Katja Weber
Professor
- School of International Affairs
- ADVANCE IAC
Overview
Katja Weber (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. Her research interests center around institution-building in Europe and Asia Pacific, sovereignty-related and human rights norms, non-traditional security challenges, and German foreign policy. She is the author of Hierarchy Amidst Anarchy: Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice (SUNY Press, 2000), co-author (with Paul Kowert) of Cultures of Order: Leadership, Language, and Social Reconstruction in Germany and Japan, (SUNY Press, 2007), and co-editor (with Michael Baun and Michael Smith) of Governing Europe's Neighborhood: Partners or Periphery? (Manchester University Press, 2007). She has also published a number of articles in the Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, International Affairs, to name but a few, and has received research support from the SSRC Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation/Ford Foundation, the American Political Science Foundation, and the European Commission, among others. During the fall of 2008 she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Law & Politics at the University of Tokyo, and in fall 2010 she was a Visiting Fellow at the EU Center at the National University of Singapore/Nanyang Technological University.
She also directs the Southeast Asia Summer Study Abroad Program.
Interests
- Regional Security Challenges
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- Europe
- United States
- International Development
- Regional Development
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Institution-Building
- Non-Traditional Security Challenges
Courses
- INTA-2001: Careers In Intl Affairs
- INTA-2100: Great Power Relations
- INTA-2221: Politics of the EU
- INTA-3031: Human Rights
- INTA-3101: Int'l Institutions
- INTA-3120: European Security Issues
- INTA-3131: Pacific Security Issues
- INTA-4050: Int'l Affair&Tech Policy
- INTA-4121: Sem Europe-Euro Security
- INTA-4400: Int'l Strategy & Policy
- INTA-4500: INTA Pro-Seminar
- INTA-6102: Intl Relations Theory
- INTA-6105: Intl Institutional Dsgn
- INTA-6121: Sem in Europe: Euro Sec
- INTA-6131: Pacific Security Issues
- INTA-6753: Comp Science&Tech Policy
- INTA-8010: IAST Ph.D. Proseminar
- INTA-8833: Special Topics
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- “Globalization, De-Globalization and Human Security: The Case of Myanmar” (co-authored with Jarrod Hayes)
In: International Affairs [special issue on De-Globalization? The Future of the Liberal International Order] [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2021