Bernd Bucher
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Franklin University Switzerland
Switzerland
Biography
Bernd Bucher received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen in 2011 and held the position of a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld (faculty of sociology) prior to joining Franklin University Switzerland in 2015.He has successfully published in leading academic journals and is currently part of a number of individual and collaborative research projects which focus on applying processual-relational thinking to IR. Bernd Bucher regularly peer reviews for leading academic journals and actively participates in leading international professional associations and conferences.
Research Interest
His primary research interests are located at the intersection of IR theory and sociology. Power, language and contestation practices as well as security dynamics are central to his research which utilizes (historical) discourse analysis and draws on qualitative methods
Publications
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Bernd, Bucher (2014) Liberal Rogues: The pitfalls of Great Power Collaboration and the Stigmatization of Revolutionary Naples in Post-Napoleonic Europe. In: Wagner, Wolfgang, Wouter Werner and Michal Onderco (eds.) Deviance in International Relations. Theorizing the Significance of so-called Rogue states
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Bucher, Bernd (2014) Acting Abstractions: Metaphors, narrative structure and the eclipse of agency. European Journal of International Relations 20(3): 742-765
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Bucher, Bernd (2015) Moving beyond the substantialist foundations of the agency-structure dichotomy: Figurational thinking in International Relations. Journal of International Relations and Development. AOP. doi:10.1057/jird.2015.12.
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Bucher, Bernd, Martin Koch and Jochen Walter (2015) UN-Simulationen in der politikwissenschaftlichen Hochschullehre (Using UN Security Council simulations in teaching introductory courses to IR). Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften. 6(2): 136-149
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Bucher, Bernd and Ursula Jasper (2016) ‘Revisiting ‘identity’ in International Relations: From identity as substance to identifications in action. European Journal of International Relations. doi:10.1177/1354066116644035
