Johanna Speyer, M.A.

 

Department of Political Science
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Georg Forster-Building

Email: speyer@politik.uni-mainz.de

Office hours: by appointment

  1. Current Teaching
  2. Research
  3. Curriculum Vitae
  4. Publications
  5. Membership

Current Teaching

  • Seminar Introduction to International Relations (in English)
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Research

PhD project

A Theory of Backlash. How and Why States Practice Backlash Against Liberal Norms and Institutions
(submitted)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann (JGU Mainz), Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/ Goethe University Frankfurt)

Research Interests

  • IR Norm Research
  • Critical-Constructivist Contestation Research
  • Theories of International Relations
  • Normative Theories of International Relations
  • International Public Law
  • Identity in International Relations
  • Peace and Conflict Studies
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Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 04/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) in the LOEWE Research Group "World Orders in Conflict", PRIF - Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Frankfurt am Main
  • 10/2017 - 03/2024: Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann), Department of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • 11/2016-09/2017: Project coordinator for the Project Internationalisation of Political Science (funded by the Gutenberg Teaching Council), Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann), Department of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • 10/2014 – 10/2016: Master of Arts (MA) in International Studies/ Peace and Conflict Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Masterthesis: Die Unwahrscheinlichkeit der Menschenrechte. Überlegungen zu einer individuellen Klagebefugnis auf internationaler Ebene (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff)
  • 07/2014 – 04/2016: Student Research Assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) for the research projects One-Sided or Balanced: Which Post-Civil War Order Secures the Intrastate Peace? (Dr. Thorsten Gromes/ Prof. Dr. Lothar Brock) and Salafism in Germany (Prof. Dr. Harald Müller/ Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase).
  • 10/2010 – 03/2014: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Governance and Public Policy – Staatswissenschaften, University of Passau
  • 02/2013 – 02/2014: Project Assistant for the multinational Project Tunisia in Transition (funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Stahl), University of Passau
  • 10/2012 – 02/2013: Student Teaching Assistant for Macroeconomics, Chair of Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff), University of Passau

Awards and Scholarships

  • Junior fellow of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers (2020-2023)
  • Grantee of the Evangelisches Studienwerks Villigst e.V. (2010-2016)
  • Grantee of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) (2011-2016)
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Publications

Articles (anonymously peer-reviewed):

  • Kropp, Selma; Schmidtke, Tobias; Speyer, Johanna; Stelter, Maike; Stockmann, Nils (2023): Reflexivity Matters! Wie die IB-Normenforschung von der Kommunikation über Situiertheit profitiert [engl.: How IR norm research benefits from communicating about situatedness], in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 30 (2): 187-199.
  • Speyer, Johanna, Stockmann, Nils (2023): How a Conversation Between EU Studies and Critical-Constructivist IR Norm Research Illuminates a Union in Crisis. A Research Note, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, online first. (open access via Wiley Online Library)
  • Stockemer, Daniel; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna; Unger, Doris (2019): The “Refugee crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism, in: International Migration Review: online first.
  • Speyer, Johanna (2018): Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint: Wie ein Weltmenschenrechtsgerichtshof die Menschenrechte schwächt, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 25:2, 6-32 (open access via Nomos eLibrary).
  • Stockemer, Daniel; Niemann, Arne; Rabenschlag, Johannes; Speyer, Johanna; Unger, Doris (2018): Immigration, anti-immigrant attitudes and Eurosceptism: a meta-Analysis, in: French Politics 16:1, 328-340.
  • Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (2018): A Neofunctionalist Perspective on the ‚European Refugee Crisis‘: the Case of the European Border and Coast Guard‘, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 56:1, 23-43.

Edited Volumes

  • Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (eds.) (2020): Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • Speyer, Johanna; Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne (2022): International Perceptions of Brexit, in: Leruth, Benjamin; Gänzle, Stefan; Trondal, Jarle (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (2020): Conclusion: External Perceptions of the EU and EU Foreign Policy Making at Times of Brexit, in: Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (eds.): Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Speyer, Johanna; Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne (2020): Introduction: Uncertain Change and Changing Uncertainty: the Brexit Referendum and the EU in the Eyes of the World, in: Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (eds.): Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Speyer, Johanna, Hähn, Laura; Niemann, Arne (2020): Increasingly brittle? US-perceptions of the EU after Brexit and their impact on EU-US relations, in: Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (eds.): Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge.

Working Papers:

Blog Posts:

Selected Conference Papers:

  • Hitting the High Cs of International Relations Research: How do Norm Contestation and Crises relate to each Other? (with Nils Stockmann), 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association (EISA), Potsdam, Germany, 5-9 September 2023.
  • Normgezwitscher: Twitter-Analysen in der konstruktivistischen Normenforschung (with Jonas Biel) [engl: Twittering Norms: Twitter Analyses in Constructivist Norms Research], Seventh Convention of the section „International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 14-16 June 2023.
  • Institutional Contestation, Norm Contestation and Norm Hierarchies in Poland’s Backlash Against the EU, 64th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association "Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity", Montréal, Canada, 15-18 March 2023.
  • To say, what the Rule of Law is. Norm Cores between Empty Signifiers and Liberal Impositions, Sixth Convention of the section „International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association, Freiburg/online, 7.-9. Oktober 2020.
    Shortlisted for the Best Paper Award of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (zib)
  • Why States Rebel; Workshop "Contested Liberal World Order. Nationalist Challenges for Multilateralism", LMU Munich, 6 -7 June 2019.
  • (Legal) Security lost? How the European Union can help us understand about international backlashes against liberal norms and institutions; Workshop "The EU in international security after Brexit: New paths for Europe?", University of Cambridge, 13-14 December 2018.
  • "Broken, bankrupt and bizarre"? What prisoners' voting reveal about the relationship between national Democracy and the international enforcement of human rights norms; 27th Academic Congress of trhe German Political Science Association, Frankfurt, 25-28 September 2018.
  • And the Walls kept tumbling down...What Poland's and Hungary's defiance means for the future of the EU; 13th Conference of Young Researchers in IR "Security, Economy and Society. Theories and Issue Areas of International Relations", Tutzing, 20-22 April 2018.
    Paper presented also at the Graduate Conference "A Changing EU in a Changing World", Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 3-4 May 2018.
  • Images of a Divorce. External Perceptions of the Brexit in the USA and their influence on Transatlantic Relations (with Arne Niemann); 59th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association "Power of Rules and Rule of Power, San Francisco, 4-7 April 2018.
    Paper presented also at the Workshop "External Perceptions of the EU after Brexit", Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 28-29 June 2018.
  • Die Unwahrscheinlichkeit der Menschenrechte. Überlegungen zu einer individuellen Klagebefugnis auf globaler Ebene [engl: The Improbability of Human Rights. Reflexions on a Global Right of Action]; Fifth Convention of the section „International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association, Bremen, 4.-6. Oktober 2017.
  • What we are (not) – Russia as Europe’s constitutive other; with Bernhard Stahl. Jean-Monnet Workshop „Approaching EU-Russia Relations differently“, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 11.-12. April 2014.
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Membership

German Political Science Association (GPSA)

  • 2020-2023: Co-Spokesperson for the Early Career Group International Relations (ECIB) of the GPSA
  • Since 2020: Co-Spokesperson for the Working Group IR Norms Research of the GPSA

Eurupean International Studies Association (EISA)

International Studies Association (ISA)

 

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