Dr. Caroline Fehl
Senior Researcher
Dr. Caroline Fehl is a Senior Research Fellow in the Research Department International Security. Her research focuses on norms, institutions and organizations in the field of international security. She is particularly interested in transatlantic security policy, nuclear arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation, as well as in international criminal prosecutions and transitional justice measures related to war crimes and human rights violations.
CV
| 2024
Substitute Professor for Political Science, with emphasis on Theory and Empiricial Research of International Relations, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
| 2022–2023
Substitute Professor (50%) “International Institutions and Peace Processes”, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
| 2021–2024
Member of PRIF's Executive Board (until 2023 HSFK)
| 2015–2016
12 months parental leave
| 2013
11 months parental leave
| since 2012
Senior Researcher at PRIF, Research Associate and External Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
| 2010–2012
Research Fellow and Lecturer, Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Cluster of Excellence "Normative Orders"/Political Science Department
| 2009
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations
| 2008–2009
Research Fellow and Lecturer, Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Political Science Department
| 2004–2009
DPhil student, University of Oxford (DPhil in International Relations in 2009)
| 1997–2003
Studies of Political Science, Modern History and French language and literature at Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, FU Berlin, and Columbia University, New York
Publications
- Forum‑shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non‑proliferation regime complex
| 2024
Fehl, Caroline (2024): Forum‑shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non‑proliferation regime complex, Journal of International Relations and Development. DOI: 10.1057/s41268-024-00330-9 - Protect and punish: Norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities
| 2023
Fehl, Caroline (2023): Protect and punish: Norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities, European Journal of International Relations. DOI: 10.1177/13540661231158548 - International Organisations and Global Stratification: Rethinking IR’s Cooperation Paradigm
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline; Freistein, Katja (2020): International Organisations and Global Stratification: Rethinking IR’s Cooperation Paradigm, E-International Relations.
Publication - (Un)making global inequalities: International institutions in a stratified international society
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline; Freistein, Katja (2020): (Un)making global inequalities: International institutions in a stratified international society, Journal of International Relations and Development. DOI: 10.1057/s41268-020-00190-z - Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline; Freistein, Katja (2020): Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society, Global Society, 34: 3, 285–303. DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2020.1739627 - Bombs, Trials, and Rights: Norm Complexity and the Evolution of Liberal Intervention Practices
| 2019
Fehl, Caroline (2019): Bombs, Trials, and Rights: Norm Complexity and the Evolution of Liberal Intervention Practices, Human Rights Quarterly, 41: 4, 893–915. DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2019.0066 - Dispensing with the Indispensable Nation? Multilateralism minus One in the Trump Era
| 2019
Fehl, Caroline; Thimm, Johannes (2019): Dispensing with the Indispensable Nation? Multilateralism minus One in the Trump Era, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 25: 1, 23-46.
Publication - Multilateralismus minus eins? Chancen und Grenzen multilateraler Kooperation in der Ära Trump
| 2017
Fehl, Caroline; Thimm, Johannes (2017): Multilateralismus minus eins? Chancen und Grenzen multilateraler Kooperation in der Ära Trump, S+F: Sicherheit und Frieden, 35: 3, 150-154.
Publication - Unequal power and the institutional design of global governance
| 2014
Fehl, Caroline (2014): Unequal power and the institutional design of global governance. The case of arms control, Review of International Studies, 40: 3, 505-531.
Publication - Responsibility to Pretend?
| 2013
Fehl, Caroline (2013): Responsibility to Pretend?. Symbolische Politik und die nicht-militärische Dimension der R2P, in: Daase, Christopher/Junk, Julian (eds), Internationale Schutzverantwortung - Normative Erwartungen und politische Praxis, Friedens-Warte Sonderheft, 88: 1, 117-139.
Publication - Living with the reluctant hegemon
| 2008
Fehl, Caroline (2008): Living with the reluctant hegemon. The transatlantic conflict over multilateral arms control, European Journal of International Relations, 14: 2, 259-87. - Explaining the International Criminal Court
| 2004
Fehl, Caroline (2004): Explaining the International Criminal Court. A ‘practice test’ for rationalist and constructivist approaches, European Journal of International Relations, 10: 3, 357-94.
- On the Road to NATO 2030: How the Organization Views the Future of NATO
| 2021
Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): On the Road to NATO 2030: How the Organization Views the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 8–15.
Publication - The United States Debates the Future of NATO
| 2021
Fehl, Caroline (2021): The United States Debates the Future of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 16–28.
Publication - Through the Kaleidoscope: Comparing Visions of NATO
| 2021
Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): Through the Kaleidoscope: Comparing Visions of NATO, in: Dembinski, Matthias/Fehl, Caroline (eds), Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 99–106.
Publication - Understanding the Puzzle of Unequal Recognition:
| 2019
Fehl, Caroline (2019): Understanding the Puzzle of Unequal Recognition:. The Case of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 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, 67-85. - 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. - Multilaterale Institutionen: Die Zeichen stehen auf Konfrontation
| 2017
Fehl, Caroline (2017): Multilaterale Institutionen: Die Zeichen stehen auf Konfrontation, in: Fehl, Caroline/Fey, Marco (eds), „America first": Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump, Frankfurt/M, 1–18.
Publication - Einleitung: Parameter der US-Außenpolitik unter Präsident Trump
| 2017
Fehl, Caroline; Fey, Marco (2017): Einleitung: Parameter der US-Außenpolitik unter Präsident Trump, in: Fehl, Caroline/Fey, Marco (eds), „America first“: Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump, Frankfurt/M, 1–7.
Publication - Is the Crisis of Security Institutions a Crisis of Institutional Theory?
| 2016
Fehl, Caroline (2016): Is the Crisis of Security Institutions a Crisis of Institutional Theory?. Dialogues, Diversity, and Discipline, in: Schlag, Gabi/Junk, Julian/Daase, Christopher (eds), Transformations of Security Culture, London: Routledge. - Understanding the Puzzle of Unequal Recognition
| 2015
Fehl, Caroline (2015): Understanding the Puzzle of Unequal Recognition. The Case of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in: Daase, Christopher/Fehl, Caroline/Geis, Anna/Kolliarakis, Georgios (eds), Recognition in International Relations. Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 104-122.
Publication - Gradual Processes, Ambiguous Consequences.
| 2015
Geis, Anna; Fehl, Caroline; Daase, Christopher; Kolliarakis, Georgios (2015): Gradual Processes, Ambiguous Consequences.. Rethinking Recognition in International Relations, in: Daase, Christopher/Geis, Anna/Fehl, Caroline/Kolliarakis, Georgios (eds), Recognition in International Relations. Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 3-26.
Publication - Probing the Responsibility to Protect's Civilian Dimension
| 2014
Fehl, Caroline (2014): Probing the Responsibility to Protect's Civilian Dimension. What Can Non-Military Sanctions Achieve?, in: Fiott, Daniel/Koop, Joachim (eds), The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar. Legitimacy and Operationalization, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 39-57.
Publication - Institutional Mechanisms of Global Inequality Reproduction
| 2014
Fehl, Caroline; Freistein, Katja (2014): Institutional Mechanisms of Global Inequality Reproduction, SFB 882 Working Paper Series No.37, Bielefeld: University of Bielefeld. - Sanctions, Trials and Peace
| 2012
Fehl, Caroline (2012): Sanctions, Trials and Peace. Promises and Pitfalls of Responsibility to Protect's Civilian Dimension, in: Fiott, Daniel/Zuber, Robert/Koops, Joachim (eds), Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect: A Contribution to the Third Pillar Approach, Brüssel: Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation, Global Action to Prevent War, the Global Governance Institute and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, 95-103. - A Non-Proliferation (r)Evolution
| 2012
Fehl, Caroline (2012): A Non-Proliferation (r)Evolution. US Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Policy Under Bush and Obama, in: Meier, Oliver/Daase, Christopher (eds), Arms Control in the 21st Century. Between Coercion and Cooperation, New York: Routledge, 169-189. - Explaining the International Criminal Court
| 2009
Fehl, Caroline (2009): Explaining the International Criminal Court. A ‘practice test’ for rationalist and constructivist approaches, in: Roach, Steven C. (eds), Governance, Order, and the International Criminal Court: Between Realpolitik and a Cosmopolitan Court, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546732.001.0001
Publication
- Three Visions for NATO
| 2021
Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): Three Visions for NATO. Mapping National Debates on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Publication - International Institutions in a Stratified International Society: Reproducing and Transforming Inequalities
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline; Freistein, Katja (2020): International Institutions in a Stratified International Society: Reproducing and Transforming Inequalities.
Publication - Justice and Peace
| 2019
Fehl, Caroline; Peters, Dirk; Wisotzki, Simone; Wolff, Jonas (2019): Justice and Peace. The role of justice claims in international cooperation and conflict, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. - Recognition in International Relations
| 2015
Daase, Christopher; Fehl, Caroline; Geis, Anna; Kolliarakis, Georgios (2015): Recognition in International Relations. Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Living with a Reluctant Hegemon
| 2012
Fehl, Caroline (2012): Living with a Reluctant Hegemon. Explaining European Responses to US Unilateralism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Publication - Europäische Identitätsbildung in Abgrenzung von den USA?
| 2005
Fehl, Caroline (2005): Europäische Identitätsbildung in Abgrenzung von den USA?. Eine Untersuchung des deutschen und britischen Mediendiskurses über das transatlantische Verhältnis, Münster: Lit-Verlag.
- Taking responsibility: How NPT members can support justice for victims of nuclear weapons – and through this, the NPT
| 2024
Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline (2024): Taking responsibility: How NPT members can support justice for victims of nuclear weapons – and through this, the NPT, European Leadership Network.
Publication - NATO. Spicker Politik Nr. 27
| 2024
Fehl, Caroline (2024): NATO. Spicker Politik Nr. 27, Spicker Politik, 27: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb).
Publication - Rüstungsdynamiken: Rüstungskontrolle und Desinformation
| 2023
Daase, Christopher; Driedger, Jonas J.; Burck, Kristoffer; Fehl, Caroline; Wisotzki, Simone; Forsythe, Sam; Hach, Sascha; Jakob, Una; Schörnig, Niklas; Lambach, Daniel (2023): Rüstungsdynamiken: Rüstungskontrolle und Desinformation, in: onn 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) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2023, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 85-101.
Publication - A Stress Test of Nuclear Deterrence
| 2022
Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha; Vieluf, Maren (2022): A Stress Test of Nuclear Deterrence, PRIF Blog.
Publication - New York, Kiew, Havanna: Wir brauchen den Erstschlagverzicht
| 2022
Fehl, Caroline; Vieluf, Maren; Hach, Sascha (2022): New York, Kiew, Havanna: Wir brauchen den Erstschlagverzicht, PRIF Blog.
Publication - Europas Kubakrise
| 2022
Fehl, Caroline; Vieluf, Maren; Hach, Sascha (2022): Europas Kubakrise, IPG Journal.
Publication - Rüstungsdynamiken: Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten
| 2022
Baldus, Jana; Brzoska, Michael; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha; Kütt, Moritz; Vieluf, Maren; Wunderlich, Carmen; Thies, Tim (2022): Rüstungsdynamiken: Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten, 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) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2022, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 91-109.
Publication - NPT 2022: An Opportunity to Advance Nuclear Justice
| 2022
Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha (2022): NPT 2022: An Opportunity to Advance Nuclear Justice, Global Policy.
Publication - Sicherheitspolitische Zeitenwende: Welche Fähigkeiten braucht Deutschland, um den Frieden zu sichern?
| 2022
Brockmeier, Sarah; Daase, Christopher; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline; Junk, Julian; Kroll, Stefan; Marauhn, Thilo; Peez, Anton; Schörnig, Niklas (2022): Sicherheitspolitische Zeitenwende: Welche Fähigkeiten braucht Deutschland, um den Frieden zu sichern?, PRIF BLOG.
Publication - Tanz auf tektonischen Platten: Biden und die US-Anti-Interventionisten in der Ukraine-Krise
| 2022
Fehl, Caroline (2022): Tanz auf tektonischen Platten: Biden und die US-Anti-Interventionisten in der Ukraine-Krise, PRIF BLOG.
Publication - Frieden am Ende? Die Eskalation im Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt und die Rolle der Friedenspolitik
| 2022
Daase, Christopher; Abb, Pascal; Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline; Kroll, Stefan; Marauhn, Thilo; Peez, Anton (2022): Frieden am Ende? Die Eskalation im Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt und die Rolle der Friedenspolitik, PRIF BLOG.
Publication - Beyond the Ban
| 2021
Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha (2021): Beyond the Ban. A Global Agenda for Nuclear Justice, PRIF Report, 4, Frankfurt/M. - Three futures for NATO: New FES/PRIF backgrounder for the 2021 NATO summit
| 2021
Dembinski, Matthias; Fehl, Caroline (2021): Three futures for NATO: New FES/PRIF backgrounder for the 2021 NATO summit, PRIF Blog.
Publication - Handwerker-in-chief: Auf Joe Biden warten schwierige Reparaturarbeiten im multilateralen Haus
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline (2020): Handwerker-in-chief: Auf Joe Biden warten schwierige Reparaturarbeiten im multilateralen Haus, PRIF Blog.
Publication - The Partial Return of Universal Jurisdiction: Syrian Torturers on Trial in Germany
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline (2020): The Partial Return of Universal Jurisdiction: Syrian Torturers on Trial in Germany, Global Policy Journal.
Publication - Syrische Folterer vor Gericht
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline (2020): Syrische Folterer vor Gericht. Die partielle Rückkehr des universellen Rechts, PRIF Spotlight, 2, Frankfurt/M. - Saving Multilateralism in Times of Trump
| 2019
Fehl, Caroline; Thimm, Johannes (2019): Saving Multilateralism in Times of Trump. What Can Europe Do?, PRIF BLOG.
Publication - Die Rückkehr der nuklearen Konfrontation. Ein Scheitern des INF-Vertrags wäre fatal für Europa
| 2018
Fehl, Caroline; Dembinski, Matthias; Schörnig, Niklas (2018): Die Rückkehr der nuklearen Konfrontation. Ein Scheitern des INF-Vertrags wäre fatal für Europa, PRIF Blog.
Publication - Assad könnte in Idlib wieder Giftgas einsetzen – doch eine militärische Antwort wäre falsch
| 2018
Fehl, Caroline (2018): Assad könnte in Idlib wieder Giftgas einsetzen – doch eine militärische Antwort wäre falsch, PRIF Blog.
Publication - Chasing Justice for Syria
| 2017
Fehl, Caroline; Mocková, Eliška (2017): Chasing Justice for Syria. Roadblocks and detours on the path to accountability, PRIF Spotlight, 5, Frankfurt/M. - „America first“: Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump
| 2017
Fehl, Caroline; Fey, Marco (2017): „America first“: Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump, HSFK-Report, 1, Frankfurt/M. - Kurz erklärt: Kann das Völkerrecht Donald Trump stoppen?
| 2016
Fehl, Caroline (2016): Kurz erklärt: Kann das Völkerrecht Donald Trump stoppen?, Weltsichten. Magazin für globale Entwicklung und ökumenische Zusammenarbeit.
Publication - Growing Up Rough: The Changing Politics of Justice at the International Criminal Court
| 2014
Fehl, Caroline (2014): Growing Up Rough: The Changing Politics of Justice at the International Criminal Court, PRIF Report, 127, Frankfurt/M. - Waffen nur für Gaddafi?
| 2011
Fehl, Caroline (2011): Waffen nur für Gaddafi?, taz.
Publication - Ein hausgemachtes Dilemma
| 2011
Fehl, Caroline (2011): Ein hausgemachtes Dilemma. Der Bürgerkrieg in Libyen erteilt Europa einige unangenehme Lehren, HSFK-Standpunkt, 7, Frankfurt/M. - Weltmacht und Weltordnung
| 2008
Fehl, Caroline; Timm, Johannes (2008): Weltmacht und Weltordnung. Der Multilateralismus als transatlantisches Konfliktfeld, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
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- It's Complicated
| 2020
Fehl, Caroline; Rosert, Elvira (2020): It's Complicated. A Conceptual Framework for Studying Relations and Interactions between International Norms, PRIF Working Paper, 49, Frankfurt/M. - Navigating Norm Complexity
| 2018
Fehl, Caroline (2018): Navigating Norm Complexity. A Shared Research Agenda for Diverse Constructivist Perspectives, PRIF Working Paper, 41, Frankfurt/M.
Further Activities
| since 2023
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Foundation for Peace Research