Benno Teschke (born 1967 in

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) is a German

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

theorist. He is professor of International Relations at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. Teschke's scholarship is a contribution to

Marxist international relations theory Marxist and Neo-Marxism, neo-Marxist international relations theories are paradigms which reject the realism in international relations, realist/Liberal international relations theory, liberal view of state conflict or cooperation, instead focusin ...

, specifically in the Political Marxism tendency. He obtained his PhD from the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

in 1999, with a thesis title
The making of the Westphalian state-system: Social property relations, geopolitics and the myth of 1648.
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References

Bibliography

* Teschke, Benno, ''"The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations"'', Verso, London, 2003.

External links

''Political Marxism and the Social Sciences'' a platform for research on political marxism
at the

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1967 births German political scientists 20th-century German historians German international relations scholars Deutscher Memorial Prize winners Academics of the University of Sussex German expatriates in the United Kingdom Writers from Osnabrück Living people German male non-fiction writers {{UK-academic-bio-stub