Curriculum Vitae - Barbara EA Korte, M.A.

Barbara EA Korte studied political science, sinology and psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan. She wrote her Master Thesis on "Law Shopping in the War on Terror: How the Bush Administration tried to argue its way out of legal obligations at Guantánamo Bay“, supervised by Prof. Bernhard Zangl. Since October 2014 she has been a Ph.D. candidate at Prof. Christopher Daase's and Prof. Heike Holbig's chairs, working on the subject „Autocrats versus Terrorists: What conditions authoritarian counter-terrorism strategies?“.

Aside of  her Ph.D. studies, Barbara EA Korte was a visiting scholar as a Minerva Foundation Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa, Israel for half a year until March 2018, funded by the German Minerva Foundation and the host institution. In Haifa, she conducted her own project comparing the definitions of terrorism and related offenses in the criminal law of the jurisdictions of Germany, China, Russia, and USA.  Moreover, Barbara EA Korte has worked at the German Bundestag, the German embassy to Phnom Penh, Cambodia,  and at NATO School Oberammergau, Germany.

 

Research Interests

  • Islamist and separatist terrorism
  • counter-terrorism
  • legal aspects of counter-terrorism
  • Comparative Politics/Authoritarianism Studies
  • security policy in East-Asia
  • People's Republic of China