Author: Frank
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“The Politics of Military Force” reviewed on atlantic-community.org
I am delighted to report that The Politics of Military Force has been reviewed by Joseph Verbovszky on Atlantic Community, the online think tank of the Atlantische Initiative. The text is available here:
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“The Politics of Military Force” is available for pre-order
My forthcoming book The Politics of Military Force: Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Postwar German Security Discourse is available for pre-order. The book examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered…
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“The political production of ethical war” published in Critical Studies on Security
My newest article “The political production of ethical war: rethinking the ethics/politics nexus with Laclau” has been published in Critical Studies on Security as part of a special issue of Maja Zehfuss’s War and the Politics of Ethics. Abstract: Taking Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics as a starting point, this paper thinks…
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New Book Series “Global Populisms”
I am excited to report that I have been invited to join the editorial board of the forthcoming book series “Global Populisms,” edited by Amy Skonieczny (San Francisco State University) and Amentahru Wahlrab (University of Texas at Tyler). The series will be published by Brill. It approaches approaches populism from an interdisciplinary perspective. That includes…
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“Forget Populism!” Published in Global Discourse
Happy to say that my article “Forget Populism!” has been published in Global Discourse. In it I challenge the highly misleading argument, widespread among the media, policymakers and (some) academics, that populism as such is a danger to democracy, Europe, the West, the liberal international order, or all of the above. Even a superficial reading…
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Book manuscript accepted for publication
I am happy to say that my book manuscript The Politics of Military Force: Antimilitarism, Ideational Change and Post-War German Security Discourse has been accepted for publication by The University of Michigan Press, in Patrick T. Jackson’s series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics.
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Symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE published online in New Political Science
The symposium “The contribution of Laclau’s discourse theory to International Relations and International Political Economy,” which I co-edited with Dirk Nabers, has been published online as part of issue 2/2019 of New Political Science. Further information and some pre-prints are available here. A free eprint for the introduction is available here, one for my contribution…
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Article on Securitization as Discursive (Re)Articulation published online
I am happy to say that my article “Securitization as Discursive (Re)Articulation: Explaining the Relative Effectiveness of Threat Construction,” part of our symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE in New Political Science, has been published online. It is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2019.1596682 A pre-print is available here.
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Symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE accepted for publication in New Political Science
I am excited to say that our symposium (co-edited with Dirk Nabers) on Ernesto Laclau, IR and IPE has been accepted for publication in New Political Science, the official journal of APSA’s Caucus for a New Political Science! The symposium features contributions by Dirk Nabers on crisis, Eva Herschinger on war, Joscha Wullweber on money,…
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German Foundation for Peace Research funds workshop on post- and decolonial perspectives in peace and conflict research
The German Foundation for Peace Research (Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung) has decided to fund a workshop on “Debating Postcolonialism: Assessing the Contribution of Postcolonial Perspectives to Peace and Conflict Research”. The workshop, which I co-organize with Hartwig Hummel (University of Düsseldorf) and Lotta Mayer (University of Heidelberg) on behalf of the Theory Section of the German…