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08 February 2011
GPPi welcomes Thyssen Fellow Katrin Kinzelbach
In February, Thyssen Fellow Katrin Kinzelbach joined GPPi to support the institute’s Rising Powers and Global Governance program. Kinzelbach will head up a new research project called Human Rights and Global Governance: Will China’s Rise Lead to a New Normative Order?
Her project looks at China’s influence on the international human rights regime and questions whether China is integrating into the current system or trying to alter it. On the one hand, China has formally endorsed human rights. Not only did China revise its constitution to include a reference to human rights. It is also signatory to a number of key international treaties. On the other hand, China’s firm rejection of public criticism concerning its domestic protection of civil and political rights is well known and exhaustively documented. Less studied is the extent to which – and the manner in which – China challenges the normative order established by human rights law.
From 2010-2011 Kinzelbach was a Global Governance 2020 Fellow. In addition, she worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna and, there, assessed the EU’s human rights policy vis-à-vis China. She has also been a project manager at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava, where she worked on democratic governance and security sector reform. Further, she served as a program specialist at the UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery in New York and was assigned to the UNDP’s Afghanistan Task Force.
Katrin holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna, an MA in International Peace and Security from King’s College in London and a Magister/Laurea dual degree jointly awarded by the Universities of Florence and Bonn. She has received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Haniel Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. She is currently the recipient of a research grant from the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation.
For more information, please visit Kinzelbach’s profile page or the project page Human Rights and Global Governance: Will China’s Rise Lead to a New Normative Order?