Dr. Friedrich Plank

Department of Political Science
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Georg Forster-Building
Jakob-Welder-Weg 12
55128 Mainz

Room: 04-313
Phone: 0049-6131-39-20030
Email: friedrich.plank@politik.uni-mainz.de

Office Hours: Tuesday, 2-3 p.m.; appointment via Email

Current courses

  • AG Peace and Conflict Studies

 Research Interests

  • International Relations
  • Peace and Conflict Studies
  • International Organisations
  • Interregional relations and regionalism
  • EU foreign policy
  • Regional Focus: Global South with a special emphasis on Africa

Curriculum Vitae

  • 04/2020: Doctorate in Political Science (International Relations)
  • 09/2014: Research fellow and Lecturer at the Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann), Department of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • 10/2013 – 09/2014: Lecturer at the Chair of Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies (Prof. Dr. Christoph Weller), University of Augsburg
  • 10/2010 – 11/2013: Master of Arts (MA) in Conflict Studies at the University of Augsburg
  • 10/2007 – 09/2010: Bakkalaureus Artium (BA) in Political Science and German Studies at the University of Regensburg

PhD Project

"Evaluating the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security. A Study on the Effectiveness of Interregional Peace Operations" (completed 04/2020)

Supervised by Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann and Prof. Dr. Anja Jetschke

Publications

You can find some of my work on my researchgate.net account.

Edited Volumes

Maurer, Heidi/ Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Special Issue: Innovative teaching on European (foreign) affairs. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. Link

Articles (anonymously peer-reviewed)

Plank, Friedrich/ Bergmann, Julian (2021): The European Union as a Security Actor in the Sahel. Policy Entrapment in EU Foreign Policy. In: European Review of International Studies. 8:3. 382-412. Link

Stockemer, Daniel/ Niemann, Arne/ Unger, Doris/ Plank, Friedrich (2021): Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Contemporary Politics. Online fist. Link

Stockemer, Daniel/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2021): The COVID-19 pandemic and government responses: a gender perspective on differences in public opinion. In: Social Science Quarterly. 102:5. 2383-2393. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Keijzer, Niels/ Niemann, Arne (2021): Outside‐in Politicization of EU–Western Africa Relations: What Role for Civil Society Organizations? In: Journal of Common Market Studies. 59:1. S. 161-179. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2020): Synchronous online-teaching on EU foreign affairs: A blended-learning project of seven universities between e-learning and live-interaction. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. 51-64. Link

Maurer, Heidi/ Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Introduction: Innovative teaching on European (foreign) affairs. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. 4-12. Link

Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Overlapping Regionalism and Security Cooperation: Power-Based Explanations of Nigeria's Forum-Shopping in the Fight against Boko Haram. In: International Studies Review. 22:3. 576-599. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo/ Kobusch, Alexander et al. (2019): Standortübergreifende Lehre in der Politikwissenschaft: Nutzen und Beitrag eines innovativen Ringseminars. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS). 60:1. 127-146. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2017): The effectiveness of interregional security cooperation: evaluating the joint engagement of the EU and the AU in response to the 2013 crisis in the Central African Republic. In: European Security. 26:4. 485-506. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2017): When peace leads to divorce: The splintering of rebel groups in powersharing agreements. In: Civil Wars. 19:2. 176-197. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2015): Not enough pieces of the cake? The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the Mindanao Final Agreement. In: Asian Security. 11:2. 154-177. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo (2015): Von der heißen Schlacht zum kalten Buffet – Strategien der Inklusion und Exklusion in Power-Sharing Abkommen und Friedensprozessen. In: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. 4:1. 74-114. Link

Bock, Andreas M./ Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2014): “If you compress the spring, it will snap back hard” – The Ukrainian Crisis and the Balance of Threat Theory. In: International Journal. 70:1. 101-109. Link

Contributions to edited volumes:

Plank, Friedrich (im Erscheinen): Evaluating the effectiveness of the ECOWAS-EU interregional partnership on peace and security in the context of the Mali crisis. In: Muntschick, Johannes (Hrsg.): New regionalism and external partnerships in the Global South. Cham: Palgrave. (peer reviewed)

Plank, Friedrich (2020): An unintended consequence of West Africa-EU relations: effects of regional security cooperation beyond the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). In: Lopez-Lucia, Elisa/ Mattheis, Frank (Hrsg.): The unintended consequences of interregionalism. London: Routledge. 125-143. (peer-reviewed). Link

Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2019): Das Prinzipal-Agenten-Modell und EU-Konfliktbearbeitung–Strukturelle Erklärungen für Agenten-Autonomie. In: Marker, Karl/ Schmitt, Annette/ Sirsch, Jürgen (Hrsg.): Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie. Wiesbaden: Springer. 359-384. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2017): Impact of the agent´s environment on discretion in the field of EU conflict resolution: In: Delreux, Tom/ Adriaensen, Johan (Hrsg.): The Principal Agent Model and the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 131-155. (peer-reviewed) Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Muno, Wolfgang/ Niemann, Arne (2017): EU-Simulationen im Vergleich: Didaktik und Praxis von aktivem Lernen. In: Muno, Wolfgang/ Niemann, Arne/ Guasti, Petra (Hrsg.): Europa spielerisch lernen. Didaktische Überlegungen und Praxisbeispiele zu EU-Simulationen. Wiesbaden: Springer. 205-218. Link

Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2015): Conflict Management in the Constitution of South Sudan (2011). In: Marauhn, Thilo/ Elliesie, Hatem (Hrsg.): Legal Transformation in Northern Africa and South Sudan. Den Haag: Eleven International Publishing. 117-140. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo (2014): Die Anwendungspotenziale der strukturierten Konfliktanalyse in den Internationalen Beziehungen. In: Bock, Andreas M./ Henneberg, Ingo (Hrsg.): Iran, die Bombe und das Streben nach Sicherheit. Strukturierte Konfliktanalysen. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. 33-44. Link

Other articles:

Budde, Svenja/ Plank, Friedrich/ Giesen, Michael/ Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Wie, warum und was wir ändern müssen. Fazit und Handlungsempfehlungen. DVPW Blog, 5 July. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Giesen, Michael (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Podiumsdiskussion zu nachhaltigen Karrierewegen in der Wissenschaft. DVPW Blog, 30 June. Link

Budde, Svenja/ Plank, Friedrich/ Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Navigieren zwischen Struktur und Freiheit: Aktuelle Probleme und Verbesserungsperspektiven der Promotionsbetreuung in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft. DVPW Blog, 23 June. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Keijzer, Niels/ Niemann, Arne (2021): Invited politicisation? Exploring the roles of Civil Society Organisations in politicising EU-Western Africa relations from the outside-in. JCMS Blog Ideas on Europe, 17 May. Link

Bergmann, Julian/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2016): EU-Friedensmediation als Forschungs-gegenstand. Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven. In: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. 5:1. 137-144. Link

Bergmann, Julian/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2016): Studying EU Peace Mediation:Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. CEDI Working Paper No. 4. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2014): Der Streit – Stütze der Gesellschaft. Konfliktbearbeitung als Kernbestandteil der deutschen Energiewende. In: 3e – Magazin für die Energiewirtschaft in Gewerbe und Industrie. 2-2014.

Plank, Friedrich/ Schnellhammer, Christine (2011): Macht in Konflikten – Macht von Konflikten. Bericht zum AFK-Jahreskolloquium 2011. In: Wissenschaft + Frieden. 4-2011.

Conference papers:

Norm contestation within the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security: outside-in and inside-out perspectives; DVPW General Conference, 15 September 2021.

Dealing with complex multilateralism: Formal and informal approaches to international conflict management; with Ingo Henneberg. DVPW General Conference, 14 September 2021.

Principal-agent relations and the Africa-EU partnership on peace and security: Politics of discretion in a least-likely case; ECPR General Conference, 31 August 2021.

Moving beyond data constrains in peace and conflict studies: The systematic analysis of press and country reports; with Ingo Henneberg. 52th Conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK). 18 March 2021.

Strategic options in security cooperation: Regional Organisations, ad-hoc cooperation and new security actors; with Ingo Henneberg. IB Sektionstagung of the DVPW, 8 October 2020.

Comparative perspectives on horizontal politicisation: The role of Civil Society Organisations as intermediaries in EU-Western-Africa relations; UACES General Conference, 10 September 2020.

Comparative perspectives on horizontal politicization: Selected policy nexuses in EU-Western-Africa relations; with Niels Keijzer. Workshop „Politicization of EU external relations: European development policy at the crossfire”. Bonn, 31 October 2019.

Interregional forum shopping in Africa-EU relations: Regional ad hoc groups and the evolving security-development-migration nexus + organized Panel: EU-Afrika-Beziehungen im Spannungsfeld von Migration, Sicherheit und Entwicklung; together with Julian Bergmann; 51th Conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK). Erfurt, 7 May 2019.

Africa-EU interregionalism beyond the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): regional groups and the evolving security-development-migration nexus + Evaluating interregional security cooperation: The effectiveness of Africa-EU cooperation in peace operations + European crises and EU foreign affairs: A teaching project of 13 universities; together with Arne Niemann + organized Panel: Innovative Teaching on EU Foreign Affairs 1+2; together with Arne Niemann. The European Union in International Affairs VI (EUIA) 2018. Brussels, 16-18 May 2018.

Evaluating interregional security cooperation: The effectiveness of Africa-EU cooperation in peace operations; 13th IB-Nachwuchstagung of the DVPW. Tutzing, 20-22 April 2018.

An unintended consequence of Africa-EU relations: regional security cooperation beyond the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA); GEM Stones Workshop "Unraveling ties? The unintended consequences of interregionalism. Hamburg, 21 February 2018.

Modeling interregional security cooperation – Inter-organizationalism and the effectiveness of AU-EU capacity building; CEDI Annual Conference “Regionalism in the Global South and the EU in Comparative Perspective: The ambivalent Influence of Intra- and Extra-Regional Actors on Regional Integration Processes”. Mainz, 10 November 2016.

EU-AU in the Central African Republic (CAR) – A case of effective Interregional Security Cooperation? + Panel-Organisation: Frieden und Sicherheit durch Regionalorganisationen? with Ingo Henneberg. Drei-Länder-Tagung: Regionalismus in einer entgrenzten Welt (DVPW, ÖGPW, SVPW). Heidelberg, 29 September -1 October 2016.

The Effectiveness of Interregional Security Cooperation: The Case of EU-AU Engagement in the Central African Republic (CAR) + Impact of the Agent’s Environment on Discretion in the Field of EU Conflict Resolution; ECPR Standing Group/ External 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union. Trento, 16-17 June 2016.

Increasing the Agent´s Discretion Structurally – A Principal-Agent Perspective on EU Conflict Resolution after the Lisbon Treaty; with Arne Niemann. Workshop "The EU as a Credible Global Actor". Cambridge, 5 April 2016.

How to Broker Sustainable Peace? The Design of Peace Negotiations in Intra-State Conflicts; with Julian Bergmann. Workshop "Economics of Conflicts". Muskat, 1 April 2015.

Security by Proxy or African Solutions to African Problems? Assessing Interregional Security Cooperation between the European Union and the African Union; TConference of the section "Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft" of the DVPW "Weltregionen im Vergleich: Polity, Politics und Policy". Hamburg, 16 February 2015.

Mutual Capacity Building. Interregional Security Cooperation of the European Union; Graduate Conference "The EU in the World". Mainz, 9 January 2015.

In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen? Inklusion/Exklusion in Power Sharing Abkommen und Friedensprozessen; with Ingo Henneberg. 46th Conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK). Villigst, 4 April 2014.

Why threats prevail; with Andreas M. Bock und Ingo Henneberg. 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA). Warschau, 21 September 2013.

Conflict resolution in the constitution of South Sudan (2011); with Maik Boldau und Ingo Henneberg. 9th International South Sudan and Sudan Studies Conference. Bonn, 25 July 2012.

Konfliktregelung in der Verfassung des Südsudan; with Ingo Henneberg. 37th Conference of the Arbeitskreis für Überseeische Verfassungsvergleichung. Limburg an der Lahn, 7 July 2012.

 

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Memberships

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK)

University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

German Political Science Association (GPSA)

  • 2020-2022: Co-Spokesperson for the Early Career Group International Relations (ECIB) of the GPSA
  • 2018-2020: Deputy-Spokesperson for the Early Career Group International Relations (ECIB) of the GPSA