Tobias Berger (@tbsbga) profile picture

Assistant Professor (Jun.-Prof.) for Political Science & the Transnational Politics of the Global South @fu_berlin

Berlin, Germany
Joined September 2013
Who shaped global human rights? In my new paper @EuroJournIR on “Worldmaking from the Margins”, I focus on the importance of seemingly not very powerful actors in the constitution of global order. It’s #openaccess at doi.org/10.1177%2F1354066122… I argue... 🧵⬇️ 1/6
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I am looking for a research assistant @thehertieschool for a project on the funding of public projects in India and perceptions of funders in a world where China and the US compete. More here: hertie-school.dvinci-easy.co…
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#CfA postdoc researcher in International Relations @FU_Berlin Full-time position, up to 6 years, involves teaching, and ample opportunities for collaboration in a research-active team. More info: fu-berlin.de/universitaet/be… Deadline: 24 June 2024 #poliscijobs #psjminfo @ECIB_DVPW
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New article out by @tbsbga and myself in @SecDialogue on the roles of the #UAE and #Turkey in the #Sahel and West Africa more broadly. @IKRS_no @FU_Berlin Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… [thread 1/4]
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Are human rights necessarily liberal? In my new paper @ISQ_Jrnl, I argue they are not and seek to develop a framework for the analysis of “Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script”. It’s #openaccess at doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad042 I argue ...🧵⬇️ 1/4
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… changes as their relationship to further core, adjacent, and peripheral concepts changes. (4) To illustrate, I discuss two cases, one on human rights beyond liberal order and one on human rights beyond the human as ontologically singular.
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The first focusses on Chinese human rights discourses, and especially the 2017 South-South Human Rights Forum in Beijing; the second on more-than-human rights discourses in Latin America.
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First German IR conference #ib23 - and I would do it again! Thanks @SimonKoschut and your team for a perfect get together lakeside. Thomas Risse wanted the big questions, we @antje_wiener @sinja_graf @HofiusMaren @tbsbga @ProfTonyLang @holger_niemann gave him universality in IR.
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On my way to Friedrichshafen for the 2023 meeting of the @dvpw IR section. Looking forward to exchanging ideas on South-South security cooperation & to presenting my research on Colombia. Join us on Thursday, 4:30pm, Panel F3organised by @tbsbga, with comments from @MariamSalehi
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The new Issue of the EJIR is out 🎉 Here's a summary of the tweets about the latest contributions. Enjoy the read!👇
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For our panel on “worldmaking”, @MariamSalehi and I are looking for contributions 👇
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Focusing on the domestic grounds has significant theoretical implications: it decentres our understanding of the emergence and transformation of global order and moves it away from reliance on Europe as central reference point for international political theorising.
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Instead, it shows how the post-war international order was at least partly produced elsewhere as it emerged from the intellectual responses of postcolonial elites to intricate difficulties caused by colonial rule and postcolonial state-making.
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JOB ALERT! 3 Jahre PostDoc in Forschung und Lehre an der schönen @unipotsdam in hochmotiviertem, forschungsstarken und breit vernetzten Team! Gerne mit Forschungsinteresse zu IO, Global Governance, IPÖ, Menschenrechte, Entwicklung. @ECIB_DVPW Infos hier: uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pro…