Madita Standke-Erdmann

Associate Fellow

Madita Standke-Erdmann is an Associate Fellow at PRIF’s Inter­national Security Research Depart­ment and a Doctoral Researcher at the Depart­ment of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research interests include feminist and postcolonial approaches to Inter­national Relations with a focus on foreign policy, colonial history, security, and migration. Her research is supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Madita Stanke-Erdmann
madita.standke-erdmann(at)prif.org
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CV

| since 2024
Associate Fellow at PRIF

| since 2023
Doctoral Researcher at Department of War Studies, King’s College London

| 2022–2023
Advisor on International Gender Equality and Women7/G7, National Council for German Women’s Organizations

| 2019–2022
Research Associate, member of IN:EX research group, Depart­ment of Political Science, University of Vienna

| 2019
Intern with research area “International Security” at Austrian Insti­tute for Inter­national Affairs (oiip), Vienna

| 2017–2018
Master of Science in Inter­national Relations Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science

| 2013–2014
Erasmus Scholarship, Uniwer­sytet Jagielloński, Cracow

| 2011–2015
Bachelor of Arts in European Studies, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Publications

  • Entangled Vulnerabilities: Gendered and Racialised Bodies and Borders in EU External Border Security
    | 2024
    Sachseder, Julia; Stachowitsch, Saskia; Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2024): Entangled Vulnerabilities: Gendered and Racialised Bodies and Borders in EU External Border Security, Geopolitics, 29: 5, 1913–1941. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2291060
  • Feministische Außenpolitik – Eine „unmögliche Allianz?”
    | 2023
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2023): Feministische Außenpolitik – Eine „unmögliche Allianz?”. Wie Steht Es Um Die Deutsche Feministische Außenpolitik?, 2023: 5: Netzwerk Friedenskooperative.
    Publication
  • Exposing Flaws in the Logic(s) of Nuclear Deterrence as an International Security Strategy – A Feminist Postcolonial Perspective
    | 2020
    Scheyer, Victoria; Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2020): Exposing Flaws in the Logic(s) of Nuclear Deterrence as an International Security Strategy – A Feminist Postcolonial Perspective, Ethics and Armed Forces, 2020: 1, 25-31.
    Publication
  • A world transformed by climate justice
    | 2020
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita; Viehoff, Alina (2020): A world transformed by climate justice, New Perspectives, 28: 3, 347–365. DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20935235

  • Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria
    | 2022
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita; Pieper, Milena; Rosenberger, Sieglinde (2022): Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria, in: Freedman, Jane; Sahraoui, Nina; Tastsoglou, Evangelia (eds), Gender-Based Violence in Migration, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 59–83. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07929-0_3

  • Der Kampf um Körper und Identität: Rückschritte sind zu befürchten
    | 2025
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita; Wisotzki, Simone (2025): Der Kampf um Körper und Identität: Rückschritte sind zu befürchten, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Women7 Report Card on G7 Outcomes
    | 2022
    Women7 (2022): Women7 Report Card on G7 Outcomes, in: Standke-Erdmann, Madita (eds), Berlin: Deutscher Frauenrat.
    Publication
  • An Intersectional Perspective on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Policy Analysis
    | 2021
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2021): An Intersectional Perspective on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Policy Analysis, Brussels: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
    Publication
  • How Militarized is Germany’s Foreign Policy?
    | 2021
    Bernarding, Nina; Menninger, Jennifer; Provan, Anna; Scheyer, Victoria; Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2021): How Militarized is Germany’s Foreign Policy? : Center for Feminist Foreign Policy and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
    Publication
  • Germany Should Acknowledge and Counter Violence Against Refugee Women at the EU’s Borders
    | 2020
    Standke-Erdmann, Madita (2020): Germany Should Acknowledge and Counter Violence Against Refugee Women at the EU’s Borders. Peace Lab Blog (GPPi) on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Impulse für den dritten Nationalen Aktionsplan der Bundesregierung.
    Publication

  • The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in EU Border Management
    | 2021
    Gyan-Addo, Lawreen; Standke-Erdmann, Madita; Stachowitsch, Saskia (2021): The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in EU Border Management, June 2021: Working Paper 110: Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik.
    Publication

Further Activities

| seit 2024
Team member of Trauma-Centered Study Group, King’s College London

| seit 2024
Member of the Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD)

| seit 2022
Member of the Feminisms and War Net­work (Swedish Defence University)

| seit 2021
Member of the extended executive board and women’s representative, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK e.V.) 

  • Representative of the Women’s Inter­national League for Peace and Free­dom in the Net­work 1325 on the implemen­tation of the UN Agenda on Women, Peace and Security

| 2024
PhD Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation

| 2024
Dissertation Field­work Support Grant, European Inter­national Studies Association