Andreas Behnke
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+44 (0) 118 378 7129
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Associate Professor
- Convenor of PO3WIR, PIM93 WIR, and PIM64 ISS
- Director of Studies of the MA International Security Studies
- Politics and International Relations Study Abroad Co-ordinator
Areas of interest
- International political theory, in particular Carl Schmitt
- Critical approaches to war, security and geopolitics
- The politics of fashion
Postgraduate supervision
I am interested in supervising students in line with my areas of interest.Background
I joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in September 2006. Prior to this appointment, I held positions as a teaching fellow at Stockholm University, Visiting Research Scholar at the London School of Economics, and Lecturer at Towson University, MD.Academic qualifications
- MSc Political Science, Stockholm University (1993)
- PhD Political Science, Stockholm University (2007)
Publications
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Behnke, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5575-6927
(2021)
Fashioning the Other: fashion as an epistemology of translation.
In:
Capan, Z.
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dos Reis, F.
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Grasten, M.
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The Politics of Translation in International Relations.
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
9783030568856
- Behnke, A. (2020) Drone warfare and the emergence of spaces of exception. In: Bishai, L. , (eds.) Law, Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency. Palgrave Macmillan , London, UK. pp. 37-65. ISBN: 9783030449599 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44959-9
- Behnke, A. (2018) Stalingrad 1942/43: the anti-myth of German national identity. In: Heuser, B. and Leoussi, A. , (eds.) Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1588-1943: From the Armada to Stalingrad. Pen & Sword , Barnsley. pp. 133-147. ISBN: 9781526727411
- Behnke, A. (2016) Dressing the sovereign: fashion as a symbolic form of sovereignty. E-International Relations ISSN: 2053-8626
- Behnke, A. (2016) (Un)dressing the sovereign: fashion as symbolic form. In: Behnke, A. , (eds.) The international politics of fashion: being fab in a dangerous world. Popular culture and world politics Routledge , London . pp. 115-145. ISBN: 9781138788985
- Behnke, A. (2016) Introduction. In: Behnke, A. , (eds.) The international politics of fashion: being fab in a dangerous world. Popular culture and world politics Routledge , London . pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9781138788985
- Behnke, A. , eds. (2016) The international politics of fashion: being fab in a dangerous world. Popular culture and world politics Routledge , London . pp 206. ISBN: 9781138788985
- Behnke, A. (2014) Dressed to kill: the sartorial code of Anders Behring Breivik. In: Malvern, S. and Koureas, G. , (eds.) Terrorist Transgressions. Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist. I.B. Tauris , London. pp. 137-156. ISBN: 9781780767017
- Behnke, A. (2012) Fear as sovereign strategy and the popular tactics of laughter. In: Hellmich, C. and Behnke, A. , (eds.) Knowing al-Qaeda: the epistemology of terrorism. Ashgate , Farnham. pp. 101-120. ISBN: 9781409423669
- Behnke, A. and Hellmich, C. (2012) Introduction: al-Qaeda and terrorism as a challenge to knowledge. In: Hellmich, C. and Behnke, A. , (eds.) Knowing al-Qaeda: the epistemology of terrorism. Ashgate , Farnham. pp. 1-9. ISBN: 9781409423669
- Behnke, A. (2012) The theme that dare not speak its name: Geopolitik, geopolitics and German foreign policy since unification. In: Guzzini, S. , (eds.) The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises. Cambridge Studies in International Relations Cambridge University Press (124). , Cambridge. pp. 210-262. ISBN: 978107027343
- Behnke, A. and Hellmich, C. , eds. (2012) Knowing Al-Qaeda: the epistemology of terrorism. Ashgate pp 220. ISBN: 9781409423669
- Behnke, A. (2012) NATO's security discourse after the Cold War: representing the West. New International Relations Routledge , London. pp 234. ISBN: 9780415584531
- Behnke, A. (2012) Eternal peace, perpetual war? A critical investigation into Kant's conceptualisations of war. Journal of International Relations and Development , 15 (2). pp. 250-271. ISSN: 1581-1980 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jird.2011.23
- Behnke, A. (2011) Recognizing the enemy: terrorism as symbolic violence. In: Lindemann, T. and Ringmar, E. , (eds.) The International Politics of Recognition. Paradigm , Boulder, CO. pp. 189-206. ISBN: 9781594518096
- Behnke, A. (2008) 'Eternal Peace' as the graveyard of the political: a critique of Kant's Zum Ewigen Frieden. Millennium: Journal of International Studies , 36 (3). pp. 513-531. ISSN: 1477-9021 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03058298080360030701
- Behnke, A. (2008) Crisis management as a civilisatory project: NATO's experience in the Balkans. In: Eskola, S. , (eds.) Crisis Management in Crisis? Research Reports. No. 40. National Defence University , Helsinki, Finland. pp. 25-45.
- Behnke, A. and Bishai, L. (2007) War, violence and the displacement of the political. In: Odysseos, L. and Petito, F. , (eds.) The international political thought of Carl Schmitt. Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order. Routledge , London. pp. 107-123. ISBN: 9780415417549
- Behnke, A. (2007) Re-presenting the West. NATO's security discourse after the end of the Cold War. US-AB , Stockholm. pp 275. ISBN: 9789171555229
- Behnke, A. (2007) Presence and creation. A few (meta-)critical comments on the C.A.S.E. manifesto. Security Dialogue , 38 (1). pp. 105-111. ISSN: 1460-3640 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010607075975
- Behnke, A. (2006) No way out: Desecuritisation, emancipation and the eternal return of the political - a reply to Aradau. Journal of International Relations and Development , 9 (1). pp. 62-69. ISSN: 1581-1980 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jird.1800070
- Behnke, A. (2006) The re-enchantment of war in popular culture. Millennium: Journal of International Studies , 34 (3). pp. 937-949. ISSN: 1477-9021 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03058298060340030601
- Behnke, A. (2006) The politics of geopolitik in post-cold war Germany. Geopolitics , 11 (3). pp. 396-419. ISSN: 1557-3028 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650040600767875