Anja Jetschke joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) from January through March from the University of Göttingen’s department of political science, where she is a professor of international relations.

Her research interests focus on the design and effects of international institutions, with a particular focus on regional organizations in Asia. Her Comparative Regional Organizations Project (CROP) currently develops the world’s largest database on regional organizations with the aim of evaluating the explanatory power of a neglected determinant of institutional design: the diffusion of institutional designs among regional organizations. While at Shorenstein APARC, Anja Jetschke will also work on the effects of refugee flows on regional human rights commitment in Southeast Asia.  

Anja Jetschke is currently the Vice-President of the German Political Science Association. From 2012-2015 she headed a research program on international governance at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg) and was an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg. She also held research fellowships at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Ohio State University and the University of Berlin. Her publications include many articles and chapters on comparative regionalism, ASEAN, and the AICHR, and a prize-winning book, Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines (2011). Her doctorate is from the European University (Florence).