Sabine Selchow

Dr Sabine Selchow

I build and translate academic concepts to transform public approaches to contemporary societal problems. I am trained in the humanities and social sciences and apply qualitative and quantitative methods. I have a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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'Starting somewhere different: methodological cosmopolitanism and the study of world politics' Global Networks, 2020, 20(3): 544-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12262

'Introduction: methodological cosmopolitanism across the socio-cultural sciences' Global Networks, 2020, 20(3): 489-499 (with A Blok)

https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12292

‘The Paths not (Yet) Taken: Ulrich Beck, the ‘Cosmopolitised World’ and Security Studies’ Security Dialogue, 2016, 47(5): 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010616647859

‘Imagining a Cosmopolitized Europe: From the Study of the ‘New’ to the Discovery of the ‘Unexpected’’ in: Klein, Lars and Martin Tamcke (eds.) Imagining Europe: Memory, Visions, and Counter-Narratives, Goettingen: Universitaetsverlag Goettingen, 2015, 123-139.

‘Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s)’ in: Kaldor, Mary and Iavor Rangelov (eds). Handbook of Global Security Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 68-84.

‘Risk Society’ in: Turner, Bryan S. et al (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Wiley Blackwell, 2017; substantive entry (5,000 words) (with A Blok).

‘Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world’, The Conversation, 2018. https://theconversation.com/breaking-the-shackles-of-the-national-mindset-in-a-polarised-world-90009

‘Die Apokalypse duldet keinen Sachzwang’ Interview with Ulrich Beck and Bruno Latour in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 May 2014. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ulrich-beck-und-bruno-latour-zur-klimakatastrophe-12939499.html

‘Preventive Detention Beyond the Law: The Need to Ask Socio-Political Questions’ in: Keyzer, Patrick (ed.) Preventive Detention: Asking the Fundamental Questions, Intersentia, 2013, 261-285 (with A Loughnan).

‘An Interplay of Traditions: The ‘Return of Uncertainty’ and its Taming in Post-9/11 US Security Thinking’ in: Bevir, Mark, Oliver Daddow, and Ian Hall (eds.) Interpreting Global Security, London: Routledge, 2013, 35- 52.

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PLANETARY

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'Review: Children of a Modest Star' H-Diplo, 2025. https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20059682/h-diplo-roundtable-xxvi-24-blake-and-gilman-children-modest-star

'Política planetaria - Planetary politics: reactivar el espíritu del concepto de «sociedad civil global' Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2023, No. 134: 119-130, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27260885

‘Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s’, Contemporary European History, 2022, 31(4): 553 - 569 (with G Sluga and B Huf) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777322000546

‘Planetary politics: reviving the spirit of the concept 'global civil society', in Michael Hoelscher, Regina List, Alexander Ruser and Stefan Toepfler (eds), Civil society: concepts, challenges, contexts, Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 189-204 (with M Kaldor)

'Planetary Disasters: Moving the UN Disaster Risk Reduction Framework into Cosmopolitised Reality' Environmental Politics, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1868819

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HUMAN SECURITY

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‘Understanding the Foundation of the new EU Global Strategy: Mogherini’s Strategic Assessment’ in Kaldor, M, I Rangelov and S Selchow (eds.) EU Global Strategy and Human Security: Rethinking Approaches to Conflict, Routledge, 2018.

‘The EU Global Strategy and contemporary conflicts: How much second-generation human security is possible?’ in Kaldor, M, I Rangelov and S Selchow (eds.) EU Global Strategy and Human Security: Rethinking Approaches to Conflict, Routledge, 2018.

EU Global Strategy and Human Security: Rethinking Approaches to Conflict, Routledge, 2018 (w M Kaldor and I Rangelov).

'From Hybid Peace to Human Security: The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group, London, 2016 (w Human Security Study Group).

‘Mogherini’s "The European Union in a changing global environment: a discursive space to rethink the world"’, openDemocracy, 24 May 2016

‘The Construction of “European Security” in "The European Union in a Changing Global Environment"’ European Security, 2016, 25(3): 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2016.1199547

‘From Military to ‘Security Interventions’: An Alternative Approach to Contemporary Interventions’ Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2015, 4(1): 1-12 (with M Kaldor).

‘Human Security: A New Strategic Narrative for Europe’ International Affairs, 2007, 83(2): 273-288 (with M Kaldor and M Martin).

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GLOBAL

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‘The Politics of the Adjective Global’, in: Rossi, Ino (ed). Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order. Berlin: Springer, 2020

Negotiations of the »New World«: The Omnipresence of Global as a Political Phenomenon. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017

‘Socio-economic data for global environmental change research' Nature, 2015, 5: 503–506 (w Otto, I., Biewald, A., Coumou, D. et al.)

‘Language and ‘Global’ Politics: De-Naturalising the ‘Global’’ in: Albrow, M. et al (eds.). Global Civil Society 2007/8: Communicative Power and Democracy. Sage: London, 2008, 224-243.

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GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY

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‘Global Civil Society’ in: Anheier, Helmut and Stefan Toepler (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Berlin: Springer, 2025; substantive entry (4,000 words).

‘The ‘Bubbling Up’ of Subterranean Politics in Europe’ Journal of Civil Society, 2013, 9(1): 78-99 (w M Kaldor).

‘Global Civil Society and the Internet 2012: Time to Update our Perspective’ in: Kaldor, Mary, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow (eds). Global Civil Society 2012: Ten Years of Critical Reflection. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 28-40 (w H Moore).

‘Globalisation and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach’ in: Kostovicova, Denisa and Marlies Glasius (eds). Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centered Approach to Globalisation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 203-215.

Subterranean Politics in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (w M Kaldor).

Global Civil Society 2012: Ten Years of Critical Reflection. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (w M Kaldor and H L Moore).

‘Civil Society in the EU: future scenarios for 2030’, expert commentary, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), 2018.

‘The ‘Bubbling Up’ of Subterranean Politics in Europe’ Report prepared for Open Society Foundation, May 2012 (with M Kaldor)

‘European NPO Observatory Feasibility Study’, study commissioned by Directorate-General Home, European Commission, 2012 (w I Rangelov, A Ishkanian, S Milio, M Ketola and M Kaldor)

‘The Crisis of European Democracy’, ProjectSyndicate, 26 June 2012 (w M Kaldor)

‘Subterranean Politics in Europe’, openDemocracy, 12 October 2012, (w M Kaldor)

‘Thinking about politics and the internet: time to update our perspective’, openDemocracy, 2 May 2012

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GLOBAL CORPORATIONS

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'Multinational Corporations in World Development (1973): Network of UN Resolutions', EUI, HEC, Research Data, 2025 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/78007

'US Multinationals: R&D expenditure in manufacturing (1966)', interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'Which UN resolutions does the UN DESA Report 'Multinational Corporations in World Development' (1973) reference?', interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'Foreign Direct Investment (1914-1978)', interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'The UN economic and social council’s initiative on multinational corporations (1972-1974): a Primer', EUI, HEC, ECOINT, Primer Paper, 2023 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/78028

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The Language of the World Development Reports, 1978-2021 : Term Frequency Dataset, EUI, HEC, Research Data, 2025 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77795

'Development, international organizations and international economic thinking: a conceptual contribution' International Organizations and Global Development, edited by Nicholas Ferns and Angela Villani, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, pp. 23-42. (w G Sluga)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111280356-002

'Natural resources used in 6 Western European countries, 1937-1982' interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'Meetings of the Group of 77 (1963-1980)' interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'Women authors in the International Labour Review (1921-1945)' interactive data visualisation, 2024, link

'From “economic and social questions” to national containers and two notions of ‘political’: a systematic analysis of the symbolic construction of ‘economic problems’ in the LoN’s Bruce Report (1939)' EUI Working Paper 2022/07 http://hdl.handle.net/1814/75130

‘The Drones of Others: An Insight into the Imagination of UAVs in Germany’ Behemoth–A Journal on Civilisation, 2015, 8(2): 55-72.

‘Ulrich Beck obituary’, The Guardian, 6 January 2015 (w M Kaldor)

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