PD Dr. Hendrik Hegemann

Senior Researcher
Contact
+49 (0)40-86 60 77- 44
hegemann@ifsh.de
Hamburg
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Vita

Since 2019, Hendrik Hegemann has been Senior Researcher in the “Societal Peace and Internal Security” research area at IFSH. Most recently, he was coordinator and co-lead of the research project “Cohesion through Security”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, as well as co-lead of a project on the politicization of European security which was funded by the German Research Council. Before that, he worked as a Senior Lecturer and Interim Professor at the University of Osnabrück. Between 2008 and 2015, he was a Researcher and PhD Candidate at IFSH. Hendrik Hegemann studied Political Science, History and Public Law in Freiburg and Seattle. He obtained a PhD with a dissertation on the role of international bureaucracies in counterterrorism cooperation and a Habilitation with a study on the (de-)politicization of security in liberal democracies, both at the University of Hamburg.  

Research profile

  • Transnational security risks
  • Counterterrorism and antiterrorism policy
  • Internal security
  • Security, democracy and civil liberties
  • Politicization and radicalization in European democracies
  • European Union as security actor  

Memberships & professional activities

  • Associate Professor (‘Privatdozent’) in Political Science, University of Hamburg
  • Director of the international Master’s programme „European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation“ (EMA) for the University of Hamburg
  • Co-editor-in-chief of ZeFKo-Studies in Peace and Conflict
  • Co-editor of the book series Elemente der Politik 

Selected Publications

  • Bartenstein, Aline, Hendrik Hegemann, Oliver Merschel. 2024. The Everyday Life of a Security Project: The “Security Union” in the EU’s “Engine Room”. European Security 34 (1): 85-106. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2024.2319230.
  • Bartenstein, Aline, Hendrik Hegemann, Oliver Merschel. 2022. Vom Friedensprojekt zur Sicherheitsgarantin? Das neue Schutzversprechen der Europäischen Union in Zeiten existenzieller Ungewissheit. Integration 45 (4): 257-274. DOI: 10.5771/0720-5120-2022-4-257.
  • Hegemann, Hendrik. 2021. Normalisierung des Ausnahmezustands? Freiheit und Sicherheit in liberalen Demokratien nach 9/11. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 71 (28-29): 22-28.
  • Hegemann, Hendrik, Ulrich Schneckener. 2019. Politicising European Security: From Technocratic to Contentious Politics?. European Security 28 (2): 133-152. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1624533.
  • Hegemann, Hendrik. 2018. Toward ‘Normal’ Politics? Security, Parliaments and the Politicisation of Intelligence Oversight in the German Bundestag. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20 (1): 175-190. DOI: 10.1177/1369148117745683.
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