Norbert Götz

Professor i historia

Rum: PA 225, Primus

Tel: +46 (0)8-608 41 73

Email: norbert.gotz@sh.se

Norbert Götz holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-University Berlin, is Docent of Political History at the University of Helsinki as well as Docent of Modern History and International Relations at the University of Greifswald. He has been a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Employed at the Institute of Contemporary History of Södertörn University since 2010, he is in particular responsible for strengthening the international networks of the institute, for developing its international comparative research profile and for enhancing transnational and global perspectives. Thereby the larger Baltic Sea area and Central and Eastern Europe are special target regions. He is also active in a scholarly network studying the relations of the Nordic countries and the Third World.

Norbert Götz has a wide range of interests including political culture, international relations, democracy, welfare state, nationalism, peace and conceptual history. He has worked on Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, the Baltic republics and the Baltic Sea region at large, as well as on international relations in general, in particular the United Nations and also European integration. A focus of his work is civil society and civil society-state relations. Another concern is the use of synergies of the disciplines of history and political science and, more broadly, transdisciplinary approaches. Appreciating a variety of theoretical orientations, his work draws in particular from constructivist perspectives. His teaching has mainly been in the fields of modern Nordic history, society and international relations.

Presently he works on the evolution of global civil society, on the notion of democratic peace, on Nordic cooperation and multilevel governance in the Baltic Sea region as well as on the concept of "open society". He leads the research project "'Nordic Openness': Opportunities and Limits of a Consensual Political Culture" at the University of Helsinki. His membership in academic networks includes the Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical Foundations and Future Challenges (NordWel), the Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, CONCEPTA - International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, and membership in the editorial board of the journal NORDEUROPAforum.

Norbert Götz has been awarded the Hans-Rosenberg-Memorial Prize of the Heinrich-August-and-Dörte-Winkler-Foundation in the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation for his dissertation as well as the 15th Annual Scholarship Award of the Swedish Women's Educational Association International (SWEA).

 

Selected publications:

Monographs and edited volumes:

• Regional Cooperation and International Organizations: The Nordic Model in Transnational Alignment. Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics 70. London: Routledge, 2009 (ed. together with Heidi Haggrén). 290 pp.
• Die Ordnung des Raums: Mentale Landkarten in der Ostseeregion. The Baltic Sea Region: Nordic Dimensions - European Perspectives 6. Berlin: Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006 (ed. together with Jörg Hackmann and Jan Hecker-Stampehl). 422 pp.
• Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 (ed. together with Jörg Hackmann). 274 pp.
• Ungleiche Geschwister: Die Konstruktion von nationalsozialistischer Volksgemeinschaft und schwedischem Volksheim. Die kulturelle Konstruktion von Gemeinschaften im Modernisierungsprozeß 4. Diss. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001. 598 pp.

Peer-reviewed articles:

• "'Matts Mattson Paavola Knows Elihu Burritt': Nineteenth Century Peace Activism and the Nordic Countries in Transnational Perspective." Peace & Change 35 (2010) 2: 191-221.
• "The Absent-Minded Founder: Norway and the Establishment of the United Nations." Diplomacy & Statecraft 20 (2009) 4: 619-637.
• "'Blue-eyed Angels' at the League of Nations: The Genevese Construction of Norden." Regional Cooperation and International Organizations: The Nordic Model in Transnational Alignment. Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics 70. Norbert Götz and Heidi Haggrén (eds). London: Routledge, 2009. 25-46.
• "Western Europeans and Others: The Making of Europe at the United Nations." Alternatives 33 (2008) 3: 359-381.
• "Reframing NGOs: The Identity of an International Relations Non-Starter." European Journal of International Relations 14 (2008) 2: 231-258.
• "'In a Class by Itself': Cold War Politics and Finland's Position vis-à-vis the United Nations, 1945-1956." Journal of Cold War Studies 10 (2008) 2: 73-98.
• "Facing the Fascist Model: Discourse and the Construction of Labour Services in the USA and Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s." Journal of Contemporary History 41 (2006): 57-73 (together with Kiran Klaus Patel).
• "On the Origins of 'Parliamentary Diplomacy': Scandinavian 'Bloc Politics' and Delegation Policy in the League of Nations." Cooperation and Conflict 40 (2005): 263-279.
• "German-Speaking People and German Heritage: Nazi Germany and the Problem of Volksgemeinschaft." The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness. Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, and Nancy Reagin (eds). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. 58-81.
• "Prestige and Lack of Alternative: Denmark and the United Nations in the Making." Scandinavian Journal of History 29 (2004): 73-96.
• "Modernisierungsverlierer oder Gegner der reflexiven Moderne? Rechtsextreme Einstellungen in Berlin." Zeitschrift für Soziologie 26 (1997) 6: 393-413.

Publikationer på svenska:

• "'Att styra och ställa på egen hand': Den socialdemokratiska ungdomsorganisationen Unga Örnar 1929-45." Arbetarhistoria (2009) 4: 4-12.
• "Kartan i huvudet: Ett tyskt perspektiv på Östersjöregionens mentala kartering." Ymer 128 (2008): 300-320 (tillsammans med Jörg Hackmann och Jan Hecker-Stampehl).
• "'Regeringens fruntimmer' i FN." Internationella Studier (2006) 1: 32-37.
• "Hansson och Hitler: En begreppshistorisk släktforskning." Historisk tidskrift för Finland 87 (2002): 245-262.
• "Att lägga historien till rätta: Försöket att göra folkhemmet folkhemskt." Tvärsnitt 24 (2002) 1: 28-43.
• "Den moderna tomtebolyckan." Den svenska framgångssagan? Kurt Almqvist and Kay Glans (red.). Stockholm: Fischer, 2001. 103-115.
• Materiellt eller kulturellt främlingskap? Högerextrema attityder i Tyskland. Arbetspapper 'Gemenskaper' 15. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität, 1997. 36 pp.