Sandra Ricker

Sandra Ricker’s research is anchored in the history of modern Europe with a special focus on German-speaking Central Europe. She is particularly interested in processes of state, nation and empire formation and diplomacy, peacemaking and international order from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. She recently completed her doctoral dissertation on German internationalism in the interwar period, which re-examines the relationship between the Weimar Republic and the League of Nations through the prism of a wider German turn to international law during the First World War, heightened by the collapse of the German Empire. Her current research project explores the history of the concept of aggression in international politics and international law, encompassing an inquiry into its oft-envisioned counterpart—"peaceful change".

Before joining the Belfer Center she was a Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in the program of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy, based at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her doctoral research at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She completed a Master of Research in History at the European University Institute and a Master of Arts in Transnational History at University College London.