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From January 2018 to September 2024, Dr. Christiane Heidbrink was a research associate at the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

She holds a PhD in Political Science (Dr. phil.) from the University of Bonn, where she completed her doctorate on security discourses around China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2024. Dr. Heidbrink received her Master of Arts in Political Science in 2017 with a master’s thesis on the evaluation of state-building measures in Afghanistan. The thesis, published by Tectum-Verlag under the title “Digging into Chaos: Security Sector Reconstruction and State-Building in Afghanistan”, focuses in particular on the efforts to build up the police and military. Previously, she received a Bachelor of Science in European Public Administration from Twente University in the Netherlands and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. She obtained these by successfully completing the binational cooperative study program Public Administration (Special Emphasis: European Studies) in 2015.

Dr. Heidbrink was the project manager at the Bonn Power Shift Monitor (BPSM) research project, which examines the changes in international power structures after the turn of the millennium. Since January 2019, she had also been responsible for editing the Bonn Power Focus. Her teaching activities at the University of Bonn combined the various aspects of her academic career, including teaching on global power shifts, security policies and state-building measures.

Main research areas: International relations, global power shift, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), qualitative and quantitative power models, state building, security research, security sector reform, state transformation, transnational governance processes.

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Department for Political Sciences and Sociology
Center for Global Studies
Genscherallee 3
53113 Bonn, Germany