Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Detailed information about the chair and the Comparative Regional Organizations Project can be found here:
Homepage of the Chair of International Relations: https://lehrstuhlib.uni-goettingen.de/
Project homepage: https://comparativeregionalorganizations.org/

Curriculum Vitae

Anja Jetschke has been a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science at Georg-August University of Göttingen since April 2012. She is the director of Research Training Group 3209 of the German Research Foundation (DFG), China-GRASP: China’s Geoeconomic Rise and Accumulation of Structural Power, which examines China’s global rise. She served as Vice President of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) from 2016 to 2018, represented the DVPW on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2021 to 2025, and was Chair of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2024 to 2025. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS).

Anja Jetschke earned her Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence in 2001. From 2001 to 2010, she was an Assistant Professor (C1) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. In 2011, she initially took on the role of Academic Director, overseeing the academic leadership of the “Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers,” and from 2012 to 2015, she led the research focus “Power, Norms, and Governance in International Relations” at the Leibniz Institute GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.

Anja Jetschke's research focuses on the development and effects of the institutional design of international and regional organizations.

Publications from 2020 onwards:

Memberships and Professional Responsibilities

  • Co-Chairwoman of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)
  • Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (DGA)
  • Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
  • Member of the Deutscher Hochschulverband
  • Internationalization commissioner and member of the library commission of the department of social science
  • Visiting Research Consultant 2017-2018 of the Center of International Law of the National University of Singapore



Fellowships and Awards

  • WiSe 2017-2018: IN-EAST Fellowship of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • WiSe 2016-2017:

    • Visiting researcher, Stanford University, Walter S. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    • Visiting researcher, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law
    • Visiting researcher, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Global Governance Unit

  • 2011: Cecil B. Currey Book Award for the book Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • 2008-2011: Margarete-von-Wrangell Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the federate state Baden-Württemberg
  • 2009-2010: Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the DFG-sponsored research group „The Transformative Power of Europe“, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2007-2008:Post-Doctoral Fellowship of Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University



Main Areas of Research

Institutional design of international and regional organizations, diffusion, comparative research of regionalism, international criminal courts, international relations of Asia.