PD Dr. Andreas Kruck

Short Bio

Andreas Kruck is Senior Researcher and Lecturer ("Akademischer Oberrat a.Z.") in Global Governance and Public Policy at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science. His research focuses on international institutions and private actors in internatonal security and in the international political economy. He studies, among other things, power shifts and institutional change of international institutions, power rivalries and cooptation in international orders, contestation of international institutions, transformations in the making of national security, rising powers and private economic standards, and qualitative methods of foresight in IR. His empirical expertise is in the fields of international economic and security institutions, credit rating agencies, non-Western emerging economies, European security-policy making, and private military and security companies.

Andreas Kruck holds a MA of Political Science, Public Law and American Studies from the University of Tübingen (2008) and a PhD from LMU Munich (2014). He obtained the venia legendi for Political Science from LMU Munich in 2022. Previously, he was Assistant Professor ("Akademischer Rat a.Z.") of Global Governance and Public Policy (2014-2022), Co-Speaker of an international research group „Power Shifts and Institutional Change in International Institutions” at LMU's Center for Advanced Studies (2018/19), Guest Professor of International Political Economy at Free University Berlin (2016/17) and Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Tübingen and LMU Munich. His research has been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, The Review of International Organizations, Journal of European Public Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, European Journal of International Security, Regulation & Governance, Global Constitutionalism, Global Policy, Global Studies Quarterly, International Theory and others. He is the author of Private Ratings, Public Regulations: Credit Rating Agencies and Global Financial Governance (Palgrave, 2011), co-author of International Organization (Bloomsbury, 2025; Palgrave, 2019, 2012) and has co-edited special issues on the adjustments of international institutions to global power shifts (Global Policy, 2020) the “regulatory security state” in Europe (Journal of European Public Policy, 2023), and "cooptation in great power rivalries" (Contemporary Security Policy, 2025). He is Co-PI (with Moritz Weiss, LMU Munich) of a project on "The Making of National Security: From Contested Complexity to Types of Security States" (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation) and PI of a project on "Taking Process-Tracing to Scenario-Building: 'Paths Projections' of Conflict (De-)Escalation" (funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research).

Google Scholar • ResearchGate • Video: SI "Regulatory Security State in Europe" • Video: Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf (article) • Project website: "The Making of National Security" • Project website: "Paths Projections of Conflict (De-)Escalation"

Recent Publications 

• The competence–control trade-off in military AI innovation: Autonomous weapons systems and shifting modes of state control over private experts, European Journal of International Security, FirstView (2025), (with Andrea Johansen).
• Failing through success? How stable liberal orders become self-destabilising, Journal of European Public Policy, Latest Articles (2025), (with Christoph Knill, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf and Bernhard Zangl).
• Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries: A Conceptual Framework, Contemporary Security Policy 46: 1 (2025), 8-36 (with Gadi Heimann, Deganit Paikowsky and Bernhard Zangl).
• It pays to be generous: How cooptation transforms power rivalries, Contemporary Security Policy 46: 1 (2025), 37-56 (with Bernhard Zangl).
• How negative institutional power moderates contestation: Explaining dissatisfied powers' strategies towards international institutions, Review of International Organizations, Latest Articles (2024), (with Benjamin Daßler & Tim Heinkelmann-Wild).
• The Cooptation Dilemma: Explaining US Contestation of the Liberal Trade Order, Global Studies Quarterly 4: 2 (2024), ksae024 (with Tim Heinkelmann-Wild and Bernhard Zangl).
• Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security, Regulation & Governance 19: 1 (2025), 146-160 (with Moritz Weiss). Watch our video here.
• The regulatory security state in Europe, Journal of European Public Policy 30: 7 (2023), 1205-1229 (with Moritz Weiss). Watch our video here.

Current Teaching

Courses in Winter Term 2025/26

• Applied Case Study Methods
• Applied Case Study Methods (Monday)
• Basic Course International Relations
• Foresight on International Power Rivalries

Supervision of BA/MA Theses

I will supervise BA/MA theses in summer term 2025.

I am happy to supervise BA and MA theses in the field of IR (in particular International Political Economy, International Security Studies, international institutions, nonstate actors in global politics). If you would like to write your thesis under my supervision, please follow the general GSI guidelines regarding the application process and read the following information on how to write a thesis outline:

• How to write an "Exposé"