Felix Berenskötter
Felix Sebastian Berenskötter is a German political scientist who specializes in international relations theory, interpretivist approaches, concept analysis, European security, and transatlantic relations. He is a Reader in International Relations at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Berenskötter serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Security Studies and co-edits the book series Bristol Studies in International Theory.
Biography
Following undergraduate studies in University of Hamburg, Berenskötter received a Masters Degree from Rutgers University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008, where he was an editor of the journal Millennium: Journal of International Studies.Before joining King's College London in 2024, Berenskötter was based at SOAS University of London, Department of Politics and International Studies where he also served Head of Department from July 2019 to January 2023. He was a Research Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College and a Visiting Fellow at the, Johns Hopkins University in 2019. Berenskötter was a founding associate editor of the Journal of Global Security Studies and co-convened the 'Interpretivism in International Relations' Working Group of the British International Studies Association. He is founder and former chair of the ‘Theory Section’ of the International Studies Association, and a former member of the Governing Board of the .