Prof. Dr. Kai Oppermann

• Editor, German Politics
• Editorial Board, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB)
• International Advisory Board, British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR)
• Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Direktoriums des Instituts für Europäische Politik (IEP)

• Theorien der Außenpolitikforschung
• Deutsche und britische Außen- und Europapolitik
• Fehlentscheidungen in der internationalen Politik
• Außenpolitik von Koalitionsregierungen
• Referenden in der internationalen Politik und der europäischen Integration
• Sonderbeziehungen in der internationalen Politik

• What if? Counterfactual Trump and the Western response to the war in Ukraine (mit Juliet Kaarbo und Ryan Beasley), in: International Affairs, 99 (2) (2023), 605-624.
• Drivers of Consensus: Responses to Brexit in Germany, France, Ireland and Poland (mit Paul Taggart, Neil Dooley, Aleks Szczerbiak und Susan Collard), in: German Politics, Online First (2023), doi: 10.1080/09644008.2022.2159943.
• Propaganda Photographs as a Tool of North Korean Public Diplomacy: An Experimental Analysis of the Kim Jong-un Effect (mit Olli Hellmann), in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Online First (2022), doi: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2065460.
• Narratives of Digital Sovereignty in German Political Discourse (mit Daniel Lambach), in: Governance, Online First (2022), doi: 10.1111/gove.12690.
• Photographs as Instruments of Public Diplomacy: China’s Visual Storytelling during the Covid-19 Pandemic (mit Olli Hellmann), in: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 17 (2) (2022), 177-215.
• Mapping Party Support for EU Referendums after Brexit: Results from an Expert Survey, in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Online First (2021), doi: 10.1080/14782804.2021.2001315.
• Role Theory, Foreign Policy, and the Social Construction of Sovereignty: Brexit Stage Right (mit Ryan Beasley und Juliet Kaarbo), in: Global Studies Quarterly, 1 (1) (2021), 1-14.
• Clashing Traditions: German Foreign Policy in a New Era (mit Jamie Gaskarth), in: International Studies Perspectives, 22 (1) (2021), 84-105.
• Poliheuristic Theory and Germany’s (Non-)Participation in Multinational Military Interventions. The Non-compensatory Principle, Coalition Politics and Political Survival (mit Klaus Brummer), in: German Politics, 30 (1) (2021), 106-121.
• British Foreign Policy after Brexit: Losing Europe and Finding a Role (mit Ryan Beasley und Juliet Kaarbo), in: International Relations, 34 (2) (2020), 133-156.
• Narrative Genres of Brexit: The Leave Campaign and the Success of Romance (mit Alexander Spencer), in: Journal of European Public Policy, 27 (5) (2020), 666-684.
• Who Gets What in Foreign Affairs? Explaining the Allocation of Foreign Ministries in Coalition Governments (mit Klaus Brummer), in: Government and Opposition, 55 (2) (2020), 241-259.
• The Party Politics of Learning from Failure: The German Greens and the Lessons Drawn from the 2013 General Election (mit Alexander Bürgin), in: Environmental Politics, 29 (4) (2020), 609-627.
• Außenpolitikanalyse, 2. Aufl., München: Oldenbourg, 2019 (mit Klaus Brummer).
• The Ontological Security of Special Relationships: The Case of Germany’s Relations with Israel Election (mit Mischa Hansel), in: European Journal of International Security, 4 (1) (2019), 79-100.
• Foreign Policy as Public Policy? Promise and Pitfalls, Manchester: Manchester University Press (i.E.) (herausgegeben mit Klaus Brummer, Sebastian Harnisch und Diana Panke).
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Navigating Domestic and International Expectations on German Foreign Policy, in: German Politics, 28 (3) (2019), 482-498.
• Political Mistakes and Policy Failures in International Relations, Palgrave: Basingstoke, 2018 (herausgegeben mit Andreas Kruck und Alexander Spencer).
• Narrating Success and Failure: Congressional Debates on the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ (mit Alexander Spencer), in: European Journal of International Relations, 24 (2) (2018), 268-292.
• Veto Player Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis (mit Klaus Brummer), in: Thies, Cameron (Hg.): Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2018), 807-824. 
• Telling Stories of Failure: Narrative Constructions of Foreign Policy Fiascos (mit Alexander Spencer), in: Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (5) (2016), 685-701.
• Counterfactual Reasoning in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Case of German Non-participation in the Libya Intervention of 2011(mit Mischa Hansel), in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 12 (2) (2016), 109-127.
• Patterns of Junior Partner Influence on the Foreign Policy of Coalition Governments, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 16 (4) (2014), 555-571.
• Delineating the Scope Conditions of the Poliheuristic Theory of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Noncompensatory Principle and the Domestic Salience of Foreign Policy (mit Klaus Brummer), in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 10 (1) (2014), 23-41.
• The Politics of Discretionary Government Commitments to European Integration Referendums, in: Journal of European Public Policy, 20 (5) (2013), 684-701.
• The Politics of Avoiding Referendums on the Treaty of Lisbon, in: Journal of European Integration, 35 (1) (2013), 73-89.
• Thinking Alike? Salience and Metaphor Analysis as Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis (mit Alexander Spencer), in: Foreign Policy Analysis, 9 (1) (2013), 39-56.
• National Role Conceptions, Domestic Constraints and the New ‘Normalcy’ in German Foreign Policy: the Eurozone Crisis, Libya and Beyond, in: German Politics, 21 (4) (2012), 502-519.
• Prinzipale und Agenten in Zwei-Ebenen-Spielen. Die innerstaatlichen Restriktionen der Europapolitik Großbritanniens unter Tony Blair (2008), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

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