Publications

Book Chapter on the Bundeswehr and German society published

Bundeswehr, foreign policy, peace and conflict research, Publications, war, Zeitenwende / By

I am happy to announce that I have just published a new (German-language) book chapter on the Bundeswehr and German society. The chapter is part of the new volume Deutsche Verteidigungspolitik. Nationale Sicherheit nach der Zeitenwende (German Defense Policy: National Security after the Zeitenwende), edited by Malte Riemann and Georg Löfflmann, that was just published …

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“The Politics of Military Force” is available for pre-order

Bundeswehr, constructivism, discourse, Publications / By

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

discourse, IPS, Laclau, legitimacy, Publications, violence / By

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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Symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE published online in New Political Science

Bundeswehr, discourse, IPS, Laclau, Publications / By

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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Edited volume on “Populism and World Politics” published

foreign policy, FPA, global governance, globalization, IOs, Publications / By

I am happy to say that my co-edited volume (with Dirk Nabers and David B. MacDonald) on “Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions” has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The …

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Special Issue on “Visualizing violence: aesthetics and ethics in international politics” online

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Happy to say that the special issue of Global Discourse “Visualizing Violence aesthetics and ethics in international politics” with my coauthored article (with David Shim) on gender, war and social media is online. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/2wVq7g7 The Special Issue is an output of the DFG-funded network “Visuality and Global Politics”. Aside from ourselves, …

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