Monografien
The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
(Co-)Herausgeberschaften
Deviant Global Germany: Transnational Histories of Crime, Morality, and Mobility, co-edited with Sarah Frenking and Bodie Ashton (under contract with University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2027)
Routledge Handbook of the History of International Law: Eastern Europe, mit Isabella Löhr, Dietmar Müller & Stefan Troebst (under contract with Routledge, forthcoming 2027)
Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies (Oxford University Press, 2024) mit Raluca Grosescu.
Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany Sonderheft: Central European History (56:2, 2023), mit Lauren Stokes.
(Re-)Constituting the State and Law during the ‚Long Transformation of 1989‘ in East Central Europe. Sonderheft: Journal of Modern European History (2020) mit Michal Kopeček.
New perspectives on Socialism and Human Rights in East-Central Europe since 1945, Sonderheft: East Central Europe (46, 2019), mit Hella Dietz und James Mark.
Revisiting State Socialist Approaches to International Criminal and Humanitarian Law , Sonderheft: Journal of the History of International Law (21, 2019), mit Raluca Grosescu.
Artikel und Aufsätze
“Human Rights after Hitler: An Epilogue,” mit Lora Wildenthal, Journal of Contemporary History 60(3) (2025), 459-464.
“1989 and the Transformation of Human Rights” mit Felix A. Jiménez Botta (George Mason University Korea ) in Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Rosamund T. Johnston, Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu, Jannis Panagiotidis, Sheng Peng, Anastassiya Schacht, Philipp Ther, and Dean Vuletic (Hg.) 1989 and the Great Transformation (Routledge, 2025).
“Rights and Communism,” in The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume V: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Samuel Moyn and Meredith Terretta (Hg.) (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
“Socialism and International Law: Legacies of Innovation, Contradiction, and Failure,” mit Raluca Grosescu, in Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies, Raluca Grosescu und Ned Richardson-Little (Hg..) (Oxford University Press, 2024)
“Terrorists, Revolutionaries, and Migrants: Cold War Conflicts and Convergences over International Air Hijacking Law,” Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies, Raluca Grosescu und Ned Richardson-Little (Hg.) (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Cold War Narcotics Trafficking, the Global War on Drugs, and East Germany’s Illicit Transnational Entanglements,” Central European History (56: 2, 2023), S. 214-235.
Mit Lauren Stokes, Everyday Transnationalism, Global Entanglements and Regimes of Mobility at the Edges of East Germany, Central European History (56: 2, 2023), S.159-172.
Mit Kerstin Brückweh, Jane Freeland, Mario Keßler und Daniel Siemens, What’s Next? Historical Research on the GDR Three Decades after German Unification, peer-reviewed forum, German History (41:2, 2023), S. 279–296.
Nehmt Menschenrechtsilliberalismus ernst! Vom Ge- und Missbrauch der Geschichte und der Schwierigkeit, diese zu schreiben, in: Johannes Haaf, Luise Müller, Esther Neuhann und Markus Wolf (Hg.), Die Grundlagen der Menschenrechte: moralisch, politisch oder sozial?. Nomos Verlag, 2023.
Mit Samuel Merrill und Leah Arlaud, Far-Right Anniversary Politics and Social Media: The Alternative for Germany’s Contestation of the East German Past on Twitter, in Memory Studies (15:6, 2022), S. 1360–1377.
Conclusion: 1989: World-Historical Fracture and a Return to More of the Same, in: Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (Hg.), Reading the New Global Order: Textual Transformations of 1989. London, 2022.
Arms Intervention: Weimar Germany, Imperial Influence and Weapons Trafficking in Warlord China, in: Journal of Modern European History (19:4, 2021), S. 510-528.
Transnational Drug Trafficking and the German Embrace of International Narcotics Law from the Kaiserreich to the Nazis, in: Dietmar Müller und Katja Naumann (Hg.), Transregional Connections in the History of East Central Europe. Berlin u.a., 2021.
'Hashers Don't Read Das Kapital': East Germany, Socialist Prohibition, and Global Cannabis, in: James Mills und Lucas Richert (Hg.), Cannabis: Global Histories. Cambridge MA, 2021.
Mit Samuel Merrill, Who is the Volk? PEGIDA and the Contested Memory of 1989 on Social Media, in: Samuel Merrill, Emily Keightley und Priska Daphi (Hg.), Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media. Mobilising Mediated Remembrance. London, 2020.
Mit Michal Kopeček, Introduction: (Re-)Constituting the State and Law during the ‘Long Transformation of 1989’ in East Central Europe, in: Journal of Modern European History (18, 2020), S. 275-280.
From Tehran to Helsinki: The International Year of Human Rights 1968 and State Socialist Eastern Europe, in: Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society (1, 2019), S. 180-201.
Mit Hella Dietz und James Mark, New Perspectives on Socialism and Human Rights in East Central Europe since 1945, in: Socialism and Human Rights in East-Central Europe since 1945, Sonderheft: East Central Europe (46, 2019), S. 169-187.
The Failure of the Socialist Declaration of Human Rights: Ideology, Legitimacy, and Elite Defection at the End of State Socialism, in: Socialism and Human Rights in East-Central Europe since 1945, Sonderheft: East Central Europe (46, 2019), S. 318-341.
Human Rights Movements and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Explaining the Peaceful Revolution of 1989, in: Wildenthal, Lora und Quataert, Jean (Hg.), The Routledge History of Human Rights. London, 2019.
Abolishing the Exploitation of Man by Man: Socialism and Human Rights since Marx, in: Weinke, Annette und Gosewinkel, Dieter (Hg.), Menschenrechte und ihre Kritiker. Ideologien, Argumente, Wirkungen. Göttingen, 2019. S. 141-156.
Mit Raluca Grosescu, Revisiting State Socialist Approaches to International Criminal and Humanitarian Law: An Introduction, in: The Socialist World and Post-War International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, Sonderheft: Journal of the History of International Law (21, 2019), S.161-180.
The Drug War in a Land Without Drugs: East Germany and the Socialist Embrace of International Narcotics Law, in: The Socialist World and Post-War International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, Sonderheft: Journal of the History of International Law (21, 2019), S. 270-298.
Human Rights, Pluralism and the Democratization of East and West Germany, in: Wenzel, Harald, Jarausch, Konrad und Goihl, Karin (Hg.), Different Germans, Many Germanies: New Transatlantic Perspectives. New York u.a., 2017. S. 158-177.
Human Rights as Myth and History: Between the Revolutions of 1989 and the Arab Spring, in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (23, 2015), S. 151-166.
Between Dictatorship and Dissent: Ideology, Legitimacy and Human Rights in East Germany, 1945-1990, in: German Historical Institute Bulletin (56, 2015), S. 69-82.
Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s, in: Eckel, Jan und Moyn, Samuel (Hg.), The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s. Philadelphia, 2014. S. 49-67.
„Erkämpft das Menschenrecht“ – Sozialismus und Menschenrechte in der DDR, in: Eckel, Jan und Moyn, Samuel (Hg.), Moral für die Welt? Menschenrechtspolitik in den 1970er Jahren. Göttingen u.a., 2012. S. 120-143.
Rezensionen und Tagungsberichte
Rezension zu: Dirk Moses, The Problems of Genocide. H-Diplo Roundtable XXIV-26 (March 27, 2023)
Rezension zu: Molly Pucci, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe. (Yale University Press, 2020), in: German History, (40:1, 2022). S. 140-141.
Rezension zu: Craven Matthew, Sundhya Pahuja & Gerry Simpson (eds.): International Law and the Cold War. (Cambridge, 2019), : in the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/ Heidelberg Journal of International Law (81: 1, 2021). S. 265-270.
