Bettina Koch

• Political Theory
• History of Political Thought 
• (Cross-Cultural) Comparative Political Theory
• Islamic Political Thought

• Dr. phil., Political Science, Hochschule Vechta
• MA, Medieval and Modern History/Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

• e-International Relation Board Member 
• ATINER: Head of Politics & International Affairs Research Unit

• Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellowship, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2016–17
• Visiting Associate in the Humanities, California Institute of Technology, 2016–17

Books

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives: Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies(Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), ISBN 978-1614515661.

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives: Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies [paperback edition] (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2016) ISBN 978-1614515777.

Zur Dis-/Kontinuität mittelalterlichen politischen Denkens in der neuzeitlichen politischen Theorie: Marsilius von Padua, Johannes Althusius und Thomas Hobbes im Vergleich (Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft 137; Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 2005).

Regional Security in the Middle East: Sectors, Variables and Issues (Bristol: e-International Relations, 2019), ISBN 978-1910814512.

Totalitäre Herrschaft und republikanische Demokratie. 50 Jahre ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ von Hannah Arendt, ed. Antonia Grunenberg, with the assistance of Stefan Ahrens and Bettina Koch (Hannah‐Arendt Studien 1; Peter Lang: Frankfurt/M., New York, 2003).

Bettina Koch and Cary J. Nederman (eds.), Inventing Modernity in Medieval European Thought, ca. 1100 – ca. 1550 (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications,  Western Michigan University, 2019). ISBN 978-1-58044-349-4.

Bettina Koch (ed.), State Terror, State Violence – Global Perspectives (Springer: Wiesbaden, 2016).

Journal Articles

“Das monarchische arcana imperii Prinzip versus das demokratische Transparenzprinzip: Zum Verhältnis von Staat und bürgerlicher Freiheit nach Snowden,” in Staatsgeheimnisse: Arkanpolitik im Wandel der Zeiten, ed. Rüdiger Voigt (Springer: Wiesbaden, 2017), 111-130.

“US-Drone Strikes: Acts of Terror, Violence, or Coercion?” In State Terror, State Violence – Global Perspectives (Springer: Wiesbaden, 2016), 151-170.

“Citizenship in the Age of Global Surveillance: Some Observations on a Transforming State-Citizen Relationship,” in Deconstructing Global Citizenship: Political, Cultural, and Ethical Perspectives, ed. Hassan Bashir and Phillip W. Gray (Lanham: Lexington, 2015), 77-97.

“Against Empire? John of Paris’s Defence of Territorial Secular Power Considered in the Context of Dante’s and Marsilius of Padua’s Political Theories,” in John of Paris: Beyond Royal and Papal Power, ed. Chris Jones (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015), 49-74.

“Religious Dissent in Premodern Islam: Political Usage of Heresy and Apostasy in Nizam al-Mulk and Ibn Taymiyya,” in Religion, Power and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card, ed. Karen Bollermann, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Cary J. Nederman (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 215-236.

“Liberation Theologies, Periphery Existence, and Global Challenges: Towards a Transcultural Ideology of Liberation,” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 1:3 (2014): 173‐184.