{"id":3371,"date":"2025-09-02T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd.luiss.it\/politics\/?page_id=3371"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:45:24","slug":"nils-fabian-muller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd.luiss.it\/politics\/about-us\/current-phd-candidates\/nils-fabian-muller\/","title":{"rendered":"Nils Fabian M\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nils Fabian M\u00fcller is a Ph.D. Candidate in Politics at LUISS. His research interests lie at the intersection of migration, foreign policy, and (in)security, with a regional focus on the wider Mediterranean. As such, he seeks to explore these domains through a mixed methods framework. The preliminary title of his thesis is \u201cFailing forward (in)formally? Investigating the Resurgence of \u2018Deals\u2019 and Informalisation Tendencies within European External Migration Governance.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Provisional Thesis Title:<\/em> &#8220;Failing forward (in)formally? Investigating the Resurgence of \u2018Deals\u2019 and Informalisation Tendencies within European External Migration Governance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>CV:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ph.D. Candidate at Luiss Guido Carli University (2025-2028)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">MA in Political Science at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (2021-2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mobility Periods at Sciences Po Aix (2024) and Luiss Guido Carli University (2022-2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">BA in History, Politics, and Society at University of Potsdam (2017-2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>E-Mail: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Migration Policy, Externalisation and Border Studies, Informal Governance, European Neighbourhood, European Foreign and Security Policy, Critical Security Studies<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">with David Niebauer (2025) <em>European External Migration Policies<\/em>, Chapter in \u2018Europe in the World\u2019 (Edt. Vol.), RENEW Project [forthcoming].<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">with Vittoria Meissner and Funda Tekin (2019) <em>Narratives of Political Unity in Times of Differentiation<\/em>, EU IDEA Research Papers (No. 2), EU IDEA Horizon 2020 Project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iai.it\/en\/pubblicazioni\/c12\/narratives-political-unity-times-differentiation\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nils Fabian M\u00fcller is a Ph.D. Candidate in Politics at LUISS. His research interests lie at the intersection of migration, foreign policy, and (in)security, with a regional focus on the wider Mediterranean. As such, he seeks to explore these domains through a mixed methods framework. The preliminary title of his thesis is \u201cFailing forward (in)formally? 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