Dr Benno Teschke

Biography

Benno Teschke joined the Department in summer 2003 after having been a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations & Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. In 1998/99, he was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, directed by Robert Brenner, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Benno received his PhD from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science. In summer 2011, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the ERC-funded Research Project 'Europe, 1815-1914' at the University of Helsinki, directed by Bo Strath and Martti Koskenniemi.

Role

• Year 3 Tutor
• Member of CAIT Management Committee
• Member of Research/REF Committee
• Global Studies School Member of Academic Misconduct Panel

International Relations Theory, International Historical Sociology, Marxism and Critical Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

I am a member of the BISA Historical Sociology Working Group http://historical-sociology.org/ and co-convene, jointly with Samuel Knafo, the Sussex Political Marxism Staff/Student Research Group. For more details on our activities, see http://politicalmarxism.wordpress.com/

Research Supervision:

I am currently co-supervising six doctoral students (Nuno Pires, Steffan Wyn-Jones, Can Cemgil, Matthieu Hughes, Oliver Weiss, Nancy Turgeon) and 1 MSc student (Alex Crawford).

• Completed PhDs:

Dr. Clemens Hoffmann: 'The "Eastern Question" and the Fallacy of Modernity: On the Premodern Origins of Inter-State Order in Southeastern Europe'

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed: 'The Violence of Empire: The Logic and Dynamic of Strategies of Violence and Genocide in Historical and Contemporary Imperial Systems'

Dr. Cherine Hussein: 'Countering an Illusion of Our Epoch: The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel'

Dr. Maia Pal: 'The Politics of Extraterritoriality: A Historical Sociology of Public International Law'

Dr. Andrea Lagna: 'Deriving a Normal Country: Italian Capitalism and the Political Economy of Financial Derivatives'

I am interested in supervising doctoral research in the areas of:

• International Relations Theory - specifically Critical and Marxist IR Theory.
• International Historical Sociology - specifically theory-led substantive investigations into the relation between capitalism, geopolitics, state-formations, and the interstate system.
• International Political Thought - specifically German Thought in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

• The Short 20th Century and Beyond (Year 1 BA core course, spring term)
• Capitalism and Geopolitics (Year 3 Option, autumn term)
• Foundations of World Politics (IR MA core course, autumn term (not in 2012/13))
• International Theory (IR MA core course, autum term)
• Rethinking Imperialism (MA Option, spring term)

Student Consultation

Office & FeedbackHours: Monday, 10-11am; Thursday, 10-11am

Teschke, Benno (2011) Marx, Engels und Lenin: Krieg, Internationale Beziehungen und Geschichtstheorie. In: Handbuch Kriegstheorien. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 227-238. ISBN 9783531179339

Teschke, Benno (2011) Geopolitics. In: International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications, pp. 970-973. ISBN 9781412959636

Teschke, Benno (2011) Advances and impasses in Fred Halliday's international historical sociology: a critical appraisal. International Affairs, 87 (5). pp. 1087-1106. ISSN 0020-5850

Teschke, Benno Gerhard (2011) Fatal Attraction: A Critique of Carl Schmitt's International Political and Legal Theory. International Theory, 3 (2). pp. 179-227. ISSN 1752-9719

Teschke, Benno (2011) The Fetish of Geopolitics: Reply to Gopal Balakrishnan. New Left Review (69). pp. 81-100. ISSN 0028-6060

Teschke, Benno (2011) Decisions and indecisions: political and intellectual receptions of Carl Schmitt. New Left Review (67). pp. 61-95. ISSN 0028-6060

Teschke, Benno and Lacher, Hannes (2010) The Changing "Logics" of Capitalist Competition (reprint). In: Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism,. Routledge, 27-41,. ISBN 0415478022

Teschke, Benno (2010) Revisiting the "war-makes-states" thesis : war, taxation and social property relations in early modern Europe. In: War, the State and International Law in Seventeenth Century Europe. Ashgate, Surrey, England, pp. 35-62. ISBN 9780754668114

Heine, Christian and Teschke, Benno (2008) Sleeping Beauty and the Dialectical Awakening: On the Potential of Dialectics for International Relations (reprinted extract),. In: Critical Theory and International Relations: A Reader. Routledge, pp. 302-314. ISBN 0415954185

Teschke, Benno (2008) Marxism. In: The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 163-187. ISBN 978-0-19-921932-2

Teschke, Benno and Lacher, Hannes (2007) The Changing "Logics" of Capitalist Competition. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20 (4). pp. 565-80.

Teschke, Benno (2006) Debating 'the myth of 1648': state formation, the interstate system and the emergence of capitalism in Europe - a rejoinder. International Politics, 43 (5). pp. 531-573. ISSN 1384-5748

Teschke, Benno (2006) The Metamorphoses of European Territoriality: A Historical Reconstruction (Russian Translation). In: State Territoriality and European Integration. Europe and the Nation State . Routledge, London and New York, pp. 37-67. ISBN 041539046X

Teschke, Benno (2006) 'Imperial doxa from the Berlin republic' [Review] Herfried Münkler (2005)Imperien: Die Logik der Weltherrschaft-vom Alten Rom bis zu den Vereinigten Staaten. New Left Review, 2 (40). pp. 128-140. ISSN 0028-6060

Teschke, Benno (2005) Bourgeois Revolution, State Formation and the Absence of the International. Historical Materialism, 13 (2). pp. 3-26. ISSN 1465-4466

Teschke, Benno (2005) Bürgerliche revolution, staatsbildung und die abwesenheit des internationalen. Prokla, 35 (141). pp. 575-600. ISSN 0342-8176

Teschke, Benno (2004) The origins and evolution of the European states-system. In: Ordering the International: History, Change and Transformation. Pluto Press, London, pp. 21-65. ISBN 0745321380

Teschke, Benno (2003) The myth of 1648: class, geopolitics and the making of modern international relations. Verso. ISBN 9781859846933

Teschke, Benno (2002) Theorising the Westphalian system of states: international relations from absolutism to capitalism (French translation). European Journal of International Relations, 8 (1). pp. 5-48. ISSN 1354-0661

Teschke, Benno and Heine, Christian (2002) The Dialectic of Globalisation: A Critique of Social Constructivism. In: Historical Materialism and Globalization. ROUTLEDGE, pp. 165-187. ISBN 0-415-26371-9

Teschke, Benno (2002) Geopolitik und Marxismus. The Global Site.

Teschke, Benno (2001) Geopolitik. In: Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism): Gegenöffentlichkeit bis Hegemonialapparat. Argument Verlag, 322-334,. ISBN 3886194353

Teschke, Benno (1998) Geopolitical relations in the European middle ages: history and theory. International Organization, 52 (2). pp. 325-358. ISSN 0020-8183

Teschke, Benno and Heine, Christian (1997) The Discipline of International Relations and Dialectical Thinking: A Reply to Our Critics. Millennium, 26 (2). pp. 455-470. ISSN 0305-8298

Teschke, Benno (1997) The transformation of the year one thousand: the village of Lournand from antiquity to feudalism. Historical Materialism, 1 (1). pp. 196-202. ISSN 1465-4466

Teschke, Benno and Heine, Christian (1996) Sleeping Beauty and the Dialectical Awakening: On the Potential of Dialectic for International Relations. Millennium, 25 (2). pp. 399-424. ISSN 0305-8298