Peter Marcus Kristensen

Primary fields of research

Current research

Emerging Powers

• The history and theory of "peaceful change" (paper in International Theory)
• A study of the relationship between emerging powers and knowledge production in International Relations (paper in European Journal of International Relations)
• A study of how emerging powers can speak in International Relations (paper in Third World Quarterly)

The Sociology of International Relations

• A network analytical mapping of the IR discipline, the role of grand theories/isms, and its potential fragmentation/camps (paper in International Studies Quarterly, online appendix here and network data here)
• A comparative study of schools of thought in International Relations (paper in Chinese Journal of International Politics)
• A historiographical study of the Great Debates and the Fragmentation/End of IR trope (paper in European Journal of International Relations)
• A bibliometric and cartographic mapping of the geography of International Relations - the "American Social Science" (paper in International Studies Perspectives)
• A Network analytical mapping of intellectual and social divides in the International Relations discipline ( and International Studies Review) and EU studies (paper in Journal of European Public Policy)
• Practicing International Relations in Scandinavia - the Scandinavian part of the TRIP survey (full survey available here)

The Rise of China and the construction of a Chinese school of International Relations

• A sociological study of the Chinese School debate (paper in International Political Sociology) 
• A study of the hybridity of Chinese School (chapter in edited volume) 
• On the Chinese School among other schools in Europe and other emerging powers (chapter in edited volume)
• A study of the IR discipline in China and Europe - and the case for interregional dialogue (paper in Pacific Review)
• Overview and bibliography on IR in China (in Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations)

International Relations in Brazil

• A sociological mapping of the International Relations discipline in Brazil (paper in Journal of International Relations and Development)
• A study of the uses of the 'South' in Brazilian International Relations (paper forthcoming in International Studies Perspectives)

Teaching

Office hours: Monday 10.00-11.00

Autumn 2008. Introduction to International Relations (instructor)

Autumn 2012. The Rise of the Rest - Western and Non-Western Perspectives

Autumn 2013. Introduction to International Relations

Autumn 2014. Introduction to International Relations

Autumn 2015. Introduction to International Relations

Autumn 2015. Knowledge Production and Evaluation  

Autumn 2016. Introduction to International Relations

Autumn 2016. Knowledge Production and Evaluation  

Autumn 2017. Re-Orienting IR: Asian Perspectives on International Relations

Autumn 2017. Introduction to International Relations

Autumn 2018. Introduction to International Relations

Spring 2019. Introduction to International Relations 2-3

Autumn 2019. Viden

Autumn 2019. Introduction to International Relations 1

CV

Education

Ph.D., International Relations, University of Copenhagen (2015): "Rising Powers in the International Relations Discipline: Sociological Inquiries into a Dividing Discipline and the Quest for Non-Western Theory." 

M.Sc., Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2010): "Writing on the Wall: Prominence, Promotion and Power Politics in the Quest for a Chinese International Relations Theory"

Academic positions

Post.doc, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2015-2017): "States of Emergence: A Genealogy of Emerging Powers in World Politics"

Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2011-2015)

Researcher/Research Assistant, Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST), University of Copenhagen (2009-)

Grants and awards

Post.doc. stipend from the Free Research Council (DKK 1.700.000) (2015). 

Eliteforsk stipend from the Ministry of Education and Research (DKK 300.000) (2013). 

Ph.d. stipend from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (2011). 

Other scholarships from Augustinus Fonden, S.C. Van Fonden, Oticon Fonden, Asian Dynamics Initiative, International Alliance of Research Universities, J.L. Smith Fonden (2010-).