PhD Projects

ETH D-GESS

• The Formation of Political Authority in Armed Conflicts: Civilian-Combatant Relations, Community Leaders, and Local Competition - Markus Geray
• How Artificial Intelligence Modifies Political Opinion Formation — An Experimental Approach to Understand the Influence of Political Bots in Online Social Networks - Jennifer Victoria Scurrell
• The Age of Strategic Industrial Policy: Great Power Technological Competition in an Interdependent World - Tobias Pulver
• The Targeting of Civilian Buildings in Internal Armed Conflict: Uncovering and Explaining Spatial Patterns Using Satellite Imagery - Birke Pfeifle
• Organizational Dynamics of Advanced Weapons Systems in Informal Alliances - Joseph Christian Agbagala
• Technological Diffusion and the Strategy of Embargoes: How and Why Embargoes Shape Firm Preferences and Capabilities to Produce and Protect Technology - Nicholas Bahrich
• Mediation Entry and Dynamics: Why Conflicts Attract None, One, or Many Mediators - and How They Interact - Marc Werner

ETH D-GESS/D-INFK

Embedded PhD - Francesco Re

• In the Shadow of Civil War: The interdependence of civil wars and conflicts between informal armed groups - Claudia Wiehler (2024)
• Security in Public Space: Environmental Design, Informal Social Control, and Crime in Cape Town and Bogotá - Samuel Lloyd (2023)
• Mobilizing Technology Companies: How America Competes With China for Technological Supremacy - Sophie-Charlotte Fischer (2022)
• Between Walls and Fences: How Gated Communities in Bogotá Shape Exclusive and Insecure Public Spaces Outside the Gates - David Kostenwein (2021)
• The Power and Constraints of an Intergovernmental Expert Organization: States and Scientists at the World Health Organization - Jan Thiel (2020)
• Trade is a Latent Variable: Measurement Problems and Partner Matching in International Trade Data - Sascha Langenbach (2019)
• Guns, Butter, and Votes: A Theory of American Military Primacy - Liviu Horowitz (2018)
• The Logic of Escalation: Investigating the Role of Stakes in Trade Disputes as a Lens to Conflict Processes - Marco Martini (2017)
• The Onset and Diffusion of Civil War: Complexity and Temporal Dynamics - Corinne Bara (2016)
• The Role of Trust in European Monetary Union - Christoph Elhardt (2015)
• Strategic culture, securitisation and use of force after 11 September 2001 - Wilhelm Mirow (2014)
• Coercion, risk, and danger: the construction of sanctions and securitization of international conflict - Mark Daniel Jaeger (2014)
• Control of the Oil Upstream Sector - Georgeta B. Sarbu (2013)
• The governance of cybersecurity: an analysis of public-private partnerships in a new field of security policy - Manuel Suter (2012)
• Qualitative comparative analysis - Alrik Thiem (2012)