Associate Professor Jochen Prantl
Areas of expertise
- International Relations 160607
- Political Science 1606
Biography
Jochen Prantl joined ANU in November 2013. He was Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in 2015-16, and Deputy Director (International Engagement) in 2017-18 for the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. His research focuses on global governance, international security, and strategic diplomacy.
Previously, he held positions in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He also served as Acting Director of Oxford’s Centre for International Studies. In 2007, Dr Prantl was the inaugural recipient of the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Social Sciences, and in 2008, the University's nominee for the AXA Prize for Innovative Research.
Jochen Prantl held visiting and teaching appointments at Yale University, the German Council on Foreign Relations, Waseda University, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and the University of Brasilia. He also served in the Policy Planning Unit of the UN Department of Political Affairs and the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations in New York. Prior to his academic career, he worked in financial services with Allianz SE. He is Senior Research Fellow in the Earth System Governance global research alliance and Elected Member of the Global Studies Research Academy at Moscow State University.
Dr Prantl holds degrees in Political Science (M.A.) from the University of Bonn and International Relations (M.A.; D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford.
Researcher's projects
- The Crisis of Liberal Institutions; single-authored book project under contract with Oxford University Press.
- Leveraging Power and Influence on the UN Security Council: ARC Discovery Project, (Project ID: DP150100300; Project funding: A$488,000; Project duration: 2015-20), with Chris Michaelsen, UNSW; Jeni Whalan, University of Queensland; Jeremy Farrall, ANU: a collaborative multi-year project that examines the fundamental problem of how elected members on the Security Council can influence Council decision-making and norm development. The project addresses the central research question of why and when non-permanent Council members have succeeded in impacting the Council's decision-making process, despite lacking the veto power available to the five permanent members. More information about the project’s impact can be found here. Key outputs include, Unexpected Influence: Power Beyond Permanence in the UN Security Council, book proposal under review with Oxford University Press.
- Strategic Diplomacy in the 21st Century (with Evelyn Goh, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU): a collaborative multi-year project (ongoing since 2014) that develops an original ‘Strategic Diplomacy’ model of diagnostic analysis and policy-making for complex systems problems in international relations. Prantl and Goh are creating unique cross-regional and thematic research case files of effective concepts and practice; new postgraduate education and executive training; and an extensive engagement program with global end-user communities. In 2019, Goh and Prantl were part of an ANU team that won an Australian Department of Defence Strategic Policy Grant worth over A$350,000, to deliver training courses specially designed for the Australian Defence policy workforce. In 2020, Goh and Prantl won another Strategic Policy Grant worth over A$210,000 for their two-year research project, Strategic Diplomacy for Australian Defence and Statecraft. The project co-leaders are currently developing a book manuscript, Strategic Diplomacy in East Asia, under review with Oxford University Press.
- Strategic Diplomacy in a Changing World Order: The Curious Case of South America. Special journal issue, Contemporary Politics (under preparation).
- Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance; lead author in a team-authored book project with Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, and Eduardo Viola, all based at the University of Brasilia, under contract with Cambridge University Press. The book develops a new 'strategic capabilities framework' for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems. It is driven by the central question of what are the most essential capabilities that ought to be fostered for addressing the fundamental 21st Century environmental challenges and earth system transformations.
- Invited single-authored book project, The UN Security Council in Global Governance, under contract with Routledge Global Institutions Series, edited by Professors Tom Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson.
Latest Publications:
Evelyn Goh and Jochen Prantl, 'COVID-19 is exposing the complexity of connectivity', East Asia Forum, 8 April 2020.
Jochen Prantl (with Jeremy Farrall, Marie-Eve Loiselle, Christopher Michaelsen, and Jeni Whalan), 'Elected member influence in the United Nations Security Council', Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 33:1 (2020), pp. 101-115; doi:10.1017/S0922156519000657.
Current student projects
PhD Projects:
KHURRAM, Abdullah: Exploring the Renewed Potential of Middle Power Statecraft: Comparing Diplomatic Approaches of Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa & Turkey (Panel Member).
PAYENDEE, Kevin: Strategic Diplomacy of Ocean Governance (Main Supervisor).
RAMASUBRAMANIAN, Giridharan: Catalytic Diplomacy: Institutional Complexity and the Evolution of Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (Main Supervisor).
ROBINSON, Craig: Global Food Security and the 2007-08 Food Price Crisis: The Case for a Diplomatic Response (Main Supervisor).
Master Advanced Thesis:
MCCONNELL, Benjamin: Diplomacy in the Final Frontier: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Growing Need for Space Diplomacy in the 21st Century.
Past student projects
Master Advanced (Thesis):
MUFTI, Tubagus Farih: Triangular Diplomacy in the Rohingya Conflict.
YANG, Jie: Rethinking the UN Security Council's Legitimacy.
PhD Projects:
CLEMENTS, Ashley: At the Frontlines of New Diplomacy: Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups (Panel Member).
TURNBULL, Timothea: State diplomatic behaviour in multilateral arms control negotiations (Panel Member).
Publications
- Barros Platiau, A, Soendergaard, N & Prantl, J 2019, 'Policy networks in global environmental governance: connecting the Blue Amazon to Antarctica and the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) agendas', Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
- Prantl, J & Nakano, R 2018, 'The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying R2P to Protecting Children', Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 10, no. 1-2, pp. 97-120.
- Prantl, J 2018, 'Multilateralism in East Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly', in Gilbert Rozman, Joseph Chinyong Liow (ed.), International Relations and Asia's Southern Tier: ASEAN, Australia and India, Springer Link, Singapore, pp. 31-44.
- Prantl, J & Goh, E 2017, 'Why strategic diplomacy matters', East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2.
- Prantl, J 2017, 'Rethinking the New World Order', Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 31, no. 2.
- Prantl, J & Goh, E 2016, 'Strategic Diplomacy in Northeast Asia', Global Asia, vol. 11, no. 4.
- Prantl, J & Kim, H 2016, 'Germany's Lesson for Korea: The Strategic Diplomacy of Unification', Global Asia, vol. 11, no. 4.
- Farrall, J & Prantl, J 2016, 'Leveraging diplomatic power and influence on the UN Security Council: the case of Australia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 601-612.
- Prantl, J 2016, However Annoying, Failure to Engage Russia is not an Option. YaleGlobal Online, 16 February.
- Prantl, J 2015, 'Informal Groups of States and the UN Security Council', in Sam Daws and Natalie Samarasinghe (ed.), The United Nations - VOLUME THREE: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS, SAGE Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks, California.
- Prantl, J 2014, Australia learns how to be a good multilateralist. East Asia Forum. 16 January.
- Prantl, J 2014, 'Taming Hegemony: Informal Institutions and the Challenge to Western Liberal Order', Chinese Journal of International Politics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 449-482.
- Jochen Prantl, ed., Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, St Antony's Series, 2013.
- Prantl, J & Nakano, R 2013, 'Global Promulgation - Regional Implementation?: The Responsibility to Protect in East Asia', in Jochen Prantl (ed.), Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, pp. 272-292.
- Prantl, J 2013, 'Introduction: International Cooperation Under Order Transition', in Jochen Prantl (ed.), Effective Multilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, pp. 1-18.
- Jochen Prantl and Petr Blizkovsky, eds., 'Global Economic Governance in Asia: Through the Looking Glass of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis,' Studia Diplomatica, LXVI-1, 2013, special issue.
- Prantl, J & Blizkovsky, P 2013, The European debt crisis and Asia in global economic governance. East Asia Forum, 9 February.
- Jochen Prantl, 'The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Legitimacy through (Self-) Legitimation?,' in Dominik Zaum, ed., Legitimating International Organizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Ngaire Woods, Alexander Betts, Jochen Prantl, and Devi Sridhar, 'Transforming Global Governance for the 21st Century,' in Khalid Malik and Maurice Kugler, eds., Human Progress and the Rising South, New York: UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2013.
- Jochen Prantl and Petr Blizkovsky, 'Global Studies for A Global System of Economic Regulation: Asia and Europe,' Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society, 65:1, 2013 (in Russian).
- Jochen Prantl, 'Transforming Global Security Governance: Emerging Countries and Informal Institutions,' Critique Internationale, No. 56, July-September 2012, special issue (in French).
- Prantl, J 2012, Five principles for a new security order in the Asia Pacific. East Asia Forum, 7 June.
- Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano, 'Global Norm Diffusion in East Asia: How China and Japan Implement the Responsibility to Protect,' International Relations, 25:2, 2011.
- Prantl, J 2011, Geoengineering and tackling climate change. East Asia Forum, 29 July.
- Jochen Prantl, 'Effective Multilateralisms and Global Governance,' Journal of World Economics and Politics, 37, 2010, special issue (in Chinese).
- Jochen Prantl, 'The Role of Informal Negotiation Processes in Breaking Deadlocks: the UN Security Council,' in Amrita Narlikar, ed., Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Jochen Prantl, 'Legitimacy and Accountability of the United Nations,' in Sumihiro Kuyama and Michael Ross Fowler, eds., Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the 21st Century, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009.
- Jochen Prantl, 'Voice for the Weak: ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Groups,' in Ngaire Woods and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, eds., Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Jochen Prantl, 'The Anatomy of Informal Governance: International Security Institutions and the Resolution of Conflict,' in Shiro Yabushita and Koichi Suga, eds., The Political Economy of Regional Integration, Tokyo: Toyo Keizai, 2007 (in Japanese).
- Jochen Prantl, ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict: the Silent Avant-garde, New York: United Nations, 2006.
- Jochen Prantl, The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States: Complementing or Competing for Governance?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Jochen Prantl, 'Informal Groups of States and the UN Security Council,' International Organization, 59:3, 2005.
- Jochen Prantl, 'Informal Groups of Member States,' in Jean Krasno, ed., The United Nations: Confronting the Challenges of a Global Society, Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 2004.
- Tapio Kanninen and Jochen Prantl, 'Conflict Prevention as Concept and Policy at the United Nations: A Policy Planning Perspective,' in Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel, eds., Conflict Prevention: The Secretary-General’s Report and the Way Forward, New York: United Nations University Press, 2003.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Strategic Diplomacy for Australian Defence and Statecraft (Secondary Investigator)
- Strategic Policy for the Asia-Pacific in Transition (Secondary Investigator)
- Leveraging power and influence on the United Nations Security Council (Secondary Investigator)
