Short CV and publications

Research Foci

Transatlantic Postdoctoral Fellow for International Relations and Security, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich

American Alliances and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Why U.S. Allies Abandon Their Nuclear Weapons Activities (in German) (under contract with Nomos Publishers, forthcoming 2015)
"Bringing the First Image of Nuclear Politics Back In": A Plea for Strengthening the Role of the Individual in Theories of Nuclear Proliferation (in German), Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (forthcoming in 2015), 28 pp.
"Nuclear Nonproliferation within the Context of U.S. Alliances – Protection, Status, and the Psychology of West Germany's Nuclear Reversal", Paper prepared for the International Studies Association annual convention, March 2014.
with Oliver Thränert: "Dual Use": Dealing with Uranium Enrichment. CSS Analyses in Security Policy No. 151, April 2014.
The Diffusion of Non-nuclear Postures among U.S. Allies – Explaining West Germany's Nuclear Reversal (Paper prepared for the International Studies Association annual convention, San Francisco, CA, April 3–6, 2013), 49 pp.
The Change toward Cooperation in the George W. Bush Administration’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea (Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2010), 185 pp.
After Pyongyang’s Nuclear Weapons Test: U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea (Berlin: German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), 2007), 10 pp. (in German).