Kai Hebel
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. K.R. Hebel
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9948
- k.r.hebel@luc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0005-7645-1881
Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold War, transatlantic relations, EU foreign policy, US political culture, systems theory, simulation pedagogy and the cultural representation of evil.
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Biography
Dr. Kai Hebel (DPhil, Oxford University) is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Hebel’s research interests include international security, diplomacy, international history, cultural studies and IR theory. He has published on a wide range of topics, including military intervention, the Cold War, transatlantic relations, EU foreign policy, US political culture, systems theory, simulation pedagogy and the cultural representation of evil. Dr. Hebel is currently writing a book on the diplomatic management of intractable inter-state conflict, which is based on extensive interviews and archival research conducted on three continents. He studied Political Science, International Relations, Peace & Conflict Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California – Berkeley, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Université de Paris – Sorbonne, United Nations University – Tokyo and Oxford University, earning three master's and a doctoral degree. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of China and a Global Scholar at National Taiwan University in Taipei.
Academic Expertise
- International Relations
- Inter-state Conflict
- Diplomacy
- International History
- Political Culture
Courses
- Diplomacy of International Conflict
- International Security Studies
- Introduction to Globalisation and Transnational Politics
- Power in World Politics
- Leadership in Politics and Diplomacy: Practitioners' Perspectives
- Masterpieces of Cinema
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.10
Contact
- Hebel K.R. (2025), 'Fathers of the Final Act': Britain and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1970–1975. London: Routledge.
- Hebel K.R. (2020), Escaping the Alcatraz of methodological nationalism: a commentary on Erez Manela, H-Diplo Roundtable Review 975: .
- Hebel K.R. & Lenz T. (2016), The Identity/Policy Nexus in European Foreign Policy, Journal of European Public Policy 23(4): 473-491.
- Hebel K.R. (2013), Propaganda Tools and Idealistic Goals: Britain and the Cold War Politics of Human Rights in the CSCE, 1972–1973. In: Mariager R., Molin K. & Brathagen K. (Eds.), Human Rights during the Cold War. London: Routledge.
- Hebel K.R. (2012), Die ‘Brückenbauer’? Großbritannien als transatlantischer Vermittler in der KSZE, 1972-1978. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag.
- Hebel K.R. (2009), The Subversion of Evil in the Films of David Lynch. In: Achilles J. & Bergmann I. (Eds.), Representations of Evil in Anglophone Cultures. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
- Bös M. & Hebel K.R. (2007), Religion. In: Martinelli A. (Ed.), Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Eichert D. & Hebel K.R. (2005), Erfolgreiche Simulanten: Zum didaktischen Potential von Model UN-Planspielen, Wissenschaft und Frieden 23(4): .
- Hebel K.R. (2003), 'Freundliche Interventionen'? Kanada und die 'Responsibility to Protect'. In: Bredow W. von (Ed.), Die Außenpolitik Kanadas. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
- Hebel K.R. (2003), Die Umwelt der Gesellschaft: Niklas Luhmanns ökologische Gesellschaftstheorie. In: Bodenstedt A. & Nebelung A. (Eds.), Ökologische Theorien: Fünfzehn Vorlesungen zur Einführung. Gießen: Focus Verlag.
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