Researcher, ZOiS
Projects
- D5: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Changing Arctic Realities – between Cooperation and Conflicting Interests (Workshop, with Sabine von Löwis)
- E2: Interdependencies between Global and Local Levels in Conflict Mediation and Trust Building in Regional Conflicts
Coordination of Topic Line F In:Security
- F1: In:Security in Border Regions (Workshop, with Sabine von Löwis)
- F2: The Risks of Decoupling: Post-Soviet Critical Infrastructure Legacies, New Challenges and the Societal Dimension (Workshop)
- F3: Emancipatory Dimensions of In:Security (Workshop)
Bio
Nadja Douglas is a political scientist and a researcher at ZOiS.
Nadja Douglas studied Political Science, Philosiophy and History at the University of Bonn and the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin In the context of her doctoral thesis (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017), she spent a considerable amount of time in various parts of Russia. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked as a Liaison Officer for the German OSCE Chairmanship 2016 at the OSCE Mission to Moldova and as an advisor on security and defence policy at the German Bundestag. She also held positions at the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Development and Peace Foundation in Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the editorial team of Russland Analysen.
Research interests
- Peace and conflict studies
- State-society relations
- The political-military dimension of the OSCE
Main publications
Russia’s Arctic Balancing Act. ZOiS Spotlight 20/2021
The Uncertain Future of Cooperative Security in Europe. ZOiS Spotlight 11/2021
Douglas, Nadja. Fault Lines between East and West: Which Levers Can Rebuild Confidence?. In: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 3 (2020), 2, pp. 398-409
Grand strategies and natural limitations in the Russian Arctic. ZOiS Spotlight 14/2019
Economic Confidence-Building Measures and Conflict Settlement. The Case of Transdniestria, mit Stefan Wolff. In ZOiS Work-in-Progress, vol. 1, 2018