Dr. Patrick Laurency
Vita
Patrick Laurency is currently doing postdoctoral research for the Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz. From 2006 to 2011, he worked as trainer and consultant for the “Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit”, situated in Bonn, Germany (GIZ GmbH Bonn; Division 2.03: Administrative Policy/Security Policy and Division 2.04 Democracy Promotion and Administrative Reforms), where he mainly taught foreign upper-level civil servants in the field of development administration.
Alongside, he was active as Associate Lecturer at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer from 2002 to 2012. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a research fellow for the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer – Chair for Administrative Sciences, Development Policy and Public Law (Professor Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Rainer Pitschas).
Laurency earned his doctoral degree in political science and economics (Dr. rer. pol.) “magna cum laude” from the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer in November 2011. He further holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (Magister rerum publicarum) from Speyer (2002) and a Master’s Degree in Political Science and History (Magister Artium) from the University of Konstanz (2000). In 1996 and 1997, he spent one year in Ireland, where he studied Irish history at University College Dublin.
Research Areas
Public Security; Privatization of security tasks; Development Policy; Agnotology; New Institutionalism in Organizational Theory, International Environmental Policy, Environmental Crimes.
Functions within the Center
research associate
research project “Intentional Ignorance and Tolerated Violence in Development Policy. Hybridity and Security Governance in Latin America”
Abstract
Selected Publications
Funktionen wirkungsschwacher Klimaschutzabkommen – Ursachen und Strategien der kontrafaktischen Stabilisierung politischer Zielerwartungen am Beispiel des UN-Klimaschutzregimes Wiesbaden (Springer VS) 2013.
„International Climate Agreement, Cost Reductions and Convergence of Partisan Politics” (with Dirk Schindler). CESifo- Working Paper, No.3591. Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute for Economic Research. Munich, September 2011 (Link).
„Why Green Parties Should Fear Successful International Climate Agreements” (with Dirk Schindler), TWi Research Paper Series 56/2010. Kreuzlingen 2010 (Link).
„Decentralization in Korea and China – Its Effects on Civil Society Participation and Regional Development. Discussion Report“, in: Rainer Pitschas (Ed..): Dezentralisierung im Vergleich – Kommunale Selbstverwaltung in Deutschland und Südostasien am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2008, pgs. 171–175.
„Unilateralismus versus Multilateralismus. Diskussionsbericht“, in: Rainer Pitschas (Ed..): Handel und Entwicklung im Zeichen der WTO – ein entwicklungspolitisches Dilemma. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2007, pgs. 157–162.
„Neue Aufgaben für das private Sicherheitsgewerbe in einem „neuen Rechtsstaat? Diskussionsbericht“, in: Rainer Pitschas and Harald Stolzlechner (Ed.): Auf dem Weg in einen neuen Rechtsstaat“. Zur künftigen Architektur der inneren Sicherheit in Deutschland und Österreich, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2004, pgs. 179–189.
Contact
phone +49 7531 88-5611
e-mail patrick.laurency[at]uni-konstanz.de
room Y 110