Prof. Dr. Oliver Kessler

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

• Seit 2012
  Professor für Internationale Beziehungen an der Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
• 2011–2012
  Professor für Geschichte und Theorie der Internationalen Beziehungen an der Universität Groningen (NL)
• 2009–2010
  Professor (Vertretung) für Internationale Politische Theorie am Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft an der LMU München
• 2005–2008
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Bereich Internationale Beziehungen an der Universität Bielefeld
• 2003–2005
  Wissenschaflticher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc Fellow) am Institut für Weltgesellschaf
• 2000–2003
  Doktorand im Forschungsnetzwerk Politik-Recht-Philosophie

Ausbildung

• 2009
  Habilitation mit dem Thema "International Relations and the Problem of World Society" und der Lehrbefugnis für "Politikwissenschaft" erteilt an der Universität Bielefeld
• 2004
  Promotion mit dem Thema "Die internationale politische Ökonomie des Risikos: eine Analyse am Beispiel der Diskussion um die Reformierung der Finanzmärkte
• 2002–2003
  Visiting Fellow am Eric Castrén Institute for International Law (Helsinki University)
• 2001–2002
  Visiting Fellow an der Harvard Kennedy School
• 1998–1999
  Master of Arts Programm in International Political Economy der University of Warwick
• 1994–1999
  Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre und Politikwissenschaft an der LMU München (Abschluss als Diplomvolkswirt)

Graz, Jean-Christophe, Oliver Kessler, and Rahel Kunz. 2019. ‘International Political Economy (IPE) Meets International Political Sociology (IPS)’. International Relations 33 (4): 586–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819885161

Kessler, Oliver. 2017. ‘World Society’. In Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, edited by Xavier Guillaume and Pinar Bilgin, 102–12. London / New York: Routledge

Kessler, Oliver/Steele, Brent/Gould, Harry (eds.).(2018): „Tactical Constructivism as Method.“ London: Routledge.

Kessler, Oliver/Arfi, Badredine (2018):„Social Theory Going Quantum-Theoretic? Questions, Alternatives and Changes“.​​​​​​​ in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47(1): 67-73.

Kessler, Oliver/dos Reis, Filipe (i.E.): „Legitimacy“, in: Jean d’Aspremont /Sahib Singh (eds.): Concepts of International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Kessler, Oliver/Steele, Brent (2018): „On Constructivism, Realism and Contingency“, in: Mariano E. Bertucci/Jarrod Hayes/Patrick James (eds.): Constructivism Reconsidered: Past, Present, and Future. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Kessler, Oliver/Arfi, Badredine (2018): „Forum Introduction: Social Theory Going Quantum-Theoretic? Questions, Alternatives and Changes“, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47(1): 67-73.

Kessler, Oliver (2018): „The Mind-Body Problem and the Move from Supervenience to Quantum Mechanics“, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47(1): 74-86.

Kessler, Oliver/Wilhelm, Benjamin (2017): „Shadow Banking, German Banking and the Question of Political Order“, in Anastasia Nesveteilova: Shadow Banking: Scope, Origins and Theories. London: Routledge. 

Kessler, Oliver/Dannreuther, Charles (2017):„Racialised Futures. On Finance: Risk and Slave Trades", in: Millenniu: Journal of International Studies 45(3) 356 –379.  

Kessler, Oliver (2016): „The Carpet Crawlers: Quanten in den Internationalen Beziehungen“, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 23(2): 207-221. 

Kessler, Oliver (2016): „The Contingency of Constructivism. On Norms, the Social and the Third“, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 45 (1): 43-63.  

Kessler, Oliver (2016): „The Failure of Failure: on Constructivism, the Limits of Critique, and the Socio-Political Economy of Economics“, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 44 (3): 348-369.

Kessler, Oliver/dos Reis, Filipe (2016): „Constructivism and the Politics of International Law“, in: F. Hoffmann/A. Orford (eds.): Oxford Handbook oft he Theory of International Law. Oxford University Press.

Kessler, Oliver/Steele, Brent (2016): "Introduction: Constructing IR: The third generation", in: European Review of International Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2016). Leverkusen: Budrich UniPress.

Kessler, Oliver (2015): "Observing Visions of Man", in: Annette Freyberg-Inan/Daniel Jakobi: Visions of Man. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kessler, Oliver (2015): "Ignorance and the Sociology of Economics", in: Linsey McGoey/Matthias Groß: Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies. London: Routledge.

Kessler, Oliver (2014): "What Price Culture", in Bob Jessop/Christoph Scherrer/Brigitte Young (eds): Financial Cultures. London: Routledge.

Kessler, Oliver (2013): “Der Konstruktivismus als Ansatz der Globalen Politischen Ökonomie?”, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 6(1 Supplement): 31–49. 

Kessler, Oliver/Werner, Wouter (2013): “Expertise, Uncertainty and International Law: A Study of the Tallinn Manual on Cyberwarfare”, in: Leiden Journal of International Law 26(4): 793–810.

Kessler, Oliver/Kratochwil, Friedrich (2013): “Functional differentiation and the oughts and musts of international law”, in: Mathias Albert/Barry Buzan/Michael Zürn (eds.): Bringing Sociology to International Relations: World Politics as Differentiation Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 159–181.

Kessler, Oliver/Wilhelm, Benjamin (2013): “Financialization and the Three Utopias of Shadow Banking”, in: Competition & Change 17(3), S. 248–264. 

Kessler, Oliver/Herborth, Benjamin (2013): "Recognition and the constitution of social order", in: International Theory 5(1): 155–160.

• Kessler, Oliver (2008): Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie des Risikos: am Beispiel der Asienkrise. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

• Kessler, Oliver/Steele, Brent, Hrsg. (2016): "Constructing IR: The Third Generation", in: European Review of International Studies 3(3): 7-136

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2016): "The Status of Law in World Society", in: Millennium 44(2): 236-291 (mit Beiträgen von Aalberts, Tanja E./Bartelson, Jens/Wouter, Werner G./ Kratochwil, Friedrich)

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2012): "Critical Realism", in: Review of International Studies 38(1): 187–274. (mit Beiträgen von Afri, Badredine/Michel, Torsten/Weber, Martin/Herborth, Benjamin/Kessler, Oliver/Wight, Colin)

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2011): Die Politische Ökonomie der Weltfinanzkrise. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

• Kessler, Oliver/Hall, Rodney Bruce/Lynch, Ceceila/Onuf, Nicholas, Hrsg. (2010): On Rules, Politics and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2010): "So Close Yet So Far Away? International Law in International Political Sociology", in: International Political Sociology, 3(4): 303–321. (mit Beiträgen von Werner, Wouter/Klabbers, Jan/Kratochwil, Firedrich/Onuf, Nicolas/Liste, Philip)

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2009): "Die Subprime Krise als Krise des 21. Jahrhunderts?", in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 10(1): 103–175. (mit Beiträgen von: Bieling, Hans-Jürgen/Young, Brigitte/Nölke, Andreas, Kessler, Oliver)

• Kessler, Oliver, Hrsg. (2009): "Interrogating the Current Financial Crisis", in: International Political Sociology, 4(4): 449–468. (mit Beiträgen von: Sinclair, Timothy J./Hall, Rodney Bruce/Seabrooke, Leonard/Tsingou, Eleni/Best, Jacqueline/Leander, Anna)

• Kessler, Oliver/Dannreuther, Charles (2017): "Racialised Futures: On Risk, Race and Finance", in: Millennium 45(3), 356-379.

• Kessler, Oliver (2016): "The Carpet Crawlers: Quanten in den Internationalen Beziehungen", in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 23(2), 207-221.

• Kessler, Oliver (2016): "The Contingency of Constructivism: On Norms, the Social, and the Third", in: Millennium 45(1), 43-63.

• Kessler, Oliver (2016): "The Failure of Failure: on Constructivism, the Limits of Critique, and the Socio-Political Economy of Economics", in: Millennium 44(3), S. 348-369.

• Kessler, Oliver (2016): "Practices and the Problem of World Society", in: Millennium 44(2), S. 269-277.

• Kessler, Oliver (2016): “Introduction to the Forum: The Status of Law in World Society”, in: Millennium 44(2), S. 236-241.

• Kessler, Oliver (2013): “Der Konstruktivismus als Ansatz der Globalen Politischen Ökonomie?”, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 6(1 Supplement), S. 31–49.

• Kessler, Oliver/Werner, Wouter (2013): “Expertise, Uncertainty and International Law: A Study of the Tallinn Manual on Cyberwarfare”, in: Leiden Journal of International Law 26(4), S. 793–810.

• Kessler, Oliver/Wilhelm, Benjamin (2013): “Financialization and the Three Utopias of Shadow Banking”, in: Competition & Change 17(3), S. 248–264.

• Kessler, Oliver/Herborth, Benjamin (2013): Recognition and the constitution of social order, in: International Theory 5(1): 155–160.

• Kessler, Oliver (2012): "Sleeping with the enemy? On Hayek, the current economic crisis and constructivist thought in IPE", in: Review of International Studies 38(2): 275–299.

• Kessler, Oliver (2012): "World Society, Social Differentiation and Time",in: International Political Sociology 6(1): 77–94.

• Kessler, Oliver (2012): "Introduction: To be or not to be: Critical Realism in International Thought", in: Review of International Studies 38(1): 187–189.

• Kessler, Oliver (2012): "On logic, intersubjectivity, and meaning: is reality an assumption we just don’t need?", in: Review of International Studies 38(1): 253–265.

• Kessler, Oliver/Guillaume, Xavier (2012): "Everyday practices in international relations: people in organizations", in: Journal of International Relations and Development 15(2): 110–120.

• Kessler, Oliver (2011): "Artificial Horizons", in: International Political Sociology 5(1): 87–91.

• Kessler, Oliver (2011): "The Same as it Never was? International Law in Times of Uncertainty", in: Review of International Studies 37(5): 2163-2182.

• Kessler, Oliver (2011): "Beyond Sectors, before the world: Finance, Security and Risk", in: Security Dialogue 42(2): 197–215.

• Kessler, Oliver (2010): "Internationale Beziehungen: Fehlentwicklung oder fehlende Entwicklung der Internationalen Beziehungen?", in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 17(2): 368–375.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): "Die Subprime-Krise und die Frage nach der Finanzmarktstabilität", in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 16(1): 161–175.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): "Einleitung: Die Subprime-Krise - wirklich eine Krise des 21. Jahrhunderts?", in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 16(1): 103–105.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): "Toward a Sociology of the International? International Relations between Anarchy and World Society", in: Journal of International Political Sociology 3(1): 87–108.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): "Toward a Logic of Social Systems?", in: International Political Sociology 3(1): 132–136.

• Kessler, Oliver (2008): "Is Risk Changing the Politics of International Legal Argumentation?", in: Leiden Journal of International Law 21(4): 863–884.

• Kessler, Oliver (2008): "Uncertainty, Rationality, and the Study of Social Institutions", in: Review of Social Economy 66(4): 501–523.

• Kessler, Oliver/Daase, Christopher (2008): "From insecurity to uncertainty: risk and the security paradox", in:  Alternatives 33(2): 211–232.

• Kessler, Oliver/Albert, Mathias/Stetter, Stephan (2008): "Of Communication, Order, and Conflict", Review of International Studies 34 Supplement 1: 43–67.

• Kessler, Oliver/Werner, Wouter (2008): "Extra juridical killing as risk management: the breakdown of legal rationalities in the fight against terrorism", Security Dialogue 39(2): 299–322.

• Kessler, Oliver/Daase, Christopher (2007): "Knowns and Unknowns in the 'War on Terror'", in: Security Dialogue, 38(4): 411–434.

• Kessler, Oliver/Helmig, Jan (2007): "Border, Order and Regionalisation", in: Geopolitics 12(4): 570–587.

• Kessler, Oliver (2007): "From Agent and Structures to Minds and Bodies", in: Journal of International Relations and Development 10(3): 243–272.

• Kessler, Oliver/Helmig, Jan (2007): "Space, Boundaries and the Problem of Order: A View from Systems Theory", in: International Political Sociology 1(3): 240–256.

• Kessler, Oliver (2007): "Authority, Ambiguity and Risk: the changing politics of global finance", in: Review of International Political Economy 14(2): 357–370.

• Kessler, Oliver (2007): "Performativity and the Boundaries of Economic Sociology", in: Current Sociology 55(1): 110–125.

• Kessler, Oliver (2006): "Social Contingency: An Avenue for Engaging Regulation Theory with Systems Theory", in: Competition and Change 10(2): 221–238.

• Kessler, Oliver (2005): "Nichtwissen und die Etablierung von Governance-Regimen", in: WeltTrends 13(46): 71–82. 

• Kessler, Oliver (2017): World Society, in: Xavier Guillaume/Pinar Bilgin (Hg.): Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology. Abingdon: Routledge.

• Kessler, Oliver/dos Reis, Filipe (2016): Constructivism and the Politics of International Law, in: Anne Orford/Florian Hoffmann (Hg.): The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Kessler, Oliver/dos Reis, Filipe (2016): The Power of Legality, Legitimacy and the (Im)Possibility of Interdisciplinary Research, in: Nikolas M. Rajkovic/Tanja Aalberts/Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Hg.): The Power of Legality: Practices of International Law and their Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Kessler, Oliver/Herborth, Benjamin (2016): Society, in: Felix Berenskoetter (Hg.): Concepts in World Politics. London: SAGE.

• Kessler, Oliver (2015): Ignorance and the Sociology of Economics, in: Linsey McGoey/Matthias Groß (Hg.): Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies. London: Routledge.

• Kessler, Oliver (2015): Observing Visions of Man, in: Daniel Jacobi/Annette Freyberg-Inan (Hg.): Human Beings in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Kessler, Oliver (2014): What price culture? Calculation, commensuration, contingency, and authority in financial practices, in: Bob Jessop/Brigitte Young/Christioph Scherrer (Hg.): Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics. London: Routledge.

• Kessler, Oliver/Wilhelm, Benjamin (2014): Finanzialisierung und die Performativität des Schattenbanksystems, in: Andreas Nölke/Marcel Heires (Hg.): Politik der Finanzialisierung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

• Kessler, Oliver/Kratochwil, Friedrich (2013): Functional differentiation and the oughts and musts of international law, in: Mathias Albert/Barry Buzan/Michael Zürn (Hg.): Bringing Sociology to International Relations: World Politics as Differentiation Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, S. 159–181.

• Kessler, Oliver/Albert, Mathias (2013): Die Transformation von Recht und Politik globaler Sicherheit, in: A. Fischer-Lescano/P. Mayer (Hg.), Recht und Politik globaler Sicherheit, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

• Kessler, Oliver (2013): Die Krise als System? Die diskursive Konstruktion von 'Risiko' und 'Unsicherheit', in: Jens Maeße (Hg.): Ökonomie, Diskurs, Regierung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 57–76.

• Kessler, Oliver (2013): Systemtheorie, in: Joscha Wullweber/Antonia Graf/Maria Behrens (Hg.): Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 117–132.

• Kessler, Oliver/Sack, Detlef (2012): Weltorganisationen und Menschenrechtsmonitoring. Rechtfertigungspflicht in der Weltgesellschaft und Inverse Effekte, in: Koch, Martin (Hg.): Weltorganisationen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 201-227.

• Kessler, Oliver/Sack, Detlef (2011): Erfolg durch Scheitern? Menschenrechtsmonitoring als transnationaler Governance-Modus, in: Gusy, Christoph (Hg.): Grundrechtsmonitoring - Chancen und Grenzen außergerichtlichen Menschenrechtsschutzes, Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 206-237.

• Kessler, Oliver (2010): On Norms, Communication and the Problem of Practice, in: Kessler, Oliver/Hall, Rodney Bruce/Lynch, Ceceila/Onuf, Nicholas (Hg.): On Rules, Politics and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Kessler, Oliver (2010): ‘Risk and Security: Two avenues for the assessment of Danger,’ in Peter Burgess (ed.): New Security Studies. Routledge.

• Kessler, Oliver/Herborth, Benjamin (2010): The Public Sphere, in: Robert A. Denemark (ed.), The International Studies Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons.

• Kessler, Oliver/Kratochwil, Friedrich (2010): ‘Systems Theory beyond Explaining and Understanding’ , in Mathias Albert, L.-E. Cederman and Alexander Wendt (eds.): New System Theories of World Politics. London: Palgrave.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): Logic, Intersubjectivity and Reality: is logic of relevance for understanding politics?, in Paulo Estevez (ed.): Meta-theoretical Discussions in International Relations (in Portuguese).

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): ‘Beyond the Economic Bias: the social construction of economic risks,’ in Colin Hay and Andreas Gofas (eds.): The Ideational Turn in International Relations. London: Routeldge.

• Kessler, Oliver (2009): ‘Finance as Transnational Space and the Memory of the Gold Standard’, in Mathias Albert, Gesa Blum, Jan Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch and Jochen Walter (eds.): Transnational Political Spaces, Agents - Structures - Encounters. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

• Kessler, Oliver/Dannreuther, Charles (2008): ‘The State in Social Economics’ , in Wilfred Dolfsma (ed.): The Elgar Companion to Social Economics. Edward Elgar.

• Kessler, Oliver (2008): ‘The Limits of Bayesian Thought to the Study of Economic Institutions,’ in Hardy Hannapi und Wolfram Elsner (eds.): Advances in Evolutionary Institutional Economics. Edward Elgar.

• Kessler, Oliver (2008): 'Unsicherheit, Ungewissheit und Risiko: Temporalität und die Rationalität der Finanzmärkte', in Andreas Langenohl und Kerstin Schmidt-Beck (eds.): Die Markt-Zeit der Finanzwirtschaft. Metropolis.

• Kessler, Oliver (2007): ‘Revolutions and Democracy: On the Historical Semantics of Political Change' (with Benjamin Herborth), in Anke Bartels (ed.): Revolutions: Concepts, Discourses, and Practices of Revolutionary Action in Our Time. Lang.

• Kessler, Oliver (2006): ‘Die Konstruktion von Expertise: eine systemtheoretische Rekonstruktion?’, in Gunter Hellmann (ed.): Wissenschaft und Beratung in der Wissensgesellschaft. Nomos.