Staff

Dr habil Florian Kühn

Dr habil Florian Kühn

Associate Researcher


contact by e-mail

florian.p.kuehn(at)gu.se

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Expertise

Research Topics / Key Expertise


Interventions and statebuilding

Narrative approaches to knowledge

Conflict dynamics, development and military practice

State finance and state formation

Drug and other illicit economies

Security communities and defence cooperation

Terrorism and political violence

Sub-state actors and their strategies

Countries Of Expertise


  • Afghanistan,
  • Pakistan,
  • Israel,
  • Palestine,
  • Spain,
  • Canada,
  • United States of America,
  • Great Britain

Professional Career

Florian Kühn is Editor of the Journal of Intervention.
His academic career started in 2002 when he completed his Master’s degree in Political Science and German Contemporary Literature & Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. (Dissertation: Group Dynamics in Terrorist Groups: A case study of ETA). Following this, he did a Master of Peace and Security Policy at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH - Hamburg University) on “War on Terrorism? The Case of Afghanistan”. In 2009, he was awarded his PhD (Dr. rer.Pol.) at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg—University of the Federal Armed Forces. His dissertation was about :“Security and Development in World Society – Liberal Paradigm and Statebuilding in Afghanistan”. Finally, he completed his habilitation on  27 June 2017  with the article: “Myths, Narratives, Ambiguity: Critical Epistemology and Political Economy of Contemporary Peace Practice and Security Policy”. (Cumulative habilitation).