Alumni - Franziska Hohlstein, M.A.

 

Profile

Franziska Hohlstein was a Research Associate in the research project ‘The Design of International Organizations. Fostering Diplomatic Deliberation?‘, funded by the DFG at the Chair for Multi-Level Governance (Prof. Dr. Diana Panke).

Franziska Hohlstein graduated with a B.A. in politics and administration at the University of Konstanz and subsequently completed the double degree study programme European Master in Government at the University of Konstanz and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. Before her employment at the Chair for Multi-Level Governance Franziska Hohlstein worked as a student assistant at the University of Konstanz and as an intern at the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg.

Research Interests

• Democracy and stability
• Coups d'état and intrastate conflicts
• Norms and practices of regional actors
• Military and economic interventions
• Decision-making in international organizations

Publications

Monographs

• Franziska Hohlstein (2022) Regional Organizations and their Responses to Coups: Measures, Motives, and Aims. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  

Articles (with peer review)

• Diana Panke, Gurur Polat, Franziska Hohlstein (2022): Diplomatic Deliberative Practices in International Organizations: Does Institutional Design Matter?. In: Diplomacy and Statecraft. Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 824-852.
• Diana Panke, Franziska Hohlstein, Gurur Polat (2022): Why International Organizations Differ in their Output Productivity: A Comparative Study. In: International Studies Perspectives. Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 398-424.
• Diana Panke, Gurur Polat und Franziska Hohlstein (2022): Who Performs Better? A Comparative Analysis of Problem-Solving Effectiveness and Legitimacy Attributions to International Organizations. In: Cooperation and Conflict. Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 433-456.
• Diana Panke, Franziska Hohlstein und Gurur Polat (2021) Designing International Organizations for Debate? A Factor Analysis. In: International Politics Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 835-863.

• Diana Panke, Gurur Polat und Franziska Hohlstein (2021) Satisfied or not? Exploring the interplay of individual, country and international organization characteristics for negotiation success. In: The Review of International Organizations Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 403-429.
• Diana Panke, Franziska Hohlstein und Gurur Polat (2019) The Constitutions of International Organizations. How Institutional Design Seeks to Foster Diplomatic Deliberation. In: Global Constitutionalism Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 571-604.

Conference Papers

• "What to do when tyrants fall? The dilemma of the anti-coup norm and the international reactions to the coups in Zimbabwe and Sudan" - Tagung Peace between Conflict, Violence and Social Norms: Learning from the Field -Kiel 2 March 2020.
• "Good coups or bad coups? How Regional Organizations assess coups d'état." - EPSA Conference Belfast 19 June 2019.
• "Are all coups alike? Regional Organizations and their differentiated assessment of coups d'état" - 60th ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, 28 March 2019
• "Diplomatic Deliberative Practices in International Organizations: Does Institutional Design Matter?" (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Diana Panke und Gurur Polat) - 60th ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, 28 March 2019.
• "The Institutional Design of International Organizations: Fostering Deliberation or Speeding up Decision Making? (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Diana Panke und Gurur Polat) - 60th ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, 28 March 2019
• “Ignore, Condemn or Sanction It? African Regional Organizations and their Reactions to Coups d’État” - ECPR General Conference, 22-25 August, Hamburg
• "The Power of Rules: Studying the Deliberative Design of International Organizations", (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Diana Panke und Gurur Polat) - 59th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 6. April 2018. 

Teaching

• Winter term 2021/2021: Current Challenges for International and Regional Organizations (seminar)
• Summer term 2020: Theories and Norms of International Politics (seminar)
• Winter term 2019/2020: Democracy and Democracy Promotion by Regional Organizations (seminar)