Annette Freyberg-Inan

German political scientist

Annette Freyberg-Inan is a German-born political scientist and a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.^[1] She has written extensively on issues related to international relations theory, politics in Europe, including Turkey, and the internationalization of higher education.

Career

Freyberg-Inan earned her MA in Political Science and English from the University of Stuttgart and later completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Georgia.^[2] Early in her career, she served as a UN consultant in Romania and became a Civic Education Project Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Bucharest (2000-2003).^[3] During this time, she co-founded The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics in 2000, the first Romanian political science journal to implement double-blind peer review.^[4]

Freyberg-Inan's 2004 book What Moves Man critically examines the foundations of realist International Relations theory, challenging its assumptions about human nature and advocating for a more nuanced understanding of state behaviour. Scholar Patrick James described it as “the best treatment of realism I have seen from an interdisciplinary standpoint.”^[5]

She has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the University of Edinburgh. Freyberg-Inan returned to the University of Amsterdam in 2013, where she served as the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (2017-2023)^[6].

Freyberg-Inan served as the vice-president of the International Studies Association (2013-2014),^[7] as president of its Theory Section (2015-2017)^[8], and on the Executive Council of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (2010-2016). She has held editorial roles including Executive Editor of The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics (2000-2003), Associate Editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2012-2015),^[9] and co-editor of the European Journal of International Relations (2018-2022).^[10][11]

Books

• What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature (SUNY Press, 2004).^[12]
• The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or John Dewey Meets Ceausescu: The Promise and the Failures of Civic Education in Romania (Ibidem Verlag, 2006).^[13]
• Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation, co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).^[14]
• Human Beings in International Relations, co-edited with Daniel Jacobi (Cambridge University Press, 2015).^[15]
• Growing Together, Growing Apart: Turkey and the European Union Today, co-edited with Mehmet Bardakci and Olaf Leisse (Nomos, 2016).
• Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How Do You Know? co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Routledge, 2016).
• Religious Minorities in Turkey: Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom, co-authored with with Mehmet Bardakçi, Christoph Giesel, and Olaf Leisse (Palgrave, 2017).^[16]

References

1. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2024-09-12). "Prof. dr. A. (Annette) Freyberg-Inan". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
2. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2024-09-12). "Prof. dr. A. (Annette) Freyberg-Inan". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
3. "Visiting lectures by prof. Annette Freyberg-Inan from the University of Amsterdam". News and notifications. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
4. "About | The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics". www.rjsp.politice.ro. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
5. Freyberg-Inan, Annette. What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature. SUNY Press, 2004.
6. University of Amsterdam. "Annette Freyberg-Inan Appointed Professor of International Relations Theory." [Online]. Available: https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/professor-appointments/2020/11/annette-freyberg-inan-appointed-professor-of-international-relations-theory.html. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].
7. International Studies Association. "THEORY Annual Report 2013." [PDF]. Available: https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/THEORY/THEORY%20Annual%20Report%202013.pdf. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].
8. International Studies Association. "Governing Council Meeting 2016 Members." [Online]. Available: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Governance/Governing-Council/Meetings/2016/Members. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].
9. Bátora, Jozef; Freyberg-Inan, Annette; Gould, John; Hynek, Nik; Karp, David; Roter, Petra (2012-07-01). "A global journal with Central European roots: a vision for the JIRD". Journal of International Relations and Development. 15 (3): 317–320. doi:10.1057/jird.2012.16. ISSN 1581-1980.
10. Daxecker, Ursula; Freyberg-Inan, Annette; Glasius, Marlies; Underhill, Geoffrey; Vigneswaran, Darshan (September 2020). "Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and the International Relations event horizon". European Journal of International Relations. 26 (1_suppl): 3–13. doi:10.1177/1354066120952726. ISSN 1354-0661.
11. European Journal of International Relations. "Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors." European Journal of International Relations, vol. 27, no. 4, 2021, pp. 969–970. doi:10.1177/13540661211062650.
12. Reviews of What Moves Man:
    • Daniel Nexon (2004), Perspectives on Politics, doi:10.1017/S1537592704800586, JSTOR 3688610
    • Charles Broughton (2005), Millennium: Journal of International Studies, doi:10.1177/03058298050330031002
13. Reviews of The Ghosts in Our Classrooms:
    • Tom Gallagher (2007), Slavic Review, doi:10.2307/20060171, JSTOR 20060171
    • Mihai Varga (2007), Osteuropa, JSTOR 44934131
14. Reviews of Rethinking Realism in International Relations:
    • Daniel Falkiner (2011), Millennium: Journal of International Studies, doi:10.1177/0305829811400354
    • Ian Hall (2010), International Affairs, JSTOR 40664281
    • Thomas Juneau (2010), Études internationales, doi:10.7202/044908ar
    • John M. Schuessler (2010), "Should Realism Return to its Roots?", International Studies Review, JSTOR 40931359
15. Reviews of Human beings in International Relations:
    • Asli Calkivik (2016), "Critical Investigations into "Human, All Too Human" IR", International Studies Review, JSTOR 26407956
    • Yuri van Hoef (2016), International Affairs, doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12512, JSTOR 24757842
16. Review of Religious Minorities in Turkey: Svante Lundgren (2017), Babylon Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier, [1] (in Norwegian Bokmål)