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Thomas Diez publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Diez sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 117 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Thomas Diez D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Diez sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Diez is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes in the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their research portfolio includes 34 publications primarily addressing topics such as International Relations and Foreign Policy, Cyprus History, Politics, Society, and European Union Policy and Governance. They also cover Global Security and Public Health, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, Peacebuilding and International Security, and Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics.

The recent papers by Thomas Diez illustrate a focus on security, international crises, and global justice within European and international contexts. These works include:

  • Global justice and EU climate policy in a contested liberal international order (2023, International Affairs)
  • Progressive and Regressive Securitisation: Covid, Russian Aggression and the Ethics of Security (2023, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies)
  • Not anxious enough: The discursive articulation of ontological security in the European Parliament (2024, Review of International Studies)

Thomas Diez frequently collaborates with a network of co-authors, which includes:

  • Hans-Jürgen Bieling
  • Andreas Hasenclever
  • Toni Ha
  • A Nd
  • Richa Rd

Their research has appeared in several established academic journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
  • International Affairs
  • Journal of Contemporary European Research

In addition to journal articles, Thomas Diez has contributed to book publications. One notable book is The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2020.

Best Publications

  • European integration theory

    Antje Wiener;Thomas Diez

  • Constructing the Self and Changing Others: Reconsidering `Normative Power Europe'

    Thomas Diez

  • “Speaking ‘Europe’: The Politics of Integration Discourse”

    Thomas Diez

  • Europe's others and the return of geopolitics

    Thomas Diez

  • The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Transformative Power of Integration

    Thomas Diez;Stephan Stetter;Mathias Albert

  • Which Europe?: Conflicting Models of a Legitimate European Political Order

    Markus Jachtenfuchs;Thomas Diez;Sabine Jung

  • Europe as a Discursive Battleground Discourse Analysis and European Integration Studies

    Thomas Diez

  • Normative power as hegemony

    Thomas Diez

  • Introducing the Mosaic of Integration Theory

    Thomas Diez;Antje Wiener;Antje Wiener

  • File: Turkey, Europeanization and Civil Society: Introduction

    Thomas Diez;Apostolos Agnantopoulos;Alper Kaliber

  • Die EU lesen

    Thomas Diez

  • An Introduction to International Relations Theory: Perspectives and Themes

    Jill Steans;Lloyd Pettiford;Thomas Diez;Imad El-Anis

  • A useful dialogue? Habermas and International Relations

    Thomas Diez;Jill Steans

  • The European Union and border conflicts : the power of integration and association

    Thomas Diez;Mathias Albert;Stephan Stetter

  • Normative Power Europe and Conflict Transformation

    Thomas Diez;Michelle Pace

  • The European Union and Turkey

    B. Buzan;T. Diez

  • The European Union and the Cyprus conflict : modern conflict, postmodern union

    Thomas Diez

  • Key Concepts in International Relations

    Thomas Diez;Ingvild Bode;Aleksandra Fernandes da Costa

  • What's at stake in securitising climate change? Towards a differentiated approach

    Franziskus von Lucke;Zehra Wellmann;Thomas Diez

  • Reflecting on Normative Power Europe

    Ian Manners;Thomas Diez

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje Wiener
Antje Wiener Universität Hamburg
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci Istituto Affari Internazionali
Richard G. Whitman
Richard G. Whitman University of Kent
Ian Manners
Ian Manners Lund University
Mark Beeson
Mark Beeson University of Technology Sydney
Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Markus Jachtenfuchs
Markus Jachtenfuchs Hertie School

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