Charlotte Nachtmann M.A.

Charlotte Nachtmann is a research assistant and doctoral student at the Chair of International Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Regensburg.
She studied Franco-German Studies at the University of Regensburg and the Université Clermont Auvergne in France. In 2022, she completed her Master's degree in Democracy Studies with a focus on International Politics at the University of Regensburg. She then began her doctorate in International Relations. Her dissertation has the working title: “Franco-American security relations since 1990”. In it, she examines the elite discourses of French and American security policy against a constructivist theoretical background in order to explain the ongoing convergences and disruptions in the bilateral relationship.
In addition to her dissertation, her research interests include the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy and Franco-German relations.
She is supported in her dissertation project by a doctoral scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft. She is also a fellow of the Young Security Conference 2024. In the winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024, she was a research assistant at the Chair of 19th and 20th Century European History.

Main research areas

- French foreign and security policy
- Common Security and Defense Policy of the EU
- Transatlantic relations
- Franco-German relations
- Social constructivism and strategic cultural research