Lukas Grundsfeld

Profile

Since November 2022, Lukas Grundsfeld has worked as a research associate in the DFG-funded project "The Withdrawal of States from Regional Organizations: A Comparative Analysis" at the Chair of Governance in Multilevel Systems. In his doctoral project, he focuses on the suspension of member states by regional international organizations in the context of regime complexity.

Lukas Grundsfeld studied Political Science and History (BA) as well as Peace Research and International Politics (MA) at the University of Tübingen and the University of Groningen. In July 2022, he completed his studies with a master's thesis on the relationship between the international society of states and armed non-state actors.

During his studies, Lukas Grundsfeld worked as a tutor and research assistant at the University of Tübingen's Department of Political Science, among others in a BMBF-funded research project on security discourses and European cohesion.

Research interest

• Global Governance
• International and regional organizations
• Multilateral sanctions and suspensions
• Norms research
• Global order, sovereignty and international society
• Constructivist, sociological, and practice-theoretical perspectives
• Ontological security studies
• Armed non-state actors

Conference contributions

• “After the Pink Tide Ended: How Right-Wing Governments Challenge Left-Leaning Regional International Organizations in Latin America”, paper presented at the Kick-Off Workshop of the ERC Project ‘The Far Right and International Organizations’, November 2023, Frankfurt a.M. (together with Diana Panke and Pawel Tverskoi).
• “Cooperation or Conflict? Explaining Divergent Suspension Behavior of Overlapping RIOs”, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the DVPW's Thematic Group International Organizations, November 2023, Jena.
• "Reacting to Internal Contestation: Regional International Organizations and Suspensions of Member States", paper presented at the EISA's 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 2023, Potsdam.
• "’Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone’: Exit Threats as Contestations of Regional Organizations", paper presented at the EISA's 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 2023, Potsdam (together with Diana Panke and Pawel Tverskoi).
• Contribution to Roundtable: “Contestation in Prism: Patterns of Norm Evolution, Consolidation, and Decay”, at the EISA’s 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 2023, Potsdam.
• (2023): “Studying Ontological (In)Security in Europe: Insights from Analyticism and Comparative Regionalism”, paper presented at the EISA's 10th European Workshops in International Studies, July 2023, Amsterdam.
• (2023): “And Out Goes You! Why Regional International Organizations Differ in Suspending Member States”, paper presented at the DVPW’s Open Section Conference International Relations, June 2023, Friedrichshafen.
• (2023): “Time to Leave! Studying State Exits from Regional International Organizations”, paper presented at the DVPW’s Open Section Conference International Relations, June 2023, Friedrichshafen (together with Diana Panke and Pawel Tverskoi).
• (2023): “Regional Organizations and Suspensions: Responding to Member State Challenges”, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the DVPW’s Working Group on European and Regional Studies, May 2023, Saarbrücken.
• (2023): “Between Crisis and Revival: The Effects of State Exits on Regional Organizations”, paper presented at the Annual Convention of the DVPW’s Working Group on European and Regional Studies, May 2023, Saarbrücken (together with Diana Panke and Pawel Tverskoi).
• (2023): "Ending Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of State Exits from Regional International Organizations", paper presented at the ISA’s 64th Annual Convention, March 2023, Montréal (together with Diana Panke and Pawel Tverskoi).
• (2023): "You Have Been Suspended! Studying Suspensions of Member States by Regional International Organizations", paper presented at the DVPW’s Early Career Conference International Relations, February 2023, Tutzing.
• (2022): “International Society, Armed Non-State Actors, and Struggles about Global Order: The Case of the Taliban’s 2021 Capture of Kabul”, paper presented at the EISA’s 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, September 2022, Athens.
• (2022): “International Society and Armed Non-State Actors: Understandings of a Relationship Between Anarchy, Trusteeship, and Society", Paper presented at the DVPW’s Early Career Conference International Relations, March 2022, Tutzing.
• (2021): “Anarchy, Trusteeship, Society: Understanding the UN’s Relationship with Armed Non-State Actors”, Paper presented at the DGVN’s 11th UN Research Colloquium “Identity and Diversity”, October 2021, Kleve.