Gisela Hirschmann
Senior Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. G.K. Hirschmann
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 5062
- g.k.hirschmann@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8262-7776
Gisela Hirschmann is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.
Prior to joining Leiden University in 2017, she was Assistant Professor (Junior Professor) for Global Governance and Humanitarian Action at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, from 2016-2017. Between 2015 and 2017, she was also a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. She received her PhD (Dr. phil.) from the Free University Berlin in 2015 and worked as a research fellow at the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB) from 2010-2015.
Her research interests lie in the field of International Relations, with a particular focus on international organisations, institutional change, human rights and peace operations. She is currently working on three research topics: 1) accountability in global governance, 2) international organizations in times of rising nationalism and 3) norm collisions in peace operations.
Gisela Hirschmann is also a professional violinist with a degree from the Hamburg School of Music and Theater.
For further information on research, teaching, and musicianship see her personal website: https://giselahirschmann.eu/.
PhD supervision
Gisela Hirschmann is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- international organisations
- institutional change
- the prospects and challenges of peace operations
See for more information on PhD positions:
Senior Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Buitelaar T.J.A. & Hirschmann G.K. (2021), Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court, European Journal of International Relations 27(2): 548-571.
- Hirschmann G.K. & Van Doesum N.J. (2021), Playing with the enemy: investigating the impact of musical peacebuilding, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 27(2): 324-328.
- Hirschmann G. (2021), Talking Democracy at the United Nations. Power, Regime Type, and the Democratization of International Rule, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 62(3): 571-573.
- Hirschmann Gisela (2021), International organizations' responses to member state contestation: from inertia to resilience, International Affairs 97(6): 1963-1981.
- Hirschmann Gisela (2021), The Reassertion of National Sovereignty: A Challenge to International Organizations’ Survival?, Security and Human Rights 31: 60-67.
- Hirschmann G. (2020), Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy, Cooperation and Conflict 55(1): 22-40.
- Hirschmann G. (2020), To be or not to be? Lebensdynamiken internationaler Organisationen im Spannungsfeld von internationaler Autorität und nationalstaatlicher Souveränität, Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen 27(1): 69-93.
- Hirschmann G. (2020), Accountability in Global Governance: Oxford University Press.
- Hirschmann G. & Ulbert C. (2019), Shaping Multilateralism: Principles and opportunities for multilateral cooperation in the UN no. 5: SEF: Development and Peace Foundation.
- Hirschmann G.K. (2019), Guarding the guards: Pluralist accountability for human rights violations by international organisations, Review of International Studies 45(1): 20-38.
- Heupel M., Hirschmann G. & Zürn M. (2018), International organisations and human rights: What direct authority needs for its legitimation, Review of International Studies 44(2): 343-366.
- Heupel M. & Hirschmann G. (2017), Conceptual framework. In: Heupel M. & Zürn M. (Eds.), Protecting the Individual from International Authority. Human Rights in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 40-64.
- Hirschmann G. (2017), UN Peacekeeping and the Protection of Bodily Integrity Rights: When Protectors Become Perpetrators. In: Heupel M. & Zürn M. (Eds.), Protecting the Individual from International Authority. Human Rights in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 157-185.
- Hirschmann G. (2017), UN Peacekeeping and the Protection of Due Process Rights: Learning How to Protect the Rights of Detainees. In: Heupel M. & Zürn M. (Eds.), Protecting the Individual from International Authority. Human Rights in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 186-202.
- Hirschmann G. (2017), NATO Peacekeeping and the Protection of Bodily Integrity Rights and the Right Not to Be Enslaved: Domestic Channels for NATO Reform. In: Heupel M. & Zürn M. (Eds.), Protecting the Individual from International Authority. Human Rights in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 203-219.
- Hirschmann G. (2017), NATO Peacekeeping and the Protection of Due Process Rights: The OSCE and Council of Europe as Advocates for the Rights of Detainees. In: Heupel M. & Zürn M. (Eds.), Protecting the Individual from International Authority. Human Rights in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 220-235.
- Hirschmann G. (2016), Accountability dynamics and the emergence of an international rule of law for detentions in multilateral peace operations. In: Heupel M. & Reinold T. (Eds.), The rule of law in an era of multilevel governance and global legal pluralism. London/ New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 123-147.
- Heupel M., Hirschmann G. & Zürn M. (2015), International organizations and the protection of human rights, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49: 423-451.
- Hirschmann G. (2015), Blauhelmsoldaten. Nicht wegschauen, nicht vertuschen. ZEIT online.
- Hirschmann G. (2012), Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Exit Strategies: Organized Hypocrisy and Institutional Reform, International peacekeeping 19(2): 170-185.
- Hirschmann G. (2012), Organizational learning in United Nations' peacekeeping exit strategies, Cooperation and Conflict 47(3): 368-385.