Goethe-Universität — Dr. Stephanie Winkler

Dr. Stephanie Christine Winkler

Postdoctoral Researcher an der Professur für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien

2024- 2025	Lehrbeauftragte Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Arbeitsbereich Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Institut für Politikwissenschaft)
Seit 2023	Postdoctoral Researcher Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Arbeitsbereich Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Institut für Politikwissenschaft)
Seit 2022	Postdoctoral Researcher (Swedish Research Council Grant) Stockholm University, Schweden Department of Economic History and International Relations
2016- 2022	Associate Fellow Swedish Institute for International Affairs (UI), Schweden
2021- 2022	Lecturer in Political Science Swedish Defense University, Schweden
2021	Lecturer in International Relations Stockholm University, Schweden
2016- 2020	Fellow Stockholm University, Sweden Graduate School of International Studies
2016- 2020	Doctoral Fellow Swedish Defense University, Schweden Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership
2019- 2020	Visiting Fellow Harvard University, USA Department of Government
2018	Visiting Scholar George Washington University, USA Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of Inter- national Affairs
2018	Guest Researcher Peking University, China
2017	Guest Researcher Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS), Kopenhagen, Dänemark
2014-2016	Lecturer Leiden University, Niederlande Lecturer in Bachelor of International Studies Programme
2010- 2011	Research Assistant Universität Bonn Department of Chinese Language

Ausbildung

2021	Ph.D. International Relations Stockholm University, Schweden Department of Economic History and International Relations Dissertation: Conceptual Politics in Practice: How Soft Power Changed the World
2014	M.A. International Studies Leiden University, Niederlande Faculty of Humanities
2013	B.A. Asian Studies Universität Bonn Department of Oriental and Asian Studies
2012	Exchange Studies National Taiwan University, Taiwan International Relations & Chinese Language
2011/ 2010	Summer School in Chinese Language National Taiwan University & National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Kompetenzentwicklung und berufliche Weiterbildung

Sprachen	Deutsch (Muttersprache); Englisch (fließend); Niederländisch (fließend); Chinesisch (sehr gute Kenntnisse); Schwedisch (sehr gute Kenntnisse)
Software	R; LaTeX; Citavi; NVIVO; VOSViewer
Fieldwork	Japan (2017); China (2018); USA (2018, 2019)
Pädagogik	Dutch University Teaching Qualification (“BKO", Leiden University, 2016); Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (“ICLON"), Annual Pedagogic Training (2015, 2016)
Methoden	European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Process-Tracing (Budapest, 2016)

Forschung

Lehre

Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften

Course developer, convenor and lecturer Critical Reflections on the Rise of China, in M.A. Kurs WiSe 2024/25

Swedish Defense University, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership

M.A. Thesis supervision in M.A. Programme 'Politics, Security and Crisis', 2022, 2021
Course convenor and lecturer Introduction to: Politics, Security and Crisis in M.A. Programe 'Politics, Security and Crisis', 2021
Course developer, convenor and lecturer The Rise of China in M.A. Programme 'Politics, Security and Crisis' & M.A. Programme 'War Studies', 2021, 2020
Guest lecturer on Politics China in B.A. Programme 'Political Science', 2017

Stockholm University, Department of Economic History and International Relations

Guest lecturer on Forms of US power in Ph.D. course 'US Global Engagement in the 21st Century', 2023
Course convenor and lecturer International Cooperation Towards Global Challenges in B.A. Programme 'International Relations', 2021
M.A. Thesis supervision in 'International Relations', 2021

Leiden University, Bachelor of International Studies Programme

Seminar Lecturer in Economics East Asia 2015
Seminar Lecturer in Politics 2014, 2015
Seminar Lecturer in History East Asia, 2015
Seminar Lecturer in Politics East Asia, 2015
Seminar Lecturer in International Politics, 2015
Seminar Lecturer in Global History, 2014

Gesamtzahl der Kontaktstunden (à 50 Minuten): 535+ (Stand März 2025)

Publikationen

Beiträge zu wiss. Zeitschriften mit Begutachtungsverfahren

tba.	“New and Old Cold Wars: The role of technology in US-Soviet and US-China relations". Global Studies Quarterly.
2023	“Strategic Competition and US–China Relations: A Conceptual Analysis". The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 16. Link
2023	“U.S.-Chinese strategic competition and the Ukraine War: Implications for Asian-Pacific Security". Czech Journal of International Relations, 58 (1). Link
2023	(mit Björn Jerden) “US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats". Journal of International Relations and Development, 26. Link
2019	“'Soft Power is such a Benign Animal': Narrative Power and the Reification of Concepts in Japan". Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32 (4), 483–501. Link

Beiträge zu Sammelbänden mit Begutachtungsverfahren

tba.	“Power ". In F. Berenskoetter (Ed.), Concepts in international relations: A new introduction. Sage.

Dissertation

2020	“Conceptual Politics in Practice: How Soft Power Changed the World" (PhD Dissertation, Stockholm University, Schweden, Winner of the best dissertation award 2020 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University). Link

Weitere Publikationen

2022	“The Implications of the Ukraine War for Biden's China Policy". In The evolution of transatlantic and European security policy, Chapter in the annual report of the Department for Security, Strategy and Leadership (Swedish Defense University) to the Swedish Ministry of Defense. Link
2021	“Walking the line: Biden's evolving China policy between competition and cooperation". In The evolution of transatlantic and European security policy, Chapter in the annual report of the Department for Security, Strategy and Leadership (Swedish Defense University) to the Swedish Ministry of Defense. Link
2020	“China's Eurasian Dilemmas: Roads and Risks for a Sustainable Global Power. By R. James Ferguson (book review)". Pacific Affairs, 93 (2), 417–419. Link
2017	“De macht van machts-verschuivingen: Japans dilemma in Oost-Azi¨e". Atlantisch perspectief, 41 (4). Link
2016	Global and the Local: New Concepts and Approaches, Fuchu (Tokyo-to): International Office, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Consortium for Asian and African Studies.
2016	“New Approaches to the Study of Chinese Economic Decision Making". In Global and the local: New Concepts and Approaches (pp. 125–131). Consortium for Asian and African Studies. Global and the local - new concepts and approaches. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): International Office, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Vorträge

Vorträge auf wiss. Konferenzen, Seminaren und Workshops

(Auswahl der letzten Jahre)

2024/08	Back to the Past: the 'New Cold War' as a Social Imaginary. Lille: European International Studies Association
2024/03	Panelist: Weltfrauentag: Zur Rolle von Frauen in Kriegen und Konflikten (International Women's Day: The role of women in war and conflict. Bonn, Deutschland.
2024/02	Power. London, United Kingdom: Workshop for edited volume 'Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction', edited by Felix Berenskoetter.
2023/07	Back to the Past: the 'New Cold War' as a Social Imaginary. Amsterdam: European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS).
2023/05	New and Old Cold Wars: The role of technology in US-Soviet and US-China relations. University of Southern Denmark, Odense: International Workshop on US-China Tech War.
2023/05	China as a global actor. Department of Government, Bergen University. Bergen, Norwegen.
2023/04	Panel organizer: Politics, academia and beyond: the interaction of concepts, norms and theories across different worlds. Montreal, Kanada: International Studies Association (ISA), Annual Convention.
2022/10	The Return of Cold War Analogies. Stockholm School Of Economics. Stockholm, Schweden.
2021/09	Walking the Line: Biden's evolving China policy between competition and cooperation. Presented at the Swedish Ministry of Defense. Stockholm, Schweden.
2021/05	Soft power changes world politics. Swedish Institute. Stockholm, Schweden (zoom).

Funktionen und Mitgliedschaften

Services und Engagement für den Berufsstand

Peer reviewer for Cambridge Review of International Affairs (seit 2020), Pacific Affairs (seit 2021), Japanese Journal of Political Science (seit 2021), International Politics (seit 2023), European Journal of International Security (seit 2025), International Security (seit 2025)
Interviews in: Fokus (Swedish Current Affairs Magazine); IR PhD Interview Series (John H.S. Aberg's YouTube Project), 2022
Organizer of Inter-University Workshop Life after the PhD, 2021

Administrative Erfahrung

Board Member, Hans Blix Centre for the History of International Relations at Stockholm University, seit 2023
Board Member, PhD Council, Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, 2020
Member of Social Sciences Faculty Student Council (SFR), 2019-2020
SFR Representative to Central PhD Council, 2019
SFR Suppleant to Academic Appointments Board (LFN3), 2020
SFR Suppleant to Central PhD Council (CDR), 2020

Mitgliedschaften

International Studies Association (ISA), seit 2016
European International Studies Association (EISA), seit 2018

Dr. Stephanie Christine Winkler

Postdoctoral Researcher an der Professur für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Area Studies China/Ostasien

Forschungsschwerpunkte