Hannah Broecker is a graduate research assistant at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and on the staff of the Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East as a co-editor of the Policy Brief series. She holds an MA in international security studies from the University of Warwick and a BA in international relations and sociology from the University of Aston. Her research interests include European and U.S. foreign and security policy toward the Middle East, particularly its interaction with domestic sociopolitical dynamics within the region.