Felix Berenskötter Explained

Felix Berenskötter

Birth Date:

July 1975

Birth Place:

Germany

Alma Mater:

Module:

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Office1:	Head of Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London
Term Start1:	July 2019
Term End1:	January 2023
Successor1:	Matthew J. Nelson

Workplaces:

SOAS University of London

Thesis Title:

From Friends to Strangers: A Theory of Interstate Security Cooperation Applied to German-American Relations, 1945-1995

Thesis Year:

2008

Thesis Url:

http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2986

Doctoral Advisor:

Michael Cox

School Tradition:

Discipline:

Political science

Sub Discipline:

International relations

Notable Ideas:

Friendship and identity in international relations^[1] ^[2]

Known For:

Editor of (2004-2006)

Felix Sebastian Berenskötter (born July 1975^[3]) is a German political scientist who specializes in international relations theory, interpretivist approaches, concept analysis,^[4] European security, and transatlantic relations. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and the former Head of Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, and a member of the Governing Board of the European International Studies Association (EISA).^[5] ^[6] Berenskötter serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Security Studies^[7] and co-edits Bristol Studies in International Theory.^[8]

Biography

Following undergraduate studies in University of Hamburg (1997-2000), Berenskötter received a Masters Degree from Rutgers University (2000-2002), where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2008,^[9] where he was an editor of the journal Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2004-2006).

Before joining SOAS in 2009, Berenskötter was a research associate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London (2008-2009), and a research fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (2007-2008). Berenskötter was a Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University in 2019. Before becoming Head of Department, Berenskötter was an associate editor of the Journal of Global Security Studies and co-convened the 'Interpretivism in International Relations' Working Group of the British International Studies Association (BISA). He is founder and former chair of the ‘Theory Section’ of the International Studies Association (ISA).

Berenskötter served as Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS from July 2019 to January 2023.

Publications

Concepts in World Politics (2016, Sage)
Power in World Politics, with Michael J. Williams (2007, Routledge)

Notes and References

Book: Berenskötter, Felix . The International Studies Encyclopedia . . 2017 . 9780191842665 . Denemark . Robert A. . Identity in International Relations . Marlin-Bennett . Renée.
Web site: Vucetic . Srdjan . Identity and Foreign Policy . Oxford Bibliographies. Building on years of experience of teaching the subject at SOAS University of London (his long syllabi from the 2010s are all available online), Berenskoetter provides a lucid account of identity-based research in IR, suggesting in the end that an identity “perspective” or “lens” allows scholars to see previously overlooked and hidden of aspects international politics. Another call for focusing on identification over identity..
Web site: Felix Sebastian BERENSKOETTER personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK . 2023-01-02 . find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . en.
Web site: Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora: Theory, Methodology and Indicative Case Studies – Genealogies of Knowledge . 4 June 2021 . 2023-02-18 . en-GB.
Web site: Dr Felix Berenskoetter . 2023-01-02 . SOAS . en.
Web site: Felix Berenskötter . 2023-01-02 . EISA.
Web site: Editorial board . Oxford University Press.
Web site: Bristol Studies in International Theory . 2023-02-18 . . en-GB.
News: Felix Berenskötter . The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies .