International Relations
International Relations
International Relations 

Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, M. A.

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Office hours

Office hours in the winter semester 2025/26 will only take place by prior appointment. Please send an email with a brief description of your request. You will then receive a proposed appointment in the following days.

Previous Courses

  • S Kriege, Konflikte und Verhandlungen (WS/SS 2024/2025)

  • S Conflict and cooperation in Africa (WS/SS 2021/2022)

  • S Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (WS/SS 2020/2021)

  • S The United Nations as peace broker (WS/SS 2019/2020)

  • S Die Vereinten Nationen und der internationale Kampf gegen den Terrorismus (WS/SS 2018/2019)

  • S Vertiefende Grundlagen der internationalen Politik (SS 2018)

  • S Die Vereinten Nationen und globale Herausforderungen (WS/SS 2017/2018)

  • S Konfliktlösung in der Internationalen Politik (SS 2017)

  • S Grundlagen der internationalen Politik (SS 2017)

  • since 09/2025 Research associate at Professorship of International Relations, TU Chemnitz, Germany
  • 02/2023 – 12/2023 Research associate, third-party funded project „Narrative des Tech War: Technologische Konkurrenz und internationale Konfliktdynamiken im Dreieck US-China-EU“
  • 11/2016 – 03/2025 Research associate at Professorship of International Relations, TU Chemnitz, Germany
  • 09/2014 – 09/2016 Master "International Conflict Analysis", University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, graduation with distinction 
  • 05/2016 – 07/2016 European Union Delegation to the United Nations, New York, USA
  • 10/2010 – 09/2014 Bachelor "European Studies" at TU Chemnitz, Germany 

Academic functions:

  • Erasmus Coordinator, International Relations
  • Faculty Advisor of the NMUN TU Chemnitz Delegation 2017 to 2022
  • Study commission member for the MA program Political Science (SS 2018)

Research focus:

  • Peace and conflict studies 

    • Conflict prevention, analysis and resolution 

    • Negotiation and mediation theory

  • International relations: United Nations and regional actors

  • Emerging technologies 

as of April 2021 Landwehr-Matlé

Peer-Review:

Landwehr, J. (2019). No way out? Opportunities for mediation efforts in the Donbas region, East European Politics 35 (3), 291-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2019.1647532

Landwehr, J. (2019). The Impact and Diversity of Mediation Leverage. An Interim Summary, WiSi Online 2/2019, https://www.sicherheitspolitik.de/fileadmin/user_upload/WiSi_Online_02_2019.pdf

Poster:

Landwehr-Matlé, J. (2025). The ‘AI Treasure Hunt’: A Metaphorical Approach to Reframing Artificial Intelligence Development. 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Technical Peace Research, Aachen.

Landwehr-Matlé, J. (2023). Definition and Conceptual Classification of Humanitarian Military Interventions. 16. Early Career Tagung Internationale Beziehungen – Theorien und Problemfelder internationaler Politik, Tutzing.

Landwehr-Matlé, J. (2022). Humanitarian Interventions with Military Means: Status Quo, Challenges and Solutions. 15. Early Career Tagung Internationale Beziehungen – Theorien und Problemfelder internationaler Politik, Tutzing.

Cook, A. (S.) & Landwehr, J. (2018). Machiavellianism in Action - A Pilot Study on Personality and Interaction Behavior in a UN Simulation. 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Frankfurt am Main.

Others: 

Lambach, D., Landwehr-Matlé, J. and Oppermann, K. (2023): “Narratives of “Tech Wars”: Technological Competition, Power Shifts and Conflict Dynamics Between the US, China and the EU”, https://easychair.org/publications/preprint_open/B2F1

Stelzner, A. & Landwehr-Matlé, J. (2021). Fakenews und Propagandaarten als Herausforderung für Bundeswehreinsätze im Ausland, in: Kommunikation, Resilienz und Sicherheit, Zowislo-Grünewald, N. & Wörmer, N. (Eds.), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. 2021, Berlin, 158-189. ISBN 978-3-95721-914-5

Braun, D. & Landwehr, J. (2019). Die UN-Generalversammlung: Multilaterale Lichtblicke in einer zerfallenden Weltordnung?, KAS Analysen & Argumente Nr. 370. Verfügbar unter: https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/4521287/AA370+UN-Generalversammlung.pdf/09d12034-281d-6538-ea3b-6b5e6fb58c4e?version=1.0&t=1569917344765

  • "Pathways to Success? The Role of Accessibility in Humanitarian Military Interventions", Workshop Comparative Research on Humanitarian Military Interventions and Peacekeeping Under Fire, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt am Main, 11 September 2025.
  • "Technopoles and AI-Narratives: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation", Offene Jahrestagung der Themengruppe „Kritische Sicherheitsstudien“ der DVPW, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 14. November 2023. 
  • "Narratives of Tech Wars: Technological Competition, Power Shifts and Conflict Dynamics between the U.S., China and the EU", 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Technical Peace Research (SPS23), TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 22. September 2023.
  • "The Power Shift in the Central African Republic: Influence, Power Options, and Choices, 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA-PEC23)", University of Potsdam, Potsdam, 8. September 2023.
  • "Narratives in FPA: Narratives of Tech Wars, 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA-PEC23)", University of Potsdam, Potsdam, 7. September 2023.
  • “Narratives of Tech Wars: Technological Competition, Power Shifts and Conflict Dynamics between the U.S., China and the EU", SNIS Biennial Conference 2023, University of St Gallen, St Gallen, 13. June 2023.
  • "Spoiling the helping hand: How national policies shape the outcome of third-party humanitarian military interventions", Konferenz (online), Sixth Global International Studies Conference, Buenos Aires, 29. June 2022.
  • "Humanitäre militärische Einsätze: Herausforderungen und Erfolgschancen von Interventionen in der Zukunft", Guest lecture (online),  Academic Association for Security Studies, Berlin, 26. February 2021.
  • "International crisis negotiations and mediating violent conflicts", Guest lecture (online), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 26. November 2020.
  • "Gewaltfreie Kommunikation im Business", workshop (online), Technische Universität Chemnitz/ SAXEED (online), Chemnitz, 10. and 14. July 2020.
  • "Internationale, regionale und nationale Betrachtungen Ein Einblick in aktuelle Themen und Herausforderungen der Gesundheitspolitik", Guest lecture, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 28. January 2020.
  • "International negotiations and international politics", Guest lecture, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 29. November 2019.
  • "Handlungskompetenzen in der Lehre - Der Einsatz von Simulationsspielen”, LiT.Shortcut Qualitätspakt Lehre (BMBF), TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, 2. July 2019.
  • "Eine Konfliktlösung in Sicht oder der Status quo für die Ewigkeit? Deutschlands Möglichkeiten als Mediator im Ukraine-Russland-Konflikt", Tagung "Herausforderungen an Deutschland und Europa: Standhalten in einer zerrissenen Welt" TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz (Germany), 16. June 2018. 
  • “An Educational Approach to Understand Conflict Settlement Processes”, Global Politics Workshop Ukraine Conference, Lviv (Ukraine), 3. May 2018.
  • “Success of Third-Party Humanitarian Military Interventions in Civil Wars: An Interim Summary”, 50. Tagung Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Berlin (Germany), 13. April 2018.
  • “Opportunities for Mediation Efforts in Ukraine’s Contested Territories”, “Donbass and Crimea: Status and Perspectives of Ukraine’s Contested Territories, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy & Research Group Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Kiev (Ukraine), 27. January 2018.
  • "Richtig streiten! Vom konstruktiven Umgang mit Konflikten und einer gewaltfreien Kommunikation", Ökumenische Friedensdekade 2017, Chemnitz (Germany), 18. November 2017.
  • "Inequality and conflict as perceived in political sciences", "No Justice, no Peace?" 30th Annual Conference of the German Peace Psychology Association, Chemnitz (Germany), 17. June 2017.