PD.Dr Moritz Weiss

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Oettingenstr. 67

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+49 89 2180-9001

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During the summer semester, office hours are held on Mondays, 16:00-17:00, or as otherwise agreed. Please register via e-mail beforehand.

Short Bio

Moritz Weiss is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the LMU University of Munich. His research focuses on theorizing (informal) institutions, European integration as well as the governance of international security and technological innovation. He has been awarded with a Ph.D. in political science from Jacobs University Bremen (with special distinction) in 2010 and with a Vena legendi (i.e. Habilitation) from LMU Munich in 2018. He has completed a comparative research project on “Diversity or convergence? Explaining the development of defense-industrial policies" in 2019, which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (WE 3653/4-1). Moritz Weiss was a visiting professor of global governance and public policy at LMU Munich (2018/2019) and a Jean-Monnet-Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2019/2020). Among others, he has published in Governance, European Political Science Review, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Global Security Studies, European Journal of International Security, and Security Studies.

Current Research Project

Past Research Projects

Publications

Monographs

  • Weiss, Moritz (2011): Transaction Costs and Security Institutions: Unravelling the ESDP, (Houndmills/Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Weiss, Moritz (2004): Der 11. September 2001: Interpretationen und Konsequenzen eines Terroranschlags, (Marburg: Tectum-Verlag).

Special Issues

  • Kruck, Andreas / Weiss, Moritz (2023): The Regulatory Security State in Europe, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(7): 1205-1471, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2172061.

Articles (with Anonymous Peer-Review)

  • Hofmann, Stephanie et al. (2025): ‘The Forum: Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making’, International Studies Review, doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaf002.
  • Daßler, Benjamin / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘Beyond the European Army Illusion: A Prudent Strategy for the Real European Zeitenwende’, Journal of Common Market Studies, doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70029.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Krieger, Nicolas (2025): ‘The political economy of cybersecurity: Governments, firms and opportunity structures for business power’, Contemporary Security Policy, 46(3): 403-428, doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2025.2474867. Nominated for CSP’s Bernard Brodie Prize in 2026
  • Kausche, Katharina / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘Platform Power and Regulatory Capture in Digital Governance’, Business & Politics, 27(2): 284-308, doi:10.1017/bap.2024.33.
  • Bandemer, Sandra / Daßler, Benjamin / Rittberger, Berthold / Weiss, Moritz / Will, Kathrin (2025): ‘The Politics of De-Risking: How the EU Confronts Vulnerabilities in Critical Digital Infrastructures’, Journal of European Public Policy, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2545305.
  • Daßler, Benjamin / Bandemer, Sandra / Rittberger, Berthold / Weiss, Moritz (2024): ‘Navigating Regime Complexes in Turbulent Times -The EU’s Interaction with Other IOs in Crises’, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, doi.org/10.1007/s11615-024-00572-9.
    Kruck, Andreas / Weiss, Moritz (2024): ‘Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments and the making of security’, Regulation & Governance, 19(1): 146-160, https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12594.
    Kruck, Andreas / Weiss, Moritz (2023): ‘The regulatory security state in Europe’, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(7): 1205-1229, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2172061.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Biermann, Felix (2023): 'Cyberspace and the protection of critical national infrastructure’, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 26(3): 250-267, doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2021.1905530.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Biermann, Felix (2022): 'Networked politics and the supply of European defence integration', Journal of European Public Policy,29(6): 910-931, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1916057.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2022): ‘The rise of cybersecurity warriors?’, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 33(1-2): 272-293, doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2021.1976574.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2021): 'Varieties of Privatization: Informal Networks, Trust and State Control of the Commanding Heights’, Review of International Political Economy, 28(3): 662-689, doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1726791.
  • Biermann, Felix / Weiss, Moritz (2021): 'Power without a cause? Germany’s conflict avoidance and the integration of European defence procurement’, Journal of European Integration, 43(2): 225-240, doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2021.1877691.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim (2020): ‘Disarmed principals? Institutional Resilience and the Non-Enforcement of Delegation’, European Political Science Review, 12(4): 409-425, doi.org/10.1017/S1755773920000181.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Jankauskas, Vytautas (2019): 'Securing Cyberspace: How States Design Governance Arrangements’, Governance, 32(2): 259-275, doi.org/10.1111/gove.12368.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2019): 'From Wealth to Power? The Failure of Layered Reforms in India’s Defense Sector’, Journal of Global Security Studies, 4(4): 560-578, doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz036.
  • Biermann, Felix / Guérin, Nina / Jagdhuber, Stefan / Rittberger, Berthold / Weiss, Moritz (2019): 'Political (Non-)Reform in the Euro Crisis and the Refugee Crisis: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Explanation’, Journal of European Public Policy,26(2): 246-266, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1408670.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2019): State vs. Market in India: How (not) to integrate foreign contractors in the domestic defense-industrial sector’, Comparative Strategy, 37(4): 286-298, doi.org/10.1080/01495933.2018.1497323.
  • Rüchardt, Felix / Weiss, Moritz (2018): 'Der Staat als Broker? Rüstungsdiplomatie als die vernachlässigte Seite von Waffenexporten’, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 7(2): 210-245, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48518878.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2018): ‘How to become a first mover? Mechanisms of military innovation and the development of drones’, European Journal of International Security, 3(2): 187-210, doi.org/10.1017/eis.2017.15.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Blauberger, Michael (2016): 'Judicialized Law-Making and Opportunistic Enforcement: Explaining the EU’s Challenge of National Defence Offsets’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 54(2): 444-462, doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12290.
  • Kriegmair, Lisa / Weiss, Moritz (2015): 'Vom Sanktionsparadox zur Sanktionsfalle: Die Europäische Union und Simbabwe’, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 22(2): 71-99, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0946-7165-2015-2-68/vom-sanktionsparadox-zur-sanktionsfalle-jahrgang-22-2015-heft-2?page=1.
  • DeVore, Marc / Weiss, Moritz (2014): 'Who’s in the cockpit? The political economy of collaborative aircraft decisions’, Review of International Political Economy, 21(2): 497-533, doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2013.787947.
  • Blauberger, Michael / Weiss, Moritz (2013): '“If you can’t beat me, join me!” How the Commission pushed and pulled Member states into legislating defence procurement’, Journal of European Public Policy, 20(8): 1120-1138, doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.781783.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2012): 'Transaction Costs and the Establishment of the European Security and Defense Policy', Security Studies, 21(4): 654-682, doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2012.734233.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2011): 'Contextualizing European Security: Iraq and Beyond', International Studies Review, 13(3): 482-87, doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2011.01051.x.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2009): 'Power and Signals: Explaining the German Approach to European Security', Journal of International Relations and Development, 12(3): 317-348, doi.org/10.1057/jird.2009.15.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Dalferth, Simon (2009): 'Security Re-Divided: The Distinctiveness of Policy-Making in ESDP and JHA', Cooperation and Conflict, 44(3): 268-287, doi.org/10.1177/0010836709106216.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2008): 'The Political Economy of Conflicts: An Opportunity for European Security?', Journal of Contemporary European Research, 4(1): 1-17, doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v4i1.65.

Articles (without anonymous Peer-Review)

  • Stürzer, Isabella / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘Private warriors for the digital age? The demand and supply of cybersecurity firms’, in: Eugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey, and Robert Parr (Hrsg.): The Past and Future of Private Force: Mercenaries and Security Contractors in the 21st Century, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2020): 'Who should be in charge of cyberspace? The European Union, member states and the constitution of structural power', EUI RSCAS Working Paper, 2020/22, http://hdl.handle.net/1814/66809.
  • Weiss, Moritz / Biermann, Felix (2018): 'Defence Industrial Cooperation', in: Hugo Meijer/Marco Wyss (Hrsg.): The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 693-709.
  • Rittberger, Berthold / Weiss, Moritz (2017): 'Europaforschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen', in: Carlo Masala/Frank Sauer (eds..): Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen, SpringerVS, pp. 493-522. (revised contribution with Lara Waas in 2024)
  • Jasper, Ursula / Weiss, Moritz (2016): 'Konventionelle Bedrohungen, technologische Diffusion und die Entwicklung von militärischen Drohnen', in: Gabriele Abels (ed.): Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit, Kongressband der DVPW, Best paper award of the IB-Sektion, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 219-238.
  • Blauberger, Michael / Weiss, Moritz (2016): 'Die Europäisierung von staatlichen Kernkompetenzen: Nationale Rüstungsbeschaffung unter dem Einfluss europäischer Rechtsprechung', in: Britta Rehder/Ingrid Schneider (eds.): Zur Rolle der Gerichte bei der Policy-Entwicklung im europäischen Mehrebenensystem, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 291-314.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2014): 'Integrating the Acquisition of Leviathan's Swords? The emerging regulation of defence procurement within the EU', in: Markus Jachtenfuchs/Philipp Genschel (eds.): Beyond the Regulatory Polity? The European Integration of Core State Powers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 27-45.
  • Holzhauer, Olaf / Staack, Michael / Weiss, Moritz (2008): 'Die strategische Partnerschaft zwischen EU und NATO’, in: Franco Algieri/Sibylle Lang/Michael Staack (eds.): Militärische Aspekte der Europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik im Lichte der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, Bremen: Edition Temmen, pp. 76-86.
  • Maurer, Thorsten / Vogelgesang, Jens / Weiss, Hans-Jürgen / Weiss, Moritz (2007): 'Aktive Vermittler oder passive Berichterstatter? Über die Rolle deutscher Medien während des Kosovo-, Afghanistan- und Irakkrieges', in: Barbara Pfetsch/Silke Adam (eds.): Massenmedien als Akteure im politischen Prozess: Konzepte und Analysen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 144-167.
  • Weiss, Moritz (2005): 'Preference Formation in the Absence of Structural Mechanisms: The Case of European Security Policy', in: CFSP-Forum, 3(4): 5-8.

Articles (Under Review or Under Preparation)

  • Weiss, Moritz / Daßler, Benjamin / Bandemer, Sandra / Rittberger, Berthold / Will, Kathrin (2025): ‘Geoeconomic Swing States and the Politics of Global Information Networks’, revise and resubmit by Globalizations.
  • Daßler, Benjamin / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘A multi-level polity in the new geopolitical era: The European Union and indirect power projection’, (under review), Global Studies Quarterly.
  • Daßler, Benjamin / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘The Allure of Digital Authoritarianism and its Diffusion to Geopolitical Swing States’, Paper presented to EUI Conference, Part of edited volume (by Patryk Pawlak and Stephanie Hofmann).
  • Daßler, Benjamin / Weiss, Moritz (2025): ‘Two Vectors of Platform Power: Big Tech and the EU’s Regulation of the Digital Space’, Contribution to potential special section of International Affairs: The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Multilayered Weaponization and the Reshaping of Global Interdependence (ed. by Antonio Calcara and Jonata Anicetti).
  • Weiss, Moritz /Sus, Monika (contract under negotiation; after series editors have approached me): Protecting a multi-level polity? Security and defence policies in the European Union, an advanced textbook for graduate students (which is meant to become the successor book in the EU Series of the seminal one of Jolyon Howorth), https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/the-european-union-series/