Hannes Meissner is a senior researcher in the Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies. His research focuses on informal aspects of rule, political risks, post-Soviet transition processes, Soviet legacy, the “resource curse”, as well as on governance initiatives. In 2012, Hannes Meissner was awarded a PhD in political science by the University of Hamburg. During his PhD Studies (2007-2012) he took part in the research programme “Violence and Security” of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the PhD programme “Informal networks, corruption and political regimes” of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Besides his role in the Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies, Hannes Meissner regularly gives lectures and seminars at the University of Vienna, the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation and the Austrian Oriental Society. He has, moreover, given guest lectures at partner universities abroad, in particular the Beykoz School of Logistics in Istanbul, JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskyla and the Southern Federal University Rostov na Donu.
Research Interests: Political risk, Post-Soviet states, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, The “resource curse”, and Governance and institutions
| Institution: | University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna |
| Fields of Expertise: | Communism and the Cold War Divide Defence and Security International Relations and Foreign Policy |
| Research groups: | The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | hannes.meissner@fh-vie.ac.at |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | German |
| Publications: | Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge. Meissner, Hannes (2013): Der „Ressourcenfluch” in Aserbaidschan und Turkmenistan und die Perspektiven von Effizienz- und Transparenzinitiativen, in: Tetzlaff, Rainer / Jakobeit, Cord (eds.) (2013): Demokratie und Entwicklung Vol. 66, LIT Verlag. Meissner, Hannes (Forthcoming): Factors of Systemic Insecurity and Coping Strategies of International Businesses in Ukraine under Janukovytch, in: Apryshchenko, Victor / Strukov, Vlad (eds.): Memory and Securitization in Contemporary Europe”. Meissner, Hannes (Forthcoming): Azerbaijan: Postsocialism between Fragile Stability and Crisis, in: Jaitner, Felix / Olteanu, Tina / Spöri, Tobias (eds.): Crises in the Post-Soviet Space. Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (2017): Introduction, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 1-7. Meissner, Hannes (2017): Corruption, favourtism and institutional ambiguity as political risks. Insights from the concept of neopatrimonialism, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 11-25. Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (2017): Conclusions, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 212-221. |
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