Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

• Steinert, Christoph V., and Daniel Kazenwadel. (2024) How User Language Affects Conflict Fatality Estimates in ChatGPT. Journal of Peace Research.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies. International Studies Quarterly 68(2).
• Steinert, Christoph V., and David Weyrauch. (2024) The Belt and Road Initiative and Voting Patterns in the UN General Assembly. Research and Politics.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) Policy-Specific Human Rights Shaming: Evidence from the Other Letters of the UN Special Procedures. The Journal of Human Rights.
• Horz, Carlo, Moritz Marbach, and Christoph V. Steinert. (2023) Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics. Journal of Politics 85(2).
• Felix Schulte, and Christoph V. Steinert. (2023) Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire. International Interactions 49(1).
• Steinert, Christoph V., and Christoph Dworschak. (2023) Political imprisonment and protest mobilization: Evidence from the GDR. Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(7-8): 1564-1591.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2023) The duration of political imprisonment: Evidence from China. Conflict Management and Peace Science 40(4): 349-372.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2023) The impact of domestic surveillance on political imprisonment: Evidence from the former GDR. Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(1): 38-65.
• Weyrauch, David, and Christoph V. Steinert. (2021) Intrinsic or instrumental: Human rights alignment in intergovernmental organizations. Review of International Organizations 17: 89-115.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2020) Who is a political prisoner? Journal of Global Security Studies 6(3).
• Steinert, Christoph V., and Andrea Ruggeri. (2020) Who are our experts? Predictors of participation in expert surveys. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 26(4).
• Steinert, Christoph V.. (2019) Trial fairness before impact: Tracing the link between post-conflict trials and peace stability. International Interactions 45(6): 1003-1031.
• Steinert, Christoph V., Sabine Carey, and Janina I. Steinert. (2019) Spoilers of peace: Pro-government militias as risk factors for post-conflict recurrence. Journal of Peace Research 56(2): 249-263.
• Steinert, Christoph V., and Nikoleta Yordanova. (2016) Alliance with the enemy: Why the CDU and the Greens formed their first coalition in a large German federal state. German Politics 25(1): 54-72.
• Steinert, Christoph V. et al. (2016) Impact of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (UN-CRPD) on mental health care research – a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry 16:166.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2014) Globale Verantwortlichkeit und traditionelles Souveränitätsdenken: Gründe für die Haltung zur Responsibility to Protect von nicht-westlichen Staaten. MenschenRechtsMagazin 2/2014.

Others:

• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) Reprisals for UN Cooperation: The Plight of Human Rights Defenders in Repressive States. Foraus-Blog, July 23.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) Politische Gefangene und ihre Befreiung. Für Vielfalt. Zeitschrift für Menschen- und Minderheitsrechte, Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, 55, 3/2024.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) UN Human Rights Council Members: Champions or Challengers of Human Rights? Foraus-Blog, May 6.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2024) How Independent are Independent Human Rights Experts? Foraus-Blog, January 12.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2023) Unequal Access to UN Human Rights Bodies CSS Policy Perspective of the ETH Zurich Center for Security Studies, Volume 11/6.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2023) Was ist politische Haft? Amnesty Journal, 04/2023, pp. 60-61.
• Dworschak, Christoph, and Christoph V. Steinert. (2023) Putting ideas behind bars: Here’s why it doesn’t work. Political Violence @ A Glance, January 5, 2023.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2022) Why do Russia and Ukraine exchange their prisoners? The Washington Post Monkey Cage, May 28, 2022.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2021) Unknown Identities: The Political Prisoners of Xinjiang. Political Violence @ A Glance, January 27, 2021.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2020) Gewaltsame Ausschreitungen als sich selbst erfüllende Prophezeiung? TAZ Blog, November 3, 2020.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2020) When states obscure illegal imprisonment. OpenGlobalRights, October 5, 2020.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2020) Politische Gefangene in der Türkei . TAZ Blog, June 16, 2020.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2019) Beware of Victor’s Justice. Political Violence @ A Glance, August 30, 2019.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2018)  Why pro-government militias spoil peace agreements. OXPOL: The Oxford University Politics Blog, July 28, 2018.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2017) United People Organization. A vision for progress and a better world order. The Lighthouse Journal of the Oxford International Relations Society Issue 14/ Hilary Term.
• Steinert, Christoph V. (2016) The impact of societal preferences on national monetary policy outcomes: A revival of economic pluralism. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science 31(2): 26-52.

Book chapter:

• Schilling-Vacaflor A, and Christoph V. Steinert (2017) (Neo-)Extraktivismus statt nachhaltiger Entwicklung: Grenzen des lateinamerikanischen Wachstumsmodells.“ In: Entwicklungstheorie von heute – Entwicklungspolitik von morgen. Burchardt et al. (ed.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

Book review:

• The Peacemaker’s Paradox: Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict. By: Priscilla Hayner. Review published in Journal of Peace Research – Book Notes 2019.