“Inter-state Misrecognition and Violence according to Hegel“

Drawing on Hegel’s notion of the struggle of states for recognition (Anerkennung), I want to provide an explanation of why necessarily some states fail to be properly recognized and may feel misrecognized or disrespected. Their sense of humiliation and exclusion from the community of truly acknowledged states, referred to as the West, sets them on a trajectory towards revanchist states.

Frustrated sovereigns may seek to gain respect through physical violence or the conquest of foreign territory. My research explores the structural causes of why revisionist states arise in the first place, and whether there is any way to prevent their emergence.

Defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Hegel and Post-Communism” at Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on current topics such as the ecological crisis, the 20th century communist experiment, post-communism, and war, and analyses them in the spirit of Hegel’s philosophy. This mediated or oblique approach to Hegel aims to reveal the topicality of this old master more convincingly than a direct reproduction of his ideas. A deeply patient analysis of contemporary phenomena seeks to view the world through Hegel’s eyes.