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PD Dr. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge

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PD Dr. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge
PD Dr. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge

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Privatdozent Dr. habil. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge is Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn.

He has held guest lectureships and fellowships at renowned universities around the world, including the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, the University of St Andrews, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. Since 2023, he has been a Non-Resident Visiting Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University.

Hendrik Ohnesorge is author or editor of over thirty articles and book chapters as well as four monographs and seven edited volumes. He is co-founder of the German-language publication series Persönlichkeit und weltpolitische Gestaltung (Springer VS) and Managing Editor of the series Global Power Shift (Springer International, SCOPUS-indexed).

Awarded numerous prizes in research and teaching, he regularly comments for German and international newspapers (including FAZ, Welt am Sonntag, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Bloomberg), podcasts or television and radio broadcasters (including ARD, ZDF, phoenix, SRF, and Deutschlandfunk).

A list of publications is available here.

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University of Bonn
Center for Global Studies
Genscherallee 3
53113 Bonn
Germany

Phone: +49 228 73 60281Fax: +49 228 73 60273

Email: ohnesorge@uni-bonn.de

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Latest Publications

  • Gu, Xuewu et al.: China’s Engagement in Africa: Activities, Effects and Trends. Bonn: CGS Global Focus, 2022: https://www.cgs-bonn.de/de/publikationen/cgs-global-focus/
  • Ohnesorge, Hendrik W. / Gu. Xuewu (Hrsg.): Weltpolitische Gestaltung in Zeiten von COVID-19. Zur Rolle von Persönlichkeit und Führungsstil in der Coronakrise. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022; https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-34735-2#toc.
  • Ohnesorge, Hendrik W. (2021): The Method of Comparative-Historical Analysis: A Tailor-Made Approach to Public Diplomacy Research“, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, online first; https://doi.org/10.1057/s41254-021-00227-1.
  • Ohnesorge, Hendrik W. (2021): Empire by (Dis-)Invitation? US-amerikanische Soft Power unter Präsident Trump. In Wohin steuern die europäisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen unter Präsident Trump? Eine Bestandsaufnahme mit Politikempfehlungen, ed. Sascha Arnautović, pp. 143-171. Baden-Baden: Tectum Verlag, 2021; https://doi.org/10.5771/9783828872660-141.
  • Gu, Xuewu, Ohnesorge, Hendrik W. (2021): Persönlichkeit und weltpolitische Gestaltung: Annahmen und Forschungsagenda des personenbezogenen Ansatzes. In Der Faktor Persönlichkeit in der internationalen Politik: Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Journalismus, eds. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge and Xuewu Gu, S. 3-15. Wiesbaden: Springer VS; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32348-6.
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