Felix Hans Breiteneicher

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Last Name

Breiteneicher

First name

Felix Hans

felixhans.breiteneicher@student.unisg.ch

Main focuses

Eurasia

Indo-Pacific

Post-Soviet Space

Baltics

Caucasus

Central Asia

Western Balkans

Fields of research

International Relations

Geopolitics

Geostrategy

Foreign Policy

Security Policy

Education(s)

University of St. Gallen
Doctoral Studies ‘International Affairs and Political Economy’ (2025-)
Prague University of Economics and Business & Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Ing. (Master) ‘International and Diplomatic Studies’ (2019-2021)
University of Bonn & Riga Stradinš University
B.A. ‘Politics and Society’, Law Studies Minor (2015-2018)

Professional Career

Associate Consultant & Public Affairs Executive, SUB Erste Lesung, Berlin (2021-2023)
Research Assistant, Czech Institute of International Relations, Prague (2020)
Policy/Press Intern, European Commission Regional Representation, Bonn (2019)
Member & Head of the Policy Department, Student Council of the University of Bonn (2015-2017)
Member & Head of the Policy Department, Student Council of the University of Cologne (2014-2015)

Projects(s)

Eurasia as a Geostrategic Greater Space in Germany‘s Foreign Policy

This intersectional qualitative research project is based upon critical geopolitical and constructivist theories combined with ideational as well as discourse analyses of Germany’s historic geopolitical self-understanding and the current political discourse on Eurasia as a geostrategic ‘Greater Space’. The dissertation thesis compares changes in the Federal Government’s foreign policy approaches towards three representative geographical case regions – Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia – with their respective geospatial actors since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The work’s findings are meant to contribute towards a more coherent contemporary understanding of the ‘Eurasian Question’ in a European liberal-democratic framework.