Karoline Färber, PhD

• everyday knowledge production in and on foreign policy
• feminist foreign policy
• diplomacy und gender, race and class
• diplomatic institutions and institutional change
• transdisciplinary approaches to (in)security
• institutional ethnography

04/2025-Present - Postdoctoral researcher, University of Erfurt, Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Research

01/2021-Present - Polis180 Grassroots Think Tank for Foreign and European Policy, Programme for Gender and International Politics

10/2020-03/2025 - PhD, Department of War Studies, King`s College London

03/2020-09/2020 - Personal Advisor to the State Secretary for Media and Europe and Representative to the Federal State, Thuringian State Chancellery 

Articles:

Karoline Färber. 2025. “Diversifying the Federal Foreign Office: The German foreign policy discourse on credibility.” Foreign Policy Analysis (21)2: oraf013.

Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Jennifer Thomson, Toni Haastrup, Karoline Färber, Carol Cohn, and Paul Kirby. 2023. “The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy.” International Studies Review 25(1).

David Ramiro Troitiño and Karoline Färber. 2019. “Historical Errors in the Conception of the Euro and its Subsequent Development.” Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (39)2: 328-343.

David Ramiro Troitiño, Karoline Färber, and Anni Boiro. 2017. “Mitterand the the Great European Design. From the Cold War to the European Union.” Baltic Journal of European Studies 7(2): 132-147.

Book chapters:

Karoline Färber. forthcoming. “Women in 20th century German diplomacy: A history of firsts.” In Critical Junctures in Gender and Diplomacy, edited by Elise Stephenson and Khushi Singh Rathore. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jennifer Thomson and Karoline Färber. 2025. “Interrogating the ‘feminist’ in feminist foreign policy.” In Handbook on Gender and Security, edited by Jutta Joachim, Annica Kronsell, and Natalia Dalmer. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Online Publications:

Karoline Färber. 2025. “Opinion – The Future of German Feminist Foreign and Development Policy.” E-International Relations.

Simone Wisotzki, Victoria Scheyer, and Karoline Färber. 2022. “Rechte, Repräsentanz, Ressourcen, Diversität: Wie könnte eine feministische Außenpolitik für Deutschland aussehen?” PRIFblog. [in German]

Karoline Färber. 2022. “Women in German Foreign Policy: A new research agenda.” New Voices in Global Security.

Maike Laengenfelder and Karoline Färber. 2021. “Angela Merkel’s feminist legacy? Moving away from the status quo in foreign policy.” Polis blog.

Karoline Färber. 2018. “The Absence of Methodology in Securitisation Theory.” E-International Relations.

Policy Paper:

Netzwerk 1325. 2023. Annäherung an eine feministische Außenpolitik Deutschlands. Position paper on the German feminist foreign policy, co-authored by 18 German civil society organisations. [in German]

Podcasts:

Fussnoten Podcast by radio M94.5. 2021. “Feministische Außenpolitik – Ein neuer Weg für Deutschland?” [in German]