Dirk Nabers

Dirk Nabers (born September 3, 1968 in Coesfeld ) is a German political scientist and sociologist. He is the head of the International Political Sociology department at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . His focus is on theories and methods of international relations, especially discourse theories and post-structuralism .

Life

From 1991 to 1997, Nabers studied political science, modern history, economic policy and sociology at the University of Münster , the International Christian University in Tokyo and the University of Kanagawa . In July 1999 he received his doctorate on "Collective Self-Defense in Japan's Security Strategy". In the same year he first became a research assistant at the University of Trier at the chair of Hanns W. Maull , and from 2000 onwards as a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies. In terms of content, he focused primarily on Japan and the question of security policy and regionalism. Another focus of work was international relations. Nabers was part of the editorial team of Japan aktuell .

In November 2005, Nabers completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Culture and collective action after September 11, 2001 - Germany, Japan and the USA". The book was published by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. His main focus of work shifted more and more to metatheoretical, discourse theoretical questions.

From August 2007 to September 2008 he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart. In July of the following year he was appointed head of GIGA Research Priority 4: Power, Norms and Governance in International Relations. In January 2010 he took up the position of Academic Director of the International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers in Hamburg.

Since October 2010 he has held the W3 professorship for international politics and society at Kiel University. When he took up this position, he also became head of the International Political Sociology department, which is part of the Institute for Social Sciences and emerged from the Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Studies . He is currently Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Sciences.

job

Nabers increasingly concentrates on discourse theoretical questions that are inspired by semiotic, post-Marxist and post-structuralist works. He particularly focuses on the possibilities of social change under the conditions of permanent social crisis, social differences, structural dislocations and political subjectivizations.

Nabers is u. a. Member of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the German Association for Political Science . In 2015 he was elected Program Chair 2015–2016 and Section Chair 2016–2017 of the International Political Sociology Section of the ISA.

Fonts (selection)

• Alliance against Terror: Germany, Japan and the USA . Springer-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-531-14803-8 .
• Multilateral Institutions in East Asia Pacific . Springer Fachmedien, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17060-2 .
• Editor with Nadine Godehardt (Ed.): Regional Orders and Regional Powers. Vol. 14. Routledge, 2011, ISBN 978-0-203-81598-4 .
• With Daniel Flemes and Detlef Nolte: power, leadership and regional order. Theories and Research Perspectives . Nomos, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8452-3812-8 .
• Editor with Robert G. Patman: The Bush leadership, the power of ideas, and the war on terror . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012, ISBN 978-1-315-61423-6 .
• A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics . London / New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-52807-0 .
• Editor with Frank A. Stengel and David B. MacDonald: Populism and World Politics. Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions . Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-04621-7 .
• Poststructuralist Ethics and International Relations . In: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press, 2019, doi: 10.1093 / acrefore / 9780190846626.013.371.
• Towards international relations beyond the mind . Journal of International Political Theory, 2018, doi: 10.1177 / 1755088218812910.
• Discursive Dislocation: Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Crisis in Global Politics . New Political Science 41 (2), 2019, doi: 10.1080 / 07393148.2019.1596684.
• With Frank A. Stengel: Symposium: The Contribution of Laclau's Discourse Theory to International Relations and International Political Economy, Introduction , New Political Science 41 (2), 2019, doi: 10.1080 / 07393148.2019.1596683 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Nabers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the International Political Sociology Department at Kiel University