Teaching

Teaching

Critical Security Studies and Conflict

Bachelor (BA) | University of Zurich

This course introduces students to critical approaches to the study of security and war in international politics. Moving beyond traditional understandings of security centred on states and military threats, it examines how security is defined, practised, and contested. Drawing on critical security studies, postcolonial scholarship, and political theory, the course explores themes including militarism, surveillance, borders, race, technology, and the politics of violence. Students are encouraged to question whose security is prioritised, how threats are constructed, and how security practices shape political and social life.

Postcolonial Approaches to International Relations

Master (MA) | University of Zurich

This course explores how colonialism and its enduring legacies shape international politics. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial scholarship, it critically examines foundational concepts in International Relations, including sovereignty, power, knowledge, and the international order. Through discussions of race, intervention, borders, policing, and resistance, students consider how colonial relations continue to structure global politics and how perspectives from formerly colonised societies challenge dominant theories and understandings of international relations. Particular attention is given to questions of whose knowledge counts, whose experiences are marginalised, and how alternative ways of understanding international politics become possible.