Nele Kortendiek
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. N.R. Kortendiek
- n.r.kortendiek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6011-1253
Nele Kortendiek is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.
Dr. Nele Kortendiek is a political scientist, specialising in International Relations. Her research interests include global governance and international institutions, with a focus on global public policy, the crisis of the multilateral order, transnational actors, and international migration.
Prior to joining Leiden University, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) and the Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project "International Organisations: Norm-Setting and Implementation for the Protection of Forced Migrants." She also held positions at Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, the WZB Social Science Center Berlin and Oxford.
Her work has appeared in various international journals, including the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, International Studies Quarterly and Review of International Studies. Her first monograph Global Governance on the Ground was recently published by Oxford University Press.
Nele’s research has been recognised with several awards, including the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and the Chadwick Alger Prize from the International Studies Association (ISA).
You can find more information on her research, publication and teaching on her personal website nelekortendiek.com and find her on LinkedIn.
Lecturer
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Policital Science
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- Kortendiek N. (2026), From the Bottom Up? Frontline Crisis Management and Informal Policy Change in International Organisations, Review of International Studies 52(1): 207-227.
- Kortendiek N. & Witt A. (2026), The Local Lives of International Organizations: Towards a Research Agenda on International Organizations “in the Field”, International Studies Review : .
- Kortendiek N. & Zimmermann L. (2026), Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk: Project Features and Policy Change in International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly : .
- Kortendiek N. & Oertel J. (2025), Caught between Vulnerability and Competence: UNHCR’s Visual Framing of Refugees, Economic Threat Perceptions and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers in Germany, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 23(2): 293-209.
- Glaab K. & Kortendiek N. (2025), The Politics of Knowledge Production in International Organizations. In: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Xymena Kurowska, Birgit Poopuu & Andrea Warnecke (Eds.), Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: A Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 166-184.
- Kortendiek N., Zimmermann L. & Young L. (2025), Weil nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf: Wie das Kontestationsmanagement in internationalen Organisationen Betroffene doppelt selektiert, Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen 32(1): 79-89.
- Kortendiek N. (2024), Beyond Authority: Governing Migration and Asylum through Practice on the Ground, European Journal of International Relations 30(4): 1022-1049.
- Kortendiek N.R. (2024), Global Governance on the Ground: Organizing International Migration and Asylum at the Border. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kortendiek N.R. (2021), How to govern mixed migration in Europe: transnational expert networks and knowledge creation in international organizations, Global Networks : a journal of transnational affairs 21: 320-338.