Tobias Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2064-0876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
South–South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance
This article introduces the Special Issue ‘South–South Security Cooperation and the (Re)making of Global Security Governance’. The contributions explore security-driven South–South interactions across the globe, assessing empirical, theoretical, and normative aspects. Our aim is to decentre debates on global security governance, traditionally focused on Northern-led cooperation, and to move beyond simplistic and simplifying assessments of South–S…
Diversity in Translation
Rather than looking at translation issues related to the management of cultural and religious diversity under state law in Europe (and all its manifold, internal differences), as is the focus of the other articles in this collection, this contribution analyses Europe as an actor that seeks to engage different legal and cultural systems around the world and have its legal principles translated into non-European settings. More precisely, it focuses…
Why and how they listen
Entangled contestations
This paper investigates contemporary transformations of citizenship in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar in their historical trajectories. More specifically, we focus on the contestation of liberal aspects of the respective citizenship regimes, in particular principles of non-discrimination on the basis of caste, race, gender, religion, or ethnic belonging as well as a high degree of legal certainty about one's citizenship status. We advance two cent…
Transnationally entangled (in)securities
Contemporary security interventions in Africa are characterized by an increasing pluralization of external actors, bringing with them new security rationalities, practices, and technologies, sometimes with profound influences on local security dynamics. While studies have focused empirically on East and South Africa, this article explores the roles of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey in the Sahel region of West Africa. To make sense of t…
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script
While recent scholarship has turned to the increasing fragmentation of global human rights discourses, the often competing ideological projects in which different understandings of human rights are embedded have received comparatively scant attention. Instead, human rights are treated as isolated norms. Although treated as isolated, human rights norms are frequently simultaneously understood against the implicit backdrop of liberal assumptions ab…
Forum
This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, and the influence of domestic structures on international interactions, his work has significantly co…
Worldmaking from the margins
This article investigates the contribution of decolonising states to the nascent international order emerging after the end of World War II. More precisely, it investigates the Indian contribution to the emerging international human rights regime, focussing on two key contributions: the advocacy for a strong supranational authority endowed with substantial enforcement mechanisms for the realisation of human rights and the equally strong defence o…
Power, status and memory in Indo-East African relations
While much scholarly attention has focused on the growing influence of China in Africa, India remains a comparatively neglected actor on the continent, especially among policy makers in the Global North. In this article, the authors argue that this comparative neglect is not only an empirical gap. Instead, it points towards a deeper conceptual challenge of accounting for shifting global power dynamics. To address this challenge, the article devel…
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category – global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism
The ‘Global South’ often functions as a shorthand for countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that differ significantly in terms of economic trajectories, institutional arrangements, and everyday political life. The significant diversity notwithstanding, I argue that the Global South constitutes a useful macro-category of high epistemological value. Rather than identifying a neat set of clearly demarcated properties that could be found everyw…
The logic of non-enforcement
This article investigates the ways in which state and non-state laws become intricately intertwined in practices of conflict resolution in rural Bangladesh. Instead of inhabiting separate legal universes, I show how state and non-state laws become entangled in what I call the logic of non-enforcement. People in rural Bangladesh frequently appeal to state courts-yet they frequently do so not in order to get binding and enforceable verdicts, but to…
Linked in translation
This article conceptualises the agency of the governed as the ability to alter the meaning of travelling norms in ways that make them meaningful within a specific context, and to thereby also change the social and political dynamics that unfold there. These translations do not simply unfold between the global and the local but run along translation chains in which different actors become linked while also translating global norms differently. The…
Among Others
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category – global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism
The ‘Global South’ often functions as a shorthand for countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that differ significantly in terms of economic trajectories, institutional arrangements, and everyday political life. The significant diversity notwithstanding, I argue that the Global South constitutes a useful macro-category of high epistemological value. Rather than identifying a neat set of clearly demarcated properties that could be found everyw…
Worldmaking from the margins
This article investigates the contribution of decolonising states to the nascent international order emerging after the end of World War II. More precisely, it investigates the Indian contribution to the emerging international human rights regime, focussing on two key contributions: the advocacy for a strong supranational authority endowed with substantial enforcement mechanisms for the realisation of human rights and the equally strong defence o…
Linked in translation
This article conceptualises the agency of the governed as the ability to alter the meaning of travelling norms in ways that make them meaningful within a specific context, and to thereby also change the social and political dynamics that unfold there. These translations do not simply unfold between the global and the local but run along translation chains in which different actors become linked while also translating global norms differently. The…
Entangled contestations
This paper investigates contemporary transformations of citizenship in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar in their historical trajectories. More specifically, we focus on the contestation of liberal aspects of the respective citizenship regimes, in particular principles of non-discrimination on the basis of caste, race, gender, religion, or ethnic belonging as well as a high degree of legal certainty about one's citizenship status. We advance two cent…
Transnationally entangled (in)securities
Contemporary security interventions in Africa are characterized by an increasing pluralization of external actors, bringing with them new security rationalities, practices, and technologies, sometimes with profound influences on local security dynamics. While studies have focused empirically on East and South Africa, this article explores the roles of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey in the Sahel region of West Africa. To make sense of t…
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script
While recent scholarship has turned to the increasing fragmentation of global human rights discourses, the often competing ideological projects in which different understandings of human rights are embedded have received comparatively scant attention. Instead, human rights are treated as isolated norms. Although treated as isolated, human rights norms are frequently simultaneously understood against the implicit backdrop of liberal assumptions ab…
South–South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance
This article introduces the Special Issue ‘South–South Security Cooperation and the (Re)making of Global Security Governance’. The contributions explore security-driven South–South interactions across the globe, assessing empirical, theoretical, and normative aspects. Our aim is to decentre debates on global security governance, traditionally focused on Northern-led cooperation, and to move beyond simplistic and simplifying assessments of South–S…
Forum
This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, and the influence of domestic structures on international interactions, his work has significantly co…
The logic of non-enforcement
This article investigates the ways in which state and non-state laws become intricately intertwined in practices of conflict resolution in rural Bangladesh. Instead of inhabiting separate legal universes, I show how state and non-state laws become entangled in what I call the logic of non-enforcement. People in rural Bangladesh frequently appeal to state courts-yet they frequently do so not in order to get binding and enforceable verdicts, but to…
Among Others
Linked in translation
This article conceptualises the agency of the governed as the ability to alter the meaning of travelling norms in ways that make them meaningful within a specific context, and to thereby also change the social and political dynamics that unfold there. These translations do not simply unfold between the global and the local but run along translation chains in which different actors become linked while also translating global norms differently. The…
The logic of non-enforcement
This article investigates the ways in which state and non-state laws become intricately intertwined in practices of conflict resolution in rural Bangladesh. Instead of inhabiting separate legal universes, I show how state and non-state laws become entangled in what I call the logic of non-enforcement. People in rural Bangladesh frequently appeal to state courts-yet they frequently do so not in order to get binding and enforceable verdicts, but to…
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
The ‘Global South’ as a relational category – global hierarchies in the production of law and legal pluralism
The ‘Global South’ often functions as a shorthand for countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that differ significantly in terms of economic trajectories, institutional arrangements, and everyday political life. The significant diversity notwithstanding, I argue that the Global South constitutes a useful macro-category of high epistemological value. Rather than identifying a neat set of clearly demarcated properties that could be found everyw…
Forum
This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, and the influence of domestic structures on international interactions, his work has significantly co…
Worldmaking from the margins
This article investigates the contribution of decolonising states to the nascent international order emerging after the end of World War II. More precisely, it investigates the Indian contribution to the emerging international human rights regime, focussing on two key contributions: the advocacy for a strong supranational authority endowed with substantial enforcement mechanisms for the realisation of human rights and the equally strong defence o…
Power, status and memory in Indo-East African relations
While much scholarly attention has focused on the growing influence of China in Africa, India remains a comparatively neglected actor on the continent, especially among policy makers in the Global North. In this article, the authors argue that this comparative neglect is not only an empirical gap. Instead, it points towards a deeper conceptual challenge of accounting for shifting global power dynamics. To address this challenge, the article devel…
Transnationally entangled (in)securities
Contemporary security interventions in Africa are characterized by an increasing pluralization of external actors, bringing with them new security rationalities, practices, and technologies, sometimes with profound influences on local security dynamics. While studies have focused empirically on East and South Africa, this article explores the roles of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey in the Sahel region of West Africa. To make sense of t…
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script
While recent scholarship has turned to the increasing fragmentation of global human rights discourses, the often competing ideological projects in which different understandings of human rights are embedded have received comparatively scant attention. Instead, human rights are treated as isolated norms. Although treated as isolated, human rights norms are frequently simultaneously understood against the implicit backdrop of liberal assumptions ab…
Why and how they listen
Entangled contestations
This paper investigates contemporary transformations of citizenship in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar in their historical trajectories. More specifically, we focus on the contestation of liberal aspects of the respective citizenship regimes, in particular principles of non-discrimination on the basis of caste, race, gender, religion, or ethnic belonging as well as a high degree of legal certainty about one's citizenship status. We advance two cent…
Diversity in Translation
Rather than looking at translation issues related to the management of cultural and religious diversity under state law in Europe (and all its manifold, internal differences), as is the focus of the other articles in this collection, this contribution analyses Europe as an actor that seeks to engage different legal and cultural systems around the world and have its legal principles translated into non-European settings. More precisely, it focuses…
South–South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance
This article introduces the Special Issue ‘South–South Security Cooperation and the (Re)making of Global Security Governance’. The contributions explore security-driven South–South interactions across the globe, assessing empirical, theoretical, and normative aspects. Our aim is to decentre debates on global security governance, traditionally focused on Northern-led cooperation, and to move beyond simplistic and simplifying assessments of South–S…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Human rights (4 works)