Herfried Münkler
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Herfried Münkler is Professor
of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin
. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" (1982), "Gewalt und Ordnung" (1992), "The New Wars" (orig. 2002) and "Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States" (orig. 2005). In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen.
in German:
Professor
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of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin
Berlin
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. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" (1982), "Gewalt und Ordnung" (1992), "The New Wars" (orig. 2002) and "Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States" (orig. 2005). In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
The Leipzig Book Fair Prize is awarded annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation"...
in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen.
Political views
In July 2011, Münkler published an essay in Spiegel calling for less democracy in the European Union and more centralisation of power.Selected works
in English:- Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States, Polity, Malden, Massachusetts, 2001
- New Wars, Polity, Malden, Massachusetts, 2005
in German:
- Konzeptionen der Gerechtigkeit: Kulturvergleich – Ideengeschichte – moderne Debatte, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999 (ed.).
- Lexikon der Renaissance, Beck, München 2000 (with Marina Münkler).
- Thomas Hobbes, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, New York 2001.
- Der demokratische Nationalstaat in den Zeiten der Globalisierung: politische Leitideen für das 21. Jahrhundert, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002 (ed.).
- Über den Krieg: Stationen der Kriegsgeschichte im Spiegel ihrer theoretischen Reflexion, Velbrück, Weilerswist 2003.
- Politikwissenschaft: ein Grundkurs, Rowohlt Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003 (ed.).
- Clausewitz' Theorie des Krieges, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003.
- Der neue Golfkrieg, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003.
- Machiavelli: die Begründung des politischen Denkens der Neuzeit aus der Krise der Republik Florenz, Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004 (zugleich: Dissertation, Frankfurt (Main) 1981).
- Die neuen Kriege, 2002 (=The New Wars, Polity Press 2004).
- Imperien. Die Logik der Weltherrschaft. Vom alten Rom bis zu den Vereinigten Staaten, 2005 (= Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient Rome to the US, 2007).
- Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen, 2008
Further reading
- Wolfgang Röhr (Hrsg.): Herfried Münklers Herausforderung an die hegemonische Denkweise des Politischen: Kann man einen in Deutschland blockierten Diskurs über die republikanische Einbettung des Demokratischen aufbrechen?, Ad Fontes, Hamburg 2001.
- Ismail Küpeli: Die neuen Kriege - Einige Anmerkungen zu Kriegslegitimationen des 21. Jahrhunderts, in: ibd.: Europas "Neue Kriege", Moers, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810846-4-1 (free download)
- Thomas Wagner: Kopflanger der Herrschaft. From: junge welt vom 3. Februar 2006.