Prof. Dr. Oliver Kessler

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

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

Research Associations

• International Studies Association (ISA)
• British International Studies Association (BISA)
• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
• European International Studies Association (EISA)
• European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)

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

• 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

Current

• Goll, Anna
• Boscanic, Alain

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)