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Fellow during the winter term 2023/24
Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.
Short project description:
Recent crises have brought the role of states into focus. The state's scope of action has expanded, even though states are less sovereign than reliant on engagement with international organizations and collaboration with national and regional interest groups in these crises. My project uses these observations for a history of crisis management by modern states in a complex multi-level system, in which international state and non-state actors act together with governments of individual states, their expert committees, and local and regional networks of actors. I begin looking at the transformation crisis after the Great War and how the League responded to it.