Doctoral Candidates
Doctoral Candidates 2019
Sarah Bijlsma
DAAD
Hybrid Nature: Multi-species world-making in postwar Okinawa
bijlsma.sarah[at]gmail.com
Jingyi Li
PhD Candidate
Home Making and Belonging in Return Migration: Korean Chinese as International Labors
lijingyi0116[at]126.com
Xuan Wen
PhD Candidate
Research on the Micro Situation of Environmental Policy Implementation in Rural China
Doctoral Candidates 2018
William Fujii
DAAD
Japan's Political Institutions and East Asia Policy: Processes, Continuities, Changes, 1947 - 2017
Nakako Hattori
PhD Candidate
Domestic Constraints of an East Asian community: Ranking Frames of Japan's State Identity and Regional Political Disintegration (2003-2015)
Hyein Lee
DAAD
Buddhist Military Chaplaincy of South Korea: Inner Workings and Interplays of Ideas and Discourses
Doctoral Candidates 2017
Mei Chen
Policy Making in China's Health System
Gwendolyn Domning
Presidential Depravity Abides – Continuities and Changes of Institutionalized Corruption in South Korea since Democratization
Lenard Görögh
The Emergence of New Markets and Business Models in Present-Day Japan
John Jacobs
Japan’s Security Cooperation with Europe: Between the Bilateral US-Japan Alliance and UN Multilateralism
Hendrik Johannemann
Cusanuswerk
Anti-LGBTI Activism in South Korea and Its Transnational Connectedness
Elizabeth Noble
A different lens: social change and female photographers in Japan in the 1990s
Marina Zucker Marques
The Chinese Strategy of Renminbi Internationalization
Doctoral Candidates 2016
Oyuna Baldakova
Win-Win on the Local Level: The Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and its Stakeholder Narratives
Lu Chen
DAAD
The Moving Temples--A Study on the Religious Organizations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake
Xinyi Lin
DAAD
Understanding different pathways towards low carbon transition - A comparison of urban energy transition in Germany and China
Viktória Orbán
Non-traditional Security Cooperation between Dependent Members of the US Alliance System: the Euro-Japanese Partnership
Bonaventura Rescigno
Legitimacy and the production of ideas: the "new type of think tanks with Chinese characteristics"
Eva Seiwert
„China’s evolving interest in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation“
Chaline Timmerarens
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Migrants in Japan
Marie Weishaupt
Nuclear Threat, Self-Evacuation and New Life Itineraries: An Institutional Approach to Care Provision in the Aftermath of 3.11
Doctoral Candidates 2015
Anny Boc
PhD Candidate
China’s Conflicting Roles in World Politics: Reconstructing China’s North Korea Policy
Julia Gerster
PhD Candidate
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation.
Ji Young Heo
PhD Candidate
South Korea’s Understanding of Middle Power:Interests and a National Identity
Madeleine Heuer
PhD Candidate
South Korean Identities, Ideologies and the Framing of North Korean Defectors in the South Korean media
Hyuk Jung
PhD Candidate
From Saving to Shaming: The Emergence of the North Korean Human Rights Field and the Dynamics of NGO Politics, 1995-2015
Elena Korshenko
PhD Candidate
Perpetuated Instability? Life Cycle of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 2005-2016
Julia Teebken
PhD Candidate
Climate Vulnerability – Wicked problem or neglected responsibility? Local approaches in China and the United States
juteebken[at]googlemail.com
Dan Wu
PhD Candidate
Chinese Provinces and the Industrial Policy-making in China's Electric Power Sector
Yi Zhu
PhD Candidate
Shaping (online) public sphere in an authoritarian society? – How Chinese actors pushed the abolishment of the “reeducation through labor (Laojiao)”- system
Doctoral Candidates 2014
Ran Cheng
The Rising Income Inequality in China and Its Interaction with China's Economic and Political Regime
Jihye Han
The institutionalization of the Korean higher education system with regard to lifelong learning and the support system for working adults in Korea
Nina Holzschneider
Pieces in the puzzle: A trans-war history of "being Okinawan", daily life objects and local practices.
Angela Leggett
Chinese NGO monitoring of corporate environmental responsibility and firms' responses
Lisa Melcher
The multiple orders of planning: spatial development strategies for towns in rural Sichuan
Jan Niggemeier
The Other Labour Movement - Community Unions' Role in Japanese Labour Revitalisation
jan.niggemeier(at)fu-berlin.de
Simon Schwenke
Institutional Change of Civilian Control in Japanese Forces
Kyong Yong Francis Yoon
The effects of tax policy on the mixed economy of welfare: a comparative study on South Korea, Japan and Germany
Ganyi Zhang
Trust, Commitment and the Incomplete Agreement: A comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization
Yifei Zhu
European Integration and the Prospects of Regionalism in Northeast Asia:A Comparative Study Based on Explanatory Integration Theory
Doctoral Candidates 2013
You Kyung Byun
100,000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts Among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Network
Ulv Hanssen
Japan's Temporal Others: How the Past Has Shaped Japanese Postwar Security Policy
Paul Joscha Kohlenberg
Visible and Invisible Guidance: Adaptive Institutional Change and CCP Document-Politics
Florentine Koppenborg
Climate and energy policy in Japan
Eva Liias
Higher Education in the European-Asian Relations - Role of Universities
Daniela Simon
The Imperial House of Japan in Times of National Crises
Eun Hee Woo
Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy : Mechanisms of Party Elite Recruitment in Korea and Germany
Giulia Zennaro
Change in the Institutional Field: Private Art Museums in China, 2005-2014