Prof. Dr. Alexander Brand

Professor Alexander Brand was born in Jena (Thuringia). He studied Political Science, Philosophy and Media/Communication Science at the Technical University Dresden, the University of Leipzig and the New School for Social Research (Graduate Faculty), New York City. After having completed his studies, he worked as a Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the Chair for International Politics as well as the School of International Studies at TU Dresden. He held several guest lectureships, for instance at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2010, he defended his PhD thesis on the question of how to conceptualize the intricate relationship of mass media and international relations at TU Dresden’s Faculty of Philosophy. Afterwards, he moved on to the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz where he worked as a Senior Lecturer and Post-Doc Researcher. In addition, he held guest lectureships at the School for International Studies Dresden as well as the European Management School Mainz. 

In August 2014, Alexander Brand was appointed as a Professor of Political Science/International Relations at Rhine-Waal University. Starting in March 2023, he also began teaching courses at the German-Kazakh University located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. From March 2015 to July 2020, he acted as Course Leader "International Relations" (BA). Since March 2023, he has been sharing this responsibility with Professor Dingfelder Stone. Additionally, in the spring of the same year, he was elected and appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Faculty Examination Committee.

• Brand, A., Niemann, A., & Weber, R. (2024). Introduction: The Europeanisation of identities through everyday practices. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32(2), 309–321. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2024.2310021.
• Brand, A., Niemann, A., & Weber, R. (2024). When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32(2), 368–385. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2186838.
• Brand, A., Niemann, A., & Weber, R. (2023). Pipe dream or closed shop? Experiencing the Champions League from the sidelines. Soccer & Society, 24(4), 520–533. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2194515.
• Zitzke, A., Brand, A., & Reiser, D. (2023). Towards Humanistic Management in professional sports: How to make mobility and fan-related tourism more sustainable? Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 15(2), 153–170. https://doi.org/10.1515/tw-2023-2003.
• Brand, A., Spero, J., Kadak, H., & Hegemann, K. (2022). Transatlantische Beziehungen unter Stress: Auslaufmodell oder nachhaltige Partnerschaft? In K. Hegemann, D. Lud, & F. Sohnrey (editors), Nachhaltigkeit unter Stress. Frakturen in Gesellschaft, Umwelt und Wirtschaft (pp. 159–176). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
• Weber, R., Brand, A., Koch, F., & Niemann, A. (2022). Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(4), 532–551. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211028147.
• Brand, A. (2021). Erratum zu „von Hauff, Luba (2020): China, the West, and Democratization. The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan“. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 62(3), 591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-021-00325-y.
• Brand, A., & Schöninger, H. S. (2021). Impfdiplomatie als Ausdruck globaler Solidarität? Internationale Kooperation in der Pandemiebekämpfung zwischen Egoismus und Gerechtigkeit. Peripherie, 41(164), 405–437. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v41i4.03.
• Brand, A. (2020). von Hauff, Luba (2020): China, the West, and Democratization. The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 226 Seiten. £ 120.00. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61(4), 789–791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-020-00278-8.
• Niemann, A., & Brand, A. (2020). The UEFA Champions League: a political myth? Soccer & Society, 21(3), 329–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2019.1653859.
• Brand, A., McEwen-Fial, S., & Muno, W. (2015). An ‘Authoritarian Nexus’? China’s Alleged Special Relationship with Autocratic States in Latin America. European Review of Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 99, 7–28. https://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.9588.
• Brand, A. (2015). ERIC HELLEINER. Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods. Journal of International Development, 27(7), 1349–1350. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3094.
• Brand, A. (2014). Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States. Journal of International Development, 26(4), 563–564. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.2942.
• Brand, A., & Muno, W. (2014). Klima versus Öl: Das Ausbleiben der Klima- und Energiewende im Ölstaat Venezuela. Peripherie, 34(136), 445–469. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v34i136.22474.
• Brand, A. (2011). Sicherheit über alles? Die schleichende Versicherheitlichung deutscher Entwicklungspolitik. Peripherie, 31(122/123), 209–236. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v31i122-123.24040.

Alexander Brand’s main research interests include foreign policy analysis (with a focus on US foreign policy), sports/football and politics, mass media and international politics, IR theories, and the politics of development policy/foreign aid in international comparison. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the editor of the journal Sport & EU Review. Starting in 2026, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Football Studies. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Forum Sport Politics at the German Sport University Cologne, and since March 2017, he has served on the Academic Advisory Council of the Cologne Forum of International Relations and Security Policy.