1. AG Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
   Instructor: Dr. Friedrich Plank
2. Basissem Internationale Beziehungen
   Instructor: Jonas Biel; Dr. Johannes Muntschick; Dr. Friedrich Plank
3. Sem (MA-EU) Orientierungskurs Europamaster (nur Online)
   Instructor: Dr. Johannes Muntschick; Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann; Dr. Friedrich Plank; Laura Ulrich; Dr. Doris Unger
   Format: online
4. Sem (MA/MA-EU) Methodology of the Social Sciences: Qualitative methods
   Instructor: Dr. Friedrich Plank
5. V Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen
   Instructor: Jonas Biel; Dr. Johannes Muntschick; Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann; Dr. Friedrich Plank; Laura Ulrich; Dr. Doris Unger

SoSe 2026

You will find selected publications on my researchgate.net profil.

Monograph

Plank, Friedrich (2022): Evaluating the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security. Interregional Cooperation in Peace Operations. Cham: Palgrave. Link

Reviewed by János Besenyő in International Peacekeeping.

Editorships

Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich (Eds.) (2024): The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South. A Multi-level Analysis. Abingdon: Routledge. Link

Schulze, Kai/ Plank, Friedrich/ Knodt, Michèle (eds.) (2023): Governing Green Energy Trade: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Sustainability. 15.20. Link

Maurer, Heidi/ Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Special Issue: Innovative Teaching on European (Foreign) Affairs. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. Link

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich (2025): Differentiated (dis)Integration and De-institutionalization in the African Security Regime Complex. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift. 66:3. 649-674. Link

Brosig, Malte/ Plank, Friedrich/ Reykers, Yf (2023). Governance Through Regime Complexity: What Role for the EU in the African Security Regime Complex? In: Politics and Governance. 11:2. 72-83. Link

Plank, Friedrich, Daum, Britta, Muntschick, Johannes, Knodt, Michèle, Hasse, Christian, Ott, Ingrid, Niemann, Arne (2023). Hydrogen: Fueling EU-Morocco Energy Cooperation? In: Middle East Policy. 30:3. 37-52. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Muntschick, Johannes/ Niemann, Arne/ Knodt, Michèle (2023). External Hydrogen Relations of the European Union: Framing Processes in the Public Discourse Towards and within Partner Countries. In: Sustainability. 15:20. 14757. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2023): Principal-agent Relations, Politics of Discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security. In: Journal of European Integration. 45:5. 767-783. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2022): Interregional Forum Shopping in Africa–EU relations: Regional Groups and the Evolving Security-Development-Migration Nexus. In: South African Journal of International Affairs. 29:3. 271-293. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2022): Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic. In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 16:3. 306-327. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Bergmann, Julian (2021): The European Union as a Security Actor in the Sahel. Policy Entrapment in EU Foreign Policy. In: European Review of International Studies. 8:3. pp. 382-412. Link

Stockemer, Daniel/ Niemann, Arne/ Unger, Doris/ Plank, Friedrich (2021): Equally at Risk? Perceived Financial Differences, Risk Assessment and Containment Measures in the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Contemporary Politics. 28:2. 225-244. Link

Stockemer, Daniel/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2021): The COVID-19 Pandemic and Government Responses: A Gender Perspective on Differences in Public Opinion. In: Social Science Quarterly. 102:5. pp. 2383-2393. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Keijzer, Niels/ Niemann, Arne (2021): Outside‐in Politicization of EU–Western Africa Relations: What Role for Civil Society Organizations? In: Journal of Common Market Studies. 59:1. pp. 161-179. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2020): Synchronous Online-Teaching on EU Foreign Affairs: A Blended-Learning Project of Seven Universities Between E-Learning and Live-Interaction. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. pp. 51-64. Link

Maurer, Heidi/ Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Introduction: Innovative Teaching on European (Foreign) Affairs. In: Journal of Contemporary European Research. 16:1. pp. 4-12. Link

Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2020): Overlapping Regionalism and Security Cooperation: Power-Based Explanations of Nigeria’s Forum-Shopping in the Fight against Boko Haram. In: International Studies Review. 22:3. pp. 576-599. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo/ Kobusch, Alexander et al. (2019): Standortübergreifende Lehre in der Politikwissenschaft: Nutzen und Beitrag eines innovativen Ringseminars. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS). 60:1. pp. 127-146. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2017): The Effectiveness of Interregional Security Cooperation: Evaluating the Joint Engagement of the EU and the AU in Response to the 2013 Crisis in the Central African Republic. In: European Security. 26:4. pp. 485-506. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2017): When Peace Leads to Divorce: The Splintering of Rebel Groups in Powersharing Agreements. In: Civil Wars. 19:2. pp. 176-197. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2015): Not Enough Pieces of the Cake? The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the Mindanao Final Agreement. In: Asian Security. 11:2. pp. 154-177. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo (2015): Von der heißen Schlacht zum kalten Buffet – Strategien der Inklusion und Exklusion in Power-Sharing Abkommen und Friedensprozessen. In: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. 4:1. pp. 74-114. Link

Bock, Andreas M./ Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2014): “If You Compress the Spring, it Will Snap Back Hard” – The Ukrainian Crisis and the Balance of Threat Theory. In: International Journal. 70:1. pp. 101-109. Link

Contributions to edited volumes:

Plank, Friedrich/ Muntschick, Johannes (2024): Conceptualizing the Performance of Regionalism beyond Europe: Addressing Challenges and Assessing Empirical Evidence in a Complex Setting. In: Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich (eds.): The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South. A Multi-level Analysis. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 3-26. Link

Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich (2024): Explaining the Performance of Regionalism in the Global South and Its Conditions. In: Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich (eds.): The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South. A Multi-level Analysis. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 213-228. Link

Muntschick, Johannes/ Plank, Friedrich/ Weber, Regina (2024): Football Fans’ Narratives of Europe and the Game. In: Niemann, Arne/ Brand, Alexander/ Weber, Regina (eds.). Football Fandom and Identity in the 21st Century: Europe on Their Minds. Cham: Palgrave. 221-259. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2023): Ein Evaluationsversuch der Interregionalen Partnerschaft zwischen ECOWAS und der EU im Kontext der Mali-Krise. In: Muntschick, Johannes (Ed.) Regionalismus in Afrika und externe Partner. Cham: Springer. 173-209. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2022): Evaluating the Effectiveness of the ECOWAS-EU Interregional Partnership on Peace and Security in the Context of the Mali Crisis. In: Muntschick, Johannes (eds.): New Regionalism and External Partnerships in the Global South. Cham: Palgrave. pp. 155-188. (peer reviewed). Link

Plank, Friedrich (2020): An Unintended Consequence of West Africa-EU Relations: Effects of Regional Security Cooperation beyond the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). In: Lopez-Lucia, Elisa/ Mattheis, Frank (eds.): The Unintended Consequences of Interregionalism. London: Routledge. pp. 125-143. (peer-reviewed). Link

Niemann, Arne/ Plank, Friedrich (2019): Das Prinzipal-Agenten-Modell und EU-Konfliktbearbeitung–Strukturelle Erklärungen für Agenten-Autonomie. In: Marker, Karl/ Schmitt, Annette/ Sirsch, Jürgen (eds.): Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie. Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 359-384. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2017): Impact of the Agent´s Environment on Discretion in the Field of EU Conflict Resolution: In: Delreux, Tom/ Adriaensen, Johan (eds.): The Principal Agent Model and the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave. pp. 131-155. (peer-reviewed) Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Muno, Wolfgang/ Niemann, Arne (2017): EU-Simulationen im Vergleich: Didaktik und Praxis von aktivem Lernen. In: Muno, Wolfgang/ Niemann, Arne/ Guasti, Petra (eds.): Europa spielerisch lernen. Didaktische Überlegungen und Praxisbeispiele zu EU-Simulationen. Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 205-218. Link

Henneberg, Ingo/ Plank, Friedrich (2015): Conflict Management in the Constitution of South Sudan (2011). In: Marauhn, Thilo/ Elliesie, Hatem (eds.): Legal Transformation in Northern Africa and South Sudan. Den Haag: Eleven International Publishing. pp. 117-140. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Henneberg, Ingo (2014): Die Anwendungspotenziale der strukturierten Konfliktanalyse in den Internationalen Beziehungen. In: Bock, Andreas M./ Henneberg, Ingo (eds.): Iran, die Bombe und das Streben nach Sicherheit. Strukturierte Konfliktanalysen. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. pp. 33-44. DOI: 10.5771/9783845249957_33 . Link

Other publications:

Plank, Friedrich and Henneberg, Ingo (2025): Moving Beyond Data Constraints in Qualitative
Political Science: The Systematic Analysis of Press and Country Reports. Mainz Papers on International and European Politics No. 31. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2024): Review of Döring, Katharina P. W, African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2023): Frieden und Sicherheit in der Sahel-Region: Polarisiertes internationales Engagement. Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Muntschick, Johannes/ Knodt, Michéle/ Niemann, Arne (2023): Talking Hydrogen: Assessing Hydrogen Discourses in the European Union (EU) and its Member States. Mainz Papers on International and European Politics No. 27. Link

Budde, Svenja/ Plank, Friedrich/ Giesen, Michael/ Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Wie, warum und was wir ändern müssen. Fazit und Handlungsempfehlungen. DVPW Blog, 5th July. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Giesen, Michael (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Podiumsdiskussion zu nachhaltigen Karrierewegen in der Wissenschaft. DVPW Blog, 30th June. Link

Budde, Svenja/ Plank, Friedrich/ Speyer, Johanna (2021): Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Navigieren zwischen Struktur und Freiheit: Aktuelle Probleme und Verbesserungsperspektiven der Promotionsbetreuung in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft. DVPW Blog, 23rd June. Link

Plank, Friedrich/ Keijzer, Niels/ Niemann, Arne (2021): Invited Politicisation? Exploring the Roles of Civil Society Organisations in Politicising EU-Western Africa Relations from the Outside-in. JCMS Blog Ideas on Europe, 17th May. Link

Bergmann, Julian/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2016): EU-Friedensmediation als Forschungs-gegenstand. Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven. In: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. 5:1. pp. 137-144. Link

Bergmann, Julian/ Plank, Friedrich/ Niemann, Arne (2016): Studying EU Peace Mediation:Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. CEDI Working Paper No. 4. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Link

Plank, Friedrich (2014): Der Streit – Stütze der Gesellschaft. Konfliktbearbeitung als Kernbestandteil der deutschen Energiewende. In: 3e – Magazin für die Energiewirtschaft in Gewerbe und Industrie. 2-2014.

Plank, Friedrich/ Schnellhammer, Christine (2011): Macht in Konflikten – Macht von Konflikten. Bericht zum AFK-Jahreskolloquium 2011. In: Wissenschaft + Frieden. 4-2011.