Jonas Wolff - EDP Network

Wolff Jonas

EDP Network Member

Jonas is a political scientist and works at the interface between comparative politics and international relations. Jonas is Professor of Political Science with a focus on transformation research (with a focus on Latin America) at the Goethe University Frankfurt and heads the program area “Domestic Conflicts” at the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF). He is also co-spokesperson of the Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe) research center and a member of the board of directors of the Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ).

His research focuses on the transformation of political orders, social conflicts and political violence, international democracy promotion and Latin American society and politics. Current research projects include the global violence against social activists, the internationalization of internal conflicts and political transformation processes in the Andean region (Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia),

Publications concerning international democracy promotion inlcude  Strategic Responses to Autocratization in International Democracy Promotion  (Democratization 2025, with Karina Mross and Julia Leininger), The negotiation of democracy promotion. Issues, parameters and consequences (Democratization Special Issue 2019, published with Annika E. Poppe and Julia Leininger), From the Varieties of Democracy to the defense of liberal democracy: V-Dem and the reconstitution of liberal hegemony under threat (Contemporary Politics 2023), The EU Response to Foreign Interference: Legal Issues and Political Risks (Heidelberg Journal of International Law 2023, with Lukas Harth and Florian Kriener), Defending Civic Space: Successful Resistance against NGO Laws in Kenya and Kyrgyzstan (Global Policy 2023, with Nora Berger-Kern, Fabian Jetz and Rebecca Wagner), The contested spaces of civil society in a plural world: norm contestation in the debate about restrictions on international civil society support (Contemporary Politics 2017, with Annika Elena Poppe), Between Banyans and battle scenes: Liberal norms, contestation, and the limits of critique (Review of International Studies 2016, with Lisbeth Zimmermann), Power in Democracy Promotion (Alternatives 2015), und The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion (Routledge 2014, published with Hans-Joachim Spanger and Hans-Jürgen Puhle).

More about Jonas Wolff here and here.

Contact: jonas.wolff [at] external-democracy-promotion.eu