Kees Van Der Pijl

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Kees Van Der Pijl (born June 15, 1947 in Dordrecht , Netherlands ) is a Dutch political scientist . His main research interests include international relations and international political economy .

General

From 1965 to 1970 Van Der Pijl studied law at the University of Leiden . After his military service from 1967 to 1969, he specialized in political science and finally switched to social sciences at the University of Amsterdam in 1973 . In 1983 he received his doctorate with a thesis on imperialism and the formation of classes in the North Atlantic area at the University of Amsterdam.

Van Der Pijl began his university career as a lecturer in the field of international relations in Amsterdam. In 2000 he was appointed Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex . From 2001 to 2006 he was the director of the Center of Global Political Economy . In 2008 he was awarded the German Memorial Prize for his work Nomads, Empires, States . In 2012 he retired as Professor of International Relations.

Van der Pijl belonged to the so-called Amsterdam School of Neogramscianism in IB theory. As part of his work, van der Pijl also dealt scientifically with the Bilderberg group .

After van der Pijl spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2018 , the University of Sussex investigated him and demanded a public apology. Van der Pijl refused and instead renounced his status as emeritus in 2019 .

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Een Amerikaans plan voor Europa: Achtergronden van het ontstaan ​​van de EEG , Amsterdam 1978.
  • The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class , London 1984 and London 2012 (2nd edition).
  • Pioneers in world politics: Introduction to international politics from the perspective of the history of ideas , Opladen 1996.
  • Transnational Classes and International Relations , London (et al.) 1998.
  • Global Rivalries - From the Cold War to Iraq , London 2006.
  • Modes of foreign relations and political economy, Vol. 1: Nomads, Empires, States , London (et al.) 2007.
  • Modes of foreign relations and political economy, Vol. 2: The foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion , London (et al.) 2010.
  • Modes of foreign relations and political economy, Vol. 3: The Discipline of Western Supremacy , London (et al.) 2014.
  • (Ed.): Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production , Cheltenham 2016, ISBN 978-1-78471-258-7
  • The launch: MH17, Ukraine and the new Cold War , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-89438-649-8

Essays

  • A LOCKEAN EUROPE? , in: New Left Review , No. 37, January / February 2006.
  • From Gorbachev to Kosovo: Atlantic Rivalries and the Re-Incorporation of Eastern Europe , in: Review of International Political Economy, Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 275-310.
  • A Theory of Transnational Revolution: Universal History According to Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Its Implications , in: Review of International Political Economy, Volume 3, No. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 287-318.
  • Beyond the European Union: A Global Perspective for the European Left , published on rosalux.de (homepage of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ) on March 11, 2007. Available here.
  • What Happened to the European Option for Eastern Europe? , in: Bieler, Andreas / Morton, Adam D .: Social Forces in the Making of New Europe - The Restructuring of European Social Relations in the Global Political Economy , Hampshire 2001, pp. 185–204.
  • (with Otto Holman) The Capitalist Class in the European Union , in: Kourvetaris, George A .; Moschonas, Andreas (eds.): The Impact of European Integration , Westport 1996, pp. 55-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kees van der Pijl: The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class , London 1984.
  2. ↑ Why is Bilderberg never reported? - Interview with Kees van der Pijl, standard.at, April 22, 2009.
  3. ^ Samuel Osbourne: Sussex University professor who claimed Israelis carried out 9/11 must have emeritus status removed, Jewish group says . The Independent.
  4. ^ Kees Van der Pijl: Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11, or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex . In: academia.edu . March 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Pijl, Kees Van Der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht , the Netherlands