Frank A. Stengel- Dr. rer. pol.
- Senior Lecturer at Kiel University
Frank A. Stengel
- Dr. rer. pol.
- Senior Lecturer at Kiel University
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Introduction
Frank A. Stengel is currently a Senior Lecturer at Kiel University's Research Group on International Political Sociology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bremen (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences) and worked there as a Research Officer for the Institutional Strategy before coming to Kiel in 2015. His research focuses mainly on IPS, Critical Security Studies, foreign policy analysis, discourse theory, German and U.S. foreign policy, and populism.
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October 2015 - present
September 2019 - June 2020
October 2015 - present
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Courses taught: Critical Security Studies (BA, MA), Sociological Theory (MA), Political Sociology (MA), Theory-oriented Analysis of Foreign Policy (MA), Neoliberalism (MA)
Education
September 2008 - February 2017
September 2004 - August 2005
October 1999 - September 2004
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Publications (50)
This article examines the nexus between crisis and change in the context of German security policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s announcement of a Zeitenwende (historic turning point) on 27 February 2022, a few days after the Russian attack, suggests a substantial change in German foreign and security policy. Germa...
Zusammenfassung
Nach der Veröffentlichung der Leitlinien des Auswärtigen Amts 2023 ist die Debatte über feministische Außenpolitik schnell wieder ins Stocken geraten. Ein Grund dafür ist fortbestehende Unklarheit über die Kernelemente feministischer Politik. Dieser Beitrag ergänzt die in der Debatte vorherrschende liberale Perspektive durch eine po...
This article analyzes how populism is conceptualized and studied in International Relations (IR) and argues that it should be seen as a political logic instead of a political ideology. It does so by demonstrating that populist foreign policy looks radically different when analyzing the populist left, refuting the possibility of any distinctly 'popu...
This paper analyses the gendered representation of military service in
the German YouTube series Die Rekruten (DR) – a popular web series
produced by the German Armed Forces for recruiting purposes, which
accompanies twelve navy recruits during their basic training. It is
situated within research on masculinity, the military, and military
recruitin...
The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German policymakers to be without alternative. The book argue...
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a major reorientation of German security policy, committing the federal government to a significant increase in defence spending as well as arms deliveries to Ukraine. Scholz’s announcement of a Zeitenwende (sea change) has triggered a renewed deb...
This article analyses how populism is conceptualized and studied in International Relations (IR) and argues that it should be seen as a political logic instead of a political ideology. It does so by demonstrating that ‘populist foreign policy’ looks radically different in analyses of the populist left, refuting the possibility of any distinctly ‘po...
This article analyzes how populism is conceptualized and studied in International Relations (IR) and argues that it should be seen as a political logic instead of a political ideology. It does so by demonstrating that populist foreign policy looks radically different when analyzing the populist left, refuting the possibility of any distinctly ‘popu...
This chapter examines the role of anxiety and fantasy in the rise and persistence of Trumpism, a unique ideological blend of white supremacy, misogyny and patriarchy as well as populism that informed much of former President Donald J. Trump's election campaign and term in office. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and poststructuralist discourse th...
The chapter intervenes in current public debates about German security policy. Many observers in the media have argued that the Russian invasion has triggered a revolution in German military affairs, de facto putting an end to German pacifism. The chapter takes issue with this argument. It draws on public opinion polls and prior research of parliam...
The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, so-called out-of-area operations have now become widely considered by German policymakers to be without alternative. The book argue...
The article discusses the future of US democracy after the 2022 midterm elections. Donald J. Trump’s scandal-ridden presidency culminated in a violent attempted self-coup. In contrast to many observers outside the United States who appear to assume that Joe Biden’s inauguration marks the failure of the coup attempt, I argue that US democracy is not...
Published open access in Austrian Journal fo Political Science
The article discusses the future of US democracy after the 2022 midterm elections. Donald J. Trump’s scandal-ridden presidency culminated in a violent attempted self-coup. In contrast to many observers outside the United States who appear to assume that Joe Biden’s inauguration marks t...
Soziale Medien genießen in der Forschung zur Bundeswehr und zur deutschen Si‐
cherheitspolitik bislang nur begrenzt Aufmerksamkeit. Eine Auseinandersetzung ist
überfällig, denn soziale Medien sind eine wichtige Arena für Deutungskämpfe, in
denen die Realität konstruiert und Politik legitimiert wird. Die Bundeswehr betreibt
seit einigen Jahren Auftr...
This article analyzes the gendered representation of military service in the German YouTube series Die Rekruten (DR) (The Recruits), a popular web series produced on behalf of the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) for recruitment purposes, which accompanies 12 navy recruits during their basic training. The article is situated within research on masc...
Soziale Medien und die Legitimitätspolitik der Bundeswehr Frank A. Stengel, CAU Kiel Soziale Medien genießen in der Forschung zur Bundeswehr und zur deutschen Sicherheitspolitik bislang nur begrenzt Aufmerksamkeit. Eine Auseinandersetzung ist überfällig, denn soziale Medien sind eine wichtige Arena für Deutungskämpfe, in denen die Realität konstrui...
This is just a book review
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die diskursive Konstruktion militarisierter Maskulinität(en) in der von der Bundeswehr produzierten Webserie „Die Rekruten“ (DR). Insbesondere konzentriert er sich auf einen bestimmten Aspekt im Zusammenhang von Militärdienst und Nachwuchsgewinnung: was zieht junge Menschen in die Bundeswehr? In diesem Sinne fragt der Beit...
Taking Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics as a starting point, this paper thinks through the ethics/politics nexus from the perspective of ‘Essex School’ poststructuralist discourse theory. Specifically, it asks how ethics – or, rather, morality, the temporary, contingent and context-dependent normative framework that regulates what is com...
This symposium explores the value of Poststructuralist (or Political) Discourse Theory (PDT) for the analysis of world politics. PDT was originally developed by the late Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau and has entered the margins of International Relations (IR) in recent years, mainly by bringing in poststructuralist concepts that had p...
This article develops a poststructuralist framework for the analysis of the process of threat construction or securitization. Taking on-going debates in securitization theory about the securitizing process as a starting point, the article draws on the poststructuralist discourse theory of the Essex School to theorize what makes some securitizing mo...
This paper intervenes in the debate about the so-called ‘populist danger’, whose proponents claim that populism constitutes a threat to democracy, European integration, the West, the liberal international order, or all of the above. This paper argues that this argument is severely misguided – with significant consequences for research and political...
Although populism research has become somewhat of a cottage industry in recent years, the phenomenon’s international or global aspects remain yet to be explored. While populism researchers have mainly focused on theoretical and methodological issues, or studied individual cases (whether in single case studies or in a comparative fashion), Internati...
This chapter makes the case for increased attention to the discourse theoretical notion of sedimented practices in populism research and International Relations (IR). Sedimented practices circumscribe the domain of credibility and intelligibility of a society’s socio-economic setting. In contrast to previous studies in both populism research and IR...
This conclusion draws together the different arguments of the individual chapters and provides a preliminary agenda for further research on populism and world politics. Specifically, it proposes a three-step model for the analysis of populists’ impact on foreign policy and international politics, consisting of (1) populists’ specific ideologies and...
This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension, that is, its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. Although a lot of research has focused on populism’s domestic effects, its implications for world politics have received only limited systematic attention. The contributions to this volume...
The article traces the development of the International Relations (IR) sub-field of International Political Sociology (IPS) since its inception in the early 2000s. We understand IPS as constituted by a field of tension between the concepts of ‘the International’, ‘the Political’, and ‘the Social’. While the article illustrates that IPS remains an e...
The rise of non-state (international, private, and transnational) actors in global politics has far-reaching consequences for foreign policy theory and practice. In order to remain able to explain foreign policy also in the 21 st century, foreign policy research needs to take into account the growing importance of nonstate actorss. A good way to do...
Studies on the mediatisation of war point to attempts of governments to regulate the visual perspective of their involvements in armed conflict – the most notable example being the practice of ‘embedded reporting’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. This paper focuses on a different strategy of visual meaning-making, namely, the publication of images on socia...
Der vorliegende Beitrag verfolgt zwei Ziele: Zum einen setzt er sich kritisch mit den vorliegenden konstruktivistischen Erklärungen der wankelmütigen deutschen Außenpolitik im Kontext des Afghanistan- und des Irakkriegs (2001-2003) auseinander. Zum zweiten bietet er die hegemoniethoretisch orientierte, poststrukturalistische Diskurstheorie als alte...
This paper is concerned with Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and non-state actors. Globalisation has brought non-state actors back on the agenda of International Relations. As a result of globalisation, we witness at least some shift of authority from the state to non-state actors (the extent of which remains debated). Although most of the empirical...
A much reworked version has been published under the title "Foreign Policy Analysis, Globalisation and Non-State Actors: State Centric After all?" in the Journal of International Relations and Development.
Conflict prevention, more than other fields of international politics and foreign policy, is characterized by a multiplicity of state and non-state actors, giving rise to particularly complex coordination challenges. This article evaluates the extent to which the German response to these challenges, the action plan for civilian conflict prevention,...
The question of overseas deployment of the Self Defence Force (SDF) continues to be one of the most controversial issues in Japan’s foreign policy. This becomes particularly obvious with respect to participation in UN peacekeeping operations. Japan is caught between, on the one hand, the aspiration to contribute to international peace and security...
In September 2007, Japanese Prime Minister Shinz¯o Abe resigned after only one year in office. Abe, who had been Chief Cabinet Secretary in the cabinet of Jun’ichir¯o Koizumi, had gained popularity mainly because of his tough stance towards North Korea, in particular concerning the abduction issue. During Abe’s premiership, foreign policy remained...
In den ersten drei Quartalen des Jahres 2003 sah es nach einer Beruhigung im Konflikt zwischen Israel und verschiedenen vom Libanon aus operierenden muslimischen Milizen aus. Allerdings verschärfte sich die Lage an der israelisch-libanesischen Grenze in den letzten drei Monaten des Jahres wieder. Vor allem nach der Bombardierung eines angeblichen A...
The question of overseas deployment of the Self Defence Force (SDF) continues to be one of the most controversial issues in Japan's foreign policy. This becomes particularly obvious with respect to participation in UN peacekeeping operations. Japan is caught between, on the one hand, the aspiration to contribute to international peace and security...
