Claes Wrangel

Peace and Development Research
PhD Student

About

• PhD Candidate in Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg
• MA in Political Science, Stockholm University

Area of interests

American exceptionalism; War on Terror; security studies; deconstruction; biopolitics; the temporal constitution of the liberal subject; religiosity and modernity; utopian fantasies, desire and power.

Current research

My dissertation concerns the politics of hope in global security discourse and studies how the understanding of security, the future and identification are recast through the category of hope in liberal governance. Can hope and security be conflated in modernity, should they be seen as complementary or indeed diametrically opposed logics of coping with radical contingency?

Teaching and tutoring

Teaching in: War, peace and security; Introduction to International Relations; Power, Resistance and Change; The US, Hegemony and the Global Order.