Dr J.M. Joachim (Jutta)
Hotspot coordinator - Gender and Power in Politics and Management
Associate professor - International Relations
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN
Jutta Joachim is Associate Professor of Global Security Governance and Co-Coordinator of the research hotspot Gender and Power in Politics and Management. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin and her MA in International Studies from the University of South Carolina. She is the (co-)author of Private Security and Identity Politics: Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians (Routledge, 2019) and Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights (Georgetown University Press, 2007). She has also co-edited several volumes, including the Handbook on Gender and Security (Edward Elgar, 2025), International Organizations and Implementation: Enforcers, Managers, Authorities (Routledge, 2008), and Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU: A Comparative Study (Routledge, 2009). Her research has been published in leading journals such as International Affairs, Security Dialogue, International Studies Quarterly, Millennium, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Studies Perspectives, Comparative European Politics, New Media & Society, and the Journal of European Public Policy. She has also published policy briefs on the privatization of security and on gender with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Clingendael Institute. Her research has been funded by the Swedish and Norwegian Research Councils and the German Research Foundation. She has served as an external expert for NGOs and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has held various leadership and service roles within the International Organizations (IO) and Human Rights (HR) Sections of the International Studies Association (ISA), including Program Chair, member of the Executive Committee, and member of book and best scholar prize juries. She currently serves on the ISA–UN Academic Impact Standing Committee.
Research theme- Global Security Governance
- Gender in Global Politics