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joerg.friedrichs@qeh.ox.ac.uk
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Research interests

International relations; political sociology; Muslim-majority relations

Jörg Friedrichs

Associate Professor of Politics

Jörg Friedrichs is Associate Professor at ODID and Official Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Taking a broad transdisciplinary approach to academic research, his main interests are in the fields of international relations and political sociology. Among other things, he has proposed an intercultural theory of international relations and a theory about the political use of emotions like fear and anger.

In recent years, Jörg has taken an interest in relations between Muslim minorities and non-Muslim majorities. He has published a book on Hindu-Muslim Relations: What Europe Might Learn from India (2019). In the context of the same project, Jörg has also published on Han-Muslim relations in China. Subsequently, Jörg has started investigating community relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in English inner cities. His focus is on community relations in a diverse set of urban neighbourhoods in East London, Birmingham and Halifax (West Yorkshire).

Jörg has studied Classics in Germany and Italy, finishing with a book on political rhetoric in the work of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides (2000). His doctoral studies in Political Science at Munich led to another book on European Approaches to International Relations Theory (2004). His postdoctoral research led to a third book, Fighting Terrorism and Drugs: Europe and International Police Cooperation (2008). His fourth book was The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity (2013).

Jörg has published on other topics ranging from denial and self-deception to security regionalism in East Asia and from pragmatic research methodology to China’s popularity in the Middle East and Africa. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as International OrganizationInternational Theory, Third World Studies, and Philosophical Psychology.

Jörg Friedrichs teaches for the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. He teaches a seminar on Religion in World Politics and contributes to the foundation course on Global Governance and Diplomacy. He also teaches Qualitative Research Methods.

Doctoral supervision

Jörg is keen to supervise research in international relations and political sociology. He takes special interest in work on religion and world politics, as well as Muslim-majority relations.

  • Chapters

    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Thinking on time: How scholarly praxis can sustain, subvert and transform social reality . In Gunther Hellmann, Jens Steffek Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics , Bristol University Press 197-211
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Papal Presence in East and South Asia: China, India and Beyond . In Mariano P Barbato The Pope, the Public and International Relations: Postsecular Transformations , Palgrave Macmillan 97-117
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Escapology, or how to escape Malthusian traps . In John Brewer, Neil Fromer and Frank Trentman Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 , Bloomsbury 115-31
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Who's Afraid of Thomas Malthus? . In Michael J Manfredo, Jerry J Vaske, Andreas Rechkemmer and Esther A Duke Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences , New York: Springer 67-92
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Peak Oil Futures: Same Crisis, Different Responses . In Oliver Inderwildi, Sir David King Energy, Transport and the Environment , London: Springer pp 55-75
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    C Friesendorf ( ) The Privatization of Force and its Consequences: Unintended but not Unpredictable . In C Daase, C Friesendorf Rethinking Security Governance: The Problem of Unintended Consequences , London and New York: Routledge 176-97
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) What Do We Mean When We Say Substance Matters? . In O Kessler, R Hall, C Lynch, N Onuf On Rules, Politics and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations and Domestic Affairs , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 74-83
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    O Waever ( ) Western Europe: Structure and Strategy at the National and Regional Levels . In A B Tickner, O Waever International Relations Scholarship Around the World , London and New York: Routledge pp 261-85
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Global Governance as Liberal Hegemony . In J Whitman Governance and Global (Dis)orders: Trends Transformations and Impasses , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan pp 105-22
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) The Nordic Countries . In K E Jorgensen, T B Knudsen International Relations in Europe: Traditions, Perspectives and Destinations , London and New York: Routledge pp 125-48
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) When Push Comes to Shove: The Territorial Monopoly of Force and the Travails of Neomedieval Europe . In M Burgess, H Vollaard State Territoriality and European Integration , London and New York: Routledge pp 228-51
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Global Governance as the Hegemonic Project of Transatlantic Civil Society . In M Lederer, P Muller Criticizing Global Governance , Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp 45-68
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) The Neomedieval Renaissance: Global Governance and International Law in the New Middle Ages . In I F Dekker, W G Werner Governance and International Legal Theory , Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff pp 3-36
  • Encyclopedia entries

    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) New Medievalism . In J A Scholte, R Robertson Encylopedia of Globalization Vol 3 , London and New York: Routledge pp 873-75
  • Other publications

    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Sinn und Zweck der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation: von ontologischer Unsicherheit zu sozioökologischer Resilienz . In Christopher Daase, Stefan Engert and Julian Junk Verunsicherte Gesellschaft, Überforderter Staat: Zum Wandel der Sicherheitskultur , Frankfurt: Campus
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) Politiche Nazionali a Confronto: Germania e Regno Unito . In G Vacca Dalla Convenzione alla Costituzione , Bari: Dedalo pp 253-67
    Friedrichs, Jörg
    ( ) What's New About the New Middle Ages? . Leiden Journal of International Law 16(3) 649-53
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