Maximilian Tkocz

Doctoral Researcher

Maximilian Tkocz is a Doctoral Researcher in PRIF's Research Depart­ment Inter­national Security. His research focuses on narratives and discourse in German Foreign Policy, as well as know­ledge transfer and exchange in arms control.

CV

| since 2023
Doctoral Researcher at PRIF

| 2023
Research Assis­tant for Christopher Daase

| 2022–2023
MSc, Crisis and Security Manage­ment, Leiden University, Netherlands

| 2021–2022
MPhil, Politics and Inter­national Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

| 2018–2021
BA (Hons), Inter­national Relations, King’s College London, United Kingdom

| 2020–2021
Project assistant in the InFoEx-Project (Inter­national Forum for Expert Exchange on Countering Islamist Extre­mism) at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

| 2020
Intern at the Security and Defense Program of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Publications

  • Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023
    | 2024
    Tkocz, Maximilian; Stritzel, Holger (2024): Articulating a Delicate Balancing Act: Identity and Ontological Insecurity in Germany’s Narrative Responses to Israel 1993–2023, German Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2024.2425750
  • Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
    | 2023
    Tkocz, Maximilian; Stritzel, Holger (2023): Articulating Change and Responsibility: Identity, Memory, and the Use of Historical Narratives in German Parliamentary Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, German Politics. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2023.2252765

  • Rhetorik, die überzeugt? „Historische Lehren“ in der deutschen Debatte über den Ukrainekrieg
    | 2024
    Tkocz, Maximilian (2024): Rhetorik, die überzeugt? „Historische Lehren“ in der deutschen Debatte über den Ukrainekrieg, PRIF Blog.
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  • Die rüstungskontrollpolitischen Initiativen Deutschlands – eine Erfolgsgeschichte?
    | 2023
    Lurz, Alexander; Baldus, Jana; Daase, Christopher; Ferl, Anna-Katharina; Jakob, Una; Lambach, Daniel; Lehmann, Tobias; Perras, Clara; Hoffberger-Pippan, Elisabeth; Reinhold, Thomas; Schmidt, Hans-Joachim; Schörnig, Niklas; Tkocz, Maximilian; Wisotzki, Simone (2023): Die rüstungskontrollpolitischen Initiativen Deutschlands – eine Erfolgsgeschichte?, Greenpeace-Studie.
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