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International Relations (IR) Online - your gateway to the global future!

Get to know our institute and meet our team!

Freie Universität Berlin
The Freie Universität (FU) Berlin is one of Germany's leading research-based universities. Founded in 1948 according to the principles "Truth, Justice, Freedom" and based on its history as a reform-orientated university, it continues to display a distinguished modern and international character. Today, the university offers degree courses in more than one hundred subjects to over 35,500 students. With about 570 professors, 4,000 graduate students and 1,000 doctoral candidates each year, FU Berlin is the largest of the three universities in Berlin. Its academic profile comprises a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. For further information, please visit the university's profile.


IR Online Project Director
Klaus Segbers holds the Chair of Political Science at the Institute for East European Studies and is Professor for International Relations at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science (OSI) at FU Berlin. His academic expertise extends to the areas of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations, with particular emphasis on International Political Economy and issues of Globalization. Furthermore, he focuses on designing innovative concepts of knowledge-building and transfer, including the development of e-education and blended learning programs in international contexts. For detailed information on related projects and programs, please visit the Global Politics projects.


The IR Online Team

Kristina Klinkforth (project coordinator) studied Political Science and International Relations in Hamburg, Berlin, and Galway, Ireland. Her professional experiences include project management in a range of national and international contexts, as well as in e-learning environments. During her studies, she worked in the Federal Foreign Office as well as in the United Nations Headquarters, New York. She is currently writing her PhD Thesis in the field of Media and International Relations.

Stefan Hohenberger (technical assistant) studied Political Science. His diploma thesis dealt with the impact of information technology on labor markets and employment structures in the European Union. He has worked as technical assistant on several scientific projects and is now in charge of the technical implementation of the International Relations Online program.

Nina Reinecke (student advisor) studied North American Studies and Cultural Studies, both with a focus on minorities, in Berlin and Philadelphia, USA. During her studies, she worked as student advisor at the international summer university of Freie Universität Berlin. On graduation, Nina continued working in education, firstly as assistant to the dean of a private university in Potsdam and then as assistant to the associate director at ETS Europe.


Further support is provided by our student assistants:

Friedrich Brieger (freelancer, module editor) is a graduate (Political Science) of the Freie Universität Berlin. His professional experience includes positions held as coordinator for foreign policy forums and research projects at the Aspen Institute Berlin, the Watson Institute for International Studies, and the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as the Federal Foreign Office.

Mathias Wasik holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Mathias is currently studying East European Studies (M.A.) at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Sebastian Fiebrig studies Eastern European Studies, Political Science and the History of Southern and Eastern Europe at the Freie Universität Berlin. Sebastian's main fields of study extend to the political and economic transition in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the former Soviet Union.