PROKOPF, Christine

Research Fellow and Coordinator for the French-German study programme International and European Governance

Institute for Political Science
Room 313
Scharnhorststrasse 100
D-48151 Muenster
Tel.: +49 251 83-25345
Fax: +49 251 83-25383
christine[dot]prokopf[at]uni-muenster[dot]de

On parental leave since November 2018.

International and European Governance:

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Research Areas
- Risk Governance
- Natural Disasters with a focus on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Humanitarian Aid
- Sustainable development
Doctoral Thesis
Acting before disaster strikes as political challenge: Risk Governance as disaster prevention
Supervisors
Professorin Doris Fuchs, Ph.D.
Professor Dr. Oliver Treib
Doctoral Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Doctoral Degree
Dr. phil.
Awarded by
Department 06 – Education and Social Studies
CV
Education
since 6.2016
Member of the Graduate School of Politics of the Institute for Political Science of Münster University
since 2013
Political science (doctorate) at Münster University
3.2017 – 5.2017
Research stay at Changing Disaster, a project of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 – 2009
Academic scholarship by Cusanuswerk
2003 – 2009
Policial science and Media studies (Magister) at Trier University
2006 – 2007
Policial science (Certificate) at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux, France
Positions
since 2013
Research Fellow at the Chair for International Relations and Sustainable Development and Coordinator of the french-german study programme International and European Governance at the Institute for Political Science of Münster University
2010 – 2013
Malteser International, Cologne
2009
Research Assistant for the working group on Caritas, Collaborative Research Centre 600 of the German Research Foundation
External Functions
since 2015
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft
since 2013
Mitglied in den Zulassungs- und Prüfungsausschüssen für den Studiengang Internationale und Europäische Governance für die Gruppe der Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitenden
2014 – 2018
Stv. Mitglied im Vorstand des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft für die Gruppe der Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitenden
Teaching
Summer Term 2018
- Praktikum: Foundational module cultures and structures of communication [062037]
Winter Term 2017/18
- Standardkurs: Introduction to the policy of civil security [060063]
- Praktikum: Concomitant course for the practical for IEG-students [060001]
Summer Term 2017
- Praktikum: Concomitant course for the practical for IEG-students [068022]
Winter Term 2016/17
- Praktikum: Concomitant course for the practical for IEG-students [066175]
- Bachelorseminar: Better safe than sorry? Prevention as a task of politcs (focus on research design) [066190]
Summer Term 2016
- Praktikum: Seminar accompanying the Practical for IEG-Students [064061]
Winter Term 2015/16
- Standardkurs: Introduction into Humanitarian Help with a Focus on Genderspecific Challenges [062026]
- Praktikum: Seminar accompanying the Practical for IEG-Students [062110]
Summer Term 2015
- Praktikum: Internship in Political Science [061670]
Winter Term 2014/15
- Lektürekurs: Uncertain Decisions: "The governance of risks" [063068]
- Praktikum: Internship in Political Science [061666]
Summer Term 2014
- Standardkurs: Introduction to humanitarian aid [063629]
Winter Term 2013/14
- Seminar: Accompanying the training course [066964]
Publications
2018
- Prokopf Christine (2018) Karutz, Harald, Wolfram Geier, und Thomas Mitschke (2017) (Hrsg.): Bevölkerungsschutz. Notfallvorsorge und Krisenmanagement in Theorie und Praxis. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 59 (4), S. 825–827. doi: 10.1007/s11615-018-0125-5.
2017
- Prokopf, Christine (2017) Katastrophenvorsorge aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Risikodefinitionen und Stakeholder-Beteiligung als Ansatzpunkte für eine Reflexion des Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. In: Norf Celia, Stephan Christiane, Fekete Alexander (Hrsg.): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven des Risiko- und Krisenmanagements - Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Risky Monday“., S. 38–40.
- Prokopf Christine, Julien Elise (2017) „L’interculturel ne s’apprend pas sur les bancs de la fac“? Fragen und Antwortversuche zu einer effizienten Vorbereitung auf interkulturelle Herausforderungen in einem binationalen sozialwissenschaftlichen Studiengang. In: Hiller Gundula Gwenn, Lüsebrink Hans-Jürgen, Oster-Stierle Patricia, Vatter Christoph (Hrsg.): Interkulturelle Kompetenzen in deutsch-französischen Studiengängen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 125–140.
2016
- Prokopf Christine (2016) International river governance: Extreme events as a trigger for discursive change in the Rhine river basin. In: Pattberg Philipp, Zelli Fariborz (Eds.): Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene. Institutions and legitimacy in a complex world. Abingdon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 145–163.
- Prokopf Christine, Hantscher Sinja (2016) Individuen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Sicherheit und Resilienz: Eine Analyse anhand des Wandels der internationalen Abkommen zur Katastrophenvorsorge. In: Abels, Gabriele (Hrsg.): Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, S. 239–257.
2015
- Prokopf Christine (2015) Disaster Risk Reduction Policy: The Sendai Framework and its Implications for Europe and (Political) Science. Global (online journal of the Kring voor Internationale Betrekkingen (KIB)), 28.12.2015.
Talks
- Prokopf, Christine (2018): „Die Katastrophen von morgen: Prävention vs. Reaktion in demokratischen Gesellschaften“. 27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) „Grenzen der Demokratie / Frontiers of Democracy“, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, 26/09/2018.
- Prokopf, Christine; Mayer, Luara; Fuchs, Doris (2018): ‘"The Privatisation of Responsibility: Tracing its Ambivalence in the post-2015 Global Agenda"’. 12. Pan-European Conference on International Relations "A New Hope - Back to the Future of International Relations", Prag, 14/09/2018.
- Prokopf, Christine (2018): ‘The Privatization of Responsibility: Tracing its Ambivalence in the post-2015 Global Agenda’. 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Prag, Tschechische Republik, 13/09/2018.
- Prokopf, Christine (2018): ‘Tomorrow’s disaster: Prevention vs. Reaction in Democratic Societies’. The Third Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, Amsterdam, Niederlande, 23/03/2018.
- Prokopf, Christine (2017): ‘Against all odds? The development of national level risk analysis in Germany’. 8th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2017), Reykjavik, Island, 24/08/2017.
- Prokopf, Christine (2017): ‘Responsibility in global disaster governance: Disaster resilience, disaster risk reduction and the politics of international negotiations’. The 2nd Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS2), University of Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Dänemark, 18/05/2017.
- Graf, Antonia, Long, Le Anh; Prokopf, Christine (2016): ‘Civil Society Participation in New York Hydro-Fracking Regulation’. International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, USA, 16/03/2016.
- Prokopf, Christine; Hantscher, Sinja (2015): „Schutz vor Naturkatastrophen oder Senkung der Verwundbarkeit? Die Beziehung zwischen Sicherheit und Resilienz am Beispiel des Hyogo Framework for Action und seines Nachfolgeframeworks“. Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit. 26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft , Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Deutschland, 25/09/2015.
- Prokopf, Christine (2015): ‘A silent majority outside deliberation – Thinking conceptually about affectedness as criterion in disaster risk policy making’. IPA 2015, Lille, Frankreich, 09/07/2015.
- Prokopf, Christine (2014): „Veränderung durch Katastrophenerleben - Welche Rolle für den Staat im Umgang mit Hochwasserrisiken? (Poster-Präsentation)“. 14. Forum Katastophenvorsorge des Deutschen Komitee Katastrophenvorsorge e.V. (DKKV), Leipzig, Deutschland, 04/11/2014.
- Prokopf, Christine (2014): ‘International River Governance: Extreme Events as Triggers for Institutional Change and Forerunners for Climate Change Adaptation’. ECPR General Conference 2014, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 06/09/2014.

International and European Governance:

Research Areas

Doctoral Thesis

Acting before disaster strikes as political challenge: Risk Governance as disaster prevention

CV

Education

Positions

External Functions

Teaching

Summer Term 2018

Winter Term 2017/18

Summer Term 2017

Winter Term 2016/17

Summer Term 2016

Winter Term 2015/16

Summer Term 2015

Winter Term 2014/15

Summer Term 2014

Winter Term 2013/14

Publications

2018

2017

2016

2015

Talks