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...
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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...
In a new article that has just been published online by International Studies Quarterly and will appear in one of the journal's next print issues, Sebastian Schindler and I argue that practice theory offers a distinct vantage point on how empirical analysis...
From 27 through 30 March 2019 I will be participating in the 60th Annual Conference of the International Studies Association in Toronto. Together with Tracey Blasenheim (University of Minnesota), I organize a panel on the blurry boundaries of war ("...
I recently moved to New York City to start working on a new research project on practices of diplomacy and warfare (