Publications by Anne Menzel

Books and Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

  • Menzel, Anne, Mariam Salehi. 2024.
    Global Hierarchies and Unequal Pressures in the Report-Making of Truth Commissions.
    International Studies Review 26 (2): viae022. DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae022.
  • Menzel, Anne, Lisa Tschörner. 2022.
    Responding to Sexual Violence: How (De-) Politicization and Technicalization Shape Donor-Funded Interventions.
    International Peacekeeping 30 (1): 128-154. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2022.2157820.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2021.
    Delivering Output and Struggling for Change: Tacit Activism among Professional Transitional Justice Work in Sierra Leone and Kenya.
    Cooperation and Conflict 56 (4): 414-431. DOI: 10.1177/00108367211000800.
  • Ibrahim, Aisha Fofana, Alice James, Mariatu Kabba, Aminata Kamara, Anne Menzel, Nicky Spencer-Coker. 2021.
    Making Sense of Girls Empowerment in Sierra Leone: A Conversation.
    International Politics Reviews 9 (2): 353-374. DOI: 10.1057/s41312-021-00130-0.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2020.
    The Pressures of Getting It Right: Expertise and Victims’ Voices in the Work of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
    International Journal of Transitional Justice 14 (2): 300-319. DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa011.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2020.
    The Perils of Recognising Local Agency: A Situational Concept of Agency and the Case of Victims of Sexual Violence and the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
    Journal of International Relations and Development 23 (3): 584-606. DOI: 10.1057/s41268-018-0166-9.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2019.
    ‘Without Education You Can Never Become President’: Teenage Pregnancy and Pseudo-empowerment in Post-Ebola Sierra Leone.
    Journal of Intervention and Statebuiling 13 (4): 440-458. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2019.1612992.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2014.
    Zwischen Herrschaftswissen und Irrelevanz? Feldforschung und das Ringen mit der Policy-Relevanz.
    Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 3 (2): 264-283. DOI: 10.5771/2192-1741-2014-2-264.
  • Chojnacki, Sven, Anne Menzel. 2011.
    Peacebuilding: am Scheideweg – oder in der Sackgasse?.
    Politische Vierteljahresschrift 52 (3): 504-536. DOI: 10.5771/0032-3470-2011-3-504.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2011.
    Between Ex-Combatization and Opportunities for Peace: The Double-Edged Qualities of Motorcycle-Taxi Driving in Urban Postwar Sierra Leone.
    Africa Today 58 (2): 96-127. DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.58.2.97.

Book Chapters

  • Menzel, Anne. 2017.
    Betterment Versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron – Client Logics in Sierra Leone.
    In: Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies, edited by Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy, 77-98. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3_4.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2016.
    From (Un)employment to Employability: Localized Neoliberal Norms and the Politics of Proper Progress in Sierra Leone.
    In: Localization in Development Aid, edited by Thorsten Bonacker, Judith von Heusinger, Kerstin Zimmer, 208-230. London: Routledge.
  • Chojnacki, Sven, Anne Menzel. 2015.
    State Failure and State Transformation.
    In: The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, 745–760. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199691586.013.40.
  • Menzel, Anne. 2010.
    Nach dem Krieg – vor dem Frieden? Wie kriegerische Gewalt Nachkriegskontexte prägt.
    In: Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008, CD-ROM, edited by Hans-Georg Soeffner. Wiesbaden: VS.

Working Papers and Policy Briefs

Commentaries and other Publications