Faculty and Staff — International Relations

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Faculty and Staff — International Relations

Franco Algieri

Dr. Franco Algieri

Associate Professor, Head of International Relations Department

Undergraduate

  • HIST 2090 CL GNST 2004 Encounters with History: Music and Politics
  • INTL 3700 International Organizations
  • INTL 4600 Senior Seminar in International Relations: Security architectures
  • POLT 1050 Introduction to International Relations
  • POLT 4100 Advanced Studies in International Politics: Regional Integration in the 21st Century

Graduate

  • INTL 5000 Introduction to International Relations
  • INTL 5540 International Organizations
  • INTL 5550 War and Diplomacy
  • INTL 5605 Topics in Comparative Politics: The European Union and Asia Pacific
  • INTL 5605 Topics in Comparative Politics: European & Chinese approaches to Foreign Policy
  • INTL 5605 Topics in Comparative Politics: Security Issues in Europe and Asia
  • INTL 5645 Asian Area Studies
  • INTL 5860 Issues in International Politics: The Rise of the Asia-Pacific Region

Algieri has been an associate professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University since August 2013.

From April 2008 to July 2013 he was director of research at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES). Prior to that he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Politics in Bonn (1991-1994) and at the Research Group on European Affairs, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (1994-1995), and later as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Policy Research (C.A.P), Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (1995-2008). He lectured Political Science at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen and at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. In 2000 he was appointed Guest Professor at the School of International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, both at the Renmin University of China, Beijing. Algieri is a member of The Alphen Group (TAG): an informal network of leading strategic thinkers who have come together to consider the future of the transatlantic relationship and European security and defense and do something about it.

Algieri studied Political Science and Sinology in Freiburg, Tübingen and Taipei, and European Studies in Bruges. He received his doctorate and MA both from the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, and a Diploma of Advanced European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges. His research focus covers European and Asian security issues, the European integration process and EU-Asia relations (with special emphasis on EU-China relations). He has published widely on these topics.

 

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alexandra pekackova

Alexandra Pekackova Modelska, MA

Department Coordinator

 

Alexandra Pekackova Modelska joined Webster Vienna in February 2022 and has an academic background in International Relations, English Philology and History.

Alexandra has over four years of experience in academic research and administration. During her doctoral studies Alexandra has been involved in multiple international research projects, including the EU-funded 4EU+ University Alliance. Prior to joining Webster, she has worked as English Programs Coordinator at Charles University in Prague.

Education

  • PhD in Modern History – ongoing  (Charles University, Prague)
  • MA International Relations & Diplomacy (Anglo-American University, Prague)
  • BA International Relations (Anglo-American University, Prague)
  • BA English Philology (Kherson State University)

 

Jozef Bátora

Dr. Jozef Bátora

Professor

  • War and Diplomacy
  • International Security
  • EU Foreign Policy
  • International Relations Seminar

  • Professor, Webster Vienna Private University
  • Professor, Comenius University, Bratislava

Bátora’s research focuses on institutions and their change, organization theory, diplomacy, security, EU’s external relations, EU governance, and identity formation in international relations. His work was published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Relations and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

His current research projects focus on the formation of "interstitial organizations," which are emerging in spaces between established institutional fields, tapping into resources located in various institutional fields and recombining those to form new patterns of organized action. This includes organizations such as the European External Action Service or private military corporations. Second, he studies the EU’s role in crisis management in the EU neighborhood with a particular focus on Western Balkans. Third, he analyzes the formation of “thought communities” among the publics in EU member states sharing frames and concepts of the EU as a political order. Finally, he studies processes of adaptation to governance crises in the EU’s differentiated political order.

Education

  • PhD in Political Science, University of Oslo, 2006
  • MPhil in Public Administration, University of Bergen, 1999
  • BSc in Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, 1997

Book Chapters

  • Bátora, J. and Fossum, J.E. (2019): Introduction in Bátora, J., and Fossum, J.E. (eds.): “Towards a Segmented European Political Order: The European Union's Post-crisis Conundrum.“ London: Routledge.
  • Bátora, J. (2019): Interstitial Organisations and Segmented Integration in EU Governance in Bátora, J. and Fossum, J.E. (eds.): “Towards a Segmented European Political Order: The European Union's Post-crisis Conundrum.“ London: Routledge.
  • Bátora, J. and Fossum, J.E. (2019): Conclusion: A Segmented Political Order and Future Options in Bátora, J., and Fossum, J.E. (eds.): “Towards a Segmented European Political Order: The European Union's Post-crisis Conundrum.“ London: Routledge.
  • Bátora, J. (2018): Regional Institutional Diplomacies: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Other Regions in Kerr, P. and Wiseman, G. (eds.): “Diplomacy in a Globalizing World: Theories and Practices.“ 2nd Ed., New York: Oxford UP, pp. 308-327.
  • Bátora, J. (2017): Turbulence and War: Private Military Corporations and the Reinstitutionalization of War Making in Ansell, C. et al. (eds.): “Governance in Turbulent Times.“ Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 181-201.
  • Bátora, J. (2017): Slovakia's Layered Entry into International Society and the Possibilities of its Exit in Ejdus, F. (ed.): “Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society.“ London: Routledge, pp. 138-157.
  • Bátora, J. and Pulišová, V. (2013): Slovakia: Learning to Add Value to EU Foreign Policy in Baun, Michael, and Marek, Dan (eds.): “The New Member States and the European Union: Foreign Policy and Europeanization“ London: Routledge.
  • Bátora, J. (2012): Europeanization of Foreign Policy: Whither Central Europe? in Sabic, Z. and Drulák, P. (eds.): “Regional and International Relations of Central Europe.“ London: Palgrave, pp. 220-238.

Scientific Articles

  • Bátora, J, and Rieker, P. (2018): “EU-supported reforms in the EU neighborhood as organized anarchies: the case of post-Maidan Ukraine” in Journal of European Integration, 40(4): 461-478.
  • Bátora, J. (2017) “Reinvigorating the Rotating Presidency: Slovakia and Agenda-Setting in the EU’s External Relations” in Global Affairs, Nov. 2017, pp. 1–13.
    Bátora, J. et al (2017): "The EU's Crisis Management in the Kosovo-Serbia Crises" EUNPACK Working Paper No 3.
  • Bátora, J. (2013): “The ‘Mitrailleuse Effect’: The EEAS as an Interstitial Organization and the Dynamics of Innovation in Diplomacy” in Journal of Common Market Studies, 51(4): 598-614.
  • Bátora, J. (2013): “Compliance and Non-Compliance as Sources of Recognition: Slovakia and NATO” in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 46(3): 387-396.

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Marco Bocchese

Marco Bocchese

Assistant Professor, International Relations

Undergraduate

  • POLT 1050 Introduction to International Relations
  • POLT 1080 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • INTL 2030: International Law

Graduate

  • INTL 5605 Topics in Comparative Politics: Political Violence

Marco Bocchese has been an assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University since August 2021. Prior to joining Webster, he worked as a visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he taught several undergraduate courses in international relations and international law.

Marco Bocchese received his doctorate, MA and LLM from Northwestern University, and a JD from the University of Verona. His research on state relations with international criminal tribunals has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan State International Law Review, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, the Washington International Law Journal, the International Journal of Human Rights, the International Criminal Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law and Global Governance.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS and WORKING PAPERS

  • “El Coco Does not Frighten Anymore: ICC Scrutiny & State Cooperation in Colombia,” Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Volume 26, Issue 1 (2021): 157–183
  • “In the Eye of the Beholder: Elite Assessments of ICC Performance,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, Volume 27, Issue 2 (2021): 275-297
  • “Of Crowns and Crimes: When State Leaders Confront International Justice.” Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 21, Issue 3 (2023): 487–525
  • “Too Little, Too Late: The ICC and the Politics of Prosecutorial Procrastination in Georgia,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3 (2024): 1–25. 
  • “Pricing Identity: Trade, Soft Power and Chinese Development in the Global South,” coauthored with Elizabeth Linn. Pricing Identity: Trade, Soft Power and Chinese Development in the Global South by Marco Bocchese, Elizabeth Linn :: SSRN.

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

 

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Joachim Honeck

Joachim Honeck, MA

Lecturer, International Relations

  • INTL 1050, Introduction to International Relations
  • GLBC 1200, Global Cornerstone Seminar
  • HIST 2240, Contemporary Europe
  • INTL 2680, International Relations Theory
  • INTL 3240, U.S. Foreign Policy
  • POLT 3310, Conduct of Foreign Policy
  • INTL 3700, International Organizations

Honeck is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at WVPU, currently focusing on comparative foreign policy analysis and EU-China relations. From 2014-2017, he served as a research fellow, department coordinator, and academic advisor at the IR department, assisting the research faculty in areas, such as European Energy Security, U.S. Foreign Policy and EU-Asia Relations.

After receiving his BA Phil from the Pontifical University Santa Croce in Rome (2003), Honeck studied philosophy, theology and literature while completing the Christian Humanities Program at the Accademia Balthasar in Rome (2007) and served in the Jesuit Order between 2007-2011. In 2014, he received an MA in International Relations from WVPU with a thesis on U.S. grand strategy in relation to China and the EU.

Education

  • MA International Relations, Webster University Vienna, Austria
  • Jesuit Novitiate, Nürnberg, Germany
  • Christian Humanities Program, Accademia Balthasar, Rome, Italy
  • BA Phil., Pontifical University Santa Croce, Rome, Italy

 

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Anatoly Reshetnikov

Dr. Anatoly Reshetnikov

Assistant Professor, International Relations

  • Globalization: Politics, Culture and Economy of Expanding International Society/ies
  • Central and Eastern European Area Studies
  • Research Methods and Perspectives
  • Methods of Political Inquiry
  • International Relations Seminar: Key Concepts of Russian Foreign Policy

Reshetnikov joined the International Relations Department at WVPU in December 2018. He holds a PhD from the Department of International Relations of the Central European University. Before joining WVPU, Reshetnikov was a visiting researcher at the University College London and Lund University and a grantee of the Swedish Institute, as well as the CEU Budapest Foundation.

He has also been a visiting lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, Central European University and Mathias Corvinus Collegium. His research was published in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, Demokratizatsiya and Russian Politics, among other journals. At the moment, he is working on his book on the evolution of Russia’s great power discourse from the XI century until the present day. In addition, Reshetnikov serves as an Associate Editor of New Perspectives, an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

Reshetnikov’s research interests include identity politics, conceptual history, critical and linguistic approaches to social analysis, historical international relations, interpretivist pedagogy, Russia’s international politics and institutionalized political trolling. In other currently ongoing projects, he is researching the hidden politics of translation in international organizations, the meta-politics of contemporary music in the post-soviet space, and the rhetorical foundations of politics and international relations.

Education

  • PhD in Political Science, Central European University, 2019
  • MA in International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, 2010
  • Specialist in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, 2009

Academic Articles

  • Kurowska, X. & Reshetnikov, A. (2020) "Trickstery: Pluralising stigma in international society," European Journal of International Relations.
  • Kurowska, X. & Reshetnikov, A. (2018) “Neutrollization: industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization,” Security Dialogue, Vol. 49(5) (2018): 345-363.
  • Morozov, V., Reshetnikov, A. & Gaufman, E. (2022) “F*** tha police!” à la russe: Rancière and the metamodernist turn in contemporary Russian music.” Nationalities Papers.
  • Reshetnikov, A. (2017) “Intervention as Virtue, Obligation and Moral Duty: The Meaning of Russia’s Rhetoric on Responsibility during Georgian and Crimean Crises,” Russian Politics, Vol. 2(2): 155-181.
  • Reshetnikov, A. (2011) “‘Great Projects’ Politics in Russia: History’s Hardly Victorious End”, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 19(2): 151-175.
  • Reshetnikov, A. (2007) “Semeiological Problems: Postmodernism and Deconstruction of Jacques Derrida” in: Izvestiya: Human Sciences, No. 2 (in Russian).

Policy Papers

  • Morozov, V., Kurowska, X. & Reshetnikov, A. (2018) “Why Russia’s Strategic Deception Is Popular: The Cultural Appeal of the Trickster”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 554, George Washington University.
  • Kurowska, X. & Reshetnikov, A. (2018) “Russia’s trolling complex at home and abroad”, in Nicu Popescu and Stanislav Secrieru (eds), Hacks, Leaks and Disruptions: Russian Cyber Strategies, Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, pp. 25-32.

Conference Proceedings

Academic Forums and Commentary

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Samuel Schubert

Dr. Samuel R. Schubert

Associate Director, WVPU; Assistant Professor, International Relations

  • Graduate and Undergraduate Seminars on Terrorism and Political Violence
  • International Relations Theory
  • International Security/Energy Security
  • U.S. Foreign Policy and US National Institutions
  • Middle East Area Studies
  • Comparative Foreign Policy

  • Associate Director of Webster Vienna Private University
  • Assistant Professor of International Relations, Webster Vienna, Private University

Schubert's current research focuses on the nexus of energy policy and security at the European policy and geopolitical levels and the related foreign policies of great powers. Combining International Political Economy with key approaches of International Relations theory and Foreign Policy Analysis, he has (co)authored monographs on EU Energy Policy and articles and chapters on the resource curse, the role of energy in EU-Russia relations, economic and military developments in the Arctic, lessons learned with regard to strategic autonomy projects and role of key energy supply corridors.

His work on the resource curse and the political-developmental effects of mineral export dependence have led to several commissioned studies (1,2,3). Prior to his focus on energy security matters, Dr. Schubert focused on the empirical analysis of modern terrorism developing a framework for understanding it as a limitedly successful form of warfare for weaker forces engaged in asymmetric conflicts against large open societies.

Education

  • Dr.Phil, Political Science, University of Vienna, 2010
  • MA International Relations, Webster University, 2008
  • BA Political Science, George Washington University, 1988

Books

  • “Die Energiepolitik der EU” with J.Pollak & P. Smolinski. (2010) Vienna: UTB/Facultas.
  • “Savior or Achilles Heel: Turkish Membership in the Context of EU Energy Policy” (2010)  Paper presented with J. Pollak at the 68th Annual Midwest Political Science Association National Conference (April 22-25, Chicago).
  • “A Comparative Analysis of Systemic Opportunities and Constraints in US and UK Energy Policy Formulation: Implications for Inter-State Relations” (2008) Ann Arbor: ProQuest/UMI.
  • Being Rich in Energy Resources – A Blessing or a Curse, (2007) Report to the Directorate General, External Policies of the Union, Brussels: European Parliament.
  • “Revisiting the Oil Curse” in Development 49.3 September 2006.
  • The asymmetric power of terrorism (2007) George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies: Garmisch; available in English, German, and Russian. Also available in Schröfl/Cox/Pankratz (eds.) (2009) “Winning the Asymmetric War, Political, Social and Military Responses,” New York: Peter Lang.
  • In Search of that Valid Terrorist Profile in Schröfl (Edt.): “Political Asymmetries in the Era of Globalization,” Frankfurt, Peter Lang: 2007.
  • “In Search of that Valid Terrorist Profile: Debunking myths behind the violence” (2007) presented at the 2007 Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Chicago, 27 October, 2007.
  • “La política exterior de Estados Unidos” (2007) Bien Comùn, No. 153.
  • Protecting Cultural Property in Times of War: The non-state actor dilemma (2009) in Proceedings of the Conference on Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times Of Armed Conflict, Tallinn: Estonian Heritage Society.

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