I am a Senior Associate of the Research Division Asia at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin since September 2024, based at the SWP Brussels office. In my capacity at SWP, I advizes the German government and Bundestag in questions regarding China’s domestic and foreign policy. Godehardt travels regularly to China for research, expert exchanges, and high-level dialogues with CASS, CICIR, CIIS, SIIS, BFSU, CFAU, and the IDCPC, among others.
Academically, I have worked extensively on China’s foreign policy discourses and strategic narratives, and the nexus between global connectivity and geopolitics. Among my publications are The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia: Regions and Intertwined Actors in International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and the edited volume (with Paul J. Kohlenberg) The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics (Routledge, 2021). Since 2015, I am co-editor of the Book Series “Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics.”
Since 2015, my research has further engaged in collaborative research about the relationship between urban space, design, (in)security, and international politics with the Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory (ANCB) in Berlin. In this collaboration, I am mostly interested in questions regarding the relationship between aesthetics, space, and global politics. I have studied Political Science, Philosophy, and Sinology at the University of Jena and the University of Tübingen and finished my doctoral dissertation in Political Science at the University of Hamburg in 2012.
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