Benjamin Herborth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3450094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Herborth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Herborth |
| SIGNATURE | HERBORTH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9074-1280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
European strategic antinomy
Over the last decade, “strategic autonomy” has emerged as a key geonarrative in debates on EUrope's relation to the world. Initially focused more narrowly on matters of security and defence, it is now being applied to a much wider set of issues. Confronted with the rise of non-Western powers, uncertainties about the future of transatlantic relations, and a wide-spread sense that one-sided dependencies must be reduced, the concept of strategic aut…
After Post‐Truth: Revisiting the Lippmann–Dewey Debate
The debate on post‐truth has sought to restore what it held to be the proper relationship between knowledge, truth, and political judgment. This made for an intuitively plausible response to the experience of democracy itself being increasingly contested. However, with the re‐election of Donald Trump as US president and a broad array of instances of democratic backsliding in Europe and beyond, such a restorative framing may have exhausted itself.…
Subaltern Counterpublics in Global Politics
Publics have traditionally been conceived as sites of social integration. While discord, controversy, and contestation may be acknowledged, theorising publics and especially public spheres are characteristically geared toward the production of consensus and/or the conditions of the possibility of unified decision-making. On this view, publics beyond the nation-state are reduced to conceptual extensions of the nation-state—The move to a higher lev…
Becoming Mediterranean: Semantic shifts in German asylum and refugee discourse
Denying the international
Where there have been many, there must be one. In the beginning and in the end, for the mess in-between can only be a transitory state. Or so Hans Blumenberg characterizes the fundamental presupposition of Western metaphysics. Very much in line with this logic, International Relations has invested a great deal of conceptual energy in unthinking and undoing the international as a constituent concept. This article critically engages with the tempta…
Rekonstruktive Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
Symposium ‘The politics of international recognition’
Recognition plays a multifaceted role in international theory. In rarely communicating literatures, the term is invoked to explain creation of new states and international structures; policy choices by state and non-state actors; and normative justifiability, or lack thereof, of foreign and international politics. The purpose of this symposium is to open new possibilities for imagining and studying recognition in international politics by drawing…
Recognition and the constitution of social order
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The West: A securitising community
Toward a Sociology of Generational Change: Generational Experience and Generational Performance in German Foreign Policy
At times, processes of social change catch their social-scientific observers by surprise. In fact, one might say that only instances of change that have not been and could not have been predicted constitute "genuine" change. Predictable change, on the contrary, would simply be a variation alongside a predetermined trajectory, thus not involving anything new. The social sciences are no strangers to historical and analytical surprises of the former…
Theorising theorising: Critical Realism and the quest for certainty
Discussing matters of philosophy of science within the boundaries of an academic field, which seems to have a fairly well-delineated subject matter, a carefully circumscribed universe of cases to struggle with, is a distinct deviation from normal science. Yet, meta-theoretical quarrels have been lurking on the boundaries of International Relations (IR) ever since the field constituted itself as a relatively autonomous academic enterprise. Never a…
Rekonstruktive Forschungslogik
Es hat sich eingebürgert, den Gegenstandsbereich der Internationalen Beziehungen auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt seiner sozialen Konstruktion zu betrachten. Außenpolitische Entscheidungen über Krieg, Frieden oder den Beitritt zum Kyoto-Protokoll lassen sich ebenso als Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher Konstruktionsprozesse analysieren wie der Formwandel des Souveränitätsprinzips, die Herausbildung trans- und supranationaler Identitäten oder die Rechtsevol…
Fishing in the mild West: Democratic peace and militarised interstate disputes in the transatlantic community
According to many of its proponents, the proposition that democracies do not fight each other is ‘as close as anything we have to an empirical law’. However, there have been several incidents among solidified liberal democracies where force was threatened or even used. Since these inter-democratic militarised interstate disputes (MIDs) almost always took place in the context of fisheries disputes, we examine two of these conflicts in detail: the …
De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum: De-Europeanization by Default
Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union (EU) has undergone significant changes. Once a model “Europeanist,” Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Neither an instance of a planned strategic change nor a result of an inevitable adaptation to structural shifts at the systemic level, these changes in Germ…
Die via media als konstitutionstheoretische Einbahnstraße. Zur Entwicklung des Akteur-Struktur-Problems bei Alexander Wendt
ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen , Seite 61 - 88
Symposium ‘The politics of international recognition’
Recognition plays a multifaceted role in international theory. In rarely communicating literatures, the term is invoked to explain creation of new states and international structures; policy choices by state and non-state actors; and normative justifiability, or lack thereof, of foreign and international politics. The purpose of this symposium is to open new possibilities for imagining and studying recognition in international politics by drawing…
Die via media als konstitutionstheoretische Einbahnstraße. Zur Entwicklung des Akteur-Struktur-Problems bei Alexander Wendt
ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen , Seite 61 - 88
De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum: De-Europeanization by Default
Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union (EU) has undergone significant changes. Once a model “Europeanist,” Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Neither an instance of a planned strategic change nor a result of an inevitable adaptation to structural shifts at the systemic level, these changes in Germ…
Recognition and the constitution of social order
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Denying the international
Where there have been many, there must be one. In the beginning and in the end, for the mess in-between can only be a transitory state. Or so Hans Blumenberg characterizes the fundamental presupposition of Western metaphysics. Very much in line with this logic, International Relations has invested a great deal of conceptual energy in unthinking and undoing the international as a constituent concept. This article critically engages with the tempta…
The West: A securitising community
Theorising theorising: Critical Realism and the quest for certainty
Discussing matters of philosophy of science within the boundaries of an academic field, which seems to have a fairly well-delineated subject matter, a carefully circumscribed universe of cases to struggle with, is a distinct deviation from normal science. Yet, meta-theoretical quarrels have been lurking on the boundaries of International Relations (IR) ever since the field constituted itself as a relatively autonomous academic enterprise. Never a…
Subaltern Counterpublics in Global Politics
Publics have traditionally been conceived as sites of social integration. While discord, controversy, and contestation may be acknowledged, theorising publics and especially public spheres are characteristically geared toward the production of consensus and/or the conditions of the possibility of unified decision-making. On this view, publics beyond the nation-state are reduced to conceptual extensions of the nation-state—The move to a higher lev…
Fishing in the mild West: Democratic peace and militarised interstate disputes in the transatlantic community
According to many of its proponents, the proposition that democracies do not fight each other is ‘as close as anything we have to an empirical law’. However, there have been several incidents among solidified liberal democracies where force was threatened or even used. Since these inter-democratic militarised interstate disputes (MIDs) almost always took place in the context of fisheries disputes, we examine two of these conflicts in detail: the …
Die via media als konstitutionstheoretische Einbahnstraße. Zur Entwicklung des Akteur-Struktur-Problems bei Alexander Wendt
ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen , Seite 61 - 88
De-Europeanization by Default? Germany's EU Policy in Defense and Asylum: De-Europeanization by Default
Since the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's policy toward and within the European Union (EU) has undergone significant changes. Once a model “Europeanist,” Germany has become increasingly reluctant to support the progressive implementation of key projects of European integration. Neither an instance of a planned strategic change nor a result of an inevitable adaptation to structural shifts at the systemic level, these changes in Germ…
Fishing in the mild West: Democratic peace and militarised interstate disputes in the transatlantic community
According to many of its proponents, the proposition that democracies do not fight each other is ‘as close as anything we have to an empirical law’. However, there have been several incidents among solidified liberal democracies where force was threatened or even used. Since these inter-democratic militarised interstate disputes (MIDs) almost always took place in the context of fisheries disputes, we examine two of these conflicts in detail: the …
Rekonstruktive Forschungslogik
Es hat sich eingebürgert, den Gegenstandsbereich der Internationalen Beziehungen auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt seiner sozialen Konstruktion zu betrachten. Außenpolitische Entscheidungen über Krieg, Frieden oder den Beitritt zum Kyoto-Protokoll lassen sich ebenso als Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher Konstruktionsprozesse analysieren wie der Formwandel des Souveränitätsprinzips, die Herausbildung trans- und supranationaler Identitäten oder die Rechtsevol…
Toward a Sociology of Generational Change: Generational Experience and Generational Performance in German Foreign Policy
At times, processes of social change catch their social-scientific observers by surprise. In fact, one might say that only instances of change that have not been and could not have been predicted constitute "genuine" change. Predictable change, on the contrary, would simply be a variation alongside a predetermined trajectory, thus not involving anything new. The social sciences are no strangers to historical and analytical surprises of the former…
Theorising theorising: Critical Realism and the quest for certainty
Discussing matters of philosophy of science within the boundaries of an academic field, which seems to have a fairly well-delineated subject matter, a carefully circumscribed universe of cases to struggle with, is a distinct deviation from normal science. Yet, meta-theoretical quarrels have been lurking on the boundaries of International Relations (IR) ever since the field constituted itself as a relatively autonomous academic enterprise. Never a…
Symposium ‘The politics of international recognition’
Recognition plays a multifaceted role in international theory. In rarely communicating literatures, the term is invoked to explain creation of new states and international structures; policy choices by state and non-state actors; and normative justifiability, or lack thereof, of foreign and international politics. The purpose of this symposium is to open new possibilities for imagining and studying recognition in international politics by drawing…
Recognition and the constitution of social order
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The West: A securitising community
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
Rekonstruktive Forschungslogik in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Becoming Mediterranean: Semantic shifts in German asylum and refugee discourse
Denying the international
Where there have been many, there must be one. In the beginning and in the end, for the mess in-between can only be a transitory state. Or so Hans Blumenberg characterizes the fundamental presupposition of Western metaphysics. Very much in line with this logic, International Relations has invested a great deal of conceptual energy in unthinking and undoing the international as a constituent concept. This article critically engages with the tempta…
Subaltern Counterpublics in Global Politics
Publics have traditionally been conceived as sites of social integration. While discord, controversy, and contestation may be acknowledged, theorising publics and especially public spheres are characteristically geared toward the production of consensus and/or the conditions of the possibility of unified decision-making. On this view, publics beyond the nation-state are reduced to conceptual extensions of the nation-state—The move to a higher lev…
After Post‐Truth: Revisiting the Lippmann–Dewey Debate
The debate on post‐truth has sought to restore what it held to be the proper relationship between knowledge, truth, and political judgment. This made for an intuitively plausible response to the experience of democracy itself being increasingly contested. However, with the re‐election of Donald Trump as US president and a broad array of instances of democratic backsliding in Europe and beyond, such a restorative framing may have exhausted itself.…
European strategic antinomy
Over the last decade, “strategic autonomy” has emerged as a key geonarrative in debates on EUrope's relation to the world. Initially focused more narrowly on matters of security and defence, it is now being applied to a much wider set of issues. Confronted with the rise of non-Western powers, uncertainties about the future of transatlantic relations, and a wide-spread sense that one-sided dependencies must be reduced, the concept of strategic aut…
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