Jonathan Bach
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Jonathan Bach is a professor of International affairs
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He is the chair of the Global Studies undergraduate program at The New School in New York, where he has taught since 2002. He previously served as Associate and Acting Director of the International Affairs Program at The New School
. Bach has worked on issues such as sovereignty
, national identity
and institutional memory
. He previously held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia University
, Harvard University
, and the University of Hamburg
. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989. His articles have appeared in many prominent periodicals, including Public Culture, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Theory, Culture & Society, and Geopolitics.
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
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He is the chair of the Global Studies undergraduate program at The New School in New York, where he has taught since 2002. He previously served as Associate and Acting Director of the International Affairs Program at The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
. Bach has worked on issues such as sovereignty
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...
, national identity
Nationalism
Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
and institutional memory
Institutional memory
Institutional memory is a collective set of facts, concepts, experiences and know-how held by a group of people. As it transcends the individual, it requires the ongoing transmission of these memories between members of this group...
. He previously held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and the University of Hamburg
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...
. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989. His articles have appeared in many prominent periodicals, including Public Culture, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Theory, Culture & Society, and Geopolitics.