Mag.Dr.habil. Gerstl Alfred MIR

For Media

Project position

External researcher

Reading group

Political science

Research field(s)

Security, Belt and Road Initiative, South China Sea, Theories of International Relations, Constructivism, Hedging

BIO

Mag.Dr.habil. Gerstl Alfred MIR is a specialist on International Relations, especially in Southeast and Northeast Asia. He currently holds a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University. His research focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how it impacts strategically and economically on Southeast Asia, notably the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. Other key research interests are the South China Sea dispute and the changing notion of security in Southeast Asia. Alfred taught International Relations at various universities in Austria, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany and Russia.

Publication

  • Gerstl, A. (in publication), Governance along the New Silk Roads in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparison of ASEAN and 16(17)+1, JEBAT: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics & Strategic Studies.
  • Gerstl, A. and Fürst, R. (2019), The South China Sea – `The Status Quo is not the Worst Situation´. Interview with Bill Hayton, Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), https://ceias.eu/the-south-china-sea-the-status-quo-is-not-the-worst-situation/.
  • Gerstl, A. and Turcsányi, R. (2019), ASEAN’s and Singapore’s delicate Balancing Act towards China. Interview with Alan Chong, Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), https://ceias.eu/alan-chong-asean-singapore-china/.
  • Gerstl, A. (2018), China´s New Silk Roads. Categorizing and Grouping the World: Beijing´s 16+1+X European Formula, Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 10, 31–58.
  • Gerstl, A. (2018), Südchine¬sisches Meer, `neue Seidenstraßen´ und Terrorismus. Aktuelle Konflikte in Südostasien im Kontext der internationalen Geopolitik, in Husa, Karl/Korff, Rüdiger und Wohlschlägl, Hel¬mut (eds.), Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Promedia, Wien pp. 33–54.
  • Gerstl, A. (2018), The EU´s Interests and Policy towards East Asian Maritime Security, Maritime Issues, http://www.maritimeissues.com/politics/the-eu39s-interest-and-policy-towards-east-asia-maritime-security.html.
  • Gerstl, A. (2018), Japan, Australia and China´s New Silk Roads: From Hesitant to Pragmatic Cooperation, Conference Reader: Current Issues in Studying Eastern History, International Relations and Culture, Novo¬sibirsk State University, Humanities Institute, Novosibirsk State University Press, Novosibirsk, pp. 72–79.
  • Gerstl, A. and Strašáková, M. (2017), Unresolved Border, Land, and Maritime Disputes in South¬east Asia. Bi- and Multilateral Conflict Reso¬lution Approaches and ASEAN’s Centrality, Brill, Leiden and Boston.
  • Gerstl, A. (2017), The South China Sea Dispute: A Shift to a more proactive Role in ASEAN´s declamatory Policy and concrete Policies since 2012?, in Gerstl, A. and Strašáková, M. (eds.), Unresolved Border, Land, and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia, Bi- and Multilateral Conflict Reso¬lution Approaches and ASEAN’s Centrality, Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 183–230.