Elena Dück is a political scientist with a focus on foreign policy analysis. Since 2015, she has been managing the double master’s program in Intercultural Management at the Turkish-German University and the University of Passau. As a lecturer, she has taught classes on Turkish foreign policy, Turkey-EU relations, and theories of international relations. In November 2018, she was a visiting scholar at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. She has published on TurkishTunisian relations, as well as on U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. She is currently working on the development of a model for sustainable foreign policy that contributes to the reduction of global hierarchies.
Dück’s PhD thesis focused on identity concepts and social-constructivist foreign policy analysis. She holds a BA and MA in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau, where she also pursed her PhD. In 2013, she worked as an intern at the German Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. In 2010, she spent a semester abroad studying at the University Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
