Dr. Thomas Risseis Professor of International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. His previous teaching and research appointments include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the University of Konstanz, the European University Institute, as well as Cornell, Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Universities, and the University of Wyoming. He is coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” and co-director of the Research College “Transformative Power of Europe,” both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He holds a PhD from the University of Frankfurt.
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