Biography

Peter Finkenbusch is an International Relations scholar working on security, resilience, and international intervention, with a regional focus on the Americas. He holds a PhD from the Free University Berlin (2014), where he focused on US security interventions in Mexico as part of the War on Drugs. His work has been published in Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding: The Knowledge Paradox of International Intervention (Routledge, 2017) and several peer-reviewed journal articles, including in Globalizations, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, and Conflict, Security & Development.

His current research deals with issues of resilience, pragmatism, and emancipation. In contrast to dominant readings of resilience as neoliberal, post-liberal, or biopolitical, he concentrates on the emancipatory potential of resilience thinking when applied with a pragmatist ethos.