Department of Political Science
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Georg Forster-Building
Jakob-Welder-Weg 12
55128 Mainz
Office: 04-313
Phone: 06131-39-28150
Email: speyer@politik.uni-mainz.de
Office hours: Tuesday, 3pm – 4pm (please register via email!)
Teaching
- ST 18: Introduction to International Relations (in English)
- WT 17/18: Introduction to International Relations
- ST 17: Seminar (BA): Introduction to International Relations
Research
Research Interests
- Theories of International Relations
- Normative Theories of International Relations
- International Public Law
- Norm Research
- Identity in International Relations
- Peace and Conflict Studies
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 10/2017: 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
- Grantee of the Evangelisches Studienwerks Villigst e.V.
- Grantee of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Publications
Articles (anonymously peer-reviewed)
- 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.
Conference Papers:
- 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 also presented at the Graduate Conference "A Changing EU in a Changing World", 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.
- Die Unwahrscheinlichkeit der Menschenrechte. Überlegungen zu einer individuellen Klagebefugnis auf globaler Ebene; Fünfte offene Sektionstagung der Sektion „Internationale Beziehungen“ der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, 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-Universität Mainz, 11.-12. April 2014.