Ms Nadine Klopf

Nadine Klopf is a PhD Researcher in the Research Group on International Political Sociology at Kiel University, specializing in crisis and ontological security. From May 2025 to April 2026, she was a Visiting PhD Researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Nadine studied Political Science, Sociology, North American Studies, and Asian and African Studies at Kiel University and the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on theoretical perspectives on the conceptualization and narration of crises in the context of ontological in/security. Her monograph “Global Crisis: Theory, Method and the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) develops a discourse theory of crisis. It theorizes crises as structural constants in social and political life and examines how they are politically mobilized to justify political interventions.