Articles by Benno Teschke

• Fetish of Geopolitics
  • Benno Teschke

  in NLR 69, May-June 2011, pp. 81-100
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Responding to Gopal Balakrishnan in NLR 68, Teschke underscores the problematic nature of Carl Schmitt’s accounts of colonial expansion and the inter-state system. Against these, a programme for a revised Marxist geopolitics.

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• Decisions and Indecisions
  • Benno Teschke

  in NLR 67, January-February 2011, pp. 61-95
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Political Theory and Strategy
  

  Where liberal thought has tried to quarantine the ‘dangerous mind’ of Carl Schmitt, recent revisions have found portents of contemporary imperial hubris in his analysis of victors’ justice. Warning against such 'rehabilitations', Benno Teschke detects a unifying set of preoccupations that render the thinker's transition from hyper-authoritarianism to fascism logical.

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• Imperial doxa from the Berlin Republic
  • Benno Teschke

  in NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 128-140
  Subjects: Germany , Social Theory , International Relations
  

  Benno Teschke on Herfried Münkler, Imperien. Can an ideal-type for empire be deduced from a historical sociology of Han, Persian, Roman, Ottoman and US models? Prescriptions from Berlin for a second-tier European Empire.

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