Philip M. Tantow

Professional experience (selection)

• Since 04/2020: Research and Teaching Fellow at the research unit International Organizations, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
• 2018 - 2019: Research internship for the project: Populisms und economic upheavals since 1870, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW).
• 2015 - 2016: Data Analyst in the Economics Research department, NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank.
• 2012: Teaching assistant for Advanced Quantitative Methods, Jacobs University Bremen.
• 2008 - 2012: Student reasearch assistant in the project: The Juridification of International Dispute Settlement, Collaborative Research Center 597 Transformations of the State, University of Bremen.
• 2007 - 2008: Tutor for Model United Nations, University of Bremen.

University education

• Since 04/2020: Doctoral candidate in Political Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 2010 - 2013: M.A. International Relations: Global Governance and Social Theory, University of Bremen & Jacobs University Bremen
• 2006 - 2010: B.A. Political Science (minor: Economics), University of Bremen
• 2009 - 2010: ERASMUS exchange, Københavns University

Teaching portfolio

• Contestation of International Organizations
• Global Financial Governance
• Global Food Security
• Global Health Governance
• Global Migration Governance
• Informal Governance in Transboundary Crises
• International Organizations and Crises: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations
• Life Cycles of International Organizations
• Regression Analysis

Memberships

• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
  • Early Career Group: International Relations (ECIB)
  • Thematic Group: International Organization (TGIO, founding member)
• European International Studies Association (EISA)
• International Studies Association (ISA)
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
  • Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR)

• International Organizations
• Global Governance
• Transboundary Crises

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Biedermann, Steve/Tantow, Philip M. (2025): "Informelle Intergouvernementale Organisationen in grenzüberschreitenden Krisen." In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 32(1), 118-136. 

Contributions to edited volumes

• Biedermann, Steve/Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Tantow, Philip M. (forthcoming): "The G7 and transboundary crises: on the rise and fall of a global crisis manager." In: Freytag, Andreas/Draper, Peter (eds.): The Elgar Companion to the G7. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian/Tantow, Philip M. (2023): Crisis and Change at IOM: Critical Juncture, Precedents, and Task ExpansionExternal link. In: Cathryn Costello/Megan Bradley/Angela Sherwood (Hrsg.): IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 187-212.

Conference Papers and Workshop Contributions

Tantow, Philip M. (2025): Authority Shifts in Transboundary Crises. Paper presented at:

• ISA 2025 Annual Convention, Chicago, 2-5 March 2025.
• DVPW Congress, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 24-27 September 2024.  
• DVPW TGIO Annual Conference, Friedrich Schiller Unversity Jena, 9-10 November 2023.
• DVPW IR Section Meeting, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, 14-16 June 2023.
• DVPW ECIB Conference, Tutzing, 14-16 February 2023.
• DVPW ECIB Colloquium, Tutzing (online), 9-10 March 2022.

Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian & Tantow, Philip M. (2023): Growing through Crisis: Horizontal Task Expansion by International Organizations. Paper presented at:

• NestIOr Workshop on the vitality, resilience, decline and death of international organizations, Maastricht, 26-27 June 2023.
• ISA 2023 Annual Convention, Montréal, 15-18 March 2023.

Biedermann, Steve & Tantow, Philip M. (2023): Informal Intergovernmental Organizations in Transboundary Crises: Exploring the Crisis-Informality-Nexus. Paper presented at:

• DVPW IR Section Meeting, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, 14-16 June 2023.
• ISA 2023 Annual Convention, Montréal, 15-18 March 2023.
• ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, 22-26 August 2022.
• DVPW TGIO Workshop: International Organizations under Pressure, Bonn, 18-19 July 2022.

Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian & Tantow, Philip M. (2020): Crisis and Change at IOM: Critical Juncture, Precedents, and Task Expansion. Paper presented at the workshop: Spotlight on the International Organization for Migration (IOM): Obligations, Accountability and Ethos, Hertie School of Governance & Oxford University (online), 2 November 2020.

Tantow, Philip M. (2018): Global Governance in Tough Times: The Effectiveness of the Dublin Regulation. Paper presented at:

• EISA PEC, Prague, 12-15 September 2018.
• ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018.
• SGIR Summer School: The Politics of Interdependence, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, 18-23 June 2018.

Tantow, Philip M. (2013): The Transnational Dimension of Recurring Civil Wars. Paper presented at:

• PSS-ISA Joint Conference, Budapest, 27-29 June 2013.
• 54^th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.

Tantow, Philip M. (2013): Fool Me Once... Different Causes of Civil War Onset and Recurrence. Paper presented at:

• 54^th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.
• 4^th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen, 4-6 July 2012.

Tantow, Philip M. (2012): Civil Wars Episode V: Statehood Strikes Back. Paper presented at the 53^rd ISA Annual Convention, San Diego, 1-4 April 2012.