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"This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential of experimental writing as an alternative source of 'knowledge' and political imagination within the modern university and the contemporary structures of neoliberal government. It unlocks and foregrounds the power of writing as a site of resistance and a vehicle of transformation that is fundamentally grounded in reflexivity, self-crafting and an ethos of care. In an attempt to cultivate new sensibilities to habitual academic practice the project re-appropriates the skill of writing for envisioning and enacting what it might mean to be working in the discipline of IR and inhabiting the usual spaces and scenes of academic life differently. The practice of experimental writing that intuitively unfolds and develops in the book makes an important methodological intervention into conventional social scientific inquiry both regarding the politics of writing and knowledge production as well as the role and position of the researcher. The formal innovations of the book include the actualization and creative remaking of the Foucaultian genre of the 'experience book, ' which seeks to challenge scholarly routine and offers new experiences and modes of perception as to what it might mean to 'know' and to be a 'knowing subject' in our times. The book will be of interest to researchers engaged in critical and creative research methods (particularly narrative writing, autobiography, storytelling, experimental and transformational research), Foucault studies and philosophy, as well as critical approaches to contemporary government and studies of resistance."

"This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves."

"This text is a summary of my farewell lecture as a university professor, which Igave on 5 July 2005 as the holder of the professorship for Political Sciences andContemporary History in Mannheim, and which I later elaborated.The analysis of unique historic events, as well as permanent structures andprocess patterns, requires the use of a range of different methods used in thehistorical and social sciences, which take into account the uniqueness of eventsand the regulatory character of structures. The history of society and historicalsocial science are two not entirely compatible research approaches, whichattempt to link the analysis of events and structures in their own differentways. Their common feature can be described as being a socio-historicalresearch approach.In the age of the sovereignty of the people, strong tendencies can be observedtowards a lasting world peace, as well as towards legal and illegal acts of massannihilation, particularly in the form of war and of mass murder. A usefulconcept of peace cannot aim to achieve structural conflict resolution and conflicttermination, but merely a dynamic of regulated conflict, which involves cooperationand which entails a low degree of violence.In European policy, the geographical and socio-political dimensions of theconcept of Europe are conjoined in different ways. Historically, a shift in theimage of a north-south Europe towards a west-central-east Europe and thentowards an east-west Europe can be observed."