Network Coordinator: Hannes Meissner
Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Phone: +43 1 720 12 86 973
Mobile: +43 676 7829134
Fax: +43 1 720 12 86 19
E-Mail: hannes.meissner@fh-vie.ac.at
Hannes Meissner is a political scientist working on political risk analysis and political risk management of multinational enterprises (MNEs) with a focus on Eastern Europe, Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia. His research focuses on state capture, informal networks, and their consequences for MNEs, such as clientelism, systemic corruption, deficient property rights, and weak rule of law.
He is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Center for Black Sea Region Studies at University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna . There, he is the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Network project „EUCON“, which focuses on EU and EEU/Russia relations (www.eucon-project.eu). He is also an expert and lecturer on the post-Soviet space at the University of Vienna, Research Group Eastern Europe. In the V-Dem project of the University of Gothenburg he is country expert for Austria and Turkmenistan. Hannes Meissner advises companies on political risk management.
Hannes Meissner holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg, which he received with „magna cum laude“ in 2012. For his PhD thesis on „The Resource Curse in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan and the Perspectives of Transparency and Efficiency Initiatives“, he conducted extensive field research in Azerbaijan (2009/2010) and Turkmenistan (2010). During this time he was also PhD Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and in the research program „Corruption and Informal Networks“ at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Hannes Meissner was a PhD fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and received a full scholarship from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2023): The EU and the EEU – Risks and Chances for Multinational Enterprises, Wirtschaft und Management, No. 33.
Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds) (2020): Reconsidering Political Risk from the Perspective of Applied Sciences: In the Search for practice-oriented Political Risk Models, Wirtschaft und Management, No. 29.
Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge.
Meissner, Hannes (2013): Der „Ressourcenfluch” in Aserbaidschan und Turkmenistan und die Perspektiven von Effizienz- und Transparenzinitiativen (The Resource Curse in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan and the Perspectives of Efficiency- and Transparency Initiatives), in: Tetzlaff, Rainer / Jakobeit, Cord (eds.) (2013): Demokratie und Entwicklung Vol. 66, LIT Verlag.
Articles, Book Chapters and Conference Papers
From Conflict to War in Ukraine. The New Realities of Political Risk Management in the post-Soviet space. Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2023): The EU and the EEU – Risks and Chances for Multinational Enterprises, Wirtschaft und Management, No. 33.
Meissner, Hannes (2018): Azerbaijan: Postsocialism between Fragile Stability and Crisis, in: Jaitner, Felix / Olteanu, Tina / Spöri, Tobias (eds.): Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space. From the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the conflict in Ukraine, Routledge.
Meissner, Hannes; Leitner, Johannes (2017): Politische Risiken in der Ukraine: Die größten Probleme sind hausgemacht in: „Wirtschaft und Management“, 25, Didaktik, Organisation & Politisches Risiko, 77-94
Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (2017): Introduction, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 1-7.
Meissner, Hannes (2017): Corruption, favourtism and institutional ambiguity as political risks. Insights from the concept of neopatrimonialism, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 11-25.
Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (2017): Conclusions, in: Meissner, Hannes / Leitner, Johannes (eds.) (2017): State Capture, Political Risks and International Business. Cases from Black Sea Region Countries, Routledge, 212-221.
Meissner, Hannes; Leitner, Johannes (2016): FDI in Azerbaijan: A Structural Analysis of the Business Environment. In: caucasus analytical digest March 2016, No.82 „Foreign Direct Investment“
Johannes Leitner; Hannes Meissner (2016): Political Risks in post-Soviet markets. A Theoretical Approach, Conference Paper, 10. Forschungsforum der Österreichischen Fachhochschulen, 30-31 March 2016, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Vienna.
Meissner, Hannes (2015): Anti-Corruption Measures in the Energy Sector: EITI in Azerbaijan, caucasus analytical digest No. 78 5 October 2015
Meissner, Hannes (2015): Doing Business in a Neopatrimonial State: Factors of Systemic Uncertainty and Coping Strategies of International Businesses – Evidence from Ukraine under Janukovytch, Conference Paper, BASEES Annual Conference 28-30 March 2015, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Leitner, Johannes; Meissner, Hannes; David, Ewa-Martyna (2015): The Debate about Political Risk: How Corruption, Favoritism and Institutional Ambiguity Shape Business Strategies in Ukraine. In: Contributions to Economics. Springer.
Meissner, Hannes (2014): Ressourcenreichtum und Systemtransformation in Aserbaidschan und Turkmenistan, in: Wirtschaft und Management, 18, Internationale Rahmenbedingungen unternehmerischen Handelns, 35-54.
Meissner, Hannes (2013): Ressourcenumverteilung, informelle Netzwerke und Korruption – Zu den Chancen und Risiken für westliche Investoren in Aserbaidschan, in: Wirtschaft und Management, 18, 2013, Seiten 25-40. Heft 18 – Juli 2013
Meissner, Hannes (2013): Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch Öl- und Gasreichtum? Aserbaidschan, Russland und der Ballast der Sowjetunion, in: Regionale Integration – Alternative Entwicklungspfade? Perspektiven industriepolitischer Optionen in räumlichen Strukturen, Kurswechsel No. 3/2013, S. 8-17.
Meissner, Hannes (2013): Functioning, Effects and Perspectives of Transparency Initiatives – The Example of the EITI in Azerbaijan, Conference Paper, „The Third Global Conference on Transparency Research”, http://campus.hec.fr/global-transparency/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Paper-Meissner-Transparency-Initiatives-v2.pdf.
Leitner, Johannes / Martyna-David, Ewa / Meissner, Hannes (2013): Into the Dark- Political Risks in the Black Sea Region, in: Kempter, Guido / Lofner, Hans-Jürgen (eds.) (2013): Grenzenlos Kooperieren – Forschung im Dialog mit Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, Tagungsband zum 7. Forschungsforum der österreichischen Fachhochschulen.
Meissner, Hannes (2013): Der „Ressourcenfluch“ in Aserbaidschan und Turkmenistan und die Perspektiven von Effizienz- und Transparenzinitiativen, in: Tetzlaff, Rainer / Jakobeit, Cord (eds.) (2013): Demokratie und Entwicklung Vol. 66, LIT Verlag.
Leitner, Johannes / Martyna-David, Ewa / Meissner, Hannes (2012): Black Sea Region – A Blackbox for Business? Barriers for Market Entry in the Black Sea Region – Evidence from Austrian Enterprises, Conference Proeceedings of the BlueBlackSea International Congress at Sakarya University, Baris Kitap, 151-172.
Meissner, Hannes (2012): The Role of the Oil Elite in Policy-Making in Azerbaijan, in: Heinrich, Andreas / Pleines, Heiko (eds.) (2012): „Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making“, Palgrave Macmillan, 131-142.
Meissner, Hannes (2011): Informal Politics in Azerbaijan: Corruption and Rent-Seeking Patterns, in: Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 24, S. 6-9.
Jakobeit, Cord / Meissner, Hannes (2010): Stichwort „Frieden und Ressourcen“, in: Gießmann, Hans-Joachim / Rinke, Bernhard (eds.) (2010): Handbuch Friedensforschung, VS Verlag, 518-528.
Meissner, Hannes (2010): The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region: A Need for Context Analysis, GIGA Research Programme Violence and Security, Working Paper No. 133, https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/wp133_meissner.pdf
Blog entries
Eastblog (10.5.2016): Umsturz vs. Kontinuität im postsowjetischen Raum – Einsichten aus Aserbaidschan
Media
Newspapers
Trend 16/2017 (19.4.2017): Das Einmaleins der Schwarzmeerregion
Wiener Zeitung: Auf der anderen Seite des Flusses
Der Falter (27/04/2016): Die Galaktischen von Simmering
Süddeutsche Zeitung (15/04/2016): Wo Fröhlichkeit staatlich verodnet ist
Wirtschaftsblatt (02/11/2015): „Die Elite ist sehr nervös geworden“
freedominfo.org (06/11/2014): EITI, OGP Face Challenges Handling Civic Space Issues
Zeit Online (03/2014): Ganz weit weg
Wirtschaftsblatt (07/11/2013): Nachgefragt. „Korruption ist strukturell verankert“
Die Presse (06/08/2013): Langsamer Abschied vom Kult um „Vater der Turkmenen“
Wirtschaftsblatt (24/06/2013): Das Geschäft mit Rohstoffquellen läuft wie geschmiert
Wirtschaftsblatt (01/05/2013): „Aserbaidschan definitiv kein Land für westliche KMU“
Wirtschaftsblatt (18/04/2013): 100.000 US-$ Bakschisch für Audienz beim Präsidenten
Kulturaustausch – Zeitschrift für internationale Perspektiven (IV/2011): Undercover in der Diktatur
Radio
The radio feature “Resource Curse: Doomed Riches“ (“Ressourcenfluch: Wenn Reichtum zum Verhängnis wird”) Dr. Hannes Meißner was broadcast by the German radio station „Detektor.fm“ on 7 March 2014.
Deutsche Welle (30/03/2010): Иностранные компании в Туркмении вынуждены учитывать национальную специфику