Annette Freyberg-Inan is a German-born political scientist and a faculty member at theUniversity of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.[1] She has written extensively on issues related tointernational relations theory, politics in Europe, including Turkey, and the internationalization of higher education.
Freyberg-Inan earned her MA in Political Science and English from theUniversity of Stuttgart and later completed her PhD in Political Science at theUniversity of Georgia.[2] Early in her career, she served as a UN consultant in Romania and became aCivic Education Project Visiting Faculty Fellow at theUniversity of Bucharest (2000-2003).[3] During this time, she co-founded The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics in 2000, the first Romanian political science journal to implement double-blind peer review.[4]
Freyberg-Inan's 2004 bookWhat Moves Man critically examines the foundations ofrealist International Relations theory, challenging its assumptions about human nature and advocating for a more nuanced understanding of state behaviour. ScholarPatrick James described it as “the best treatment of realism I have seen from an interdisciplinary standpoint.”[5]
She has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam, theTechnische Universität Darmstadt, and theUniversity of Edinburgh. Freyberg-Inan returned to the University of Amsterdam in 2013, where she served as the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (2017-2023).[6]
Freyberg-Inan served as the vice-president of theInternational Studies Association (2013-2014),[7] as president of its Theory Section (2015-2017),[8] and on the Executive Council of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (2010-2016). She has held editorial roles including Executive Editor of The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics (2000-2003), Associate Editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2012-2015),[9] and co-editor of theEuropean Journal of International Relations (2018-2022).[10][11]
What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature (SUNY Press, 2004).[12]
The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or John Dewey Meets Ceausescu: The Promise and the Failures of Civic Education in Romania (Ibidem Verlag, 2006).[13]
Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation, co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).[14]
Human Beings in International Relations, co-edited with Daniel Jacobi (Cambridge University Press, 2015).[15]
Growing Together, Growing Apart: Turkey and the European Union Today, co-edited with Mehmet Bardakci and Olaf Leisse (Nomos, 2016).
Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How Do You Know? co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Routledge, 2016).
Religious Minorities in Turkey: Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom, co-authored with Mehmet Bardakçi, Christoph Giesel, and Olaf Leisse (Palgrave, 2017).[16]
Universitas: Why Higher Education Must Be International (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025).
^European Journal of International Relations. "Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors." European Journal of International Relations, vol. 27, no. 4, 2021, pp. 969–970. doi:10.1177/13540661211062650.
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