Curriculum Vitae

Last update: November 26, 2019

Dr. Thomas R. Eimer

CURRICULUM VITAE

Address:

Radboud University Nijmegen Phone: +31 (0)24-3615870

Nijmegen School of Management Fax: +31 (0)24-3612379

Department of Political Science Email: t.eimer@fm.ru.nl

Heyendaalse Weg 141 URL: https://thomaseimer.academia.edu/
6525 AJ Nijmegen
The Netherlands

PERSONAL DATA

Date and place of birth: March 12, 1975 in Cologne (Germany)

Citizenship: Federal Republic of Germany

EDUCATION

2015: Extended Teaching Qualification (Radboud University, the Netherlands)

2010: PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Free University of Berlin, “magna cum laude”

2005: Magister Artium in Political Sciences and Philosophy (Open University Hagen), “with distinction”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AND EMPLOYMENT

Since 2016: Senior assistant professor (International Relations) at Radboud University

2012 – 2016: Assistant professor (International Relations) at Radboud University 2008 – 2012: Senior research fellow at the Special Research Project (SFB 700) “Governance in areas of limited statehood”, Free University of Berlin (Germany) / Lecturer at the Center of International Political Economy (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

2005 – 2008: Research fellow at the Center of Political Regulation and Governance (Open University Hagen, Germany)

2005: Research assistant at the Chair of Political Regulation and Governance (Open University Hagen), free-lance editorial consultant

2003 – 2005: Student research assistant at the Chair of Political Regulation and Governance (Open University Hagen), free-lance editorial consultant

1995 – 2003: Free-lance editorial consultant, technical writer, and author in Berlin, Germany

1994 – 1995: Free-lance translator and author in Marseille (France)

Research grants

2018: Visiting Professorship at the Universidade São Paulo (July / August)

2017: Teaching Replacement Grant (Institute for Management Research, Radboud
University)

2016: GLOCAL Micro Grant (Institute for Management Research, Radboud University)

2015: Regulatory biodiversity politics in Brazil, Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation (travel subsidy, July – August 2015)

2012: Bitter pills or fair deals? European free trade agreements, the protection of innovation, and pharmaceutical health care in developing counties. Study commissioned by the Büro für Technikfolgenabschätzung, Deutscher Bundestag, June – October 2012

2010-2013: (with Susanne Lütz) Patent Protection in India and Brazil, as part of the Special Research Project (SFB 700) “Governance in areas of limited statehood”

2007-2010: (with Susanne Lütz) Copyleft, copytheft – copyright? The regulation of intellectual property related to software development, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation

Organisation of panels und conferences

2019: (with Danielle Flonk): Good bye, anarchy? Internet politics in the 21st century. Panel at the Politicologeneetmal, June 13-14, Antwerp (Belgium)

2017: (with Jana Hönke): From old to new resource conflicts: How does post-materialism matter? Panel at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), February 21-25, Baltimore (USA)

2016: (with Flavia Donadelli): Chinese whispers and regulatory change: Explaining the unintended consequences of international norm diffusion. Panel at the Sixth Biennial Conference, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, July 6-8, Tilburg (The Netherlands)

2012: (with Verena Schüren): Global Wordings and Local Meanings: Traditional Knowledge Regulation in India and Brazil. Authors‘ workshop for a special edition of the Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, March 16-17, Berlin (Germany)

2008: (with Barabra Völzmann-Stickelbrock and Kurt Röttgers): Kolloquium der Wirtschaftsphilosophie zum Geistigen Eigentum (Authors’ workshop for a collective volume), May 9-10, Hagen (Germany)

Research stays abroad

July / August 2019: Four weeks research stay in Brazil (interviews, participant observations)
March / April 2019: Three weeks research stay in Brazil (interviews, participant observations)
January 2018 / December 2017: Two weeks research stay in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay (field visits)
March / April 2016: Two weeks research stay in India (interviews, preparatory talks for a research project)
July / August 2015: Four weeks research stay in Brazil (interviews, participant observations, preparatory talks for a research project)
July / August 2012: Four weeks research stay in Brazil (interviews, participant observations)
February / March 2012: Six weeks research stay in India (interviews, participant observations)
July / August 2011: Two weeks research stay in Brazil (interviews, participant observations)
February / March 2011: 6 weeks research stay in India (interviews, participant observations)
February / March 2008: 3 weeks research stay in the United States (interviews, participant observations)
2008 – 2010: Several stays to Brussels, Geneva, and Strasbourg (interviews, participant observations)

Publications

Monograph

2011: Arenen und Monopole. Softwarepatente in den USA und in Europa. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Edited volumes

2013: (with Verena Schüren) Trading knowledge in a global information society: The Southern dimension of TRIPS and GATS. Special issue of the Austrian Journal of Development Studies 29(2)

2010: (with Kurt Röttgers and Barbara Völzmann-Stickelbrock) Die Debatte um geistiges Eigentum. Interdisziplinäre Erkundungen – Rechtswisenschaft – Politikwissenschaft – Philosophie. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag

Refereed articles and book chapters:

2019: (with Tom Bartels): From consent to consultation: Indigenous self-determination and the new environmental constitutionalism, in: Environmental Politics, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1595884

What if the subaltern speaks? Traditional knowledge policies in Brazil and India, in: Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1650639

(with Luuk Schmitz): From Coherence to Coheritization: Explaining the Rise of Policy Coherence in EU External Policy, in: Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2019.1676103

(with Andrea K. Gerlak, Thomas R. Eimer, Marie Claire Brisbois, Megan Mills-Novoa, Luuk Schmitz, Jorrit Luimers, and Paivi Abernethy): Power (ful) and Power (less): A Review of Power in the ESG Scholarship, in: Michele M. Betsil, Tabitha M. Benney & Andrea Gerlak (ed): Agency in Earth Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

(with Michele M. Betsil, Tabitha M. Benney & Andrea Gerlak): Conclusion in: Michele M. Betsil, Tabitha M. Benney & Andrea Gerlak (ed): Agency in Earth Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

2018: Expropriation by definition? Regime complexes, structural power, and global public goods, in Samuel Cogolati & Jan Wouters (Hg.), The Commons and a New Global Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 160-185

2016: (with Susanne Lütz and Verena Schüren): Varieties of localization. The commodification of knowledge in India and Brazil. In: Review of International Political, 23(3), 450-479

2015: (with Matthias Kranke): Teaching the Transnationalization of Politics: Participant Observation of Public Events. In: International Studies Perspectives 16(2), 127-141

2014: Philospher-kings in real life: The epistemic community on biodiversity in Brazil and India. In: Global Society 28(2): 131-150

2013: Global Wordings and Local Meanings: Traditional Knowledge Regulation in India and Brazil. In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 29(2): 31-50

(with Verena Schüren) Convenient Stalemates: Why International Patent Law Negotiations continue despite Deadlock, in: New Political Economy 18(4): 533-554

2012: (with Annika Phillips) Auf dem Weg zum Weltpatent? Ursachen transatlantischer Regulierungskonflikte, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 46: 441-464

2011: (with Annika Phillips) Networks hanging loose: The domestic sources of US-EU patent disputes, in: Review of International Political Economy 18(4): 460-480.

2010: (with Susanne Lütz) Developmental States, Civil Society and Public Health: Patent Regulation for HIV/AIDS Pharmaceuticals in India and Brazil, in: Regulation & Governance 4(2): 135-153.

2008: Decoding Divergence in Software Regulation: Paradigms, Power Structures, and Institutions in the U.S. and the EU, in: Governance 21(2): 275-296.

Refereed articles in preparation

(with Maliene Kip): The green economy and postcoloniality: Payment for ecosystem services in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), will be submitted to Geopolitics in December 2019
(with Flavia Donadelli): Paradoxes of ratification: The Nagoya Protocol and the Brazilian environmental competition state, will be submitted to New Political Economy in January 2020

Invited article

2019: When the sum becomes less than its parts: Structural power and the biodiversity regime complex, in: Revista Internacional de Direito e Cidadania (forthcoming)

Other articles, book chapters, and working papers

2019: (with Maliene Kip): Wie zijn de brandstichters? De bosbranden in Zuid-Amerika vragen om een bredere verklaring, Online publication: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/agenda/lezingen/vm/2019/amazone-staat-brand-actualiteitencollege/opinie-brandstichters/

2018: (with Luuk Schmitz and Sabrina Shanto): Vom Kolonialismus zum Wirtschaftsnationalismus? In: SÜDASIEN 38(3), 65-67

2016: (with Bineet Mundu): Recht oder Unrecht? Die Erosion der Adivasi-Selbstverwaltung in Jharkand, in: SÜDASIEN 36(3), 26-29

(with Joan van Heijster):Kamil Eltayeb Idris, in: IO BIO (Bibliographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations), http://www.ru.nl/politicologie/koppeling/reinalda/io-bio-biographical/

2013: (with Verena Schüren): Introduction to the special issue: Trading knowledge – the Southern dimension of TRIPS and GATS. In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 29(2), 4-10

2012: When modern science meets traditional knowledge: A multi-level process of adaption and resistance. SFB Working Paper No. 35

Bittere Pillen oder faire Deals? Europäische Freihandelsabkommen zwischen Innovationsschutz und Medikamentenversorgung. Report for the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag

2010: Postindustrielle Verteilungskonflikte – Werte, Interessen und Institutionen, in: Thomas R. Eimer et al. (eds.): Die Debatte um geistiges Eigentum. Interdisziplinäre Erkundungen – Rechtswissenschaft – Politikwissenschaft – Philosophie. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 129-160

2009: Postindustrielle Verteilungskonflikte, in: Studienbrief Nr. 03383-5-01-S1. Fernuniversität Hagen, 90-127

2007: Zwischen Allmende und Clubgut – Free / Open Source Entwickler als politische Unternehmer in der EU. Polis Heft der Fernuniversität Hagen No. 63

2006: (with Lars Holtkamp) Totgesagte leben länger… Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften leben länger, in: Uwe Jun et al. (Hrsg.): Kleine Parteien im Aufwind. Zur Veränderung der deutschen Parteienlandschaft. Frankfurt a.M. / New York: Campus, 249-270

2005: (with Susanne Lütz) Auswertung der sozialwissenschaftlichen Projekte, in: R. Mayntz, A. v. Bogdandy, P. Genschel und S. Lütz (Hrsg.): Globale Strukturen und deren Steuerung. Förderprogramm der VolkswagenStiftung. Forschungsberichte aus dem Max Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Nr. 1/2005, 89-159

Conference papers

Eimer, Thomas R. (2019): PES is in the air: The politics of payment for ecosystem services in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), conference paper presented at the workshop “International Political Economy”, organized by the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Arbeitskreis IPÖ, June 6-7, 2019, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Luimers, Jorrit (2019): Onion governance: Securing drug transactions the dark net, conference paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the Law and Society Association, May 30 to June 2, Washington DC (United States)
Luuk Schmitz / Eimer, Thomas R. (2018): From Coherence to Coheritization: Explaining the Rise of Policy Coherence in EU External Policy, Politicologenetmaal, June 7-8, Leiden, The Netherlands
Eimer, Thomas R. (2018): Between greening and grabbing: Transnational environmental actors, domestic institutions, and indigenous land rights, Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance, November 5-8, 2019, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Bartels, Tom (2017): From consent to consultation? Indigenous rights and the new environmental constitutionalism, conference paper prepared for the Politcologen-etmaal, June 1-2, 2017 (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2017): Defending the right to say no: Traditional knowledge politics in Brazil and India, conference paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 22-25, 2017, Baltimore (United States)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2016): Expropriation by definition? Regime complexes, structural power, and global public goods, conference paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 16-19, Atlanta (United States)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Donadelli, Flavia (2016): Paradoxes of ratification: The impact of the Nagoya Protocol on Brazilian biodiversity policies, conference paper presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference, ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, July 6-8, Tilburg (The Netherlands)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2015): When the sum becomes less than its parts: Structural power and the biodiversity regime complex, conference paper prepared for the International Public Policy Conference, July 1-4, 2015, Milan (Italy)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2014): Property systems and transnational political opportunity structures: Indigenous biodiversity governance in India and Brazil, conference paper presented at the ECPR Conference on Regulatory Governance, June 25-27, 2014, Barcelona (Spain)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Lütz, Susanne / Schüren, Verena (2013) Norm diffusion through Advocacy Coalitions: Implementing international intellectual property norms in India and Brazil, conference paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 3-6, 2013, San Francisco (United States)
(S) Eimer, Thomas R. (2012): When modern science meets traditional knowledge: A multi-level process of adaption and resistance. SFB Working Paper No. 35
Eimer, Thomas R. / Schüren, Verena (2010): Frozen Regimes: The Limits of Cooperation in the International Patent System, conference paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the German Association for Political Science, Section for Politcal Economy, September 10–11, 2010, Zurich (Switzerland)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2010): Arenas and Monopolies. Software patents in the U.S. and in Europe, conference paper prepared for the Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, 2010, Chicago (United States)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Lütz, Susanne (2009): Sticks and Pills: Governance Patterns of HIV/Aids medication in India and Brazi, conference paper prepared for the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, September 3–6, 2009, Toronto (Canada)
Eimer, Thomas R. / Phillips, Annika (2008): Cooperation without harmonization: The U.S. and the European Patent System, conference paper prepared for the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Joint Sessions, April 11–16, Rennes (France)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2007): Combating piracy – undermining privacy? The harmonization of IP enforcement in Europe, conference paper presented at the ECPR 2007 (Helsinki) Workshop 26 on ‘Privacy and Information: Modes of Regulation’, May 7-12, 2007, Helsinki (Finland)
Eimer, Thomas R. (2006): Source code and ownership – Software regulation in the US and the EU, conference paper prepared for the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, September 7–8, 2006, Bath (Great Britain)

Keynotes and guest lectures

Guest lecture series (Minicurso) at the Catholic University Dom Bosco, August 13 and 14, 2019, Campo Grande (Brazil)
Guest lecture at the University São Paulo (USP), August 7, 2018, São Paulo (Brazil)
Guest lecture at the European University Institute, April 5, 2018, Florence (Italy)
Guest lecture at the Bonn International Center for Conversion, June 14, 2017, Bonn (Germany)
Keynote at the Brazilian bar association, August 10, 2015, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Keynote at the Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung, November 17, 2013, Vienna (Austria)
Guest lecture at the Clingendael Institute, October 8, 2014, The Hague (Netherlands)
Keynote at a conference of the working group on dispute resolution, Baker & McKenzie, March 22, 2012, Berlin (Germany)
Keynote at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, December 16, 2011, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Research outreach

2019: Panel Contribution at the Wereldpodium (Fontys University of Applied Sciences), November 26, 2019, Tilburg (The Nerherlands)

Panel contribution at Radboud Reflects, September 12, 2019, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

Panel contribution at the Pakhuis de Zwijger, February 28, 2019, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Guest lecture at Grenzüberschreitender Bürgerdialog, 24 January 2019, Duisburg (Germany)

2017: Keynote at the Institute for Ecology and Ethnology, July 11, 2017, Cologne (Germany)

2016: WC-eenddebat: hoe onafhankelijk is de wetenschap? Speaker at a panel discussion organized by the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, December 5, 2016

In debat over TTIP. Introduction to a panel discussion of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, April 25, 2016

2013: Guest commentary for the radio program Die Patentierung von Pflanzen (Bayerischer Rundfunk BR 2), November 29, 2013

2012: Interview for fundiert – Wissenschaftsmagazin der FU Berlin Nr. 1/2012, 53-56

Guest commentary: Jenseits der Wohlstandsökologie: Erfahrungsbericht aus Indien, SFB 700 Newsletter (June 2012), 3

Review activities

Administrative Sciences, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Development Studies, Political Theology, Law and Social Inquiry, Law and Society Review, Review of International Political Economy, European Management Journal, Journal of International Relations and Development, Sustainability, Regulation & Governance, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Swiss National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Consultancy

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Working group on compensation payments for land confiscations in developing countries
Dutch Ministy of Justice and Security: Working group on the economic security of the Netherlands
BIRSA Landdesk: Consultancy for an Adivasi NGO in Jharkhand, India

Memberships

Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP)
German Political Science Association (DVPW)
Association of German Scientists (VDW)

Teaching

Radboud University (regular courses since 2012)

Master’s courses: Changes in World Politics: The Rise of the BRICs countries

Current debates in International Political Economy

Global Political Economy (2016)

Cooperation and Conflict in the 21^st century (2012-2015)

Bachelor’s courses: International Oranizations

Introduction to International Political Economy

Theory and History of European Integration

Free University Berlin

Summer 2012: Undergraduate Course: Towards a borderless world market? Free trade in the international political economy

Summer 2011: Undergraduate Course: Constraints and alternatives. Processes of transnationalization in the international political economy (with Matthias Kranke)

Undergraduate Course: “Good Governance” or “neo-colonialism”? Institution-building in the southern hemisphere

Winter 2010/11: Graduate course: Piracy and knowledge commons – conflicts in intellectual property regulations

Undergraduate Course: Actors, agents or audience? Nongovernmental organizations in the international political economy

Undergraduate Course: Good education or education as a good? School and university reforms in the international political economy (with Christof Mauersberger)

Summer 2010: Undergraduate Course: Cooperation and competition – regulatory policies in the shadow of globalization

Graduate Course: Introduction to policy analysis. (M.A. Program „Gender and Diversity Competence“)

Summer 2009: Undergraduate Course: Talk shops, decision forums, or actors? International organizations in the international political economy

Winter 2008/9: Undergraduate Course: Between slavery and self-fulfillment: global approaches to the regulation of working conditions

Undergraduate Course: Leapfrogging or imitating? Innovation policies in BRIC economies

Supervision

PhD Supervision and coaching

Ongoing: Margiet Goos (Radboud University), Usman Ashgar (National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad (Pakistan)

Completed: Flavia Donadelli (London School of Economics), Christof Mauersberger (Free University Berlin), Matthias Kranke (Warwick University), Verena Schüren (Free University Berlin)

PhD Assessment committee memberships

Dirk Struck (FernUniversität Hagen), Anne Catherine de Chastonay (University of Lausanne), Radhika Borde (University of Wageningen), Thomas Bathge (FernUniversität Hagen)

Thesis supervision (Radboud University): 37 Master theses, 21 Bachelor theses

Thesis supervision (Free University Berlin): 8 MA theses, 3 Diploma theses, 16 BA theses

Academic self-governance & institutional activities

Since 2017: Board member of the Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP)

Elected member of the faculty works council (Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University)

Since 2015: Member of the program committee (Radboud University, political science department)

Member of the Senior Advisory Board of United Netherlands

Since 2013: International relations coordinator for the political science department

Department coordinator for foreign student recruitment (Germany)

2011 – 2012: Elected representative of lecturers and research fellows at the institute council of the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

LANGUAGES

German: native speaker

English: excellent

French: very good

Portuguese: very good

Dutch: very good

Latin: advanced proficiency exam („Großes Latinum”)

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