Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher
Political Violence and State Sovereignity
anne.schwenkenbecher@alumni.hu-berlin.de
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PhD (Humboldt University Berlin)
Biography
Anne Schwenkenbecher’s current research project focuses on collective obligations arising from climate change. Her PhD focused on the ethics of political violence, in particular the definition and possible justifications of terrorism. Together with Anna Goppel and Daniel Messelken (University of Zurich) Anne Schwenkenbecher established the German Network for Terrorism Research (www.netzwerk-terrorismusforschung.de).
Fields of special interest
- Ethics of Climate Change
- Ethics of Political Violence
- Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligations
Publications
Schwenkenbecher, Anne (2009). “Terrorism, Supreme Emergency and Killing the Innocent”. In Perspectives - The Review of International Affairs, 17(1): 105-126.
Schwenkenbecher, Anne (2010).“Terrorism Against Non-Innocents: The Ethical Implications”. In Paul Omoyefa (ed.) Basic Applied Ethics. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
Schwenkenbecher, Anne (exp. 2011) Terrorism: A Philosophical Inquiry. (PhD thesis)