welcome to my research homepage. This site provides information on past and ongoing research projects. You can also access published and forthcoming articles and chapters. My research is in the areas of:

• International Relations

• International Organization and the United Nations

• International Security and Peacebuilding

• Maritime Security and Piracy (Horn of Africa)

• Theories of Practice

• Sociology of (Social) Science

If you have inquiries, comments or feel like getting updated once new papers become available, please send me an email at: cbueger[at]gmx.de, alternatively reach me by Skype (christian_bueger), or use one of the social networking platforms

// NEW INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION. In Spring '12 I will join the Cardiff School of European Studies as a Lecturer in International Relations.

// NEW PUBLICATION. Our critique of contemporary counter-piracy strategy and the need to apprehend piracy as a peacebuilding problem has been published as a Report of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), Duisburg (in German only). The Report co-authored with Jan Stockbruegger (U Leiden) and Sascha Werthes (U Duisburg) can be downloaded here.

// FORTHCOMING PIRACY WORKSHOP. On 30th of September I am organzing a one day workshop investigating the contributions different disciplines can make to the global fight against piracy. The workshop is hosted by the Greenwich Maritime Institute, and 15 participants from different disciplines and countries contribute. Further information is available here.

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