Ole Wæver

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Office hours: Tuesdays 12:30-14:00, building/office No. 8.0.19

Primary fields of research

International Relations

• Theories of International Relations

• History of the Discipline

• Sociology of Science inspired analysis of the discipline

• The Possibilities for Non-Western Theories

• IR in Scandinavia – results from the TRIP survey

• Theories about theories: philosophy of science and tools for understanding international relations

 

Security Studies

• Continued development of the so-called Copenhagen School / theory of securitization

• The history and sociology of security studies

• Empirical analysis of the global patterns of regional security (the theory of 'regional security complexes')

• Religion, secularism and security

• Climate change as security issue

• Interdisciplinary comparison of methods for the characterisation of danger, risk, threat, catastrophe and insecurity

• Ontological security – and other new attempts to connect emotions and politics in security studies

• Identity/Security in the Post-Western World Order

 

Conceptual History for International Relations

• History of the concept of security

• Theory and methodology for the study of concepts in International Relations

 

Conflict Theory

• Classics from sociology and the need today for understanding conflict as conflict

• De-securitization and ontological security as tools for conflict resolution

• Sociology of Knowledge: Conflict Expertise as a Field

 

Sociology of Social Sciences

• Revising theories from sociology of science and STS for the study of social sciences

• Comparative analysis of Social Sciences

• The International Relations discipline

• Security Studies between University Disciplines and Policy Research

• Conflict Expertise as a heterogeneous field

• Institutions Internationally for Aggregation, Negotiation and Communication of Scientefic Advice: Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries and Emerging Scientific Breakthroughs

 

Speech Act Theory

• Politics in different speech act theories

• Deepening Securitization Theory with Austin and Sbisa

• Social Ontologies of Security

 

Scientific Revolutions and Political Re-orientation - Niels Bohr, an Open World and 21st Century Challenges

 

Continued Interests without short-term publication plans

• The mutually constitutive relationship between European integration, identity and security

• Nation and State concepts as key to foreign policies - discourse analysis as theory for this; empirically applied to Germany

• The status and prospects for international law and different forms of world order

• Missile defense, weaponization of space and deterrence theory

• Danish security and defense policy

• Identity, cooperation and transregionalism in the Nordic and Baltic areas

• The English School as IR Research Programme

 

 

Teaching

I teach and supervise primarily within the same domains that I research.