Professor for International Relations (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)
Contact
C03 – teaching building 1 / Raum 0140
+49 361 737-4969
Office hours
on appointment
Visiting address
Campus
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
C03 – teaching building 1
Hieranaplatz 1
99089 Erfurt
Mailing address
Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Project manager of the doctoral programme ‘De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling (DeGlobE)’ (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences)
Visiting address
Campus
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
C03 – teaching building 1
Hieranaplatz 1
99089 Erfurt
Mailing address
Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Research
- Constructivist Theories of International Relations
- International Political Economy
- Politics of Risk
- Politics of International Law
Curriculum Vitae
Vita
Academic career
- Since 2012
Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science - 2011–2012
Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen (NL) - 2009–2010
Professor (substitute) of International Political Theory at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at LMU Munich - 2005–2008
Research assistant in the field of international relations at Bielefeld University - 2003–2005
Research assistant (postdoctoral fellow) at the Institute for World Society - 2000–2003
Doctoral candidate in the Politics-Law-Philosophy Research Network
Education
- Since 2012
Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science - 2011–2012
Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen (NL) - 2009–2010
Professor (substitute) of International Political Theory at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at LMU Munich - 2005–2008
Research assistant in the field of international relations at Bielefeld University - 2003–2005
Research assistant (postdoctoral fellow) at the Institute for World Society - 2000–2003
Doctoral candidate in the Politics-Law-Philosophy Research Network
Selected third-party funded projects and research collaborations
Current projects
- 2025: Postgraduate school 'De-Globe' funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation
- 2025: Research Coordinator of the 'Erfurt Research Centre for Geo-Economics', funded by FTI-Thüringen Forschung
- 2022: Research coordinator in the 'Postcolonial Hierarchies' network, funded by the BMBF
Completed projects
- 2018-2024: Research Coordinator for Political Economy at the Merian Centre 'Transformation of the Political'
- 2020-2024: Research cooperation in the field of conceptual history of international relations under the direction of Halvard Leira; NUPI Oslo
- 2014-2019: State Excellence Initiative 'Ordering Dynamics' with André Brodocz, Martin Fuchs and Jörg Rüpke
- 2013-2016: 'Local Politicisation of Global Norms'; Ministry of Education Thuringia, with Andreas Pettenkofer, André Brodocz and others
- 2010-2014: COST Action 1003 on 'Fragmentation and Constitutionalisation of International Law' with Wouter Werner
- 2009-2014: Network on 'Financialisation'; German Research Foundation (DFG), with Andreas Nölke
- 2009-2014: COST Action on 'The Current Financial Crisis' with Timothy Sinclair
- 2000-2003: Doctoral scholarships from the Free State of Bavaria for talented young researchers
- 2001: German Academic Exchange Service, scholarship for Harvard
Memberships
Commitment to the scientific community/international cooperation
Publisher
- 2022- ongoing: European Journal of International Relations
- 2014: Book series 'Horizons of International Relations'; Springer Verlag
- 2008: Book series 'International Political Economy'; Springer Verlag
Advisory Board of journals
- 2020- ongoing: Review of Political Economy (REPE)
- 2019- ongoing: PARISS
- 2018- ongoing: Millenium: Journal of International Studies
- 2011-2015: Review of International Studies
- 2007-2009: Goettingen Journal for International Law
Teaching and scientific supervision
Courses
- Research Seminar International Relations
- The rise of geoeconomics
- Scenario analysis
- Drivers and structures after globalisation
- Emergence and transformation of the state system
- Introduction to Comparative Politics I and II
- Introduction to International Relations I and II (lecture and seminar)
- Introduction to International Political Theory (lecture)
- Logic of the Social Sciences
- Logic of the Social Sciences: Reconstruction of Constructivism
- New Literature in International Relations
- Political Communication and Mass Media
- Political Communication and Organisation
- Political economy of economic crises
- Political organisations
- Postpositivist Thinking in International Relations (Lecture)
- Problems of International Political Theory
- Project of modernity and practices of world politics
- Politics of International Law I and II
- Rethinking the Political - Reconstruction of Constructivism
- Risk Regime
Supervision of dissertations
Finished
- Böhm, Madeleine (University of Erfurt)
- Çapan, Zeynep Gülsah (University of Erfurt)
- Hesse, Andrei (University of Erfurt)
- Baran, Carsten (University of Erfurt)
- Dos Reis, Filipe (University of Erfurt)
Publications
Book
Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations. (2019). In Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109039
Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie der Weltfinanzkrise. (2011). In VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92083-2
Book chapter
Concluding Chapter: Concepts at Work in Global IR. (2021). In Concepts at Work On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11719182
. (2021). The Contingency of Translation. In The Politics of Translation in International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56886-3_12
, & . (2014). Finanzialisierung und die Performativität des Schattenbanksystems. In Politische Ökonomie der Finanzialisierung. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03778-9_6
. (2014). Systemtheorie. In Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02527-4_7
. (2011). Einleitung. In Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie der Weltfinanzkrise. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92083-2_1
Journal article
. (2026). Saddle Time as Transitional Order. Global Studies Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf118
, , , , , & (2024). Rebalancing of Historical Time: A Benjaminian Critique. Cooperation and Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241261483
, & . (2024). Stories we live by: the rise of Historical IR and the move to concepts. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2315204
(2024). Failure and Critique of the Market. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241287796
, , & (2019). International Political Economy (IPE) meets International Political Sociology (IPS). International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819885161
, & . (2017). Racialised Futures: On Risk, Race and Finance. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829817713632
. (2016). The Contingency of Constructivism: On Norms, the Social, and the Third. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816655879
. (2016). The Failure of Failure: on Constructivism, the Limits of Critique, and the Socio-Political Economy of Economics. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816644057
. (2016). Practices and the Problem of World Society. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829815620296
. (2013). Der Konstruktivismus als Ansatz der Globalen Politischen Ökonomie? Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12399-013-0368-6
, & . (2013). Expertise, Uncertainty, and International Law: A Study of the Tallinn Manual on Cyberwarfare. Leiden Journal of International Law. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0922156513000411
. (2012). Sleeping with the enemy? On Hayek, constructivist thought, and the current economic crisis. Review of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210512000010
. (2012). World Society, Social Differentiation and Time. International Political Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00151.x
. (2009). Toward a Sociology of the International? International Relations between Anarchy and World Society. International Political Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00065.x
, , & . (2008). On order and conflict: International Relations and the ‘communicative turn’. Review of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210508007791
. (2007). Risk, power, and authority: The changing politics of global finance. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290701203722
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