PD Dr. Andreas Kruck

Short Bio

Andreas Kruck is Senior Researcher and Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) for Global Governance and Public Policy at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich, where he conducts research and teaches in the fields of International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Security Policy. Previously, he served, among other roles, as co-speaker of the international research group “Power Shifts and Institutional Change in International Institutions” at the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU and as Visiting Professor of International Political Economy at Free University of Berlin. Andreas received his doctorate from LMU in 2014 and was awarded the venia legendi in Political Science in 2022. He completed his Magister (M.A.) degree in Political Science, Public Law, and American Studies in 2008 at the University of Tübingen, including a period of study at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a Fellow of the Bavarian Research Alliance for Peace, Conflict, and Security Research and a member of the LMU Open Science Center.

Research Interests

His research focuses on international institutions and private actors in international security and the international political economy. Among other topics, he studies power shifts and institutional change in international institutions, power rivalries and co-optation in international orders, contestation of international institutions, transformations in the governance of national security, rising powers and private economic standards, and qualitative foresight methods in International Relations. His empirical expertise lies in the fields of international economic and security institutions, credit rating agencies, non-Western emerging economies, European security policymaking, and private military and security companies.

• Institutional Management of International Power Rivalries: In this project, Andreas examines when and how international institutions – particularly through the mechanism of “co-optation” into existing orders – can contain international power rivalries.
• Transformation of Security Governance: In this project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Andreas serves as co-PI and investigates how, why, and with what consequences the foundations of governance and the policy instruments of democratic military powers and the European Union are changing across different fields of security policy. Making Security Project
• Foresight on Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Competition: Another of Andreas’s projects develops methodological tools and analytical insights on the (de-)escalation of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between the United States, Europe, and the BRICS+ countries. Paths & Projections Project
  

Publications

• (2026) “Bringing society (back) in? Defence transformations across Europe in the Zeitenwende“, West European Politics, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2026.2669961 (mit Joakim Berndtsson & Moritz Weiss.)

• (2025) International Organization. 4. Auflage. London: Bloomsbury (mit Hylke Dijkstra & Bernhard Zangl).

• (2025) "The competence–control trade-off in military AI innovation: Autonomous weapons systems and shifting modes of state control over private experts", European Journal of International Security, Online First, (mit Andrea Johansen).

• (2025) "Failing through success? How stable liberal orders become self-destabilising", Journal of European Public Policy, Online First, (mit Christoph Knill, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl).

• (2025) "Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security", Regulation & Governance 19(1), 145-160, (mit Moritz Weiss).

• (2025) "Cooptation in great power rivalries: A conceptual framework", Contemporary Security Policy 46(1), 8-36, (mit Gadi Heimann, Deganit Paikowsky & Bernhard Zangl).

• (2025) "It pays to be generous: How cooptation transforms power rivalries", Contemporary Security Policy 46(1), 37-65, (mit Bernhard Zangl).

• (2025) "How negative institutional power moderates contestation: Explaining dissatisfied powers' strategies towards international institutions", Review of International Organizations 20(4), 1081–1118 (mit Benjamin Daßler & Tim Heinkelmann-Wild).

Teaching (recent)

• Summer 2026: Academic Writing

• Summer 2026: Experts in Security Policymaking

• Summer 2026: BA- and MA-Seminar (Kolloquium)

• Winter 2025/26: Foresight on International Power Rivalries

• Winter 2025/26: Applied Case Study Methods: Contestation of Liberal Orders

• Winter 2025/26: Basic Course International Relations

• Summer 2025: International Political Economy: Theories and Current Issues

• Summer 2025: BA- and MA-Seminar (Kolloquium)

• Summer 2025: Academic Wriitng

• Winter 2024/25: Studying the Future: Prediction(s) in International Relations

• Winter 2023/24: Transformations in the Making of European Security (MA, LMU Munich)

Public Outreach

• Foresight workshops with academics, policy advisers, and political and economic practitioners on future scenarios of power rivalry between the US, the EU, and China
• Contributions to media outlets including Die ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR2).

Reviewing Activities

• Reviewer for more than 40 Academic Journals, Publishers and Third-party distributors

• Reviewer for (among others). International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of European Public Policy, Contemporary Security Policy, Regulation & Governance, New Political Economy, International Theory, International Studies Review, Chinese Journal of International Politics, und European Journal of International Security