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 the international political economy and in international security. He studies, among other things, power shifts and institutional change of international institutions, cooptation in international orders, contestation of international institutions, institutional change in indirect governance with private actors, 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, European and global financial market regulation, 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 Studies, 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 (Palgrave, 2019, 2012) and has co-edited special issues on the adjustments of international institutions to global power shifts (Global Policy, 2020) and the “regulatory security state” in Europe (Journal of European Public Policy, 2023). He is currently working on projects on cooptation in international orders, rising powers and private economic standards, and foresight on international institutional change and securitized economic disputes. 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).

CV • 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" 

Recent Publications (see CV for older publications)

• 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, Early View (2024), (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.
• Disentangling Institutional Contestation by Established Powers: Types of Contestation Frames and Varying Opportunities for the Re-Legitimation of International Institutions, Global Constitutionalism 11: 2 (2022), 344-368 (with Benjamin Daßler, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild and Raphaela Hobbach).
• Wann eskalieren westliche Mächte institutionelle Kontestation? Interne Kontrolle, externe Effekte und Modi der Kontestation internationaler Institutionen, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 29: 1 (2022), 6-37 (with Benjamin Daßler and Tim Heinkelmannn-Wild).
• India’s Recognition as a Nuclear Power: A Case of Strategic Cooptation, Contemporary Security Policy 42: 4 (2021), 530-553 (with Patrick Frankenbach and Bernhard Zangl).
• Global Power Shifts: How do International Institutions Adjust?, Special Issue of Global Policy 11: S3, 2020, (with Bernhard Zangl).

Current Teaching

Courses in Winter Term 2024/25

• Studying the Future: Prediction(s) in IR

Supervision of BA/MA Theses

I will not supervise BA/MA theses in weinter term 2024/25.

Generally, 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 read and follow these guidelines:

• Information on the procedure for BA theses (general GSI Homepage)
• Information on the application process for MA candidates, see information on general GSI homepage
• How to write an "Exposé"