Dr. Cindy Wittke

Principal Investigator, IOS

• E1:Sovereignty Exercises at post-Soviet Borderlands: (Re)defining the Centre, (Re)connecting the Periphery
  (with Ekaterina Mikhailova)

Cindy Wittke is head of the Political Science Research Group at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. She joined IOS in 2017.

Her research spans the intersections of international law, international politics, socio-legal studies, and area studies. Her work is informed by her interdisciplinary background: She earned a Magistra Artium (MA) in East European Studies and a PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the Faculty of Law of the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2019 till 2022 she was principal investigator of the project “Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Politics of International Law in the post-Soviet Space,” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 01UC1901 (PolVR)). Before holding her current position Cindy Wittke was a senior researcher and lecturer with the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany (2014-2017). Wittke’s work is based on previous positions and affiliation with several interdisciplinary research centers. These include Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood (SFB 700) at the Freie Universität Berlin (2006—2010); the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge (2009, 2010); the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO, 2011–2013), and the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, Bloomington/IN (2013—2014).

• Dynamics of politico-legal cooperation and (territorial) conflicts in Eastern Europe
• Regional and comparative perspectives on International Law in International Politics
• Politics of lawmaking in conflict and post-conflict settings
• Negotiation and implementation of formal and informal political settlements in fragmented conflicts

Wittke, Cindy; Rabinovych, Maryna. Troubled Nexuses Between International and Domestic Law in the Post-Soviet Space. In: Review of Central and East European Law, 47 (2022), 4, pp. 249–267

Wittke, Cindy. The Politics of International Law in the Post-Soviet Space – Do Georgia, Ukraine and Russia Speak International Law in International Politics Differently?. In: Europe-Asia Studies, 72 (2020), 2, pp. 180-208

Wittke, Cindy. The Minsk Agreements: More than “Scraps of Paper”?’. In: East European Politics, 3 (2019), 35, pp. 264-290