Dr Dirk Peters
Senior ResearcherProject Leader
Research Department:
International Institutions
Knowledge Transfer
Contact
E-Mail: peters@prif.orgDownload Press Photo (218 KB)
CV
2020–2024 | Member of the Executive Board |
2012 | Visiting Fellowship at Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg |
2008 | Ph.D. at Goethe University Frankfurt/M. |
since 2007 | Senior Researcher at PRIF |
2003 | Visiting Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, and at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin |
2000–2007 | Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, International Relations Unit, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
2000 | Research Fellow and Lecturer, Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen and in the research project “German foreign policy since unification”, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) |
1992–1999 | Student of Political Science and German Linguistics at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
Expertise
Dr Dirk Peters is working on the following issues:
- Security Policy of the European Union
- German Foreign Policy
- Parlaments and military operations
Publications
- Kann Europa Macht? Die Sicherheits und Verteidigungspolitik der EU nach dem Ukraine-Krieg | 2024
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2024): Kann Europa Macht? Die Sicherheits und Verteidigungspolitik der EU nach dem Ukraine-Krieg, PRIF Report 4/2024, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2404.
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- Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit | 2024
Christian, Ben / Peters, Dirk (2024): Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 1–27, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2319720.
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- Decoupling and the “New Cold War”: Cautionary Lessons from the Past | 2023
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2023): Decoupling and the “New Cold War”: Cautionary Lessons from the Past, PRIF Blog, 24.4.2023.
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- Multilateralismus als Rahmenordnung: Zur Krise und Zukunft der multilateralen Weltordnung | 2023
Christian, Ben / Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Kroll, Stefan / Lesch, Max / Peters, Dirk (2023): Multilateralismus als Rahmenordnung: Zur Krise und Zukunft der multilateralen Weltordnung, PRIF Report 2/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2302.
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- Drifting Apart: Examining the Consequences of States' Dissociation from International Cooperation - A Framework | 2022
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2022): Drifting Apart: Examining the Consequences of States' Dissociation from International Cooperation - A Framework, in: Historical Social Research, 47:2, 7–32, DOI: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.14.
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- Brexit: The Perils of Dissociation by Negotiation | 2022
Peters, Dirk (2022): Brexit: The Perils of Dissociation by Negotiation, in: Historical Social Research, 47:2, 138–163, DOI: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.19.
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- Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO | 2021
Peters, Dirk (2021): Der kanadische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (Hg.), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 32–38, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/18395.pdf.
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- Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO | 2021
Peters, Dirk (2021): Der britische Diskurs über die Zukunft der NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (Hg.), Atlantische Zukünfte. Eine vergleichende Analyse nationaler Debatten über die Reform der NATO, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 88–93, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/18395.pdf.
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- Eine militärisch autonome EU? | 2021
Peters, Dirk (2021): Eine militärisch autonome EU? Europäische Sicherheit und transatlantische Partnerschaft nach Afghanistan, PRIF Spotlight 17/2021, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2117.
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- The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future | 2021
Peters, Dirk (2021): The Canadian Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 29–35, www.library.fes.de/(...).
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- Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Was will Europa? Strategische Autonomie aus friedenspolitischer Perspektive | 2021
Dembinski, Matthias / Friesendorf, Cornelius / Fuhrhop, Pia / Hegemann, Hendrik / Kunz, Barbara / Niemann, Holger / Peters, Dirk / Schröder, Ursula / Zellner, Wolfgang (2021): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Was will Europa? Strategische Autonomie aus friedenspolitischer Perspektive, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2021, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 116-135, www.friedensgutachten.de.
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- The UK Discourse on NATO's Future | 2021
Peters, Dirk (2021): The UK Discourse on NATO's Future, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO: Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 80–85, www.library.fes.de/(...).
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- Justifying Inequality as Equality: Germany and the Reform of Voting Weights in the Council of the European Union | 2020
Peters, Dirk (2020): Justifying Inequality as Equality: Germany and the Reform of Voting Weights in the Council of the European Union, in: Global Society, 34:3, 370–387, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2020.1739631.
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- Krise internationaler Institutionen | 2020
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2020): Krise internationaler Institutionen, in: Bösch, Frank/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Kroll, Stefan (Hg.), Handbuch Krisenforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 135–154, https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658285708.
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- Dissoziation als Friedensstrategie? | 2019
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2019): Dissoziation als Friedensstrategie? Konturen eines Forschungsprogramms, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 26:2, 89–105, DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2019-2-88.
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- Exclusive Club Under Stress | 2019
Peters, Dirk (2019): Exclusive Club Under Stress. The G7 between Rising Powers and Non-state Actors after the Cold War, in: Stephen, Matthew/Zürn, Michael (eds), Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 124–164, https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198843047.001.0001/oso-9780198843047-chapter-4.
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- Justice and Peace | 2019
Fehl, Caroline / Peters, Dirk / Wisotzki, Simone / Wolff, Jonas (eds), (2019): Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
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- The role of justice in international cooperation and conflict | 2019
Fehl, Caroline / Peters, Dirk / Wisotzki, Simone / Wolff, Jonas (2019): The role of justice in international cooperation and conflict. Introduction, in: Fehl, Caroline/Peters, Dirk/Wisotzki, Simone/Wolff, Jonas (eds), Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 3-28.
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- Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt | 2019
Bethke, Felix S. / Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Hofmann, Gregor P. / Junk, Julian / Marauhn, Thilo / Niemann, Holger / Peez, Anton / Peters, Dirk / Ulbert, Cornelia / Wisotzki, Simone / Witt, Antonia (2019): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Vereinte Nationen unter Druck. Wo sich ein deutsches Engagement lohnt, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2019, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 115-135, www.friedensgutachten.de.
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- Actor, network, symbol: The Inter-Parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP | 2019
Peters, Dirk (2019): Actor, network, symbol: The Inter-Parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP, in: Raube,Kolja/Müftüler-Baç, Meltem/Wouters, Jan (eds), Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations. An Essential Companion, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 158–173, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438850.00018.
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- The Brexit Fiasco | 2019
Peters, Dirk (2019): The Brexit Fiasco. Lessons for Involving Parliament in Foreign Policy, PRIF BLOG, 29.3.2019.
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- The Power of Justice. How Procedural Justice Concerns Affect the Legitimacy of International Institutions | 2019
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2019): The Power of Justice. How Procedural Justice Concerns Affect the Legitimacy of International Institutions, in: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 25:1, 149-170, https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/25/1/article-p149_9.xml.
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- Nach vorn, um nicht zurückzufallen | 2018
Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2018): Nach vorn, um nicht zurückzufallen. Deutsch-französische Initiativen zur Zukunft der EU-Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, PRIF Spotlight 6/2018, Frankfurt/M.
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- Große Vision, kleiner Schritt. Macrons Interventionsinitiative und die Folgen | 2018
Peters, Dirk (2018): Große Vision, kleiner Schritt. Macrons Interventionsinitiative und die Folgen, PRIF BLOG, 9.7.2018.
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- Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Wozu Institutionen? Friedensarchitektur in der Krise | 2018
Coni-Zimmer, Melanie / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk / Witt, Antonia / Zellner, Wolfgang (2018): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung: Wozu Institutionen? Friedensarchitektur in der Krise, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (Hg.), Friedensgutachten 2018, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 105-123, www.friedensgutachten.de.
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- Eine Armee für die Europäische Union? | 2018
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2018): Eine Armee für die Europäische Union? Europapolitische Konzeptionen und verteidigungspolitische Strukturen, PRIF Report 1/2018, Frankfurt/M.
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- Parliaments in Security Policy | 2018
Mello, Patrick A. / Peters, Dirk (eds), (2018): Parliaments in Security Policy. Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence, (Special Issue "British Journal of Politics and International Relations" 20:1), Table of Contents at SAGE Journals.
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- Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence | 2018
Mello, Patrick A. / Peters, Dirk (2018): Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence, in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20:1, 3–18, DOI: 10.1177/1369148117745684.
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- Actor, Network, Symbol: The Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP | 2017
Peters, Dirk (2017): Actor, Network, Symbol: The Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP. PACO Working Paper No. 3, (Download pdf, 572kb).
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- EU-Sicherheitspolitik und Brexit: | 2017
Peters, Dirk (2017): EU-Sicherheitspolitik und Brexit:. Das „hung parliament“ als Chance, PRIF Blog, 5.7.2017.
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- Parlamente in der Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Streitkräfteeinsätzen im Licht der Forschung | 2017
Peters, Dirk / Mello, Patrick A. (2017): Parlamente in der Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Streitkräfteeinsätzen im Licht der Forschung, in: S+F: Sicherheit und Frieden, 35:2, 53–59, DOI: 10.5771/0175-274X-2017-2-53.
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- European Security Policy for the People? | 2016
Peters, Dirk (2016): European Security Policy for the People? Public Opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, in: Michael Smith (ed.), European Security. Critical Concepts in Military, Security and Strategic Studies, (The Evolving European Security Agenda, Vol. 4), London: Routledge, 68-91.
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- The Balance of Power | 2015
Peters, Dirk (2015): The Balance of Power, in: Jørgensen, Knud Erik/Aarstad, Åsne Kalland/Drieskens, Edith/Laatikainen, Katie/Tonra, Ben (eds), SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy, London: SAGE, https://uk.sagepub.com/(...).
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- Forschungsdesign und positivistische Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen | 2015
Peters, Dirk (2015): Forschungsdesign und positivistische Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen, in: Masala, Carlo/Sauer, Frank (Hg.), Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
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- Parliamentary Control of CSDP | 2014
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2014): Parliamentary Control of CSDP. The Case of the EU's Fight Against Piracy off the Somali Coast, in: European Security, 23:4, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2014.896341.
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- Institutional Justice as a Condition for the Regional Acceptance of Global Order | 2014
Dembinski, Matthias / Peters, Dirk (2014): Institutional Justice as a Condition for the Regional Acceptance of Global Order. The African Union and the Protection of Civilians, PRIF Report No. 130, Frankfurt/M.
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- Feedback Loops in a World of Complexity | 2014
Gadinger, Frank / Peters, Dirk (2014): Feedback Loops in a World of Complexity. A Cybernetic Approach at the Interface of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations Theory, in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29:1, DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2013.872599.
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- European security policy for the people? Public opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence policy | 2014
Peters, Dirk (2014): European security policy for the people? Public opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence policy, in: European Security, 23:4, 388-408, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2013.875531.
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- Parliaments at the Water's Edge | 2013
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2013): Parliaments at the Water's Edge. The EU's Naval Mission Atlanta, in: Crum, Ben/Fossum, John Erik (eds), Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination in International Politics. The European Union and Beyond, Colchester: ECPR Press, 105–123.
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- Executive Privilege or Parliamentary Proviso? | 2013
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2013): Executive Privilege or Parliamentary Proviso? Exploring the Sources of Parliamentary War Powers, in: Armed Forces & Society, DOI: 10.1177/0095327X12472878.
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- Zwischen Effizienz und Legitimität | 2012
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2012): Zwischen Effizienz und Legitimität. Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen im weltweiten Vergleich, in: Friedens-Warte, 87:2–3, 69–87.
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- Theoretische Grundlagen zur Analyse internationaler Organisationen | 2012
Peters, Dirk (2012): Theoretische Grundlagen zur Analyse internationaler Organisationen, in: Freistein, Katja/Leininger, Julia (Hg.), Handbuch Internationale Organisationen. Theoretische Grundlagen und Akteure, München: Oldenbourg, 3-27.
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- Parliamentary Control of Military Missions: The Case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta | 2011
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Glahn, Cosima (2011): Parliamentary Control of Military Missions: The Case of the EU NAVFOR Atalanta, RECON Online Working Paper Nr. 24.
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- Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen in westlichen Demokratien | 2011
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Militäreinsätzen in westlichen Demokratien. Forschung DSF No. 28, Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung.
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- Common Foreign and Security Policy | 2011
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Common Foreign and Security Policy, in: Heinelt, Hubert/Knodt, Michèle (eds), Policies within the EU Multi-Level System: Instruments and Strategies of European Governance, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 39-58.
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- Between Military Effciency and Democratic Legitimacy | 2011
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2011): Between Military Effciency and Democratic Legitimacy. Mapping Parliamentary War Powers in Contemporary Democracies, 1989-2004, in: Parliamentary Affairs, 64, 175–192.
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- A Divided Union? | 2011
Peters, Dirk (2011): A Divided Union? Public Opinion and the EU's Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, in: RECON Online Working Paper, 19, http://www.reconproject.eu/(...).
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- Parliaments and European Security Policy | 2010
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2010): Parliaments and European Security Policy. Mapping the parliamentary field, in: European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 14:1, http://eiop.or.at/....
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- Parliamentary War Powers Around the World, 1989-2004 | 2010
Wagner, Wolfgang / Peters, Dirk / Glahn, Cosima (2010): Parliamentary War Powers Around the World, 1989-2004. A New Data Set, Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Occasional Paper 22, Genf, https://www.dcaf.ch/....
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- Parlamentsvorbehalt oder Exekutivprivileg? | 2010
Wagner, Wolfgang / Peters, Dirk (2010): Parlamentsvorbehalt oder Exekutivprivileg? Ursachen unterschiedlicher Entscheidungsverfahren beim Einsatz von Streitkräften, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 17:2, 203–234.
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- External Threat and Democratic Institutions | 2010
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang (2010): External Threat and Democratic Institutions. The Parliamentary Control of Military Missions, Working Paper No. 29 (2010-03), Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam.
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- Constrained Balancing | 2010
Peters, Dirk (2010): Constrained Balancing. The EU's Security Policy, Basingstoke: Palgrave, https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230242142.
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- The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy | 2008
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2008): The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy, in: RECON Report, 6, http://www.reconproject.eu/(...).
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- Parliaments and European security policy | 2008
Peters, Dirk / Wagner, Wolfgang / Deitelhoff, Nicole (2008): Parliaments and European security policy. Mapping the Parliamentary Field, in: Peters, Dirk/Wagner,Wolfgang/Deitelhoff,Nicole (eds), The Parliamentary Control of European Security Policy, RECON Report No.6, Oslo: ARENA - Centre for European Studies, 3–27.
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- Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik | 2008
Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, in: Hubert Heinelt und Michèle Knodt (Hg.), Politikfelder im EU-Mehrebenensystem: Instrumente und Strategien europäischen Regierens, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2008, S. 43-60.
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- Ansätze und Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse | 2007
Dirk Peters, Ansätze und Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse, in: Siegmar Schmidt/Gunther Hellmann/Reinhard Wolf (Hg.), Handbuch zur deutschen Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden (VS Verlag), 2007, S. 815-835.
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- Die Europäische Union | 2005
Katharina Holzinger/Christoph Knill/Dirk Peters/Berthold Rittberger/Frank Schimmelfennig/Wolfgang Wagner, Die Europäische Union. Theorien und Analysekonzepte, Paderborn (Schöningh/UTB), 2005
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- The Debate about a New German Foreign Policy | 2001
Dirk Peters, The Debate about a New German Foreign Policy, in: Rittberger, Volker (Hg.): German Foreign Policy Since Unification: Theories and Case Studies, Manchester (Manchester University Press), 2001, S. 11-33.
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Current Projects
Completed Projects
- Modes of Decision-Making in International Organizations
- Contested World Orders
- Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes
- Democracy and the Legalization of the Military Use of Force
- Mapping discourses on NATO’s future
- Parliamentary Control of Military Deployments in Democracies
- Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON)