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Vita - Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

Since 2022, Professor Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann has held the Chair of Political Science, focusing on International Institutions and Peace Processes. Prior to this, she held the Chair of International Relations at Zeppelin University (2018-2022). Her research focuses on current challenges of the multilateral world order, international organizations, international norms, democracy and rule of law promotion, and peacebuilding.

Lisbeth Zimmermann studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin, 

which was supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2002-2007). She was a doctoral fellow in the project “Transnational Democracy and Justice" as part of the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders" (2008-2011) and a doctoral fellow of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (2011-2012). In November 2012, she was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on “Global Norms with a Local Face? The Interaction of Rule of Law Promotion and Norm Translation in Guatemala". She was a research assistant in the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders" (2012-2015). From 2015 to 2018, she was a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt 

She was a visiting researcher at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington D.C. (2011) and the Department of Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (2015). Lisbeth Zimmermann was also a fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation's “Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership for Women Scientists" program (2015-2017).

Lisbeth Zimmermann was co-spokesperson of the junior researcher group of the “International Politics" section of the German Political Science Association (2012-2014) and co-spokesperson of the thematic group “IB Norms Research" (2017-2020). She was the spokesperson of the research cluster “Governance of Global Cooperation Networks" at Zeppelin University (2019-2022). At Zeppelin University, she supervised a group of Studienstiftung scholarship holders as a liaison professor. Lisbeth Zimmermann heads the MA program in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research at ¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ.

She is Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting Grant “The Effects of Far-Right Challenges on International Organizations" (2022-2027) and in the ." From 2015 to 2018, Lisbeth Zimmermann was co-head of the DFG project “International Norm Disputes. Contestation and norm robustness". Since 2019, she has headed the DFG project “Open or Closed International Organizations: Conditions for Policy Change through Contestation".

Photo Credits: FAZ/Fabian Wilking


Publications

Books

  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth/ Deitelhoff, Nicole/ Peez, Anton (2023):  Oxford University Press.
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2017): , Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press.



Journal Articles with Double-Blind Peer Review

  • Kortendiek, Nele/Zimmermann, Lisbeth/Young, Lily (2025):,  Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 32(1): 79–98.
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2025):  ,  Global Studies Quarterly, 5(1), ksaf013.
  • Tokhi, Alexandros/ Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2025).  The Review of International Organizations, 1-35.
  • Lesch, Max/Zimmermann, Lisbeth/Deitelhoff, Nicole (2024):  Global Studies Quarterly 4(2).
  • Peez, Anton/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2022): Cooperation & Conflict 57(2): 226-245.
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2020): ,  International Studies Review 22(1): 51-76. 
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): ,  Journal of Global Security Studies 4(1): 2-17 (Introduction to Special Issue „Norms under Challenge"). 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): ,   Journal of International Relations and Development 22(1): 28-49. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2018): ,  Conflict, Security & Development 18(4): 347–364. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Lesch, Max (2017): ,  Third World Thematics 2(5): 691-708. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2017): ,  International Studies Quarterly 61(4): 774–785. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2017): ,  Polity 49(1): 149-155. 
  • Wolff, Jonas/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2016): ,  Review of International Studies 24(3): 513-534. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2016): ,  International Studies Perspective 17(1): 98-115. 
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2014): ,  World Political Science Review 10(1): 17-31.
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2013): ,  Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 20(1):  61-74. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth/von Staden, Andreas/Marciniak, Angela/Wallbott, Linda/Arndt, Friedrich (2013): ,  Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 20(1): 35-60. 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2009): ,  Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 16(1): 39-73. Also in: Stephan Stetter/Carlo Masala/Marina Karbowski (Hg.), Mit Sicherheit unsicher? Debatten zu Krieg und Frieden in den Internationalen Beziehungen, Nomos, 2014, 113–148.

Journal Articles with Peer Review

  • Hofmann, Gregor P./Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): ,  Global Responsibility to Protect 11(2): 137-148 (Introduction for Special Issue).
  • Glaab, Katharina/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2014): ,   ZIB—Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 21(2): 121–131.

Book chapters

  • Lesch, Max/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2023): There's life in the old dog yet: Assessing the strength of the international torture prohibition,  Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order: Perspectives from Legal and Political Science, Krieger, Heike/Liese, Andrea (eds.), Oxford University Press, 100-117.
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2021): Law and science in environmental governance: ,  Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Counterroom, Johnstone, Ian/Ratner, Steven (eds.), Oxford University Press, 263-281.
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2021): ,  Kritische Normenforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen, Engelkamp, Stephan/Glaab, Katharina/Graf, Antonia (eds.), Nomos, 171-194.
  • Albert, Mathias/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2018): ,  Ordnung und Regieren in der Weltgesellschaft, Albert, Mathias/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Hellmann, Gunther (eds.), VS Verlag, 381-400.
  • Davenport, Thomas/Hansen, Claus Bech/Mahling, Madlena/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2007): ,  Projekt Junges Europa 3, Studienkolleg zu Berlin (eds.), Wehrhahn Verlag, 53-84.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

  • Hofmann, Gregor P./Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): Special Issue: ,  Global Responsibility to Protect 11:2.
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): Special Issue,  Journal of Global Security Studies 4:1.
  • Arndt, Friedrich/Dege, Carmen/Ellermann, Christian/Mayer, Maximilian/Teller, David/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2008): ,  Reihe Global Studies, transcript.

Other Publications

  • Christian, Ben/Speyer, Johanna /Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2024): . LSE USAPP Blog
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): Antje Wiener, Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations (2018), Politik 100x100 Blog, 7. Juni 2019, . 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2019): Is the commercial whaling ban in danger? Japan's withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission, PRIF Blog, 21 January 2019, . 
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2018): Liberale Weltordnung: Endzeit oder Restauration?, ZU Daily Blog, 26. November 2018, . In german as: Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2017):, HSFK Report 6/2017. 
  • Wolff, Jonas/ Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2017): Lateinamerika: Weiterer Bedeutungsverlust der USA absehbar,  "America first". Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA unter Präsident Trump, Fehl, Caroline; Fey, Marco (Hrsg.), Frankfurt: HSFK, 2017, S. 41-42. Online: .
  • Deitelhoff, Nicole/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2013): PRIF Working Paper No. 18, Frankfurt/Main. 
  • Arndt, Friedrich/Marciniak, Angela/von Staden, Andreas/Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2010): , Normative Orders Working Paper 06/2010, Frankfurt/Main.
  • Zimmermann, Lisbeth (2010): , PRIF Working Paper No. 2, Frankfurt/Main.