ABSTRACT
Benno Teschke is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of International Relations at
the University of Sussex and an Affiliated Visiting Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Copenhagen University. His research interests comprise the historical sociology of
international relations, critical IR Theory, and the philosophy of social science. Teschke is
the author of The myth of 1648: Class, geopolitics and the making of modern international
relations (London and New York: Verso, 2003), which was awarded the Isaac and Tamara
Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2004. He is currently working on a sequel to this book, which
examines the making of geopolitical space and international relations in the eighteenth and nin-
teenth centuries, while also preparing a monograph on the international thought of Carl Schmitt.
His more recent work on Schmitt has appeared in International Theory, the New Left Review,
and The Oxford handbook of Carl Schmitt (Oxford: OUP, 2015).
