Since mid-2005
Work on Ph. D.:
The internationalization of counter-terrorism policy: Effects on the rule of law

Since October 2008: Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
Hertie School of Governance/Free University Berlin, Germany
before: Jacobs University Bremen

March 2005
M.A., Thesis: Democratic legitimation of transnational politics: The role of transnational parliamentary assemblies

October 1999 – March 2005
Studies of Political Science (major), Philosophy and Public Law (minors)
University of Hamburg, Germany (2002-2005)
University of Tampere, Finland (2001-2002)
Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany (1999-2001)

October 1998 – September 1999
Studies of Human Biology; Scandinavian Studies and Philosophy
Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany

Date: April 2005 to December 2006
Institution: International University Bremen
Activity: Research Associate to Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs in the project "Internationalization of the Monopoly of Force"

Date: January to February 2004
Institution: Council of the Baltic Sea States, Secretariat (Stockholm, Sweden)
Activity: Internship

Date: August to December 2003
Institution: European Parliament, office of Elisabeth Schroedter (Brussels, Belgium)
Activity: Internship

Teaching Experience:

September 2007 - December 2007
Graduate course The Policy Process at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, with Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs

January 2007 - May 2007
Graduate course Policy-making in the European Union at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, with Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs

September - December 2005
Undergraduate course International Security at Jacobs University Bremen, with Prof. Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs and Dr. Jörg Friedrichs

Abstract

Over the past forty years states have increasingly cooperated on internal security. Human rights organizations, political scientists and legal scholars often fear that cooperation might reduce abidance by the rule of law. The ‘rule of law’ is roughly taken to demand that the law and fundamental rights govern state action and that everybody have access to independent review.
However, it is still uncertain descriptively whether cooperation actually reduces rule-of-law abidance. Studies rarely lay out their criteria; national policies are not compared to the results of intergovernmental decision-making or to EU policies. Explanatory arguments which are specific to the issue area and its internationalization are underdeveloped.
I assume that the institutional conditions governing decision-making explain rule-of-law abidance. An index is developed to measure rule-of-law abidance in the three institutional settings. A comparative historical analysis focused on counter-terrorism policies contrasts national decision-making on terrorism around 1970 with international decision-making in the late 1970s and EU decision-making after 2000, looking at Germany, France and the UK.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Kraft-Kasack, Christiane 2008: Transnational Parliamentary Assemblies: A remedy against the democratic deficit of international governance?, in: West European Politics 31: 3, 534-557.

Kasack, Christiane 2004: The Legislative Impact of the European Parliament under the Revised Co-Decision Procedure: Environmental, Public Health and Consumer Protection Policies, in: European Union Politics 5: 2, 241-260.

Other publications
Herschinger, Eva/Jachtenfuchs, Markus/Kraft-Kasack, Christiane (forthcoming): Crime and international policing, in: Enderlein, Henrik/Wälti, Sonja/Zürn, Michael (eds.), "Handbook on Multi-Level Governance". Publication planned for 2010 with Edward Elgar Publishers.

Herschinger, Eva/Jachtenfuchs, Markus/Kraft-Kasack, Christiane (forthcoming): Das staatliche Gewaltmonopol: Internationalisierung ohne Politisierung, in: Kaufmann, Stefan/ Zoche, Peter (eds.): "Mit Sicherheit für Freiheit? Gesellschaftliche Dimensionen der Sicherheitsforschung". To be published with transcript Verlag.

Herschinger, Eva/Jachtenfuchs, Markus/Kraft-Kasack, Christiane (forthcoming): Transgou¬vernementalisierung und die ausbleibende gesellschaftliche Politisierung der inneren Sicherheit, in: Zürn, Michael/Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (eds.): "Gesellschaftliche Politisierung und internationale Institutionen". Publication planned for autumn 2010 with Suhrkamp.

Jachtenfuchs, Markus/Friedrichs, Jörg/Herschinger, Eva/Kraft-Kasack, Christiane 2008: Policing Among Nations: Internationalizing the Monopoly of Force, Hertie School of Governance, Working Papers: 28, Berlin.

Kraft-Kasack, Christiane/Shisheva, Mariya 2008: The Communitarization of Asylum and Immigration Policy at Amsterdam: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Account, Hertie School of Governance, Working Papers: 31, Berlin.

Kasack, Christiane 2005: Interaction of inter-parliamentary with inter-governmental bodies: The example of the Baltic Sea Region, in: Kasekamp, Andres (ed.): The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2005, Tallinn, 135-153.

Conference Papers
ECPR General Conference, 10-12 September 2009 at Potsdam, Germany.
ECPR Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, 25-27 September 2008 at Riga, Latvia.
ECPR General Conference, 6-8 September 2007 at Pisa, Italy.
UACES Annual Conference, 31 August - 2 September 2006 at Limerick, Ireland.
ECPR Graduate Conference, 7-9 September 2006 at Essex, UK.
Congress of the DVPW (German Political Science Association), Section for Young Researchers organized by the AK Integration, 25-29 September 2006 at Münster, Germany.
Conference of the Section for International Politics of the DVPW, 6-7 October 2005 at Mannheim, Germany.