On 15 November 2021, Christopher Daase (Goethe University Frankfurt) and I presented our paper on "The normativity of precedent and the use of force in international politics" at the weekly online seminar of the International Relations Research Group at the University of Edinburgh. We had an intense discussion and received plenty of helpful feedback on our joint research project.
From 13 to 17 September 2021, I participated in the Pan-European Conference on International Relations which this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic took place online. I presented a paper on Clausewitz's theory of war and served as discussant on the panel "Practices of war and peace".
At the European Workshops in International Studies, which took place online from 30 June to 2 July 2021, I participated in a workshop on "Prudence in world politics" that was convened by J. Samuel Barkin (University of Massachusetts) and Stefano Guzzini (Uppsala University). My paper on "Prudence as...
From 6 to 9 April 2021, I participated in the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). The conference was originally to be held in Las Vegas but due to the COVID-19 pandemic instead took place online. I spoke at two events: at a roundtable titled "Thinking with...
On 1 April 2021 a group of 23 researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and other institutions has begun working on a research project with the title "ConTrust: Trust in conflict - Political life under conditions of uncertainty". Its aim will...
On 8 October 2020 I organized a panel on norms and practices in international politics at the triennial meeting of the German Political Science Association's International Relations section which due to the COVID-19 pandemic had to take place online. In my own presentation on the panel, I probed the implicit normative presuppositions of the so-called "Practice Turn" in IR and proposed to interpret Clausewitz’ theory of war as a non-liberal theory of practice.
German Political Science Quarterly (PVS) just published my article about "Politics and its limits in Clausewitz's thought on war" on its homepage (open access,...
From 27 to 29 February 2020, Dorothy Noyes and I organized a conference on the power of examples and their various uses in global politics at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University. With colleagues from different disciplines we explored how examples are set, received, followed and contested in...
Together with Benjamin Braun (Princeton & Cologne) and Sebastian Schindler (Munich), I recently edited a special issue of the Journal of International Relations and Development with the title "Rethinking agency in International Relations: Performativity, performances and actor-networks"....
On Wednesday, 11 September, I will give a lunchtime talk at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (12 – 2pm, SIPA building, room 1302). I will present a new paper that interprets Clausewitz's theory of war as a theory of practice and explores what practice theorists...
From 13 to 17 September 2021, I participated in the Pan-European Conference on International Relations which this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic took place online. I presented a paper on Clausewitz's theory of war and served as discussant on the panel "Practices of war and peace".
At the European Workshops in International Studies, which took place online from 30 June to 2 July 2021, I participated in a workshop on "Prudence in world politics" that was convened by J. Samuel Barkin (University of Massachusetts) and Stefano Guzzini (Uppsala University). My paper on "Prudence as...
From 6 to 9 April 2021, I participated in the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). The conference was originally to be held in Las Vegas but due to the COVID-19 pandemic instead took place online. I spoke at two events: at a roundtable titled "Thinking with...
On 1 April 2021 a group of 23 researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and other institutions has begun working on a research project with the title "ConTrust: Trust in conflict - Political life under conditions of uncertainty". Its aim will...
German Political Science Quarterly (PVS) just published my article about "Politics and its limits in Clausewitz's thought on war" on its homepage (
From 27 to 29 February 2020, Dorothy Noyes and I organized a conference on the power of examples and their various uses in global politics at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University. With colleagues from different disciplines we explored how examples are set, received, followed and contested in...
Together with Benjamin Braun (Princeton & Cologne) and Sebastian Schindler (Munich), I recently edited a special issue of the Journal of International Relations and Development with the title "Rethinking agency in International Relations: Performativity, performances and actor-networks"....
On Wednesday, 11 September, I will give a lunchtime talk at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (12 – 2pm, SIPA building, room 1302). I will present a new paper that interprets Clausewitz's theory of war as a theory of practice and explores what practice theorists...