Prof. Dr. Stephan Stetter
Teaching and third-party funding
Stephan Stetter teaches in the BA and MA in Political and Social Sciences, in particular in the specialization International Law and International Politics. He is responsible for the module “EU: Political System and Foreign Relations” in the 6th trimester of the BA and the module “Peace and Conflict Studies” in the 1st trimester of the MA.
In addition to seminars and exercises in these modules, Stephan Stetter's teaching portfolio also includes a lecture on the theory of international relations (BA), a lecture on power, domination and resistance in theories of international relations (MA) as well as regularly co-organizing the teaching and research trips in the module “International Law and Politics in Practice” (since 2015).
You can find out more about the teaching and research trips under the following link:
https://www.unibw.de/sowi/akademische-lehr-und-forschungsreisen/akademische-lehr-und-forschungsreisen
Stephan Stetter also regularly and gladly supervises BA and MA theses in the Political and Social Sciences degree program that deal with topics of international politics and international conflicts from a current or historical perspective. If you are interested in supervising a thesis, please contact Prof. Stetter directly by email. Stephan Stetter is a liaison lecturer of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. If you are interested in a scholarship (including non-material support) and have relevant academic and social achievements to show, please also contact him directly by email.
Teaching
a. Courses
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Institute for Political Science
Spring semester 2020
Exercise (BA): Foreign and Security Policy of the EU
Seminar (MA): The planned teaching and research trip to Cyprus and Lebanon had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winter term 2020
Exercise (BA): Transnational and International Conflicts: An Introduction to the Empirical and Theoretical Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies
Exercise (MA): Current Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies
Research Seminar (MA): War in International Relations: In-depth Reading of Selected Current Key Publications
Fall semester 2019
Lecture (MA) May the Force Be with You! Power and Domination in International Relations
Spring semester 2019
Research trip (MA): One-week teaching and research trip on “Human Rights and Security in the Western Mediterranean: Spain, Gibraltar, and Morocco” (MA module International Law and Politics in Practice)
Spring semester
Seminar (BA): The European Union's external relations
Research trip (MA): One-week teaching and research trip to Armenia and Georgia (MA module Conflict Studies)
Research colloquium (MA): How do I write a master's thesis?
Winter
Exercise (BA): Transnational and international conflicts: Sociological, historical, and political science dimensions of peace and conflict studies
Research seminar (MA): Qualitative research methods in international relations
Fall 2017
Lecture (MA): The four faces of power
Spring 2017
Exercise (BA): Introduction to theories of international relations
Exercise (BA): The European Union's External Relations
Research trip (MA): One-week teaching and research trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo (MA module Conflict Studies)
Research colloquium (MA): How do I write a master's thesis?
Winter semester 2017
Exercise (BA): Transnational and international conflicts: Sociological, historical, and political science dimensions of peace and conflict studies
Exercise (MA): Theoretical perspectives on peace and conflict studies
Research seminar (MA): Qualitative research methods in international relations
Fall semester 2016
Lecture (MA): Theories of power in sociology and political science
Spring semester 2016
Exercise (BA): The European Union's external relations
Research colloquium (MA): How do I write a master's thesis?
Winter semester 2016
Exercise (MA): Advanced peace and conflict studies
Research seminar (MA): Qualitative research methods in IB
Fall semester 2015
Lecture (MA): Power and Legalization in World Politics
Spring semester 2015
Research trip (MA): One-week teaching and research trip to Israel and Palestine (conflict studies)
Research colloquium (MA): How to write a master's thesis?
Winter semester 2015
Seminar (BA): Introduction to conflict studies
Seminar (MA): Historical Sociology of International Relations: Evolution of the State System
Seminar (MA): Current Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies
Research Seminar (MA): Qualitative Research Methods in IB
Fall 2014
Lecture (MA): Power and Legalization in World Politics
Third-party funding
a. Current research projects
Click here to view current research projects:
https://www.unibw.de/politikwissenschaft/professuren/lehrstuhl-ikf/stetter/projekte
b. Completed projects
2024 Project “HUBOI: Human-Bot Interaction, Media (Dis)Information and (International) Politics” with the Bundeswehr Information Center as the funding agency
2024 Research project “Peace Education in Israel and Palestine” led by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research (PSR) and the Macro Center for Political Economics Tel Aviv (Macro), funded by the European Union (EU Peacbuilding Initiative)
2018 Conference funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a scientific symposium on “The Presence of the Past” (with Klaus Schlichte)
2014-2017 Research project “Between Globalization and Regional Transformations: Religion, Christians and Christian Churches in a Changing Middle East” (German Bishops' Conference, 2014-2017)
2003-2015 Coordinator (with Dr. Roby Nathanson, MACRO Center Tel Aviv, and Christoph Moosbauer, concilius consultants, Munich; since 2003) of the Israeli-European Policy Network (IEPN) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, see www.iepn.org
2011-2014 Principal Investigator (with Professor Dr. Neve Gordon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva) on the topic of “Spatial Planning and Human Rights in Israel and Turkey: Comparing Two Democracies in the Middle East,” funded by the German-Israeli Foundation
2008-2011 Principal Investigator (with Professor Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, Marburg) of a scientific network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of “Constructivist Conflict Research” (NeKoKo)
2008 Principal Investigator (with Professor Mathias Albert, Bielefeld) of a research project on “Aqua et Contentio: Local Conflicts and Local Interventions in Water Conflicts in the Mediterranean Area,” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
2001-2006 Coordinator of the Jerusalem-Berlin Forum (JBF) of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (German-Israeli-Palestinian cooperation), see www.fespal.org/jerusalem-berlin-forum/
2003-2005 Research assistant to Professor Mathias Albert in the research project “The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Impact of Integration and Association” (5th Research Framework Program), see www.euborderconf.bham.ac.uk