): Perpetual Problems in International Relations: Recovering the Pluralist Perspective on Democracy and International Organization, paper presented at the 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona, Spain, September 13 – 16, 2017. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie and Steffek, Jens (2017): Theories and Ideological Trading Zones: Welfare Internationalism and the Social-Democratic Roots of Global Governance, paper presented at the workshop “Theory as Ideology”, 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Cardiff, Wales, June 7 – 19, 2017. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2016): The Liberal Internationalist Self and the Construction of a German Other at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, paper presented at the workshop “Huns, Prussians and Peaceniks: Changing Images of Germany in International Relations”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 8 – 9, 2016. | |
| Steffek, Jens and Holthaus, Leonie (2016): Welfare Internationalism as an Ideology of International Organizations, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the ISA, Atlanta, United States of America, March 16 – 19, 2016. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2015): Left-liberal Reconsiderations of the Democratic Peace Thesis, paper presented at the workshop “Interwar International Theory”, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 13 – 14, 2015. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2013): World Socialism Restated. G.D.H. Cole and International Relations, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the ISA, San Francisco, United States of America, April 3 – 6, 2013. | |
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Holthaus, Leonie (2012): L.T. Hobhouse and International Relations: Cosmopolitanism vs. Internationalism, paper presented at the workshop “Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theories”, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, March 2 – 3, 2012. |
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| Holthaus, Leonie and Steffek, Jens (2011): Planning, Development and the Functional Design of International Organizations, paper presented at the conference “Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations, Non-Governmental Actors and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990”, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, September 29 – 30, 2011. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2010): The International Thought of L. T. Hobhouse, paper presented at the 3rd Annual Graduate Conference “The dynamics of normative orders: persistence, motion, rupture” by the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 18 – 20, 2010. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2010): Retelling the Origins of IR, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 24 – 27, 2010. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2010): Theories of Regional Cooperation and the Founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Gulf “Exceptionalism” Revisited, paper presented at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, Spain, July 19 – 24, 2010. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie (2009): Legitimacy of Regimes and Regional Cooperation in the Gulf Cooperation Council, paper presented at the International Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East, Bonn, Germany, October 8 – 10, 2009. | |
| Holthaus, Leonie and Schrader, Kerstin (2009): Regimelegitimität und regionale Kooperation unter den arabischen Golfmonarchien, paper presented at the workshop “Autocratic Consolidation?”, University of Duisburg – Essen, Germany, May 14 – 15, 2009. | |
Semester summer 2022
02-03-0014-ps Internationale Beziehungen I A
Leonie Sophie Andrea Holthaus
Mo, 11. Apr. 2022 [16:15] – Mo, 11. Jul. 2022 [17:55] Proseminar
02-03-0162-se Quantitative und qualitative Methoden in den (Globalen) Internationalen Beziehungen
Leonie Sophie Andrea Holthaus
Mo, 11. Apr. 2022 [11:40] – Mo, 11. Jul. 2022 [13:20] Seminar
SoSe 2021
02-03-0015-ps Qualitative Methoden in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Mo, 12. Apr. 2021 [13:30] – Mo, 12. Jul. 2021 [15:10] Proseminar
02-03-0162-se Praxistheoretische Perspektiven in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Mo, 12. Apr. 2021 [11:40] – Mo, 12. Jul. 2021 [13:20]
WiSe 2020/21
02-03-0002-ps Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft C
Mi, 4. Nov. 2020 [11:40] – Mi, 10. Feb. 2021 [13:20]
Proseminar
02-03-0163-se Democracy promotion: Actors, objectives, critiques
Mi, 4. Nov. 2020 [15:20] – Mi, 10. Feb. 2021 [17:00]
Seminar
University of Potsdam SoSe 2020
Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten sowie Selbstreflexion und Planung (BA, summer 2020)
Kritische Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen (BA, summer 2020)
Qualitative Methoden in den Internationalen Beziehungen (MA, summer 2020)
Democracy promotion: Actors, objectives, critiques (MA, summer 2020)
Forschungskolloquium für MA-Studierende und Doktorandinnen (MA/PhD, summer 2020, with Prof. Dr. Liese)
WiSe 2019/20
03-0002-ps Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft C
Mi, 16. Okt. 2019 [11:40] – Mo, 17. Feb. 2020 [18:00]
02-03-0154-se Demokratieförderung und Wahlbeobachtung in Tunesien
Do, 24. Okt. 2019 [10:00] – Do, 24. Okt. 2019 [18:00]
SoSe 2019
02-03-0015-ps Internationale Beziehungen II: Einführung in die Demokratieförderung: Konzepte, Akteure, Instrumente
02-03-0048-se Kritische Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen
WiSe 2018/19
02-03-0002-ps Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft C
02-03-0154-se Demokratieförderung und sozio-politische Inklusion in Tunesien
Philipps University of Marburg
Der Golfkooperationsrat (MA, winter 2010/11)
by arrangement