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Tobias Berger
Visiting Fellow
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
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Biography
Biography
Tobias Berger is Assistant Professor for Political Science and International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Contestations of the Liberal Script’ (SCRIPTS).
His current research examines processes of global ordering and their historical trajectories, with a particular focus on Southern Asia and China. This includes projects on the contested histories of human rights in the 20th century, contemporary transformations of citizenship and belonging in South Asia, and the international politics of India and China.
He conducted prolonged field research in India and Bangladesh and held visiting positions at the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale, Germany) and the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna.
His publications include a book on “Global Norms and Local Courts: Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh” (OUP, 2017) as well as more recent papers on, among others: ‘Entangled Contestations: transnational dynamics of contesting liberal citizenship in South Asia’ (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024, with Uday Vir Garg); ‘Transnationally entangled (in)securities: The UAE, Turkey, and the Saharan political economy of danger’ (Security Dialogue, 2023, with Eva Magdalena Stambøl); ‘Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach’ (International Studies Quarterly, 2023), and ‘Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India’ (European Journal of International Relations, 2022).