PD Dr. Moritz Weiss

Curriculum Vitae

Moritz Weiss is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the LMU University of Munich. His research focuses on theorizing (informal) institutions, European integration as well as the governance of international security and technological innovation. He has been awarded with a Ph.D. in political science from Jacobs University Bremen (with special distinction) in 2010 and with a Vena legendi (i.e. Habilitation) from LMU Munich in 2018. He has completed a comparative research project on “Diversity or convergence? Explaining the development of defense-industrial policies" in 2019, which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (WE 3653/4-1). Moritz Weiss was a visiting professor of global governance and public policy at LMU Munich (2018/2019) and a Jean-Monnet-Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2019/2020). Among others, he has published in Governance, European Political Science Review, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Global Security Studies, European Journal of International Security, and Security Studies.

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Recent Publications

• 'Beyond the European Army Illusion: A Prudent Strategy for the Real European Zeitenwende', Journal of Common Market Studies, (with Ben Dassler), Open Access.
• 'Politics of de-risking: how the EU confronts vulnerabilities in critical digital infrastructures', Journal of European Public Policy, (with Sandra Bandemer et al.), Open Access.
• 'Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making', International Studies Review, (with Stephanie Hofmann et.al.), Open Access.
• 'The political economy of cybersecurity: Governments, firms and opportunity structures for business power', Contemporary Security Policy, 46(3): 403-428 (with Nico Krieger), Open Access.
• 'Platform Power and regulatory capture in digital governance', Business & Politics, 27(2): 284-308 (with Katharina Kausche), Open Access

Current Research Project

• "The Making of National Security - From Contested Complexity to Types of Security States"

Completed Research Projects

• "Diversity or Convergence? Explaining the Development of Defense-Industrial Policies"
• "Explaining Military Innovation Across Time and Space"