Maren Riemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maren Riemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maren |
| FAMILY NAME | Riemann |
| SIGNATURE | RIEMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2912-0826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, described by Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a Zeitenwende (turning point) triggered a fundamental rethinking of German foreign, security, and defence policy. This article conceptualises the invasion as a temporal shock to Germany’s ontological security. Building on the ‘temporal turn’ in International Relations, we argue that the war not only violated Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, bu…
On the medicalisation of global politics: A conversation with Roberto Esposito
This article explores the intertwining of politics and medicine by analysing how medicine has become politicized, and politics medicalized, as well as the effects of these dynamics on subjectivity, politics and the social. Rather than starting from a fixed research question or hypothesis, this work takes the form of a collaborative enquiry that “allows something to emerge” through social interaction. It unfolds through a series of encounters and …
HTTPS: Ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/7433
Background: Plants have been used for centuries in almost all cultures worldwide as traditional medicines to cure many chronic infections, including viral diseases. In recent decades, scientists have been attempting to scientifically validate the health-improving potential of functional and nutraceutical foods. At the same time, lockdowns due to SARS-CoV-2 had a profound influence on urban foraging behavior. On the other hand, 21 century plant bl…
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: Effeminacy, Modernity and the International
The 19th-century disappearance of mercenary forces within Europe is generally regarded as a cornerstone in the historical sociology of the international as it provided important conditions of possibility for the historical consolidation of the state’s monopoly on violence. Contrary to the claim that mercenaries disappeared in this time frame, this article argues that the mercenary concept was constituted within it. The argument unfolds in three s…
Studying Problematizations: The Value of Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) Methodology for IR
Critical approaches to IR have often been criticized for lacking methodological rigour. Especially, authors informed by the works of Michel Foucault have faced challenges to justify their methodology, given that Foucault did not provide scholars with a methodological blueprint. This article argues that Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach provides a robust critical methodology for policy analysis. WPR is a method …
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
Mercenaries in/and history: The Problem of Ahistoricism and Contextualism in Mercenary Scholarship
The history of the mercenary seems little less than the history of organized warfare itself. From the dawn of recorded history to the recent rise of Private Military Companies, mercenaries appear as a historical constant that allows scholars to make grand historical claims about the organisation of force within world history. This article cautions against this view, arguing instead that the analysis of this actor has been compromised by the failu…
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
The Perils of Medicalizing Conflict Resolution
Security and Global Affairs
As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary
IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and that therefore assumed the status of universals. This article contributes to this scholarship by critically investigating the seemingly transhistorical figure of the mercenary, whose history, it appears, is l…
Problematizing the medicalization of violence: A critical discourse analysis of the ‘Cure Violence’ initiative
Violence has in recent years been framed as a public health problem. The medicalization of violence has involved various public health initiatives, with the USA based violence prevention initiative Cure Violence (CV), being one of the most prominent. CV, which operates in 23 US cities and multiple countries abroad, was launched in 2000 by former WHO epidemiologist Gary Slutkin with the aim to reduce violence. Its public health approach maintains …
Studying Problematizations: The Value of Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) Methodology for IR
Critical approaches to IR have often been criticized for lacking methodological rigour. Especially, authors informed by the works of Michel Foucault have faced challenges to justify their methodology, given that Foucault did not provide scholars with a methodological blueprint. This article argues that Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach provides a robust critical methodology for policy analysis. WPR is a method …
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary
IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and that therefore assumed the status of universals. This article contributes to this scholarship by critically investigating the seemingly transhistorical figure of the mercenary, whose history, it appears, is l…
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, described by Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a Zeitenwende (turning point) triggered a fundamental rethinking of German foreign, security, and defence policy. This article conceptualises the invasion as a temporal shock to Germany’s ontological security. Building on the ‘temporal turn’ in International Relations, we argue that the war not only violated Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, bu…
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: Effeminacy, Modernity and the International
The 19th-century disappearance of mercenary forces within Europe is generally regarded as a cornerstone in the historical sociology of the international as it provided important conditions of possibility for the historical consolidation of the state’s monopoly on violence. Contrary to the claim that mercenaries disappeared in this time frame, this article argues that the mercenary concept was constituted within it. The argument unfolds in three s…
Mercenaries in/and history: The Problem of Ahistoricism and Contextualism in Mercenary Scholarship
The history of the mercenary seems little less than the history of organized warfare itself. From the dawn of recorded history to the recent rise of Private Military Companies, mercenaries appear as a historical constant that allows scholars to make grand historical claims about the organisation of force within world history. This article cautions against this view, arguing instead that the analysis of this actor has been compromised by the failu…
Problematizing the medicalization of violence: A critical discourse analysis of the ‘Cure Violence’ initiative
Violence has in recent years been framed as a public health problem. The medicalization of violence has involved various public health initiatives, with the USA based violence prevention initiative Cure Violence (CV), being one of the most prominent. CV, which operates in 23 US cities and multiple countries abroad, was launched in 2000 by former WHO epidemiologist Gary Slutkin with the aim to reduce violence. Its public health approach maintains …
As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary
IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the ahistorical and ahistoricist assumptions pervading the discipline. Specifically, attention has been turned to those concepts, actors, and practices that appear to be without history and that therefore assumed the status of universals. This article contributes to this scholarship by critically investigating the seemingly transhistorical figure of the mercenary, whose history, it appears, is l…
The Perils of Medicalizing Conflict Resolution
Security and Global Affairs
Remote warfare as “security of being”: Reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine
This article analyses remote warfare from an ontological security perspective, arguing that remote warfare needs to be understood as a response to states’ internal self-identity needs. We develop this claim by analysing an emerging aspect of remote warfare: Security Force Assistance (SFA). SFA is aimed at building up the security forces of partners, sharing best practice, assisting in security sector reform, fostering collaboration, and overall c…
From subject to project: Crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces
Historically, the army has been one of the main fabrics of modern subjectivity. The work of Michel Foucault, specifically, explored how the armed forces have been a central site in the production of such subjectivities via modes of discipline and biopower. Building on Byung-Chul Han’s examination of neoliberalism, we argue that the new subject of the army is no longer solely a disciplinary/biopolitical subject but increasingly a psychopolitical p…
Mercenaries in/and history: The Problem of Ahistoricism and Contextualism in Mercenary Scholarship
The history of the mercenary seems little less than the history of organized warfare itself. From the dawn of recorded history to the recent rise of Private Military Companies, mercenaries appear as a historical constant that allows scholars to make grand historical claims about the organisation of force within world history. This article cautions against this view, arguing instead that the analysis of this actor has been compromised by the failu…
Studying Problematizations: The Value of Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) Methodology for IR
Critical approaches to IR have often been criticized for lacking methodological rigour. Especially, authors informed by the works of Michel Foucault have faced challenges to justify their methodology, given that Foucault did not provide scholars with a methodological blueprint. This article argues that Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach provides a robust critical methodology for policy analysis. WPR is a method …
If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, described by Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a Zeitenwende (turning point) triggered a fundamental rethinking of German foreign, security, and defence policy. This article conceptualises the invasion as a temporal shock to Germany’s ontological security. Building on the ‘temporal turn’ in International Relations, we argue that the war not only violated Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, bu…
On the medicalisation of global politics: A conversation with Roberto Esposito
This article explores the intertwining of politics and medicine by analysing how medicine has become politicized, and politics medicalized, as well as the effects of these dynamics on subjectivity, politics and the social. Rather than starting from a fixed research question or hypothesis, this work takes the form of a collaborative enquiry that “allows something to emerge” through social interaction. It unfolds through a series of encounters and …
HTTPS: Ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/7433
Background: Plants have been used for centuries in almost all cultures worldwide as traditional medicines to cure many chronic infections, including viral diseases. In recent decades, scientists have been attempting to scientifically validate the health-improving potential of functional and nutraceutical foods. At the same time, lockdowns due to SARS-CoV-2 had a profound influence on urban foraging behavior. On the other hand, 21 century plant bl…
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: Effeminacy, Modernity and the International
The 19th-century disappearance of mercenary forces within Europe is generally regarded as a cornerstone in the historical sociology of the international as it provided important conditions of possibility for the historical consolidation of the state’s monopoly on violence. Contrary to the claim that mercenaries disappeared in this time frame, this article argues that the mercenary concept was constituted within it. The argument unfolds in three s…
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
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