2.1 Expertise in History and Present/ Western China Expertise

- Akademische Militärexpertise in der „Zeitenwende“: Sozialfigur, öffentliche Autorität und epistemische Friktionen, in: SIRIUS: Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen, forthcoming.

- Conditional Access and Epistemic Resilience in European China Studies, in: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 7/1 (2026), forthcoming.

- 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, pp. 9-19. [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 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]

2.2 Sino-Western Relations since 1949

- Europas Chinastrategie: Die Logik der kontrollierten Deeskalation, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 5/2026, pp. 47-54. [written in German; title in English: Europe’s China Strategy: The Logic of Managed De-escalation]

- The EU’s China Fault Line Runs Through Spain, in: The Diplomat, 19 December 2025, available online: https://thediplomat.com/2025/12/the-eus-china-fault-line-runs-through-spain/. [together with María Herrero Martínez]

- 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/.

- 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/.

- 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/.

2.3 Contemporary Chinese History and Politics since the 1970s

- Atemräume unter Vorbehalt: Diskursinfrastruktur und Loyalitätsregime. Intellektuelle in der Xi-Ära, in: MERKUR, Volume 80/ Issue 925, June 2026, forthcoming. [written in German; title in English: Contingent Breathing Space: Discursive Infrastructure and Regimes of Loyalty. Intellectuals in the Xi Era]

- Selective Legalism and China’s Ordercraft, in: Yale Journal of International Affairs 1/2026, forthcoming.

- Solidarity as Strategy: China’s “True Multilateralism” and the Solitude of Rules, in: Oxford Political Review, March 2026, ahead of print available online: https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2026/03/27/solidarity-as-strategy-chinas-true-multilateralism-and-the-solitude-of-rules/.

- Trump’s Taiwan Gamble: How U.S. Transactionalism Reshapes Beijing’s Risk Calculus, in: Columbia Journal of International Affairs 2026, ahead-of-print available online: https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/news/trumps-taiwan-gamble-how-us-transactionalism-reshapes-beijings-risk-calculus.

- Recognition Before Rules: Postcolonial Memory and the Reception of China and the West, in: the global, 20 November 2025, available online: https://theglobal.blog/2025/11/20/recognition-before-rules-postcolonial-memory-and-the-reception-of-china-and-the-west/.

- Scale Is Not a System: Learning from China without Mimicry, in: Made in China Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2025, pp. 64-73.

- 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, 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]

2.4 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 2/2025, December 2025, ISSN 2699-4380, available online: https://gids-hamburg.de/deutschlands-handlungsfaehigkeit-im-cyber-und-informationsraum/. [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]

2.5 History of Knowledge, Intellectual History and Global History of Ideas

- Ideologie als Infrastruktur: Re‑Ideologisierung und digitaler Autoritarismus unter Xi Jinping, in: Jahrbuch Politisches Denken, forthcoming.

- 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).