Prof. Dr. Hana Attia

Hana Attia is Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (Institute for Middle East Studies). She holds a PhD from the Graduate School of the Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Konstanz, Germany (2023). Her dissertation received the Leibniz Dissertation Award (2024) and the second Aquila Ascendens Prize for Exceptional Dissertations on Security Policy in Germany (2023). Prior to taking up her current position, Attia was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Salzburg (2023-2025), a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA, 2018-2023) and a guest lecturer at the University of Hamburg (2019, 2021). She was a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence American University in Washington D.C. funded by Fulbright (Dec 2021 – Apr 2022) and a Visiting Graduate Student at the Johns Hopkins University & Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) funded by the DAAD (2015 – 2016). Her research on economic coercion, economic sanctions, foreign policy, and domestic politics has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, European Economic Review, Review of International Economics, Journal for Global Security Studies, and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. Her commentary on sanctions features in news broadcasts and podcasts such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Foreign Times, and she actively engages in policy advice. A complete list of publications and other relevant professional information can be found here).