Dr. Angela Geck
| Function | Coordinator of the MA and teacher training programs of the Department of Political Science, Lecturer |
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| Office hours | In my office usually Mon. 2.30 - 3.30 p.m. and Thur., 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. Please make an appointment at: https://calendly.com/angela-geck/sprechstunde
Via Zoom usually Wed. 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. Please make an appointment at: |
| Adress | Department of Political Sciences, |
| Room | 4312 |
| Phone | 0761/ 203-3467 |
| angela.geck@politik.uni-freiburg.de |
Academic CV
| since 10/2023 | Coordinator of the MA and teacher training programs of the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg |
| since 10/2012 | Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg Since 2022: Organization of the trinational summer school, École d'été trinationale - Trinationale Sommerschule , together with the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) Strasbourg, the University of Applied Sciences Kehl and the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Basel 05/2018 - 09/2020 Managing assistant at the Chair for International Relations 06/2017 - 04/2018: Participation in the BMBF-funded research project „Raising Transformative Ambitions - the Contribution of Effective Climate Policy Instruments“, in cooperation with the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg, and Perspectives Climate Research gGmbH 11/2012 - 09/2017: Coordinator of the BA program Political Science |
| 10/2017 - 03/2018 | Researcher at the University College Freiburg (UCF), participation in the pilot project on Authority and Legitimacy of International Organizations in the Process of Implementation Monitoring, funded by the Innovation Fund Research of the University of Freiburg |
03/2015 | Ph.D. in Political Science, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rüland, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, dissertation topic: The Power to Argue. Practices of Strategic Arguing and Power in the WTO Negotiations |
05/2007 - 09/2012 | Ph. D. Scholarship by the Landesgraduiertenstiftung Baden-Württemberg, with interruptions because of employment: 04/2011 - 03/2012: Researcher, lecturer and coordinator of the Erasmus exchange program, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg 10/2008 - 09/2009: Researcher, lecturer and student councelor, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg |
| 06/2006 | M.A. in Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Freiburg |
Teaching
| Summer term 2024 | Research project with mentoring Exercise course on advanced qualitative methods Basic course: Rising powers - theoretical approaches and academic debates |
| Summer term 2023 | Advanced course: Rising powers and international norms |
Winter term 2022/23 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
| Summer term 2022 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
| Winter term 2021/22 | Advanced course: The trade policy of emerging powers |
| Summer term 2021 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
| Winter term 2020/21 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
Summer term 2020 | Advanced course: Inequality – explanations, discourses and political mobilization at the national and international level |
Winter term 2019/20 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
Summer term 2019 | Advanced course: Migration, gender and development - perspectives from the Global South Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
Winter term 2018/19 | Advanced course: The political economy of climate change Exercise course accompanying the lecture ”Introduction to Political Science“ |
Summer term 2017 | Basic course: The concept of development, criticism and alternatives |
Summer term 2016 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations |
Winter term 2015/16 | Exercise course accompanying the lecture ”Introduction to Political Science“ |
Summer term 2015 | Basic course: Fundamentals of International Relations Basic course: The changing politics of the World Trade Organization |
Winter term 2014/15 | Preparatory course: Introduction to Political Sciences Exercise course accompanying the lecture ”Introduction to Political Science” |
Winter term 2013/14 | Basic course: European agricultural policy in the multilevel-governance-system |
Summer term 2013 | Basic Course: The power of language in international relations |
Winter term 2012/13 | Basic course: European green cities and their role in global environmental governance (in cooperation with Dr. Astrid Carrapatoso) |
Winter term 2011/12 | Basic course: Who decides what's for dinner? Actors in international agricultural politics |
Summer term 2011 | Basic course: Introduction to Foreign Trade Policy |
Summer term 2009 | Basic course: Who has the power? Debates about a fundamental concept of political theory Basic course: From degenerated form of state to global norm: Democracy in the history of political thought |
Winter term 2008/09 | Preparatory course: Introduction to Political Science, with a field trip to Straßburg Basic course: The WTO in the Doha-Round |
Summer term 2008 | Basic Course: The global trade regime, with a five day field trip to Geneva |
Research interests
- International Institutions
- International negotiations
- Power and inequality in international politics
- trade policy
- Development policy
- Climate policy
Publications
- Geck, Angela (2024): The Power to Persuade. Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization. Toronto, Buffalo and London: Toronto Univeryity Press.
- Geck, Angela (2022): Informal clubs in global governance. In: Rüland, Jürgen; Carrapatoso, Astrid (Eds.): Handbook on Global Governance and Regionalism. Cheltenham and Northhampton: Edward Elgar, p. 171-181.
- Weinhardt, Clara; Geck, Angela (2019): Development. In: Dingwerth, Klaus; Weinhardt, Clara: The Language of World Trade Politics: Unpacking the Terms of Trade. Routledge: Abingdon and New York.
- Reinecke, Sabine; Blum, Mareike; Geck, Angela (2018): Accelerating Forest Landscape Restoration: Key Governance Factors. GLF Brief 11.
- Carrapatoso, Astrid; Geck, Angela (2018): Multiple Wins, Multiple Organizations—How to Manage Institutional Interaction in Financing Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR).Sustainability,10(3), 757.
- Geck, Angela; Waldvogel, Thomas (2015): Die WTO. Ein Planspiel zur Frage globaler Gerechtigkeit. In: Deutschland und Europa, H. 70, S. 66-71.
- Geck, Angela; Rother, Stefan (2014): Erfolg nach 18 Jahren. In: E+Z, Jg. 55, Nr. 1, Januar 2014, S. 42.
- Geck, Angela (2012): Kein Grund zur Freude. Die WTO steckt in der Sackgasse. In: iz3w, Nr. 330, Mai/Juni 2012, S. 6-7.
Conference papers and presentations
- Geck, Angela (2020):Global value chains, fair competition and development: current debates in the WTO and their implications for the norms of the world trade regime. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Relations section of the German Political Science Association (IB-Sektionstagung der DVPW), 7.-9.10.2020
- Geck, Angela (2020): Colonial Continuities in the world trade regime and the failed development round of the WTO. Presentation at the Webinar Series "Postcolonial Perspective on Protest and Reform in the Global Political Economy", organized by the Junior Research Group 17 of the Hand Böckler Foundation at the University of Kassel, 15-18.09.2020.
- Geck, Angela; Mikalay, Mila (2020): Expert bodies' styles in treating monitoring and state compliance. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference Virtual Event 24-28 August 2020.
- Mikalayeva, Liudmila; Geck, Angela (2018): Court, Mediator, Facilitator: How Three Monitoring Bodies of the Council of Europe Define their Role and Adjust their Working Methods. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 22‐25 August 2018 in Hamburg.
- Geck, Angela (2018): Effectiveness, efficiency and/or legitimacy – what are the (implicit) ideals in the literature on regime complexity, fragmentation, and norm contestation? Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 22-25 August 2018 in Hamburg.
- Geck, Angela (2018): Beyond Effectiveness – Towards a Power-Sensitive Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of International Institutions. Paper presented at the EWIS workshop on Exploitation and the Design of Global Economic Institutions, 6 – 9 May 2018 in Groningen.
- Geck, Angela (2017): The neoliberal content of WTO norms: Re-regulation rather than deregulation. Paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 22.2. – 25.2.2017 in Baltimore.
- Weinhardt, Clara; Geck, Angela (2017): The changing discourse on development within the trade regime. Paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 22.2. – 25.2.2017 in Baltimore.
- Geck, Angela (2016): Development through liberalization or development before liberalization? A discursive struggle about the norms of the multilateral trade regime. Paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 16.3. - 19.3.2016 in Atlanta.
- Geck, Angela (2015): Who may say what in WTO negotiations. Discursive power and resistance connected to the norms of the world trade regime. Paper presented at the workshop on “Norms, Ideas, Heuristics: Cognitive Approaches to World Trade Politics”, 28.5. - 29.5.2015 in St. Gallen.
- Geck, Angela (2014): Diskursive Formationen als Möglichkeitsräume argumentativen Handelns. Zur Verbindung zweier diskurstheoretischer Perspektiven. Papier vorgestellt bei der Offenen Sektionstagung Internationale Politik der DVPW, 25.9. bis 27.9.2014 in Magdeburg.
- Geck, Angela (2013): The Double-Edged Sword of the Development Frame. Discursive power and strategic arguing in the WTO negotiations on cotton. Paper presented at the workshop on "Competition Between Conflict and Cooperation," 13.6. - 14.6. 2013 in Freiburg.
- Geck, Angela (2013): Arguing and Power in the WTO. Paper presented at the Themenoffenen Tagung der IPÖ-NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen "Dominanz der Ökonomie, Wiedererwachen der Politik, internationale politische Ökonomie?", 21.3. -22.3.2013 in Heidelberg.