Notes on Contributors

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a senior lecturer at Aberystwyth University’s Department of International Politics, UK. Previously she held positions at Bremen University and Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg.

Robert Cooke holds a master’s degree in critical international relations from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK, having previ­ously studied history and politics at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests revolve around deconstruction and postmodern philosophies, as well as a number of interrelated topics including questions on the subaltern and on silences, which in this case help inform the basis of his approach to mythography, and the role of myth in knowledge production. He plans to work towards a PhD in the near future.

Charlotte Dany is a research fellow and lecturer at the Chair of International Relations and World Order, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She holds a PhD from Bremen University and graduated from Free University Berlin. Her main research interests include the role of INGOs, global governance and the poli­tics of humanitarian aid. She published a research monograph on NGos and global governance with Routledge in the Rethinking Globalizations Series as well as articles in Global Governance and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen.

Alastair Finlan is a reader at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK.

Katja Freistein is a senior researcher in international relations, formerly at the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 882 at Bielefeld University, and now as Head of Research Unit 1 at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She holds a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt and graduated from the University of Münster. Her current work and publications are concerned with global inequalities, international political sociology and inter­national organisations, with a particular focus on the World Bank and UNDP.

Catherine Goetze is a senior lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. Her research has focused in recent years on the sociol­ogy and culture of international peacebuilding, most notably of United Nations (UN) peace missions. She has published widely on peacebuilding, cosmopolitan­ism and various aspects of peacebuilding culture. She has just finished a book project on the social and professional field of international peacebuilding, in which she scrutinises the social, professional, educational and cultural backgrounds of ‘peacebuilders’ who work for the UN, international agencies, non-governmental organisations, non-profit consultancies and think tanks in post-conflict settings.

Stephan Hensell is a senior researcher in the Working Group on the Causes of War and at the Institute of Political Science, Hamburg University, Germany, where he is doing research on intervention, peacebuilding and civil wars.

Katarzyna Kaczmarska is a post-doctoral fellow at Aberystwyth University’s Department of International Politics, UK. She holds a PhD from Aberystwyth and is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her PhD thesis engaged critically with knowledge production on the interna­tional, exploring the idea of international society and contrasting Russian views of international politics. Her research interests include paradigms within academic work on International Relations and their links to the practice of international rela­tions. Previously, she worked as research and teaching fellow at the OSCE Academy Bishkek and analyst and policy practitioner in development cooperation. She has published on Central Asian borders, security and development politics.

Florian P. Kühn is a senior lecturer at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. He has published on risk, security and development in South and Central Asia and on the narrative foundations of interventionism in journals including International Peacekeeping, International Relations, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Peacebuilding, and Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. His monograph Security and Development in World Society (2010, in German) was awarded the German Middle East Studies Foundation’s dissertation award. He also edited The Politics of Intervention: The Tyranny of Peace (Routledge 2016) with Mandy Turner, and is co-editor of Journal ofIntervention and Statebuilding.

Michael Loriaux is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Europe Anti-Power (Routledge Interventions series, forthcoming 2016).

Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her publications include Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell, 1999), which addresses mythological narratives in IR and won the Myrna Bernath and the Edgar Furniss Prizes, Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations with Audie Klotz (Routledge, 2007), and Interpreting International Politics (Routledge, 2014), and many articles and chapters on religion, ethics, humanitarianism and interpre­tive methodologies in IR.

Katharine M. Millar is a DPhil candidate at Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK. Her doctoral dissertation examines popular discursive constructions of the military in the USA and the UK, and the way they both challenge and inform processes of collective subject-formation in international relations. Her research interests include civil-military relations, gender and the military, the stan­dard of civilisation, the politics of remembrance and commemoration, and the overarching connection between liberal subjectivity and political violence. Prior to commencing her doctorate, she was a policy researcher at the legislative assembly in Alberta, Canada.

Franziska Müller is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Kassel University, Germany, where she coordinates a Junior Research Group on global/local energy transition governance. Her research interests are international relations (constructivist, poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches) and global governance, especially governmentality and global environmental governance. Her PhD thesis focused on EU-ACP relations and analysed the change of this postcolonial relationship as a change of governance and normative power. Previously she was based at TU Darmstadt, where she coordinated the VW-funded research project ‘Challenges of European External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers’, together with Michèle Knodt and Nadine Piefer.

Sybille Münch is Professor for Theory of Public Policy at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Her research focuses on interpretive approaches to policy analysis as well as urban and migration research. She has worked widely on the methodology of interpretive policy analysis and its post-empiricist epistemology in general and discourses in the field of immigrant housing and integration in particular. Her latest cross-national work focused on the role of storylines and narratives in constructing urban problems. She is the author of a German-language course book on interpretive policy analysis (Springer VS, 2015).

Elena Sondermann is a researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She has published on global governance, international development cooperation and foreign aid. She is specifically inter­ested in theorising the nature of cooperation (e.g. as gift giving), understanding the narratives and myths that dominate the field, and interpreting the relationships and practices of national and international development organisations. Her PhD thesis analyses the role of the British aid agency DFID, asking how its reputation, position and relationships with other actors have changed as a consequence of embedding British aid in a broader foreign policy tradition.

Dvora Yanow is a guest professor at Wageningen University’s Department of Social Sciences. Her research and teaching explore the generation and communi­cation of knowing and meaning in policy and organisational settings. Present research includes state-created categories for race-ethnic identity, immigrant inte­gration policies and citizen-making practices, research regulation (ethics commit­tee) policies, practice studies, and science/technology museum spaces and the idea of science. Her most recent book, Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes, written with Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, is the first volume in their co­edited Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods; their co-edited Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn has been pub­lished in a second edition.