Martin Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3533-5850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance
German Federal Ministry of Finance
The Falcon’s Many Nests
The Soviet Air Forces played a crucial role in determining the course of battle on the Eastern Front during World War II by providing close-air support to the Red Army’s ground operations. This study utilizes a combination of Airborne Laser Scanning data, wartime aerial photo interpretation, and historical analysis to define the archaeological footprint of Soviet tactical field airstrips. It also traces their spatial organization and chronologica…
Priorities for child and adolescent health in Europe and Central Asia
Background: Childhood and adolescence (0-19 years) is a critical time for laying the foundations for life-long good health and well-being. To support the development of the new World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) European Regional Strategy for Child and Adolescent Health and Well-being, we undertook a European Region-wide survey of representatives of Member States (MS), child health professionals (CHPs)…
Refocusing on the foundations
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNIICEF) Europe and Central Asia have jointly led the development process of a new strategy for children and adolescents in Europe - a healthy start for a healthy life - to guide evidence-based, future-oriented action across the Region. It was developed through a multi-step process, including a regional assessment, commissioned evidence reviews,…
Is additional EU funding for economic, social and territorial cohesion through the Recovery and Resilience Facility likely to result in more investments
NO
Integrating maternal, newborn, child health and non-communicable disease care in the sustainable development goal era
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) are two deeply intertwined health areas that have been artificially separated by global health policies, resource allocations and programming. Optimal MNCH care can provide a unique opportunity to screen for, prevent and manage early signs of NCDs developing in both the woman and the neonate. This paper considers how NCDs, NCD modifiable risk factors, and NCD metabolic r…
What is it about Australian-based normative IR theory? Notes towards opening a dialogue
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’
This short response considers some challenges that may be faced by learners keen to engage with ‘Indigenous International Relations’ following the lecture by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg. I sketch two such challenges under the headers of ‘misunderstandings’ and ‘misrecognition’. My aim is to disclose what have been persistent problems in IR when ‘new’ knowledges are tapped to inaugurate ‘turns’ or reinvigorations of conceptual inventories and con…
Before the ‘post’
The Battle of the Seelow Heights, April 1945
During the final days of World War II, the Red Army’s Berlin Operation culimnated in the capture of the Reich’s capital and the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. Between 16 and 19 April 1945, the most intense fighting of the operation ensued in what is now called the Battle of the Seelow Heights. Due to the vast quantities of men and matériel involved in the fighting, an extensive militarised landscape has developed within the forests of …
Relational Indigenous systems
Ontological parochialism persists in International Relations (IR) scholarship among gestures towards relational ontological reinvention. Meanwhile, the inter-polity relations of many Indigenous peoples pre-date contemporary IR and tend to be substantively relational. This situation invites rethinking of IR's understandings of political order and inter-polity relations. We take up this task by laying out necessary methodological innovations to eng…
Park in Krásný Dvůr in the light of W. G. Becker's description from 1796
PĹ ĂspÄ vek zprostĹ edkuje Ä eskĂŠmu Ä tenĂĄĹ i popis parku v KrĂĄsnĂŠm DvoĹ e, kterĂ ̋ sepsal pĹ ednĂ drĂĄĹžÄ anskĂ ̋ uÄ enec Wilhelm Gottfried Becker. Popis byl poprvĂŠ publikovĂĄn v Beckerem vydĂĄvanĂŠm periodiku Taschenbuch fĂźr Garten Freunde v roce 1796. PĹ estoĹže podrobnÄ reflektuje kompoziÄ nĂ uspoĹ ĂĄdĂĄnĂ krĂĄsnodvorskĂŠho parku pĹ ibliĹžnÄ po deseti letech jeho existence, nebyla tomuto popisu doposud vÄ novĂĄna v Ä eskĂŠ literatuĹ…
The integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) and its potential to reduce the misuse of antibiotics
BACKGROUND: The Strategy of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) was introduced in Central Asia and Europe to address the absence of evidence-based guidelines, the misuse of antibiotics, polypharmacy and over-hospitalization of children. A study carried out in 16 countries analysed the status and strengths of as well as the barriers to IMCI implementation and investigated how different health systems affect the problems IMCI aims…
A puzzle
In this article, I take up the case of the build-up to Madagascar’s 2009 political crisis in order to provide a critical account of the politics of sustainable development from the ground up. Madagascar has been positioned by the international community as a HIPC, and by virtue of its geographical and ecological situation as a ‘biodiversity hotspot’. Against this backdrop, I focus on efforts by USAID, the World Bank, international investors, and …
Expectation Formation under Uninformative Signals
From Alma Ata to the SDG s
The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 proclaimed “health for all by the year 2000.” In 2019 health is mainstreamed through the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG s) initiative. Contributing to critical analysis of global health governance ( GHG ), this article reconstructs the normative premises of the Alma Ata Declaration, the political project it represented, and the successful cases it was inspired by. It contrasts this with a…
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory
The Normative Grammar of Relational Analysis
This Theory Note focuses on the resurgent interest in relationalism in constructivist IR theory. I begin by contextualizing current efforts to move constructivism toward this theoretical register. In particular, I focus on the framing influence of Mustafa Emirbayer's “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology,” showing how key theoretical concerns articulated there have resonated with the constructivist critique of rationalist and structuralist explan…
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations
The case of the first genocide of the 20th century, committed by German colonial troops against Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia, poses a significant ethical and political challenge not only in practice but also for International Relations theory and theorising. We develop our critical analysis by building on postcolonial critiques of eurocentrism in IR and world politics, and on critical historiographies of the discipline. In …
Two (?) Lion Reliefs from Iron Age Moab
The collection of the Karak Archaeological Museum contains two carved basalt slabs, both of which show the rear parts and hindquarters of a leonine figure. Although the two slabs differ vastly in their state of preservation, a comparison of their physical properties and iconographic features suggests that the two reliefs originally formed a matching pair and were part of a single architectural feature. Comparing the slabs to the well-known corpus…
On the history and politics of the social turn
The emergence of social theory is closely linked to the transformations inaugurated by the rise of a distinctly capitalist modernity from the second half of the eighteenth century onwards. In this article, I reconstruct the outlines of two strands of social theorising that emerged in response to the radical challenges posed by ‘the great transformation’ on the one hand, and the French Revolution on the other. I juxtapose two responses to the tran…
Pushing the constellations of recognition
For decades now, Axel Honneth has carefully and in meticulous detail reconstructed, presented, and defended a theory of recognition, the outlines of which he has retrieved from Hegel’s writings, an
Positions and relations again
This is a reply to:Onuf, Nicholas. 2014. “Position, distribution, restoration: Martin Weber’s theory of theory.” Global Discourse. 4 (1): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.855080.Graham, Mary. 2014. “Aboriginal notions of relationality and positionalism: a reply to Weber.” Global Discourse. 4 (1): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.895931.Davies, Matt. 2014. “A reply to Martin Weber, ‘As if “relations” mattered’.” Global …
Between ‘isses’ and ‘oughts
The social theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations has, among other themes, created a much-enlarged space for treating norms as efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivists’ inclinations toward what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined. …
Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings
In economic analyses of asymmetric information, better-informed agents are assumed capable of reproducing the judgments of less-informed agents. The authors discuss a systematic violation of this assumption that they call the "curse of knowledge." Better-informed agents are unable to ignore private information even when it is in their interest to do so; more information is not always better. Comparing judgments made in individual-level and market…
Laying Sound Foundations for S ocial I dentity T heory‐Inspired E uropean U nion Attitude Research
There is a growing body of literature examining the influence of social identification on E uropean U nion ( EU ) attitudes. Broadly speaking, this literature can be divided into two strands. One strand examines the way social identity affects support for EU integration quantitatively, using opinion poll data. The other draws (often loosely) on social constructivism, using qualitative research methods. S ocial I dentity T heory ( SIT ) is increas…
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory
Between ‘isses’ and ‘oughts
The social theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations has, among other themes, created a much-enlarged space for treating norms as efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivists’ inclinations toward what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined. …
The critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, and the ‘social turn’ in IR
Critical theory in the Frankfurt School mould has made various inroads into IR theorising, and provided many a stimulus to attempts at redressing the ‘positivist’ imbalance in the discipline. Many of the conceptual offerings of the Frankfurt School perspective have received critical attention in IR theory debates, and while these are still ongoing, the purpose of this discussion is not to attempt to contribute by furthering either methodological …
On the history and politics of the social turn
The emergence of social theory is closely linked to the transformations inaugurated by the rise of a distinctly capitalist modernity from the second half of the eighteenth century onwards. In this article, I reconstruct the outlines of two strands of social theorising that emerged in response to the radical challenges posed by ‘the great transformation’ on the one hand, and the French Revolution on the other. I juxtapose two responses to the tran…
True Overconfidence in Interval Estimates
Overconfidence is often regarded as one of the most prevalent judgment biases. Several studies show that overconfidence can lead to suboptimal decisions of investors, managers, or politicians. Recent research, however, questions whether overconfidence should be regarded as a bias and shows that standard “overconfidence” findings can easily be explained by different degrees of knowledge of agents plus a random error in predictions. We contribute t…
Engaging Globalization
Globalization implies global social and political change. Irrespective of whether one identifies globalization as primarily driven by economics or as a cultural phenomenon occurring in the context of technological change and a transformation of lifestyles, it is now clear that the social sciences face the challenge of somehow 'making sense of it. The study of international relations, it could be argued, has been complicated by this challenge, and…
As if ‘relations’ mattered
The study of international relations has, by and large, been the study of ‘international positions’. The article supplements this claim with the aim of recasting debates around orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the social and political sciences through an intermediary discussion of the limitations of what is criticized as ‘positionalism’. By drawing on examples, the juxtaposition of relational to positional analysis is supplemented with an account …
The Politics of Global Health Governance
An evaluation of global health governance (GHG) may help advance conceptual as well as political debates on global governance. Thus the article analyzes and interprets shifts in GHG discourses against the backdrop of two phases of global governance, in broad-brush terms social democracy and neoliberalism. Insights are derived from a consideration of the competing political projects which underpin respective GHG conceptions, the actors which repre…
Information Aggregation with Random Ordering
In economic models, it is usually assumed that agents aggregate their private information with all available public information correctly and completely. In this experiment, we identify subjects’ updating procedures and analyse the consequences for the aggregation process. Decisions can be based on private information with known quality and on the observed decisions of other participants. In this setting with random ordering, information cascades…
Relational Indigenous systems
Ontological parochialism persists in International Relations (IR) scholarship among gestures towards relational ontological reinvention. Meanwhile, the inter-polity relations of many Indigenous peoples pre-date contemporary IR and tend to be substantively relational. This situation invites rethinking of IR's understandings of political order and inter-polity relations. We take up this task by laying out necessary methodological innovations to eng…
The Normative Grammar of Relational Analysis
This Theory Note focuses on the resurgent interest in relationalism in constructivist IR theory. I begin by contextualizing current efforts to move constructivism toward this theoretical register. In particular, I focus on the framing influence of Mustafa Emirbayer's “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology,” showing how key theoretical concerns articulated there have resonated with the constructivist critique of rationalist and structuralist explan…
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations
The case of the first genocide of the 20th century, committed by German colonial troops against Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia, poses a significant ethical and political challenge not only in practice but also for International Relations theory and theorising. We develop our critical analysis by building on postcolonial critiques of eurocentrism in IR and world politics, and on critical historiographies of the discipline. In …
Ontologies, depth, and otherwise
This contribution investigates in some more depth a limited set of the premises on which Wight's argument for a ‘scientific realist’ approach to the study of International Relations (IR) rests, an approach, which, according to him, raises the hitherto unacknowledged centrality of ontological premises to all forms of knowledge and human action. Positing ‘Politics as Ontology’ (the book's subtitle) permits, so Wight's argument goes, the conduct of …
The concept of solidarity in the study of world politics
The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which have remained, by and large, murky and unclear. Below, I argue that the concept of solidarity must be understood together with its normative implications, that these implications matter per se , and that this has yet to be realised in contexts where the concept is used in IR
Keeping it real? Kant and systemic approaches to IR – a reply to Harrison
Refinements in reception and application of philosophemes in International Relations theory are always welcome, and particularly in cases where distortions abound as the result of selective importation. One such case is, without doubt, the philosophy of I. Kant. Until rather recently, few attempts were made in IR theory to interface the reception of his writings in ‘anthropology, philosophy of history, politics and pedagogy’ with some more holist…
The ‘nature’ of environmental services
The article traces the contradictions in the current phase of the formation of Global Trade Governance via an inquiry into the discourse surrounding environmental services. The analysis elucidates the inadvertent politicization of environmental services, which paradoxically emerges within a context of attempts to insulate and depoliticize the Trade in Services agenda more generally. It provides an interpretation of this dynamic from a political e…
Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’
This short response considers some challenges that may be faced by learners keen to engage with ‘Indigenous International Relations’ following the lecture by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg. I sketch two such challenges under the headers of ‘misunderstandings’ and ‘misrecognition’. My aim is to disclose what have been persistent problems in IR when ‘new’ knowledges are tapped to inaugurate ‘turns’ or reinvigorations of conceptual inventories and con…
The Battle of the Seelow Heights, April 1945
During the final days of World War II, the Red Army’s Berlin Operation culimnated in the capture of the Reich’s capital and the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. Between 16 and 19 April 1945, the most intense fighting of the operation ensued in what is now called the Battle of the Seelow Heights. Due to the vast quantities of men and matériel involved in the fighting, an extensive militarised landscape has developed within the forests of …
A puzzle
In this article, I take up the case of the build-up to Madagascar’s 2009 political crisis in order to provide a critical account of the politics of sustainable development from the ground up. Madagascar has been positioned by the international community as a HIPC, and by virtue of its geographical and ecological situation as a ‘biodiversity hotspot’. Against this backdrop, I focus on efforts by USAID, the World Bank, international investors, and …
Pushing the constellations of recognition
For decades now, Axel Honneth has carefully and in meticulous detail reconstructed, presented, and defended a theory of recognition, the outlines of which he has retrieved from Hegel’s writings, an
It's over; I've seen it on TV’
Quick vignettes on the meaning of political events are an undertaking fraught with risks. Not least by facilitating overstatements, biases, and shortcuts, the latter both empirically and conceptual
Participative landscape planning in rural areas
Conversations in International Relations
This in-depth conversation with Professor Andrew Linklater engages with his academic biography, his intellectual contribution to the field of International Relations (IR) and his reflections on the current state of, and challenges facing, the discipline of (IR). It thereby traces his biography from his undergraduate days in Aberdeen, via his first lectureships in Australia, back to the United Kingdom and eventually to Aberystwyth University; it e…
On Law in Economy and Society
The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings
In economic analyses of asymmetric information, better-informed agents are assumed capable of reproducing the judgments of less-informed agents. The authors discuss a systematic violation of this assumption that they call the "curse of knowledge." Better-informed agents are unable to ignore private information even when it is in their interest to do so; more information is not always better. Comparing judgments made in individual-level and market…
Recent developments in modeling preferences
Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Rationales Entscheiden
Acute Behavioral Toxicity of Pyridostigmine or Soman in Primates
Effects of a peripherally active carbamate (pyridostigmine bromide) and a centrally active organophosphate (OP) nerve agent (soman) on performance by rhesus monkeys of a compensatory tracking (primate equilibrium platform, or PEP) task were measured using a balanced Latin-square design to determine the ED50 for pyridostigmine (0.66 mg/kg) and the up-and-down (titration) method to determine the ED50 for soman (2.50 micrograms/kg). We concluded tha…
Kelterborn, Rudolf
An Introduction to International Relations
Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives provides comprehensive coverage of its subject while capturing distinctively Australian perspectives and concerns. Designed for undergraduate students this textbook brings together leading Australian scholars to present lively introductory analyses of the theories, actors, issues, institutions and processes that animate international relations today. Introduction to International Re…
Competing Political Visions
It has long been recognized that environmental concerns transcend borders. As a result, they pose problems, the solution of which requires new forms of cooperation beyond the conception of international politics as structured by the interests of nation-states. Today, such cooperation has to be sought in the context of emerging global governance. This article traces differing conceptions of the political nature of global governance in the context …
Viewpoints
Engaging Globalization
Globalization implies global social and political change. Irrespective of whether one identifies globalization as primarily driven by economics or as a cultural phenomenon occurring in the context of technological change and a transformation of lifestyles, it is now clear that the social sciences face the challenge of somehow 'making sense of it. The study of international relations, it could be argued, has been complicated by this challenge, and…
Keeping it real? Kant and systemic approaches to IR – a reply to Harrison
Refinements in reception and application of philosophemes in International Relations theory are always welcome, and particularly in cases where distortions abound as the result of selective importation. One such case is, without doubt, the philosophy of I. Kant. Until rather recently, few attempts were made in IR theory to interface the reception of his writings in ‘anthropology, philosophy of history, politics and pedagogy’ with some more holist…
Information Aggregation with Random Ordering
In economic models, it is usually assumed that agents aggregate their private information with all available public information correctly and completely. In this experiment, we identify subjects’ updating procedures and analyse the consequences for the aggregation process. Decisions can be based on private information with known quality and on the observed decisions of other participants. In this setting with random ordering, information cascades…
The Politics of Global Health Governance
An evaluation of global health governance (GHG) may help advance conceptual as well as political debates on global governance. Thus the article analyzes and interprets shifts in GHG discourses against the backdrop of two phases of global governance, in broad-brush terms social democracy and neoliberalism. Insights are derived from a consideration of the competing political projects which underpin respective GHG conceptions, the actors which repre…
The ‘nature’ of environmental services
The article traces the contradictions in the current phase of the formation of Global Trade Governance via an inquiry into the discourse surrounding environmental services. The analysis elucidates the inadvertent politicization of environmental services, which paradoxically emerges within a context of attempts to insulate and depoliticize the Trade in Services agenda more generally. It provides an interpretation of this dynamic from a political e…
The critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, and the ‘social turn’ in IR
Critical theory in the Frankfurt School mould has made various inroads into IR theorising, and provided many a stimulus to attempts at redressing the ‘positivist’ imbalance in the discipline. Many of the conceptual offerings of the Frankfurt School perspective have received critical attention in IR theory debates, and while these are still ongoing, the purpose of this discussion is not to attempt to contribute by furthering either methodological …
On the Critique of the Subject of Development
Contemporary development discourse remains framed substantially and methodologically in terms of individualist premises. The advancement of individual well-being, even in more heterodox accounts, serves as a normative backdrop to policy recommendations, in which development discourse unquestioningly reproduces core tenets of liberal thought—tenets which, this paper argues, need to be critically interrogated. The paper conducts this interrogation …
The concept of solidarity in the study of world politics
The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which have remained, by and large, murky and unclear. Below, I argue that the concept of solidarity must be understood together with its normative implications, that these implications matter per se , and that this has yet to be realised in contexts where the concept is used in IR
Rationales Entscheiden
A Statement of Intent
An Introduction to International Relations
Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, …
Can Auditors be Independent? Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Client Type
Recent regulatory initiatives stress that an independent oversight board, rather than the management board, should assume the role of auditors' client. In an experiment, we test whether the type of client affects auditors' independence. Unique features of the German institutional setting enable us to realistically vary the type of auditors' client as our treatment variable: we portray the client either as the management preferring aggressive acco…
True Overconfidence in Interval Estimates
Overconfidence is often regarded as one of the most prevalent judgment biases. Several studies show that overconfidence can lead to suboptimal decisions of investors, managers, or politicians. Recent research, however, questions whether overconfidence should be regarded as a bias and shows that standard “overconfidence” findings can easily be explained by different degrees of knowledge of agents plus a random error in predictions. We contribute t…
Ontologies, depth, and otherwise
This contribution investigates in some more depth a limited set of the premises on which Wight's argument for a ‘scientific realist’ approach to the study of International Relations (IR) rests, an approach, which, according to him, raises the hitherto unacknowledged centrality of ontological premises to all forms of knowledge and human action. Positing ‘Politics as Ontology’ (the book's subtitle) permits, so Wight's argument goes, the conduct of …
Laying Sound Foundations for S ocial I dentity T heory‐Inspired E uropean U nion Attitude Research
There is a growing body of literature examining the influence of social identification on E uropean U nion ( EU ) attitudes. Broadly speaking, this literature can be divided into two strands. One strand examines the way social identity affects support for EU integration quantitatively, using opinion poll data. The other draws (often loosely) on social constructivism, using qualitative research methods. S ocial I dentity T heory ( SIT ) is increas…
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