Conference Papers and Presentations
- ORGANISED WORKSHOPS, ROUNDTABLES, PANELS or SECTIONS (as Chair, Convenor)
(2017) GGS-Sektion Normen und Wandel in der Weltpolitik-Workshop "Interpretative Approaches in IR and international practice" (mit Dr. Frank Gadinger, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research a. d. Universität Duisburg/Essen), 13. Juli 2017, JLU Giessen. Programm.
(2017) Section Realist Visions of World Order and Foreign Policy in Times of Global Power Shifts, 5th Global Conference of nthe WISC / Taiwan Association of International Relations (TAIR) Taipei/Taiwan, 1-3 April 2017 (Section Convenor/Chair and Paper Giver, with panels on Avoiding War in East Asia – Realist Perspectives / Rethinking Realism in Times of Global Power Shifts: Theoretical Innovations / Power and State Behaviour / The Foreign Policies of Great Powers: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism).
(2016) 3rd EWIS-Workshops 2016, European International Studies Association (EISA), Rethinking Responsibility: Military Humanitarianism beyond Western States (Workshop Convenor, with Mischa Hansel), University Tübingen, 6-8 April 2016 (Workshop Program / EWIS-Program).
(2015) EISA's 9th Pan-European Conference on IR, 23-26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily: Section Convenor Reflecting a European Century of Violence: Reappraising Traditions of International Political Theory in Europe.
(2015) Panel and Roundtable After Hegemony: Reconstructing European IR Traditions, International Studies Association (ISA) 56th Annual Convention, New Orléans/LA, 18-21 February 2015.
(2014) Panel and Roundtable After Hegemony: Reconstructing European IR Traditions, Forth Global International Studies Conference of the World International Studies Committee (WISC), Goethe University Frankfurt, 6-9 August 2014.
(2013) Realist Thinking in Europe, EISA Exploratory Symposia, Rapallo, 30 October – 2 November 2013
(2012) Panel Chair Power, Knowledge and Structure in International Relations Theory, British International Studies Association (BISA) & ISA Joint International Conference 2012, Edinburgh, 20-22 June 2012.
(2012) Roundtable Bridging the Transatlantic Divide: European and American Realism Reconsidered, 53th ISA Annual Convention, San Diego/CA, 1-4 April 2012.
(2011) Workshop Bridging the Transatlantic Divide: European and American Realism Reconsidered, 52th ISA Annual Convention, Montréal/Québec, 15-19 March 2011.
(2009) Panel Bringing Realism Back In, 5th General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), University Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009.
(2003) Workshop Convenor „Ideen, Wissen und Diskurse: Neuere Konzepte der Theorien Internationaler Beziehungen der AG „IBdiskurse“ im Rahmen der Jahreskonferenz des IPC der Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, 16.-18. Oktober 2003.
- PAPER & PRESENTATIONS (2007 - )
(2017) Towards a responsible power: Germany's new role in Europe, Nordic Political Science Association (NOPA)’s XVIII Political Science Congress, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 7-10 August 2017.
(2017) Realism as a European Tradition in IR, EISA's 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017.
(2017) Balancing against threats, bandwagoning with power(s), or what? South-Korea and the US-Chinese power competition in East-Asia, 5th Global Conference of the WISC / Taiwan Association of International Relations (TAIR) Taipei/Taiwan, 1-3 April 2017.
Rethinking Realism in Times of Global Power Shifts: Theoretical Innovations (Panel Discussant), WISC Taipei.
Rethinking Realism in Times of Global Power Shifts: Power and State Behaviour (Panel Chair), WISC Taipei
(2017) A dangerous responsibility: Protecting national minorities, religious fellows or irredentism movements under the R2P umbrella (Paper), 58th ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore/Maryland, 22-25 February 2017.
(2016) Another untold story: Morgenthau, IR enlightenment, and the hidden dialogue with Adorno on the responsibility of intellectuals, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 12 October 2016.
(2016) Balancing against threats, or bandwagoning with power(s), or what? Südkorea im Kontext des chinesisch-amerikanischen Kollisionskurses in Südostasien, Autorenworkshop Sicherheitspolitische Dynamiken in Asien, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Berlin, 26./27. September 2016.
(2016) "Clinton oder Trump - was lässt sich für die US-Außenpolitik erwarten?", Einladung "Die Brücke" Deutsch-Amerikanischer Klub Gießen, Hotel Köhler, Westanlage 33-35, Dienstag, 6. September 2016.
(2016) Forbidden Fruit? R2P, Humanitarian Reasoning and Regime Change - or Support (Paper, m. M. Hansel), EISA's 10th Pan-European Conference on IR, Izmir, 7-10 September 2016.
Realists, please take Ideology Seriously Again: Georgian War, the Crimea occupation and Irredentism in Russia's foreign policy (Paper), EISA Izmir.
Foreign policy analysis and neoclassical realism: challenges and advances (Roundtable), EISA Izmir
Russia's Foreign Policy and its Neighbours (Panel Chair and Discussant), EISA Izmir.
(2016) Deutschlands Rolle in der Welt: Anmerkungen zu Verantwortung, Normen und Bündnissen - Noch gezähmte Zivil- oder bereits führende Regionalmacht?, Workshop Deutschland als europäische Führungsmacht - Realität oder Illusion? der Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 10./11. Juni 2016.
(2016) Forbidden Fruit? Humanitarian Reasoning and the New Authoritarian Interventionism (with Mischa Hansel), 3rd European Workshops on International Security (EWIS), Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect: Military Humanitarianism beyond Western States, Tübingen, 6-8 April 2016 (Workshop Program / EWIS-Program)
(2016) Rethinking Responsibility: Towards a New Authoritarian Interventionism? (m. M. Hansel), 57th ISA Annual Convention, Atlanta/GA, 16-19 March 2016
Security, Geopolitics, or Irredentism? Explaining Russian Foreign Policy from a Neoclassical Realist Perspective, ISA Atlanta.
Neoclassical Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis: The Water's Edge (Panel Discussant, with Michael C. Williams, Joerg Friedrichs and Ilai Saltzman), ISA Atlanta.
State makes War and War makes the State: The History of War (Panel Discussant, with Torbjoern Knutsen), ISA Atlanta.
Gießener Ringvorlesung am IfP WiSe 2015/16: Die Schutzverantwortung - Interventionsinstrument irredentistischer Staaten? (9.12.2015)
(2015) Why reconstructing traditions in IR (Roundtable Reconstructing IR Traditions in Europe, with Chr. Brown, K.E. Jorgensen, F. Rösch), EISA's 9th Pan-European Conference on IR, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, 23-26 September 2015.
The IR enlightenment revisited - Realism as a distinctively German tradition (Panel The Realist Tradition, with P. Jansson, K.E. Jorgensen, N. Lebow, K. Mikelis), EISA Giardini Naxos.
(2015) After Hegemony: Reconstructing European IR Traditions (Panel & Roundtable Reconstructing IR Traditions in Europe, with K.E. Jorgensen, H. Turton, A. Alejandro, F. Rösch), 56th ISA Annual Convention, New Orléans/LA, 18-21 February 2015.
Gießener Ringvorlesung WiSe 2014/15: Die R2P - Hegemoniales Projekt des Westens oder Schritt zur Konstitutionalisierung des Völkerrechts? (Mi., 21.1.2015)
(2014) Emigré Scholarship and Knowledge Transfer in IR, Paper A European Discipline in America? The case of Hans J. Morgenthau, Forth Global International Studies Conference of WISC, Goethe University Frankfurt, 6-9 August 2014.
After Hegemony: Reconstructing European IR Traditions: The case of Neoclassical Realism, WISC Frankfurt.
(2013) Realist Theories and European Foreign and Security Policy, ECPR Standing Group IR / EISA 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw, 18-21 September 2013.
(2013) Normative Dimensionen des Global Governance-Begriffs, Vortrag am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Kassel, 6. Juli 2013.
(2013) Neoclassical Realism – Simple Supplement or Subtle Refinement of Waltz?, Workshop Theorising Domestic and International Constraints on Foreign Policy Decision Making, EISA’s 1st European Workshop in International Studies (EWIS), Tartu, 5-8 June 2013.
(2013) Roundtable Morgenthau, Realism, and the Concept of the Political, 54th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco/CA, 3-6 April 2013
Back to the Future? Germany as a European Power?, ISA San Francisco.
(2012) Gustav Stresemann – ein realistischer Vordenker der Europapolitik? Stresemann-Werkstatt „Denk ich an Europa…Konzeptionen von Europa und Europapolitik seit den Zwischenkriegsjahren.“ Stresemann-Gesellschaft, Staatskanzlei Mainz, 5.-7. Juli 2012.
(2012) Roundtable The GPS of a Discipline Going Global, BISA-ISA Joint International Conference, Edinburgh, 20-22 June 2012.
Moral Man versus Power Politics: The ‘Idealist-Realist Puzzle’ in Morgenthau’s Thought, BISA-ISA Edinburgh.
(2011) Hans J. Morgenthau und die ’Twenty Years’ Crisis’. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Realismus. Dritte Offene Tagung der Sektion “Internationale Politik” der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 6.-7. Oktober 2011.
(2011) European Common Foreign and Security Policy from Realist Perspectives. Third Global International Studies Conference of the WISC, University Porto, 17-20 August 2011.
(2011) Sicherheitspolitik – Eine theoretische Annäherung an einen zentralen Begriff in der Lehre der Internationalen Beziehungen, Vortrag im Seminar „Wie sicher ist die Welt? Sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen und Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert“ der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Kooperation mit der Akademie Frankenwarte, Juli 2011.
(2011) Realism as ‘Critical Theory’? BISA Annual Conference, Manchester, 27-29 April 2011.
(2010) Neoclassical Realism: An Enhanced Foreign Policy Theory. ECPR’s Standing Group IR 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference, Stockholm (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, UI), 9-11 September 2010.
(2010) Towards a German Moment in IR: The Origins of Realist Political Thought. 51th ISA Annual Convention, New Orléans/LA, 17-20 February 2010.
(2009) The Tradition of Neoclassical Realism. Autoren-Workshop Realism and Foreign Policy, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, 10-12 November 2009.
(2009) Rethinking the Roots of Realism: Morgenthau’s German Years. 50th ISA Annual Convention, New York/NY, 15-18 February 2009.
(2008) A constitutive moment of Realism: Morgenthau in Frankfurt. Second ECPR Graduate Conference, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, 25-27 August 2008.
(2008) The Origins of Morgenthau’s Realism in the ’Twenty Years’ Crisis’. Second Global International Studies Conference of the WISC, University of Ljubljana, 23-26 July 2008.
(2008) Der amerikanische Neokonservatismus: Eine realistische Kritik, Vortrag auf einer Podiumsveranstaltung zur US-Außenpolitik, organisiert von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen e.V. (DGVN), der Hessischen Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung und dem Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Juni 2008.
(2008) Morgenthau wieder lesen! Eine realistische Kritik an der neokonservativen Programmatik in der US-Außenpolitik, Vortrag im Colloquium von Prof. Dr. Christian Hacke, Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Mai 2008.
(2008) Morgenthau Reconsidered: The Origin and Meaning of Morality in Realism. 49th ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco/CA, 26-29 March 2008.
(2007) Morgenthau wieder lesen! Eine realistische Kritik an der neokonservativen Programmatik in der US-Außenpolitik. Zweite Offene Tagung der Sektion „Internationale Politik“ der DVPW, TU Darmstadt, 13.-14. Juli 2007.
(2007) Morgenthau, US Foreign Policy, and Morality. Rereading a Classic. 48th ISA Annual Convention, Chicago/IL., 28 February - 3 March 2007.