Lisa Kammermeier

Lisa Kammermeier has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies since 2017. She has been teaching various seminars as a lecturer at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences since 2015. Ms. Kammermeier earned her master's degree at the University of Regensburg in political science, German studies, and Romance studies. She also holds the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools in German and social studies. During her studies, she completed a semester abroad at City University of Hong Kong and a semester at the University of Oviedo in Spain. During her stay abroad in Hong Kong, her academic focus was on Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Southeast Asian politics and culture, and theories of international relations from a Russian-Chinese perspective. In Spain, she focused on Spanish literature, culture, and politics of the 20th century.

As part of her doctoral thesis, Ms. Kammermeier was also a visiting scholar at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she conducted field research on political elites and social change.

Research

Lisa Kammermeier's research focuses on peace and conflict studies, particularly in the areas of transitional justice and post-civil war transformation. She has a particular interest in war crimes tribunals, political elites, peace-building processes, and democracy theory.

Other research interests include post-structuralist international relations theory (postcolonialism, politics and aesthetics, hegemony theory), historical and sociological approaches to international relations theory (e.g., Mouffe, Laclau, Kant, Hobbes, Bourdieu, and Messmer), and European foreign and defense policy.

Her regional focus is on Southeast Asia and China as well as Latin America and Spain. She has a particular research interest in Cambodian politics and society and transformation processes in Asia (political systems, post-conflict transformation, and elite systems).

Doctoral thesis

Lisa Kammermeier is writing her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. Her primary supervisor is Prof. Dr. Stephan Stetter. In her dissertation in the field of peace and conflict studies, Lisa Kammermeier examines the interplay between identity and conflict after civil wars, using Cambodia as a case study.

Working title: Identity Change in Post-Conflict Societies: The Interplay between Antagonistic and Agonal Forms of Conflict Resolution in Cambodia.

Ms. Kammermeier received a doctoral scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation and was a member of the doctoral program “Contours of a New World Order” under the academic direction of Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala and Prof. James Davis PhD.