Jan Busse

Dr. Jan Busse is senior research fellow and lecturer in Global Politics and Conflict Studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich.

Previously he worked at the Middle East and Africa Division of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) in Berlin, which is the largest foreign policy think tank in Europe. He has also worked in the cabinet of the president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso in Brussels.

In June 2017 he was appointed a member of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

He holds a Master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Bielefeld University, Germany.

Jan Busse’s research focuses on International Relations Theory and there on International Political Sociology and, in particular, on Foucauldian poststructuralism and (de-)constructionist theories of global order. His regional focus lies on societal and political dynamics in the Middle East.

His research was published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Political Sociology and Middle East Critique. In addition, he has researched and published on German foreign policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

He regularly serves as a consultant for governmental institutions, such as the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)