Jorg Spieker

Lecturer in Political Theory

MA (SOAS)

MRes/PhD  (KCL)

Contact Details

 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6664

Email: j.spieker@bbk.ac.uk

About Jorg Spieker

Research Interests

• The relationship between political order, life and war
• War in social and political thought
• Theories of international relations
• The (bio-)politics of security
• Global liberal governance and failed states

Publications

• 'Defending the Open Society: Foucault, Hayek and the Problem of Biopolitical Order', Economy & Society, forthcoming 2013.
• ‘Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security and War’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 36, No. 3, August 2011, pp. 187-199.
• ‘Hobbes, War, Movement’ (with Leonie Ansems de Vries), Global Society, Vol. 23, No.4 (2009), pp. 453-474.

Teaching

• Political Transformations (undergraduate)
• War and Modern Society (undergraduate)
• Political Sociology (postgraduate)
• War, Politics and Society (postgraduate)