Benno Teschke (born 1967 in

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) is a German

international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...

theorist. He is professor of International Relations at the

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. Teschke's scholarship is a contribution to Marxist international relations theory, specifically in the

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tendency. He obtained his PhD from the

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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