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Kathrin Bachleitner

Associate Professor - Department of Political Science
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Email kathrin.bachleitner@stv.uio.no
Phone +47 22 85 60 35
Mobile phone +47 22 85 60 35
Room 646
Available hours By agreement
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Eilert Sundts hus 7. etg. 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1097 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Other affiliations LINK-Centre for Learning and Education (Student)

Academic interests

My research focuses on war, peace, diplomacy, and security in international relations, with a focus on the legacies of war and collective memory.

Courses taught

  • STV4031 – Field Research for Political Science
  • PECOS4010 – Conflict and state building 

Background

since 2026: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

since 2023: Book Review Editor for International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Association (APSA)

2022-2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & Centre for European Union Studies, University of Salzburg

2022–2025: Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

2018–2022: IKEA Foundation Research Fellow in International Relations, Lady Margaret Hall and Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

2015–2022: Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics, Hertford College, University of Oxford

2014-2018: Doctoral Researcher, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Education

DPhil (PhD) in International Relations, University of Oxford, 2018

MA in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 2010

Mag. phil. (equivalent to MA) in Political Science, University of Salzburg, 2008

 

Tags: International relations, International Security, International Politics, Qualitative Methods, Fieldwork, Comparative Politics, Conflict, Conflict Resolution

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

Bachleitner, K. (2026). “Legacies of War”, Oxford University Press.

Bachleitner, K. (2021). “Collective Memory in International Relations”, Oxford University Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Bachleitner, K. (2025). “No land to give. Wartime narratives and the symbolic value of territory”, Global Studies Quarterly, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf091.

Bachleitner, K. (2024). “Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups”, Journal of Peace Research, 62(3), pp. 629-642. 

Bachleitner, K. and Betts, A. (2024). “The EU’s normative dissensus on migration: How national identities shaped responses to the European refugee crisis”, Journal of European Integration, 47(3), pp. 469-484. 

Bachleitner, K. (2023). “The path to atonement: West Germany and Israel after the Holocaust”, International Security, 47(4), pp. 79–106. 

Bachleitner, K. (2023). “International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria”, Review of International Studies, 50(2), pp. 271–288. 

Bachleitner, K. (2023). “Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics”, International Relations, 37(1), pp. 25–47. 

Bachleitner, K. (2023). “Us and them: The role of identity in the international arena”, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24(1), pp. 2–3. 

Bachleitner, K. (2022). “Legacies of war: Syrian narratives of conflict and visions of peace”, Cooperation and Conflict, 57(1), pp. 43–64. 

Bachleitner, K. (2022). “Collective identities amid war and displacement: Syrians and Syrian refugees imagine their country”, Nations and Nationalism, 28(1), pp. 177–193. 

Bachleitner, K. (2018). “Diplomacy with memory: How the past is employed for future foreign policy”, Foreign Policy Analysis, 15(4), pp. 492–508. 

EDITED SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE

Bachleitner, K. (ed.) (2022). “Belonging to Syria: National identifications before and after 2011”, Nations and Nationalism, 28(1), pp. 1–372. 

HANDBOOK ARTICLES 

Bachleitner, K. (2023) “Memory in International Diplomacy”, in Mälksoo, M. (ed.), The Politics of Memory. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Bachleitner, K. (2022) “Collective Memory and the Social Creation of Identities: Linking the past with the present and future”, Progress in Brain Research, 274(1), pp. 167–176. 

BOOK REVIEW EDITORIALS IN PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS

Bachleitner, K., Bufkin, S. and A. Wolf (2026). “Refugees, Migration, and the Politics of Movement in Political Science”, Perspectives on Politics, 24(1): 378-381. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592725103745.

Bufkin, S., Bachleitner, K. and Wolf A. (2025). “Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Positionality in Political Science”, Perspectives on Politics, 23(4), 1560-1563. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592725102909.

Wolf, A., Bachleitner, K. and Bufkin, S. (2025). “Inequality, Redistribution, and the Global Surge in Populism”, Perspectives on Politics, 23(3): 1124-1127. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592725101588.

Bachleitner, K., Wolf, A. and Bufkin, S. (2025). “Technology, Non-State Actors and the Crisis of Liberal Governance: Security and Conflict Studies in the 21st Century”, Perspectives on Politics, 23(2): 717-720. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592725000313.

Bufkin, S., Bachleitner, K. and Wolf A. (2025). “Political Science in the Afterlife of Empire: New Reckonings with Racism and Racialization”, Perspectives on Politics, 23(1), 305-309. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592724002597.

Wolf, A., Bachleitner, K. and Bufkin, S. (2024). “Rumors, Propaganda, and Conspiracies: New Insights on the Ideological Dimensions of Democratic Backsliding and Autocratization”, Perspectives on Politics, 22(4): 1271-1274. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592724001932.

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