Short Bio

Nadia is a doctoral researcher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich. She studied political science and law at LMU Munich, as well as the University of Copenhagen, graduating as one of the best in her year both times. Previously she worked on a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research on "Paths Projections" of Conflict (De-)Escalation, where she contributed to research on the (de)escalation of a potential violent conflict in Taiwan as well as on scenarios of securitized economic conflict over critical digital infrastructures. She has worked as a research assistant at the POLCON research project and as a student assistant at the Chair for Global Governance, both at LMU Munich.

Research Interests

Global digital governance: In her dissertation Nadia is interested in if and how autocratic actors and private companies shape regulation and standards in global digital governance. She approaches this question via network analysis and in-depth case studiese.

Publications

Benjamin Daßler & Nadia El Ghali (17 Nov 2025): Caught in the inclusion trap: multistakeholder institutions and autocratic accommodation, Journal of European Public Policy, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2586854

Teaching

Summer 26

Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten

Winter 25/26

Basic Course International Relations

Forschungsdesign Internationale Beziehungen