Erasmus Mundus MA Euroculture:
Society, politics and culture in a global context

List of Thesis Supervisions & Publications

Selection of MA Thesis Supervisions:


  • Chiara Nacchia, ''Macro-regional Strategies within the European Union: analysis and outlook'' (UD/GOE)

  • Ekaterina Ershova, ''From Yeltsin to Medvedev: shifts in the European dimension of Russia's foreign policy'' (UP/GOE)

  • Patricia Ex, ''Promoting Democracy in Egypt: A Research Study on the Relationship between the EU and Egyptian Civil Society and Its Influence on Democratic Reform'' (GOE/DE)

  • Alberto Hernandez Castellanos, ''When is the European Union 'Together/Stronger'? 'Politics of Scale' in the UN Security Council" (GOE/GR)

  • Denis Kaiser, ''The Participation of Russian Scientists in the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development" (GOE Co-Supervision)

  • Michael Dimanshtein, ''Surveillance, data collection, and transatlantic relations: the extent of global surveillance as revealed by Edward Snowden" (GOE/DE)

  • Isabel Pasculin, ''From the fall of the Soviet Union to Independent States: The Case of Ukraine'' (UD/GOE)

  • Yuka Hatori, ''Competition or Cooperation? The German and Japanese Automotive Industries' Roles in the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations from 2007 to Today'' (GOE/GR)

  • Patricia Bachmaier, ''The incentives for the European Union and the United States of America to sign the Nuclear Deal with Iran in 2015 - A social constructivist approach with an international security culture perspective'' (GOE/GR)

  • Yaling Hsiao, ''The EU-Taiwan Bilateral Relations of European External Action: The Impact of One-China policy'' (GOE/UD)



Selection of Publications:



  • with Simon Fink, Lisa Gutt, Maryam Nobakht, Moritz Nuszpl, Lars Klein, “Where Is the Culture in European Studies Research and Teaching? An Analysis of Publications and Study Programmes.”, in Janny d. Jong, Marek Neumann, Senka Neumann Stanivukovic, Margriet van der Waal (eds.), European Studies and Europe: Twenty Years of Euroculture, Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2020, pp. 35–55.