Hans-Martin Jaeger

Hans-Martin Jaeger is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He studied at the University of Konstanz, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, Rutgers and Columbia University. Prior to joining Carleton he taught at the University of Central Florida. Hans-Martin’s research interests are in international political theory and sociology, global governance and international organization, international public spheres and global civil society, and critical international relations theory. He has published articles on these subjects in International Theory, European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. Hans-Martin is currently working on a book on the role of “world opinion” in twentieth-century international governance discourse that is theoretically informed by Foucault’s governmentality approach and Luhmann’s systems theory.

Selected Significant Publications

‘UN Reform, Biopolitics, and Global Governmentality,’ International Theory 2: 1 (March 2010), 50-86.

‘Modern Systems Theory and/as Historical Discourse Analysis,’ in Mathias Albert, Lars-Erik Cederman and Alexander Wendt (eds.), New Systems Theories of World Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

‘”World Opinion” and the Founding of the UN: Governmentalizing International Politics,’ European Journal of International Relations 14: 4 (December 2008), 589-618.

‘”Global Civil Society” and the Political Depoliticization of Global Governance,’ International Political Sociology 1: 3 (September 2007), 257-277.

‘”World Opinion” and the Turn to Post-Sovereign International Governance,’ in Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier (eds.), Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics (New York: Routledge, 2004), 142-156.

‘Hegel’s Reluctant Realism and the Transnationalisation of Civil Society,’ Review of International Studies 28: 3 (July 2002), 497-517.

‘Konstruktionsfehler des Konstruktivismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen [Constructional Defects of Constructivism in International Relations],’ Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 3: 2 (December 1996), 313-340.