Elena Dressler
Elena Dressler is an Associate Fellow in the Research Department Intrastate Conflict at PRIF. She is also a research assistant at TU Darmstadt and a doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance.” Her research focuses on transnational organized crime and corresponding strategies to combat it and their effects. Her regional focus is Latin America.
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| since 10/2025
Associate Fellow at PRIF
| since 04/2025
Research Assistant at the Chair of International Relations under Prof. Markus Lederer and Doctoral Candidate in the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” at Darmstadt Technical University and Goethe University Frankfurt
| 2021–2025
Master of Arts in International Studies / Peace and Conflict Research, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Technical University of Darmstadt, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid
| 2021–2025
Student Assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) under Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (until 2023) and Prof. Jonas Wolff (from 2022)
| 2021–2022
Student Assistant at the Chair of International Politics under Prof. Dr. Sandra Destradi, University of Freiburg
| 2018–2021
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Law (minor), Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and Universidad Externado de Colombia
Publications
- India’s Response to the Pandemic: Populism as an Explanatory Factor
| 2025
Dressler, Elena; Plagemann, Johannes (2025): India’s Response to the Pandemic: Populism as an Explanatory Factor, Die Friedens-Warte, 95: 1–2, 17–39.
Publication - From political instability to “internal armed conflict”
| 2024
Dressler, Elena; Wolff, Jonas (2024): From political instability to “internal armed conflict”. Ecuador’s multiple crisis, Revista de Ciencia Política, Online First. DOI: 10.4067/s0718-090x2024005000107
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- Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making
| 2025
Dressler, Elena; Destradi, Sandra; Jumle, Vihang; Plagemann, Johannes; Santiago, Alyssa; Schleehauf, Ronald (2025): Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making, in: Cadier, David; Chryssogelos, Angelos; Destradi, Sandra (eds), Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy.
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- Freie Fahrt für harte Hand? Ecuadors militärischer Kampf gegen das Verbrechen geht in die zweite Runde
| 2025
Dressler, Elena; Wolff, Jonas (2025): Freie Fahrt für harte Hand? Ecuadors militärischer Kampf gegen das Verbrechen geht in die zweite Runde, PRIF Blog.
Publication - Von der Insel des Friedens zum Kriegszustand: Hintergründe der Gewalteskalation in Ecuador
| 2024
Wolff, Jonas; Dressler, Elena (2024): Von der Insel des Friedens zum Kriegszustand: Hintergründe der Gewalteskalation in Ecuador, PRIF Blog.
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