Profile
 

Stephanie Hofmann is Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute. From 2021-26, she held the Joint Chair in International Relations and was Director of the Europe in the World research area at the European University Institute. She also held visiting research positions at  the University of Oxford, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Columbia University and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. As a visiting professor, she has taught academic and policy-oriented audiences in places such as Prague, Jerusalem, Rome, Tbilisi and Yerevan. And she conducted consultancy work for national governments and international organizations in places such as Burundi and Geneva.

Her research revolves around questions of international cooperation and organizational expressions of multilateralism. She mainly focuses on security and defense issues, but is also interested in the nexus between security and economic policy issues and cyberspace. While she has mainly specialized on formal and informal European and transatlantic organizations, she also has worked on the AU, the OAS, the UN and ad hoc coalitions.

Her work has been published, among others, with Cambridge University Press and journals such as European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Political Research, International Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, and Review of International Political Economy.

She is on the advisory boards of the Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik at the Universität Hamburg, and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin. Since 2019, she has been member of the John McCain Dissertation Award committee of the Munich Security Conference. She also frequently participates in public events related to global governance, European/transatlantic security, and cyberspace.
 

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

• Governance & multilateralism
• NATO & other security alliances
• Development, cooperation, aid policies
• Technology governance
• Regional integration
• Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, reconstruction policy
• Multilateral diplomacy, international negotiations
• Cybersecurity & cyberthreats
• Foreign policies
• International organisations, UN

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
 

• United States,
• Germany,
• France,
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
• Switzerland,
• China
   

Selected publications
 

• Hofmann, Stephanie C., Raffaele Mastrorocco, and Anastasia Prokhorva. Online first. “Ad Hoc Coalitions Across Time: Shaping International Cooperation Amid Political Rivalry.” Review of International Studies.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Christian Kreuder-Sonnen. 2026. “Accounting for variation in IO crisis responses: focality and temporality.” Journal of International Relations and Development 29, 20.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. 2026. “Beyond the water’s edge. Realities of European security and defense politics during war.” Journal of European Integration 48, 2: 391-401.
• Haftel, Yoram and Stephanie C. Hofmann. 2025. “Under Cover: FIGO Substitution during Hard Times.” Ethics & International Affairs 39, 2: 130-144.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Christian Kreuder-Sonnen. 2025. “Handlungsfähige gesucht: Krisen- und Kontestationmanagement internationaler Organisationen.“ Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 32,1: 99-117.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. 2025. "Power, Regime Complexity, and Order. Putting the Spotlight on Processes of Order-Making through Organizational (Dis)Entanglements.“ In Hofmann, Stephanie C., Yuqian Cai, Laura Gomez-Mera, Tamar Gutner, Matias Margulis, Diana Panke, Berthold Rittberger, Sören Stapel, Matthew Stephen, Moritz Weiss. “Introducing organizational (dis)entanglements: making sense of how scholarship on regime complexity and power rivalries helps make sense of international order-making.” International Studies Review 27, 1.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. 2025. “Organizing European security in yet another geopolitical era: Consensus escapism or compartmentalized multilateralism?” International Politics 62: 919-930.
• Mader, Matthias, Moritz Neubert, Felix Münchow, Stephanie C. Hofmann, Harald Schoen, and Konstantin Gavras. 2024.  “Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation.” European Union Politics 25, 3: 483-503.
• Hoeffler, Catherine and Stephanie C. Hofmann. 2024. “Bureaucratic Empowerment and Organizational Overlap.” Journal of Common Market Studies 62, 5: 1260-1277.
• Hoeffler, Catherine, Stephanie C. Hofmann and Frédéric Mérand. 2024. “The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences.” Journal of European Public Policy 31, 10: 3224-3248.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. and Andrew Yeo. 2024. “Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Design: Divergent Pathways to Regime Complexes in Asia and Europe.” European Journal of International Relations 30,2: 306-332.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C. 2024. “Dialectic order-making through ambiguity: Contestation is the norm in collective security.” Global Studies Quarterly 4,2.
• Mader, Matthias, Konstantin Gravas, Stephanie Hofmann, Jason Reifler, Harald Schön and Catarina Thompson. 2024. “International threats and support for European security and defence integration: Evidence from 25 countries.” European Journal of Political Research 63, 7: 433-454.
• Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette and Stephanie C. Hofmann. 2024. “Accountability in Densely Institutionalized Governance Spaces.” Global Policy 15: 103-113.
• Hofmann, Stephanie C., John Karlsrud and Yf Reykers. 2024. “Ad hoc coalitions, international organizations and accountability in peace operations.” Global Policy 15: 121-127.