Prof. Dr. Sophia Hoffmann
sophia.hoffmann@uni-erfurt.deInhaberin der Professur für Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung (Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät)
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Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
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Universität Erfurt
Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Studienfachberaterin BA-Internationale Beziehungen (Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät)
Sprechzeiten
nach Terminvereinbarung, mittwochs 16:00 – 17:30 Uhr
Besucheranschrift
Campus
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
Postanschrift
Universität Erfurt
Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Internationale Politik und Konfliktforschung
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

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CV
Since 2021 Junior Professor for international politics and conflict studies. University of Erfurt.
Since 2017 Principal Investigator for the Junior Research Group (“Nachwuchsgruppe”) : "Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East 1960-2010". Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
2014 - 2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow (Co-Fund/Marie Curie), Institute for International and Intercultural Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. Title of research project: "Humanitarian Action and Security in the Middle East".
2011 - 2013 Teaching fellow and course convenor, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
Veröffentlichungen
Monografien und Herausgeberschaften
2023 Forum Nachrichtendienstforschung. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 2 (2022).
2016: Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Fachartikel
2023 Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence, Intelligence and National Security, 38:3, 319-338. Mit Ali Dogan und Noura Chalati.
2022 “The geopolitical economy of state-led intelligence-commerce: two examples from Iraq and West Germany”,Globalizations, online first June 2022.
2021 "Circulation, not Cooperation: Towards a new understanding of intelligence agencies as transnationally constituted knowledge providers", Intelligence and National Security 36 (6), 807-826.
2020 "Arab students and the Stasi: Agents and objects of intelligence", Security Dialogue, Online First, 31st March 2020.
2017: “Humanitarian security in Jordan’s Azraq Camp”, Security Dialogue, 48 (2), 97-112.
2017: „Die politische Gegen-Topographie internationaler Migration“. Berliner Debatte Initial 2017 (4).
2017: „There is no alternative: Der Aufstieg der humanitären Hilfe in der internationalen Politik“, 5(1) Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Heft 1 (mit Kai Koddenbrock)
2016: “The National Body in Syria and Israel: Comparing Processes of Unity and Fragmentation”, Middle East Critique, Volume 25 (3), 229-247. (mit Katherine Natanel)
2016: “International Humanitarian Agencies and Iraqi Migration in pre-conflict Syria”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 48 (2) pp. 339-355.
2015: Article (peer reviewed) “Wen schützen Flüchtlingslager? Care and Control im Jordanischen Lager Azraq“. Peripherie, Nr. 138/9
2012: “The Humanitarian Regime of Sovereignty: INGOs and Iraqi Migration to Syria.” Refuge28.1, Spring 2012.
Buchkapitel
“The Iraqi migrant experience in Syria after 2003 or: The emergence of international humanitarianism in the Levant” in Knudsen, Are and Berg, Kjersti, eds, SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East. New York: Berghahn Books. (In production)
2020 "The possibilities and limits of ethnography: two examples from Syria and Jordan". In: Schlichte, Klaus and Biecker, Sarah, eds.,The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
2020 "Humanitarian Corridor"; "Sovereignty"; "Impartiality"; "International Cooperation". In: De Lauri, Antonio, ed., Humanitarianism: Keywords. Leiden: Brill.
2016. "A Sovereign for All: The Management of Refugees as Nation-State Politics". In: De Lauri, Antonio, ed., The Politics of Humanitarianism. London: IB Tauris.
Working Papers
2019: “Why is there no IR scholarship on intelligence agencies? Some ideas for a new approach”, ZMO Working Paper Series.
2016: Turkish immigration politics and the Syrian refugee crisis. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. (with Sahizer Samuk)
2010: Research report “Sovereignty in the Lives of Iraqis in Damascus”, CBRL Bulletin 5.1.
2007: Iraqi Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based Snapshot, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, DC: Brookings Institution. (with al-Khalidi, A. and Tanner, Victor).
Rezensionen
2018. Book review: Lisa Blaydes, State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). 376 pp. $35.00 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-4008-9032-3. In: Journal of Perpetrator Research 2.1..
2015. Book review: Al-Ali N. and Al-Najjar, D. 2012. We are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War. Syracuse: SUP. Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 47 (2).
2012. Book review: Kern, K. 2011. Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 46 (2).