(1) Expertise in History and Present/ Western China Expertise

- Lost in Translation: Why the West Keeps Misreading China, in: The Loop: ECPR’s Political Science Blog, 9 September 2025, available online: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/lost-in-translation-why-the-west-keeps-misreading-china/.

- China Research, Politics and Expertise in Germany: Some Reflections on a Tension-Fraught Field, in: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 170/171 (2024), pp. 65-86.

- Europe’s Dangerous Gap in China Expertise, in: The Diplomat, 2 July 2025, available online: https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/europes-dangerous-gap-in-china-expertise.

- Decoding Xi’s China: The Return of Pekingology, in: The Interpreter (Lowy Institute), 1 July 2025, available online: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/decoding-xi-s-china-return-pekingology.

- Der „Ferne Osten“: Begriffs- und ideengeschichtliche Annäherungen an eine eurozentrische Raumkonstruktion, in: INDES. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft Issue 2-3/ 2025, forthcoming in September/ October 2025. [Thematic Issue: „Der Osten“] [written in German; title in English: The "Far East": Conceptual and Intellectual-Historical Approaches to a Eurocentric Spatial Construction]

- Europe’s Fragmented China Expertise: Toward Strategic Integration – Lessons from Germany, the UK, and France, in: SOAS China Institute Blog, 25 June 2025, available online: https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/2025/06/25/europes-fragmented-china-expertise/.

- China-Kompetenz, China-Expertise – und warum wir genauer hinsehen sollten, in: China.Table Briefing, No. 1037, 13 March 2025, available online: https://table.media/china/standpunkt/koalitionsverhandlungen-china-kompetenz-china-expertise-und-warum-wir-genauer-hinsehen-sollten/. [written in German; title in English: China Competence, China Expertise – and Why We Should Take a Closer Look]

- China Competence and China Expertise: Some Conceptual and Analytical Reflections, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, May 2024, available online: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/china-competence-and-china-expertise.

- The Sinologist Wolfgang Franke as Researcher and Cultural Broker, in: CrossAsia Thematic Portals of the Berlin State Library (2024), available online: https://themen.crossasia.org/franke/?lang=en, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48796/20240806-000.

- „Im Banne Chinas“ – Der Sinologe Wolfgang Franke als Forscher und Mittler, in: CrossAsia Themenportale der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (2024), revised version August 2024, available online: https://themen.crossasia.org/franke/; doi: https://doi.org/10.48796/20240822-001. [written in German, together with Antje Platzek]

(2) Sino-Western Relations since 1949

- Calm Realism, Not Cold War: Europe’s China Reset, in: The Diplomat, 16 September 2025, available online: https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/calm-realism-not-cold-war-europes-china-reset/.

- What Cosco’s Hamburg deal can tell us about Europe’s “rules-first” approach to China, in: European Politics and Policy (EUROPP), 22 September 2025, available online: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/09/22/cosco-hamburg-port-chinese-investment-eu-rules-china-trade/.

- Informierte Souveränität: Leitplanken für Forschungssicherheit in der China-Kooperation, in: Research.Table Professional Briefing, No. 291, 19 August 2025, available online: https://table.media/research/tablestandpunkt/informierte-souveraenitaet-leitplanken-fuer-forschungssicherheit-in-der-china-kooperation.
[reprinted in the China.Table Professional Briefing: Informierte Souveränität: Leitplanken für Forschungssicherheit in der China-Kooperation, in: China.Table Professional Briefing, No. 1146, 21 August 2025, available online: https://table.media/research/tablestandpunkt/informierte-souveraenitaet-leitplanken-fuer-forschungssicherheit-in-der-china-kooperation]

- Informed sovereignty: Guard rails for research security in cooperation with China, in: Table.Media Professional Briefings, 19 August 2025, available online: https://table.media/en/china/opinion/informed-sovereignty-guard-rails-for-research-security-in-cooperation-with-china.

- „Beim Scheitern droht die Randlage“, in: wochentaz, 26 July 2025, p. 15, available online under the title „Letzte Chance für Europa“, URL: https://taz.de/Nach-EU-China-Gipfel-/!6100426/. [Article on the current state and perspectives of Europe’s China policy]

- Von Verflechtungen und Verwerfungen, in: Internationale Politik. Das Magazin für globales Denken 80/3 (2025), pp. 120-123. [written in German; title in English: Of Entanglements and Disruptions]

- Europe’s China Challenge: Why Unity Is the Only Way Forward, in: SOAS China Institute Blog, 22 April 2025, available online: https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/2025/04/22/europes-china-challenge-why-unity-is-the-only-way-forward/.

- Ciao, Wunschdenken [Sechs Thesen für eine strategische China-Politik], in: Journal für Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG), 18 March 2025, available online: https://www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aussen-und-sicherheitspolitik/artikel/ciao-wunschdenken-8144/. [written in German; title in English: Six Theses for a Strategic China Policy]

- Von Besuchsdiplomatie, Sozialistischem Realismus und Eigenwilligkeit: China-Perzeption und China-Deutung des Künstlers Gustav Seitz in der jungen DDR (1950-1953), in: Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society 56 (2024), pp. 133-156.
[written in German; title in English: On Diplomatic Visits, Socialist Realism, and Individuality: The Perception and Interpretation of China by the Artist Gustav Seitz in the Early GDR (1950-1953)]

- Gustav Seitz’ „Studienblätter aus China“ (1953). Eine China-Reise und die DDR-Zensur, in: Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien 2024/II, pp. 105-111. [written in German; title in English: Gustav Seitz’s “Studienblätter aus China” (1953): A Journey to China and GDR Censorship]

- Kritik und Reflexion verflochtener Geschichten: Neuere Beiträge zu China und dem Westen in transnationaler Perspektive, in: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 168/169 (2023), pp. 185-189. [written in German; title in English: Critique and Reflection of Entangled Histories: Recent Publications on China and the West from a Transnational Perspective]

- German Strategy on China – A Critical Appraisal/ 德国对中国战略的批判性评估, in: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 166/ 167 (2023), pp. 140-151.

- German Strategy on China – A Critical Appraisal, in: SOAS China Institute Blog, 15 February 2024, available online: https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/2024/02/15/german-strategy-on-china-a-critical-appraisal/.

(3) Contemporary Chinese History and Politics since the 1970s

- Recognition Before Rules: Postcolonial Memory and the Reception of China and the West, in: the global, forthcoming in December 2025.

- Trump’s Taiwan Gamble: How U.S. Transactionalism Reshapes Taiwan’s Risk Calculus, in: Columbia Journal of International Affairs, forthcoming in 2026.

- Solidarity as Strategy: China’s ‘True Multilateralism’ and the Solitude of Rules, in: Oxford Political Review, forthcoming in 2026.

- Scale Is Not a System: Learning from China without Mimicry, in: Made in China Journal Volume 11, Issue 1, 2026, ahead of print available online: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/13/scale-is-not-a-system-learning-from-china-without-mimicry/.

- Courting Berlin, Countering Brussels: China’s Twin‑Track Approach to Germany and the EU, in: China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), 9 September 2025, available online: https://chinaobservers.eu/courting-berlin-countering-brussels-chinas-twin-track-approach-to-germany-and-the-eu/.
[an abridged version was reprinted as a MERICS Commentary: Courting Berlin, Countering Brussels: China’s Twin‑Track Approach to Germany and the EU, in: MERICS Commentary, 10 September 2025, available online: https://merics.org/en/comment/courting-berlin-countering-brussels-chinas-twin-track-approach-germany-and-eu;
additionally, the article was translated into Spanish: Cortejar a Berlín, desafiar a Bruselas: la doble vía china hacia la UE, in: Política Exterior, 14 October 2025, available online: https://www.politicaexterior.com/cortejar-a-berlin-desafiar-a-bruselas/]

- China’s debt reckoning, in: East Asia Forum, 20 September 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1758362400.

- Zur neueren Militärgeschichte Chinas als Forschungsgebiet: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 83/1 (2024), pp. 133-148. [written in German; title in English: Modern Chinese Military History as a Field of Research: Research Status and Perspectives]

(4) International Politics, Security Affairs & Global Governance

- Anchored Autonomy: Europe’s Strategy for a Post‑Complacent Age, in: E-International Relations, 13 November 2025, available online: https://www.e-ir.info/2025/11/13/opinion-anchored-autonomy-europes-strategy-for-a-post-complacent-age/.

- Space – Flows – Rules: Securing the Commons in a Networked Order – Revisiting Haushofer’s Ghost, in: Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), available online: https://gppi.net/2025/11/04/revisiting-haushofers-ghost-securing-the-commons-in-a-network-order.

- How Europe’s Global Gateway Competes With China’s BRI, in: E-International Relations, 22 September 2025, available online: https://www.e-ir.info/2025/09/22/opinion-how-europes-global-gateway-competes-with-chinas-bri/.

- Innen robust, außen anschlussfähig: Deutschlands Handlungsfähigkeit im Cyber- und Informationsraum, in: #GIDSresearch, forthcoming in December 2025. [written in German; title in English: Resilient at Home, Alliance-Ready Abroad: Germany’s Capacity to Act in the Cyber and Information Domain]

- Zeitenwende in Europas Sicherheitspolitik: Auf dem Weg zur Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft 2.0?, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 18 (2025), pp. 501-515. [written in German; title in English: Zeitenwende in Europe's Security Policy: Towards a European Defence Community 2.0?]

- Weltordnung am Wendepunkt: Trump und der sino-amerikanische Handelskrieg, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 7/2025, pp. 71-77. [written in German; title in English: World Order at a Turning Point: Trump and the Sino-American Trade War]

(5) History of Knowledge, Intellectual History and Global History of Ideas

- Grenzarbeit und epistemische Innovation: Historische Chinaforschung zwischen Sinologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, in: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 172/173 (2024), forthcoming in 2026.

- David Armitages Genealogie des Bürgerkriegs: Eine kritische Würdigung, in: Die Friedens-Warte. Journal of International Peace and Organization 96/1-4 (2023), pp. 238-246. [available online: https://biblioscout.net/article/99.140005/fw202301023801] [written in German; title in English: David Armitage’s Genealogy of Civil War: A Critical Appraisal]

- Ferne Partner ganz nah? – Die Transferbeziehung zwischen Nationalsozialismus und faschistischem Japan am Beispiel der Rezeption japanischer Siedlungspolitik (1933-1945), Konstanz 2018 (MA-thesis).