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Lucas M. Schubert joined the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies in May 2021 as a research assistant in the Human-Bot Interaction project. His academic career took him from the University of Vienna, where he completed his undergraduate studies in political science, Slavic studies, and empirical sociology, to Belgrade (Serbia) in 2014. There, he completed the international and interdisciplinary master's program Southeast Europe (SEE) at the Universities of Belgrade, Graz, and Novi Sad with a thesis on political language in Serbia.
He gained professional experience at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belgrade, as project coordinator and research assistant at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. Foreign Office in Serbia, and as a research assistant at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe in Vienna. His analytical work focused on the foreign and domestic policies of the countries of the Western Balkans, analysis of political language, security policy, foreign actors (China, Russia, Turkey), organized crime, political extremism, and interethnic relations.
Mr. Schubert is fluent in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and also has a basic knowledge of Romanian.
Research
As part of the HUBOI (Human-Bot Interaction) project, Mr. Schubert conducts research on bot networks in online services, disinformation on the internet, fake news, cyberwarfare, and securitization. His focus is on politics, media systems, international relations, and the changing concept of geopolitical space.
The region of Southeast Europe, especially the Western Balkans, plays a particularly important role in his research. Due to the ongoing transition and the still acute question of stability and democratization, as well as the growing influence of so-called foreign actors, these countries are of increased interest for this research project.
Doctoral thesis
More information will be available shortly.