Jonas J. Driedger

Jonas J. Driedger is a Researcher at the Department of International Institutions at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and a member of the Regime Competition Research Group and the LOEWE Group (Prof. Deitelhoff). He also serves as Co-Chair of the PRIF Research Council. Previously, he held roles such as Interim Professor of Political Science (specializing in International Security) at Goethe University Frankfurt (2023–2024), Postdoctoral Researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Henry A. Kissinger Center (2021–2022), and DAAD/AICGS Research Fellow (2020). His research focuses on interstate wars, deterrence, great power relations, and Russian/transatlantic security policy.

Education: PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence (2015–2020).

Research Interests:

• Interstate conflict dynamics and deterrence mechanisms
• Russian foreign policy and security strategy
• EU-Russia crisis bargaining
• Transatlantic security cooperation

Key Articles: Focus on Ukraine-Russia relations, realism theory critiques, and European security dynamics. Notable works include analyses of deterrence failure in early 2022 and the role of territory in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Awards: Recipient of the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Award and Hessian Peace Prize.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Research Center Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe) and contributes to policy-oriented dialogues through platforms like the PRIF Blog and TraCe Policy Briefs.