Oliver Kessler

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Oliver Kessler (born October 16, 1973 in Karlsruhe ; actually Oliver Alexander Edler von Hayek-Keßler ) is a German political scientist and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kessler began studying economics and political science at the University of Munich in 1994, graduating in 1999 with a degree in economics . Kessler worked for Friedrich Kratochwil during his studies . This was followed by a Master of Arts in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom , which he graduated in 2000. He then returned to Munich, where he began his doctorate with a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria , which he completed in 2004 as a Ph.D. completed. During his doctorate he spent a few months at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School and from 2002 to 2003 at the Castrén Institute for International Law at the University of Helsinki . After successfully completing his doctorate, Kessler switched to the Institute for World Society at Bielefeld University as a post-doctoral student , before he was appointed to the university's academic council for international relations in 2005 . There he received his habilitation in 2009 with a thesis on International Relations and the Problem of World Society .

From 2008 various substitute professorships followed, such as 2008/2009 in Bielefeld for political sociology, 2009/2010 at the University of Munich for international political theory and 2010/2011 at the University of Erfurt for international relations. In the 2011/2012 winter semester, Kessler accepted a professorship for History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands ; Among other things, a bachelor's degree in international relations was established there in connection with his chair in 2014 . He is also an international scholar at Kyung Hee University in South Korea .

Kessler is married to Sophie von Hayek.

The main focus of research is international relations, in particular international political economy .

Publications (selection)

  • with Brent J. Steele and Harry Gould (Eds.): Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations , Routledge, London 2018/2019, ISBN 978-1-138-08976-1 .
  • Kessler is editor of the series Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie , to which z. B. include the following titles:
    • The international political economy of the world financial crisis , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16535-6 .
    • The International Political Economy of Risk: An Analysis Using the Example of the Discussion of Reforming the Financial Markets , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15490-9 .
  • SME Policy in Europe and the Political Economy of Risk (with Charles Dannreuther) London, Routledge, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel directory of the University of Erfurt from June 28, 2012 [no longer available (as of 2013)].
  2. ↑ a b c CV from November 2009 ( Memento from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 67 kB).
  3. ↑ a b Vita ( Memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on uni-erfurt.de (as of September 5, 2013).
  4. ↑ IB studies on the chair's homepage at uni-erfurt.de (as of March 28, 2019).
  5. ↑ Vita Kessler ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on brandtschool.de (as of September 5, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edler von Hayek-Keßler, Oliver Alexander (full name); Edler von Hayek-Kessler, Oliver Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe