Hi!
I am a political scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Frankfurt, and Associate Fellow at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). I live in Berlin, Germany.
I was a Visiting Student Researcher at UC Berkeley’s Political Science Department from 01–08/2023, a Junior Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford from 10–12/2022, and a Visiting Researcher at the Global Governance Research Unit at WZB Berlin Social Science Center from 12/2021–03/2022.
You can find my current CV here.
Research interests
I mainly study international politics and global order, including economic sanctions, multilateralism, peace and conflict, and public and elite opinion on international affairs.
I use survey experiments and unexpected events data, as well as causal inference techniques for observational data. I am also interested in tools for knowledge aggregation in the social sciences, including replication and systematic review.
Selected working papers
Peez, Anton: Re-examining the Effects of Western Sanctions on Democracy and Human Rights in the 21st Century. Under review.
Grauvogel, Julia/Attia, Hana/Peez, Anton/Brettfeld, Katrin/Richter, Thomas/Wetzels, Peter: Public Opinion on Sanctions Compliance and Evasion: Experimental Evidence from the 2022–23 Russia Sanctions. Under review.
Peez, Anton/Bethke, Felix S.: How Geopolitical Crisis Events Affect Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Under review.
De Juan, Alexander/Peez, Anton/Riaz, Sascha/Voß, Julian: Revisiting History, Reshaping Memory: The Effects of Confronting Ingroup Atrocities. Under review.
Peez, Anton/Scherzinger, Johannes: The Evolving Politics of UN Sanctions in Security Council Debates, 1992–2023. Under review.
Attia, Hana/Peez, Anton: Equals or Outcasts? Public Opinion on Reconciliation with Sanctioned States. Under review.
Peez, Anton/Bethke, Felix S.: Revenge and Utilitarianism in Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: Experimental Evidence from the Western Sanctions Against Russia.
Peez, Anton/Bethke, Felix S.: Elite-Public Gaps on Salient Foreign Policy Issues: Experimental Evidence from the 2022/23 US Sanctions on Russia.
Some recent publications
Full publication records are available in my CV (above) and on Google Scholar.
Peez, Anton/Bethke, Felix S. (2025): Does Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Affect Elite Preferences? Evidence from the 2022 US Sanctions against Russia. 🔓 In: International Studies Quarterly 69: 1, 1–11.
Peez, Anton (2024): Is multi-method research more convincing than single-method research? An analysis of International Relations journal articles. 🔓 In: Security Studies 33: 1, 55–87. [Replication materials.]
Zimmermann, Lisbeth/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Lesch, Max/Arcudi, Antonio/Peez, Anton (2023): International Norm Disputes. The Link between Contestation and Norm Robustness. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [Replication materials; Runner Up, 2025 ISA International Law Section Book Award.]
Peez, Anton (2022): Contributions and Blind Spots of Constructivist Norms Research in International Relations, 1980–2018: A Systematic Evidence and Gap Analysis. 🔓 In: International Studies Review 24: 1, 1–33.
Recent policy writing and outreach
Brockmeier-Large, Sarah & Peez, Anton (2024/2021): German Foreign Policy and the Rwandan Genocide. 🔓 Berlin: Heinrich Böll Foundation. English (2024), German (2021). Selected media coverage: Die ZEIT, ARD (1, 2), Tagesschau/ARD.
Abb, Pascal/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Kroll, Stefan/Peez, Anton/Schreiber, Franziska F.N./Wolff, Jonas (2023): Trade and Peace: How Much Decoupling Can Peace Take?. 🔓 In: Friedensgutachten 2023. Chapter 4, 102–121. [in German – the annual joint yearbook of German’s largest peace and conflict studies institutes.]
Co-coordinator: Abb, Pascal/Attia, Hana/Brzoska, Michael/Daase, Christopher/Deitelhoff, Nicole/Grauvogel, Julia/Peez, Anton (2022): Only a Means to an End: The Conditions for Sanctions Success. 🔓 In: Friedensgutachten 2022. Chapter 4, 110–131.
Selected coverage of the 2022 Peace Report/Friedensgutachten on sanctions issues in particular: Tagesschau, Die ZEIT/DPA, FAZ, and elsewhere.
Teaching
I teach advanced undergraduate/graduate courses on global order, economic sanctions, and social science research design.
Other interests, projects, and media
I offer scholarly opinions based on my research, including in/on ARD, ZDF heute, HR2 Kultur (1, 2), HR Info, N-TV (1, 2) Frankfurter Neue Presse, and elsewhere. I also occasionally moderate and participate in public events and panels, including at the Berlin International Literature Festival (ilb) or with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
A while back, I researched, visualized, and edited data-driven journalism at Einfacher Dienst as a co-founder, mostly focusing on German domestic politics. Our results and work were featured in FAZ, taz, Deutschlandfunk Nova, the ZDF Heute-Show, and VICE Germany, among other outlets.
In the past, I have worked for or interned at the German Bundestag, Goethe-Institut Kigali (Rwanda), the Federal Statistical Office, and the Federal Institute for Population Research.
Outside of work, I enjoy road and trail running, collage, and following baseball.