Johanna Speyer
Johanna Speyer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the LOEWE Research Group World Orders in Conflict at PRIF, a Research Associate in the Research Department International Institutions and an External Research Associate at Goethe University Frankfurt/M. She works on the contestation of norms and institutions, the dynamics of international authority and the question of when (norm) contestation leads to a crisis of order.
CV
since 2024
Research Assistant (Postdoc) in the LOEWE research group “World Orders in Conflict” at PRIF
| 2024
Lecturer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
| 2020–2023
Junior member of the Gutenberg Academy (since 2023: Gutenberg Academy Honors Program, GAHP)
| 2017–2024
Research Assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann) at the Institute of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
| 2016–2017
Research Assistant at the Department of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann) at the Institute of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Coordinator of the GLK project “Internationalisierung der Politikwissenschaft: Ausbau und Verstetigung innovativer englischsprachiger Lehre mit Hebelwirkung für Drittmittelanträge”
| 2014–2016
International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research (MA), Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
| 2013–2014
Project Assistant in the DAAD project "Tunisia in Transition", Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Stahl), University of Passau
| 2012–2013
Tutor for Macroeconomics, Chair of Economics, focus on Economic Theory (Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff), University of Passau
| 2010–2014
Study of Political Science – Governance and Public Policy (BA), University of Passau
Publications
- How a Conversation Between EU Studies and Critical-Constructivist IR Norm Research Illuminates a Union in Crisis. A Research Note
| 2024
Speyer, Johanna; Stockmann, Nils (2024): How a Conversation Between EU Studies and Critical-Constructivist IR Norm Research Illuminates a Union in Crisis. A Research Note, Journal of Common Market Studies, 62: 3, 902–913. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13508 - Reflexivity Matters! Wie die IB-Normenforschung von der Kommunikation über Situiertheit profitiert
| 2023
Kropp, Selma; Schmidtke, Tobias; Speyer, Johanna; Stelter, Maike; Stockmann, Nils (2023): Reflexivity Matters! Wie die IB-Normenforschung von der Kommunikation über Situiertheit profitiert, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 30: 2, 187–199. DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2023-2-187 - The “Refugee crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism
| 2019
Stockemer, Daniel; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna; Unger, Doris (2019): The “Refugee crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism, International Migration Review, 54: 3, 883‒912. DOI: 10.1177/0197918319879926 - Immigration, anti-immigrant attitudes and Eurosceptism: a meta-Analysis
| 2018
Stockemer, Daniel; Niemann, Arne; Rabenschlag, Johannes; Speyer, Johanna; Unger, Doris (2018): Immigration, anti-immigrant attitudes and Eurosceptism: a meta-Analysis, French Politics, 16: 1, 328‒340. DOI: 10.1057/s41253-018-0065-x - Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint: Wie ein Weltmenschenrechtsgerichtshof die Menschenrechte schwächt
| 2018
Speyer, Johanna (2018): Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint: Wie ein Weltmenschenrechtsgerichtshof die Menschenrechte schwächt, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 25: 2, 6‒32. DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2018-2-6 - A Neofunctionalist Perspective on the ‚European Refugee Crisis‘: the Case of the European Border and Coast Guard
| 2018
Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (2018): A Neofunctionalist Perspective on the ‚European Refugee Crisis‘: the Case of the European Border and Coast Guard, Journal of Common Market Studies, 56: 1, 23‒43. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12653
- International Perceptions of Brexit
| 2022
Speyer, Johanna; Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne (2022): International Perceptions of Brexit, in: Leruth, Benjamin/Gänzle, Stefan/Trondal, Jarle (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, Abingdon: Routledge, 633‒648.
Publication - Conclusion: External Perceptions of the EU and EU Foreign Policy Making at Times of Brexit
| 2020
Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (2020): Conclusion: External Perceptions of the EU and EU Foreign Policy Making at Times of Brexit, in: Chaban, Natalia/Niemann, Arne/Speyer, Johanna (eds), Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge, 281296.
Publication - Introduction: Uncertain Change and Changing Uncertainty: the Brexit Referendum and the EU in the Eyes of the World
| 2020
Speyer, Johanna; Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne (2020): Introduction: Uncertain Change and Changing Uncertainty: the Brexit Referendum and the EU in the Eyes of the World, in: Chaban, Natalia/Niemann, Arne/Speyer, Johanna (eds), Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge, 1‒24.
Publication - Increasingly brittle? US-perceptions of the EU after Brexit and their impact on EU-US relations
| 2020
Speyer, Johanna; Hähn, Laura; Niemann, Arne (2020): Increasingly brittle? US-perceptions of the EU after Brexit and their impact on EU-US relations, in: Chaban, Natalia/Niemann, Arne/Speyer, Johanna (eds), Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit: Global Perspectives, Abingdon: Routledge, 99‒115.
Publication
- Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit
| 2020
Chaban, Natalia; Niemann, Arne; Speyer, Johanna (2020): Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit, Changing Perceptions of the EU at times of Brexit, Abingdon: Routledge.
Publication
- Auftakt zum Forum "Krise und Normkontestation"
| 2023
Stockmann, Nils; Speyer, Johanna (2023): Auftakt zum Forum "Krise und Normkontestation", Theorieblog.
Publication - Whither Norms Research in Times of Uncertainty? A Symposium
| 2022
Gholiagha, Sassan; Speyer, Johanna; Wilkens, Jan; Wunderlich, Carmen (2022): Whither Norms Research in Times of Uncertainty? A Symposium, The Duck of Minerva.
Publication - Backlash: Unpacking the Concept’s Analytical Promise
| 2022
Speyer, Johanna (2022): Backlash: Unpacking the Concept’s Analytical Promise, Mainz Papers on International and European Politics Nr. 26.
Publication - Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Wie, warum und was wir ändern müssen. Fazit und Handlungsempfehlungen
| 2021
Budde, Svenja; Plank, Friedrich; Giesen, Michael; Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Wie, warum und was wir ändern müssen. Fazit und Handlungsempfehlungen, DVPW Blog.
Publication - Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Navigieren zwischen Struktur und Freiheit: Aktuelle Probleme und Verbesserungsperspektiven der Promotionsbetreuung in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft
| 2021
Budde, Svenja; Plank, Friedrich; Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Navigieren zwischen Struktur und Freiheit: Aktuelle Probleme und Verbesserungsperspektiven der Promotionsbetreuung in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft, DVPW Blog.
Publication - Images of a Divorce. External Perceptions of Brexit in the USA and their Influence on Transatlantic Relations
| 2019
Speyer, Johanna; Niemann, Arne (2019): Images of a Divorce. External Perceptions of Brexit in the USA and their Influence on Transatlantic Relations, Mainz Papers on International and European Politics Nr. 19.
Publication
Further Activities
| since 2023
Board member at Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt e.V.
| since 2020
Co-Speaker of the IB-Norms Research Group of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
| 2020–2023
Co-Speaker of the Early Career Group International Relations (ECIB) of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)
| 2019–2023
Member of the Gutenberg Nachwuchskolleg (GNK), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Selection:
- Contested Crisis. On the Relationship between Crisis, Contestation and Order. Workshop „Gegenwart und Krise“, University of Cologne, July 19–20, 2024.
„Crisis and Contestation – Conceptual Boundary Work for a Future Yet to Come” (Organisation mit N. Stockmann), European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Istanbul, July 3–5, 2024. - The contestation of fundamental norms: What Poland’s backlash against the EU reveals about norm hierarchies and contestation, British International Studies Association Annual Conference: Whose international Studies, June 5–7, 2024, Birmingham, UK.
- Hitting the high Cs of International Relations research: How do norm contestation and crises relate to each other? (mit N. Stockmann), 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, European International Studies Association, Potsdam, September 5–9, 2023.
- Normgezwitscher: Twitter-Analysen in der konstruktivistischen Normenforschung (mit J. Biel), 7th Open Section Conference of the Section “International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association (GPSA), Friedrichshafen, June 14–16, 2023.
- Institutional Contestation, Norm Contestation and Norm Hierarchies in Poland’s Backlash Against the EU, 64th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association “Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity “, Montréal, March 15–18,2023.
- 16. Early Career Tagung Internationale Beziehungen „Theorien und Problemfelder internationaler Politik“ (Organized with the representatives of the Early Career Group International Relations (ECIB) of the German Political Science Association (GPSA): S. Biedermann, S. Mokry, Dr. F. Plank, T. Rosner-Merker and N. Stockmann), Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, February 14–16, 2023.
- To say, what the Rule of Law is. Norm Cores between Empty Signifiers and Liberal Impositions, 6th Open Section Conference of the Section “International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association (GPSA), Freiburg/online, October 7–9, 2020. Nominated for the Best Paper Award of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (zib, Journal of International Relations)
- (Legal) Security lost? How the European Union can help us understand about international backlashes against liberal norms and institutions; “The EU in international security after Brexit: New paths for Europe? “, Workshop at the University of Cambridge, December 13–14, 2018.
- “Broken, bankrupt and bizarre“? What prisoners' voting reveals about the relationship between national Democracy and the international enforcement of human rights norms; as well asThe tip of the iceberg? What Hungary’s and Poland’s defiance of Art. 2 TEU reveals about the future of the European Union; 27th Scientific Congress of the GPSA, Frankfurt/M., September 25–28, 2018.
- Images of a Divorce. External Perceptions of the Brexit in the USA and their influence on Transatlantic Relations (together with Arne Niemann); 59th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association “Power of Rules and Rule of Power“, San Francisco, April 4–7, 2018.
- Die Unwahrscheinlichkeit der Menschenrechte. Überlegungen zu einer individuellen Klagebefugnis auf globaler Ebene; 5th Open Section Conference of the Section “International Relations“ of the German Political Science Association (GPSA), Bremen, October 4–6, 2017.
- June 15, 2023: Moderation of the panel discussion “Krise und Normkontestation – Zum Verhältnis zweier omnipräsenter Konzepte“ (together with N. Stockmann)
- November 24, 2017: Moderation of the panel discussion “Demokratie neu Denken: Wie sieht politische Partizipation in Zukunft aus?“, Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt e.V.
| 2020–2023
Junior member of the Gutenberg Academy (since 2023: Gutenberg Academy Honors Program, GAHP)
2011–2016
Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
| 2010–2016
Scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerks Villigst e.V.