Changes from the “Margins”: Non-European Actors, Ideas and Strategies in International Organizations

Historian and political scientist Klaas Dykmann is Associate Professor and Director of Studies for Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. As a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation he was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg in 2003. He taught and researched in the Americas, Europe, India, South Africa, and Australia. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a Thyssen fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and between 2006 and 2010 he worked at the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are international organisations, inter-American and European foreign relations, global human rights and the international civil service.

Katja Naumann is a Research Fellow at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) and lecturer at the Global and European Studies Institute at the Leipzig University. She studied history in Leipzig, Edinburgh and Vienna and received her PhD in 2012 for a dissertation about the formation of world history teaching and research in the US and for which she was awarded the Walter-Markov-Prize. Currently she works on the representation of East Central European states in international organisations and contributes to a handbook on the transnational history of the region. Further she participates in a research group at Arhus University on the development of neoliberalism in comparative and transnational perspective.