Georg Löfflmann

My research interests revolve around the interaction of security and identity, discourse, narrative and practice, and the role of the everyday in shaping politics, with my research broadly located at the intersection of International Relations (IR) and Critical Security Studies (CSS), while I also incorporate insights from adjacent fields such as political communication, political psychology, or critical geopolitics into my work.

I am interested, how particular identity discourses and security narratives emerge as dominant in the political and public sphere, and how processes of identity formation and meaning making enable or constrain policy choices and provoke resistance against existing political hegemonies. Empirically, a particular focus of my research is on US foreign and security policy.