Adrian Hänni

JIPSS Editor

Dr. Adrian Hänni is since 2015 a lecturer at Distance Learning University Switzerland, where he designs and runs the Political History module, and a lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 2018, he stayed at the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle (Australia) as a Visiting Researcher. Previously he has been a post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University and a Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. His research interests include the history of propaganda, intelligence services, and terrorism with a focus on the Cold War era. In early 2020, he edited the book Über Grenzen hinweg: Transnationale Politische Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert (“Across Borders: Transnational Political Violence in the Twentieth Century”). His latest monograph, Terrorismus als Konstrukt (“Terrorism as a Construct”) was published in 2018.