David Teiner, M.A.

Research assistant at Chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy

Research Foci 

United Nations Peace Operations | Individuals in International Organizations | Organizational Dynamics of Violent NonState Actors

Profile

David Teiner is a research assistant at the Chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy. In his doctoral thesis, he investigates variation in Special Representatives of the UN Secretary-Generals’ (SRSGs) scope of action as leaders of UN stabilization missions. Between 2022 and 2023, David Teiner has also been an Associated Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research (INTERACT) at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2020 to 2023, he served as Assistant Editor for Information Resources of the journal Perspectives on Terrorism, where he regularly published bibliographies in the field of terrorism and conflict studies. From 2020 to 2022, David Teiner was a teaching assistant and research assistant in the Chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy. In 2021, he completed his master's degree in Political Science and Sociology with a thesis on the Islamic State's governance in Iraq and Syria.

Publications

Articles in Journals 

Teiner, David (2022): Rebel Governance: A Vibrant Field of Research. In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32(3), 747-766. 

Teiner, David (2020): Cartel-Related Violence in Mexico as Narco-Terrorism or Criminal Insurgency: A Literature Review. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 14(4), 83-98.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

Teiner, David; Panne, Laura (2023): „Frauen und Kinder “: Eine Paarformel und ihre Funktionen in politischen Reden und Bundestagsdebatten zu bewaffneten Konflikten. In: Manuel Fröhlich (Hrsg.): Sprache und Politik: Perspektiven und Fallstudien zum konstitutiven Medium des Politischen. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 143-168.

Book Reviews 

Teiner, David (2022): Fisher, Jonathan and Wilén, Nina. 2022. African Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 242 pp. In: Modern Africa: Politics, History, and Society, 10(2), 125-129.

Bibliographies

Tinnes, Judith; Teiner, David; Engel, Darius (2022): Bibliography: Accelerationism. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 16(2), 123-156.

Teiner, David (2022): Bibliography: The Conflict in Yemen. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 16(3), 117-142.

Teiner, David (2022): Bibliography: The Conflict in Libya. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 16(1), 105-144.

Teiner, David; Furlan, Marta; Lokmanoglu, Ayse D.; McDonald, Brody (2021): Bibliography: Rebel Governance. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(5), 145-165.

Teiner, David (2021): Bibliography: Hamas. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(4), 240-257.

Teiner, David (2021): Bibliography: Al-Shabaab. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(2), 240-273.

Teiner, David (2021): Bibliography: Civilian Casualties of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(1), 202-227.

Teiner, David (2020): Bibliography: Terrorism and Organized Crime in Latin America. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 14(4), 118-154.

Teiner, David (2019): Bibliography: Terrorism by Country – Mali. In: Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(6), 167-192.

Lectures

• "The Role of SRSGs in UN Stabilization Missions", Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Meeting 2023: Making, Keeping, and Sustaining Peace. United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., 21.-22. Juni 2023.
• "Das globale Netzwerk des Islamischen Staates: Transnationalität, lokale Konfliktdynamiken und Resilienz", Workshop des DVPW-Arbeitskreises Gewaltordnungen: Transnationale Dimensionen von Gewaltordnungen. Universität Bayreuth, 03.-04. März 2022.
• "The Islamic State’s Rebel Governance", Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK), 20. Januar 2022.

Memberships

• Since 05/2023: Member oft the Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen (DGVN)
• Since 02/2023: Member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)