Susanne Feske

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Susanne Feske (born August 22, 1957 in Hanover ; † February 12, 2020 in Münster) was a German political scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school in June 1976, Susanne Feske began studying political science at the Free University of Berlin , which she graduated in 1981 with a diploma and the grade “very good”. In 1990 she received her doctorate magna cum laude for a thesis on “The ASEAN states and regional security”. phil.

From 1982 to 1984 she was a research assistant at the Science and Politics Foundation , Ebenhausen, and from 1986 to 1988 she was a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the Institute for International Politics and Regional Studies at the Free University of Berlin, from 1987 also as a lecturer. From 1988 to 1989 she moved to the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg as a research assistant .

In 1989 she returned as a research assistant to the Department of Political Science, Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy at the Free University of Berlin, where she also worked as a scientific coordinator in the Central University Administration from 1991.

Since 1999 Susanne Feske has been a professor at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in the area of ​​C International Relations with a focus on Asian politics.

Her main areas of work and research were:

  • Southeast Asian Politics
  • ASEAN
  • Arms and Arms Control in Asia
  • Japanese foreign policy
  • International Relations Theories

Fonts

International risk policy (Baden-Baden 2002)

The book was created in collaboration with Christopher Daase and Ingo Peters and was published by Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft. It is a collection of essays.

The central assumption of this work is that the risks shape international relations in the age of globalization. Since 1990, security policy has been exposed to great uncertainty. Migration, terrorism, fundamentalism, drug trafficking, hacker attacks, global financial crises and the collapse of states are on the security policy agenda - dangers whose potential is often controversial and for which often no causer can be identified. They are therefore exemplary problems that are increasingly perceived today as security challenges for political actors. Dealing with these problem areas requires a new / different, (pro) active risk and security policy. The following questions become relevant: How do political actors react to international risks (risk perception)? Why are different strategies chosen for dealing with risks (risk policy)? What repercussions do the various risk strategies have on international processes and structures (risk paradox)? Are there opportunities for international cooperation to manage risks? (If so, which ones are they?)

The articles in this volume get to the bottom of the central dimensions of international risk policy and, through the results of the research work, enable new insights into the risk paradox in international relations. Based on this, this collection of essays offers a good overview of current trends and challenges in international risk policy and uses case studies to clarify the relationships between risk perception, risk policy and the unintended consequences of a proactive security policy, the risk paradox. Furthermore, theories of political science are used again and again.

ASEAN: A model for regional security (Baden-Baden 1991)

Everyone saw the contrast between East and West and its characteristics with regard to politics and the military at the center of research into war and peace. The Third World did not play a central role in this. But precisely because of the strategically good location and the inevitable interest of the great powers in such regions, the international security relationship was of particular importance. In studies on which this book is based, attempts were made to find general regularities for the development of wars and to derive possibilities for conflict prevention from this. The results showed that third world countries, especially the region of Southeast Asia and the ASEAN states, had built structures with regard to the issues of conflict and security. However, these structures were hardly explored or analyzed.

The focus of the research with which the book is concerned is the concept of "regional security" of the ASEAN countries. The entire ASEAN region is taken into account. The recording of internal and external conflicts, the perception of the states with regard to threats and the structure they have developed and applied, or the strategy for dealing with these conflicts, is placed in the research center.

The related research is divided into 4 research sectors:

  1. Safety. The general validity of this term as well as its applicability in the Third World or in the ASEAN region must be determined.
  2. Different levels of conflict. Central moments here are the conflict within the ASEAN states, i. H. on the one hand between the society of the state and the military elite and on the other hand among the ASEAN states themselves and furthermore the conflict between ASEAN states and other countries.
  3. Opportunities / strategies for conflict management. The states use many military, political, diplomatic and socio-economic instruments to resolve conflicts. This must also be included and analyzed in the research work.
  4. Critical look at security policy. It is interesting and important to you to assess whether the current status is sufficient for the future.

At the end of the research it was noted that the region of Southeast Asia was free of conflict at the time the research ended. The ASEAN states have achieved their sovereignty and the assertion of their territories. Conflicts within the ASEAN states could or can be resolved non-violently; cooperation is sought. The "defense mechanisms" within individual states and regional levels with regard to conflicts were able to protect ASEAN states from direct military conflicts. The states continue to exist as a national unit, despite tensions and conflicts within the regions or states. Furthermore, they even achieve economic growth that enables them to be stable.

The ASEAN countries have made progress in the field of international diplomacy and in the establishment of a trade partnership with the world powers. They found the balance between the interests of the individual states (national) and cooperation as a region (regional). Furthermore, they developed a security concept that no longer focuses on the military, but rather defines security in terms of internal stability.

More fonts

  • Christopher Daase, Ingo Peters, Susanne Feske (eds.): International risk policy: dealing with new dangers in international relations. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8154-X .
  • ASEAN: a model for regional security: origin, development and balance sheet of security cooperation in Southeast Asia. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991 ISBN 3-7890-2395-7 .
  • ASEAN and prospects for regional arms control in Southeast Asia. Quorum, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88726-101-1 .
  • Erik Antonczyk, Susanne Feske, Simon Oerding (eds.): Introduction to International Relations: A Textbook. Barbara Budrich, Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2014, ISBN 978-3-86649-257-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Institute for Political Science commemorates its long-time professor Dr. Susanne Feske. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Feske, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feske, Susanne M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2020
Place of death Muenster