Dr. Florian Böller

Senior Lecturer Political Science

Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais
Hauptstraße 120
69117 Heidelberg

T: +49 (0)6221-54 38 77
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E-mail: fboeller@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

FLORIAN BÖLLER joined the Heidelberg Center for American Studies as Senior Lecturer in Political Science in October 2024. Previously, he taught international relations at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, served as an interim professor at Leibniz University Hannover, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the HCA. Florian Böller received his doctoral degree in political science from the University of Kaiserslautern with a thesis on congressional-executive relations regarding US military interventions in the post-Cold War era. He studied political science, economics, and history at Heidelberg University and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2017, Florian Böller was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. In his research, Florian Böller focuses on US politics and transatlantic relations, in particular arms control, military interventions, and the domestic sources of security policy in Western democracies. His work appeared in monographs, edited volumes, and international journals, such as Contemporary Security Policy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Congress & the Presidency.

Selected Publications:

Grasping Foreign and Security Policy Change: Patterns and Conditions of Change Among Liberal Democracies. Politics & Governance, Vol. 12, 1-17, 2024. (mit Georg Wenzelburger)

Loyal Allies or Stubborn Establishment? Congress, the GOP, and Trump's "America First" Doctrine. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Vol. 65(2), 261-284, 2024.

The Tug-of-War over Drone Strike Oversight: Congress and the Politics of Drone Warfare during the Obama Presidency. Congress & the Presidency, Vol. 50(1), 1-28, 2023. (mit Marcus Müller)

Brakeman or Booster? Presidents, Ideological Polarization, Reciprocity, and the Politics of US Arms Control. International Politics, Vol. 59(4), 725-748, 2022.

Hegemonic Transition: Global Economic and Security Orders in the Age of Trump, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (herausgegeben mit Welf Werner)