Hartmut Behr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hartmut Behr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hartmut |
| FAMILY NAME | Behr |
| SIGNATURE | BEHR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5935-6779 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Discourses in Global Political Theory: Reimagining Peace in the 21st Century Through Narratives of Belonging
Discourses in Global Political Theory: Rethinking Peace for the 21st Century Through Narratives of Belonging
Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”
Constructing narratives that can combat people’s unease about their sense of belonging, by providing a sense of certainty and steadfastness, is a recurrent affect in the history of humanity. Perhaps change is, however, the only constant in this history. Over a hundred years ago, Max Weber bemoaned the transition to a rationalized modernity as “the disenchantment of the world,” which in turn had been inspired by similar concerns expressed by Fried…
Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology
In a recent editorial, the Lancet reported that one of the consequences of pandemics is the detrimental impact “on the mental health of affected populations,” and the current COVID-19 one is no different. Since its out-break at the end of 2019, “depressed mood, anxiety, impaired memory, and insomnia” are constant companions of people around the world. Many even experience “stress, burnout, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.” Amongst …
Technocracy and the Tragedy of EU Governance
In a historical perspective, technocracy, emphasising bureaucratic and technical expertise in political, social and economic areas, is a double edge sword: on the one side, it guaranteed the condition for international cooperation post-WW II, providing as an ideologically neutral basis the condition for governance in a politically bitter international climate. On the other hand, it indicates the tragedy of increasing delegitimization of EU govern…
Rethinking Emancipation in a Critical IR: Normativity, Cosmology, and Pluriversal Dialogue
This article seeks to reconceptualise emancipation in critically theorising International Relations (IR) by developing ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ versions of normativity and applying them as conditions for a pluriversal dialogue between different cosmologies. We start with the premise that ‘critical IR’ is both Eurocentric and a-normative, and argue that a normative engagement with critical discourses both inside and outside the West is necessary to reca…
Terminological Entrepreneurs and Discursive Shifts in International Relations: How a Discipline Invented the “International Regime”
The disciplinary history of international relations (IR) is usually told as a succession of theories or “isms” that are connected to academic schools. Echoing the increasing criticism of this narrative, we present in this article a new perspective on the discipline. We introduce concepts from linguistics and its method of digital discourse analysis (DDA) to explore discursive shifts and terminological entrepreneurship in IR. DDA directs attention…
The nuclear condition in the twenty-first century: Techno-political aspects in historical and contemporary perspectives
This Introduction presents the seven closely interlinked papers that explore the theme of this Special Issue, and one of the enduring existential questions for International Relations: the nuclear condition in the twenty-first century. The Special Issue is the second to come from two workshops sponsored by a UK Leverhulme grant, and it builds upon the first, more theoretical Special Issue, which brought Classical Realist and Critical Theory texts…
Towards a political concept of reversibility in international relations: Bridging political philosophy and policy studies
While contingency and negation are relatively well-established notions in the theoretical analysis of international relations, their practical implications remain under-conceptualised. In order to discuss the question of how to act under conditions of contingency and negation, this article, in a first step, triangulates both with Aristotelian noesis. Such triangulation suggests that the consequences of political action cannot be predicted and alw…
Religion, identity, and human security
There are two kinds of academic books: those which are performative of their own argument (like concept albums in popular music; in international politics, RBJ Walker’s Inside/Outside may serve as
Peace-in-Difference: A Phenomenological Approach to Peace Through Difference
This article develops the notion of ‘peace-in-difference’, based on a phenomenological approach to difference from German sociology in the 1920s to the French philosophies of Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. Such an attempt responds to a long-standing concern in peacebuilding theory and practice and is critical of essentialist and linear-teleological approaches to peace, as with the theoretical framework of liberal peace-building. As a conse…
Empire
Empire – according to Western intellectual history – is a widely used and contested word that has been applied in economic, geographical, political, and cultural discourses. Empire is best understood not as a political reality that can be defined and conceptualized by structures and as entities, but as a discourse of superiority, legitimacy, duty, and destiny.
Peace Studies
Peace studies as a Western discipline is divided into a social science and a humanities‐oriented stream which hark back to different philosophical traditions and become manifest in opposing, but increasingly negotiated, hybrid politics as represented mainly by the United Nations and the United States in the former, and by local and grassroots movements in the latter case. It is a future challenge for peace studies of whatever coloration to propel…
The populist obstruction of reality: Analysis and response
It is time to wake up and to add to moral disgust and democratic rejection the recognition that the contemporary right-wing populist threat to democracy is serious and its strategists are determine
Peace education, militarism and neo-liberalism: Conceptual reflections with empirical findings from the UK
This article explores ‘peace days’ in English schools as a form of peace education. From a historical overview of academic discussions on peace education in the US and Great Britain since the First World War, we identify three key factors important for peace education: the political context, the place in which peace days occur and pedagogical imperatives of providing a certain narrative of the sources of violence in politics. Although contemporar…
Conditions of critique and the non-irreversibility of politics
Critique is a driving force not only for the development of political ideas and concepts but also for protecting humane and democratic politics against the perils of epistemic and political ideologies. Yet, while there is much debate about the question of ‘ What is critique?’ the conditions of critique appear largely under-reflected in International Politics and the Social Sciences more generally. This article goes beyond the question of what cri…
Interlocuting classical realism and critical theory: Negotiating ‘divides’ in international relations theory
The history of the discipline of International Relations is usually narrated as a succession of theories that would pursue different ontologies and epistemologies and focus on different problems. This narrative provides some structure to a multifaceted field and its diverse discussions. However, it is also highly problematic as it ignores common problems, intersections and mutual inspirations and overemphasizes divides over eventual commonalities…
Scientific Man vs. Power Politics: A Pamphlet and Its Author between Two Academic Cultures
Hans Morgenthau's Scientific Man vs. Power Politics appeared in 1946, one year after he received tenure at the University of Chicago. Thus, the monograph demarcates the beginning of Morgenthau's career in the United States, to which he had emigrated nine years earlier. Three main aspects seem important for understanding this work. The first is Morgenthau's bewilderment about American political culture and, as he perceived it, its cheerful optimis…
Revisiting the European Union as Empire
People on the Move â Ideas on the Move
Politics of Difference: Epistemologies of Peace
This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought. In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth century, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred Schütz, Emmanual Lévinas, and Jacques Derrida, and drafts our understanding of difference as a genuine human experience of a social and political worl…
Zuwanderungspolitik Im Nationalstaat: Formen der Eigen- und Fremdbestimmung in Den USA, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Frankreich
Entterritoriale Politik: Von Den Internationalen Beziehungen Zur Netzwerkanalyse. Mit Einer Fallstudie Zum Globalen Terrorismus
Religion -- Staat -- Politik: Zur Rolle der Religion in der Nationalen und Internationalen Politik
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
Misreading in IR theory and ideology critique: Morgenthau, Waltz and neo-realism
This article is interested in the hegemony which neo-realism accomplished during the second half of the 20th century in both the academic field and policy making of I/international R/relations. Our examination posits the argument that neo-realism can be seen as an ideology rather than a theory of international politics. While this view can connect to individual voices from the 1960s as well as to an emerging body of critical literature since the …
The European Union in the Legacies of Imperial Rule? EU Accession Politics Viewed from a Historical Comparative Perspective
International Relations benefits from historical comparative research. Although a historical comparative method can be fruitfully applied to the study of the European Union (EU), it is rarely undertaken. In this article, EU accession politics, particularly its 2004 enlargement, is compared with 19th century `standards of civilization' developed by European states concluding treaties with non-European nations. This article argues that EU accession…
Rethinking Emancipation in a Critical IR: Normativity, Cosmology, and Pluriversal Dialogue
This article seeks to reconceptualise emancipation in critically theorising International Relations (IR) by developing ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ versions of normativity and applying them as conditions for a pluriversal dialogue between different cosmologies. We start with the premise that ‘critical IR’ is both Eurocentric and a-normative, and argue that a normative engagement with critical discourses both inside and outside the West is necessary to reca…
Interlocuting classical realism and critical theory: Negotiating ‘divides’ in international relations theory
The history of the discipline of International Relations is usually narrated as a succession of theories that would pursue different ontologies and epistemologies and focus on different problems. This narrative provides some structure to a multifaceted field and its diverse discussions. However, it is also highly problematic as it ignores common problems, intersections and mutual inspirations and overemphasizes divides over eventual commonalities…
Common sense’, Thomas Reid and realist epistemology in Hans J. Morgenthau
Deterritorialisation and the Transformation of Statehood: The Paradox of Globalisation
Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil societies face a radically different security situation. In addition to state-to-state threats, transnational security issues have risen to previously unknown relevance. I will argue that – in order to create effective counter-policies against transnational threats – states must transform fundamental principles of traditional statehood according to the logic of global deterritorialisation. To develo…
Terminological Entrepreneurs and Discursive Shifts in International Relations: How a Discipline Invented the “International Regime”
The disciplinary history of international relations (IR) is usually told as a succession of theories or “isms” that are connected to academic schools. Echoing the increasing criticism of this narrative, we present in this article a new perspective on the discipline. We introduce concepts from linguistics and its method of digital discourse analysis (DDA) to explore discursive shifts and terminological entrepreneurship in IR. DDA directs attention…
Peace-in-Difference: A Phenomenological Approach to Peace Through Difference
This article develops the notion of ‘peace-in-difference’, based on a phenomenological approach to difference from German sociology in the 1920s to the French philosophies of Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida. Such an attempt responds to a long-standing concern in peacebuilding theory and practice and is critical of essentialist and linear-teleological approaches to peace, as with the theoretical framework of liberal peace-building. As a conse…
Conditions of critique and the non-irreversibility of politics
Critique is a driving force not only for the development of political ideas and concepts but also for protecting humane and democratic politics against the perils of epistemic and political ideologies. Yet, while there is much debate about the question of ‘ What is critique?’ the conditions of critique appear largely under-reflected in International Politics and the Social Sciences more generally. This article goes beyond the question of what cri…
Towards a political concept of reversibility in international relations: Bridging political philosophy and policy studies
While contingency and negation are relatively well-established notions in the theoretical analysis of international relations, their practical implications remain under-conceptualised. In order to discuss the question of how to act under conditions of contingency and negation, this article, in a first step, triangulates both with Aristotelian noesis. Such triangulation suggests that the consequences of political action cannot be predicted and alw…
Peace education, militarism and neo-liberalism: Conceptual reflections with empirical findings from the UK
This article explores ‘peace days’ in English schools as a form of peace education. From a historical overview of academic discussions on peace education in the US and Great Britain since the First World War, we identify three key factors important for peace education: the political context, the place in which peace days occur and pedagogical imperatives of providing a certain narrative of the sources of violence in politics. Although contemporar…
Scientific Man vs. Power Politics: A Pamphlet and Its Author between Two Academic Cultures
Hans Morgenthau's Scientific Man vs. Power Politics appeared in 1946, one year after he received tenure at the University of Chicago. Thus, the monograph demarcates the beginning of Morgenthau's career in the United States, to which he had emigrated nine years earlier. Three main aspects seem important for understanding this work. The first is Morgenthau's bewilderment about American political culture and, as he perceived it, its cheerful optimis…
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
EUrope – History, Violence and “Peripheries”
The idea and study of international society can be applied empirically to Europe and the Europe Union (EU), with a significant overlap between the idea of Europe and the EU being symbolized as EUrope. As the example of EUrope demonstrates, the development of international society genuinely depends upon violence in its peripheries, in EUrope’s case exemplified by colonialism and imperialism of European states: states of which most are now core mem…
The Challenge of Talking about Terrorism: The EU and the Arab Debate on the Causes of Islamist Terrorism1
The Arab “hegemonic debate” on the causes of Islamist terrorism nurtures (pan-) Arab, anti-Western sentiments and delegitimizes criticism of the political status quo. The European Union's emphasis on multilateral means of conflict resolution and trade promotion leads to official pronouncements that barely address the Arab world's domestic problems, instead referring to international tensions such as the Arab-Israeli conflict as a particular cause…
Sakulärisierung und Resakralisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften: Ideengeschichtliche und Theoretische Perspektiven
Zuwanderungspolitik im Nationalstaat
Zuwanderungspolitik im Nationalstaat: Formen der Eigen- und Fremdbestimmung in den USA, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Frankreich
Multikulturelle Demokratien im Vergleich
Multikulturelle Demokratien im Vergleich. Institutionen als Regulativ kultureller Vielfalt?
Einleitung: Säkularisierung und Resakralisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften. Ideengeschichtliche und theoretische Perspektiven
Die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema Politik und Religion erfordert eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Säkularisierungsthese, um die politikwissenschaftliche Relevanz des Gegenstandes auch für moderne westliche Gesellschaften zu etablieren. In einer sich weitgehend als aufgeklärt und säkular verstehenden Zivilgesellschaft ist die politikwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Spannungsfeld Politik und Religion nicht unbedingt selbstverständlich. Das…
Multikulturelle Demokratien im Vergleich: Institutionen als Regulativ kultureller Vielfalt?
Sakulärisierung und Resakralisierung in westlichen Gesellschaften: Ideengeschichtliche und Theoretische Perspektiven
Religion — Staat — Politik
Entterritoriale Politik
Analytischer Rahmen - Bedeutungsaspekte nationalstaatlicher Territorialitat - Kontinuitat und Wandel des Territorialitatsprinzips: Eine Fallstudie zum transnationalen Terrorismus und seinen Organisationsstrukturen - Strukturen und Logik transnationaler Politik - Zum Verhaltnis transnationaler und staatlicher Politik - Zusammenfassung - Literatur
Entterritoriale Politik: Von den internationalen Beziehungen zur Netzwerkanalyse : mit einer Fallstudie zum globalen Terrorismus
Politik und Religion in der Europäischen Union
Wie christlich ist Europa? Wie religiös sind europäische Gesellschaften? Oder gibt es bereits eine europäische Gesellschaft? Und wenn ja, worauf baut sie auf? Glauben wir dem in die Krise geratenen europäischen Verfassungsentwurf, so ist die Europäische Union eine religiös neutrale, wirtschaftliche und politische Gemeinschaft. Verfolgen wir hingegen Europadiskurse in europäischen Gesellschaften von Seiten führender EU-Politiker wie auch von Seite…
Politik und Religion in der Europäischen Union: Zwischen nationalen Traditionen und Europäisierung
Political territoriality and de‐territorialization
The European Union in the Legacies of Imperial Rule? EU Accession Politics Viewed from a Historical Comparative Perspective
International Relations benefits from historical comparative research. Although a historical comparative method can be fruitfully applied to the study of the European Union (EU), it is rarely undertaken. In this article, EU accession politics, particularly its 2004 enlargement, is compared with 19th century `standards of civilization' developed by European states concluding treaties with non-European nations. This article argues that EU accession…
Deterritorialisation and the Transformation of Statehood: The Paradox of Globalisation
Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil societies face a radically different security situation. In addition to state-to-state threats, transnational security issues have risen to previously unknown relevance. I will argue that – in order to create effective counter-policies against transnational threats – states must transform fundamental principles of traditional statehood according to the logic of global deterritorialisation. To develo…
Misreading in IR theory and ideology critique: Morgenthau, Waltz and neo-realism
This article is interested in the hegemony which neo-realism accomplished during the second half of the 20th century in both the academic field and policy making of I/international R/relations. Our examination posits the argument that neo-realism can be seen as an ideology rather than a theory of international politics. While this view can connect to individual voices from the 1960s as well as to an emerging body of critical literature since the …
The Challenge of Talking about Terrorism: The EU and the Arab Debate on the Causes of Islamist Terrorism1
The Arab “hegemonic debate” on the causes of Islamist terrorism nurtures (pan-) Arab, anti-Western sentiments and delegitimizes criticism of the political status quo. The European Union's emphasis on multilateral means of conflict resolution and trade promotion leads to official pronouncements that barely address the Arab world's domestic problems, instead referring to international tensions such as the Arab-Israeli conflict as a particular cause…
A History of International Political Theory: Ontologies of the International
Contemporary theory of international politics faces a twofold problem: the critical engagement with legacies of national power politics in connection to 20th Century International Relations and the re
EUrope – History, Violence and “Peripheries”
The idea and study of international society can be applied empirically to Europe and the Europe Union (EU), with a significant overlap between the idea of Europe and the EU being symbolized as EUrope. As the example of EUrope demonstrates, the development of international society genuinely depends upon violence in its peripheries, in EUrope’s case exemplified by colonialism and imperialism of European states: states of which most are now core mem…
Zuwanderungspolitik Im Nationalstaat: Formen der Eigen- und Fremdbestimmung in Den USA, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Frankreich
Entterritoriale Politik: Von Den Internationalen Beziehungen Zur Netzwerkanalyse. Mit Einer Fallstudie Zum Globalen Terrorismus
Religion -- Staat -- Politik: Zur Rolle der Religion in der Nationalen und Internationalen Politik
Realism reconsidered: New contexts and critiques
Common sense’, Thomas Reid and realist epistemology in Hans J. Morgenthau
People on the Move â Ideas on the Move
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (20 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Political economy (9 works) · International relations (8 works)