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Articles by Hartmut Behr
Reversibility: A New Concept for Policy Studies in International Relations
*Originally published in 2020. Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid subscriber, or make a donation, to support our work. We face a series of existential problems in 21st century international politics (environmental degradation, global migration, and the weaponization of nuclear material, to name just three), whose successful tackling demands radical imagination and suggests thinking beyond the box.
Rethinking Critical IR: Towards a Plurilogue of Cosmologies
*Originally published in 2022 and preserved as part of our archive project.Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our work. ‘Critical’ International Relations (IR) began as a strongly emancipatory and normative project.
Opinion - The Trump Phenomenon: Tyranny in Full Swing
He would be constrained, Donald Trump said, only by his “own morality” (see NYT, 10 January 2026). If taking this statement seriously, then this is the hallmark of tyranny and of a tyrant.
Editors selection by Benjamin Martill
Theory / Ideology There has been a growing disciplinary interest in ideology within IR in recent years. This is at least in part the result of changes in the real world of international politics, including the gradual emergence of a more diffuse and de-centred international order with correspondingly higher levels of ideological heterogeneity, and the increasing challenge to the liberal international order posed by politicisation and the rise of populism.
Opinion – A New World Order? From a Liberal to a Post-Western Order - Giorgio Shani And Hartmut Behr
Opinion - A New World Order? From a Liberal to a Post-Western Order - Giorgio Shani And Hartmut Behr
Populist Challenge and Political Judgement
Brexit does not seem a gaffe anymore (if it ever did to anyone) after the election of Donald Trump as the next US president. After one week of deep breathing and analysis of this election, we see a little clearer what the challenges in our times of ‘post-factual’ democracy are: namely, as hyperbolic as this may sound, the thread of democracy itself; or at least of democracy as we have known it.
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