Associate Fellows
Andrea Warnecke is an Assistant Professor in History and International Studies at Leiden University’s Institute for History. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Before joining Leiden University, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. At Aberystwyth, she also co-directed the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge and became a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Andrea’s research interests are international governmental and non-governmental organizations, peacebuilding, humanitarianism, and crisis governance with a particular focus on institutional knowledge practices and legitimacy claims. This research is informed by several years of experience as a senior researcher and consultant on conflict, development, and migration in international organizations, NGOs, and on behalf of government agencies. In her current research, Andrea explores the challenges created by the association of impartiality practices with the power dynamics of ‘liberal hegemony’ in global institutions. Based on a series of case studies from the centre and peripheries of global governance, her project seeks to identify alternative avenues for re-imagining impartiality as a strategy for facilitating cooperation in global crises.
post-war peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and mediation; international organisations, crises governance, knowledge, and expertise; involuntary migration and diaspora politics
(Forthcoming): Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics. A Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (edited with Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Birgit Poopuu, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, and Xymena Kurowska)
(Forthcoming): Claiming Impartiality. Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance.
(2020): ‘Can intergovernmental organizations be peacebuilders in intra-state war?’, in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Available online.
(July 2018): Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Recognizing the Primacy of Politics in UN Peacebuilding, CARPO Study 04. Available online.
(2015): Ethiopian Diasporas in Germany. Commitment to Social and Economic Development in Ethiopia, Consultancy report, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn.
