Berenike Prem
Berenike Prem is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. She holds a PhD from the University of Bremen where she worked in research project on the privatization and internationalization of security. Her research and teaching concentrates on the evolving practices of warfare, the role of new military and security technologies, norms, anticipatory governance, and Science and Technology Studies. Her dissertation offers an alternative explanation for the oft-cited normalization of the private military and security industry and the trend to privatize security by analyzing the changing relationship between Private Military and Security Companies and NGOs. She is currently working on a research project on anticipatory governance of emerging weapons technologies, with a focus on military AI and autonomous weapons systems.
Peace and conflict studies
Privatization of security
Autonomous weapons systems and military AI
Norms
Anticipatory governance of emerging technologies
Science and Technology Studies
Monograph:
Prem, Berenike (2020): Private Military and Security Companies as Global Governors: From Barricades to Boardrooms. Routledge: Abingdon.
Journal article (peer reviewed):
Prem, Berenike (2022): Governing through Anticipatory Norms: How UNIDIR Constructs Knowledge about Autonomous Weapons Systems, Global Society, 36:2, 261-280, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2021.2021149
Prem, Berenike (2021): The Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies: Analyzing Power in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives, Contemporary Security Policy, 42:3, 345-370, DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2021.1897225
Prem, Berenike (2021) The False Promise of Multi-stakeholder Governance: Depoliticising Private Military and Security Companies, Global Society, 35:2, 149-170, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2020.1791055
Hickmann, Thomas; Prem, Berenike (2021): Das Verhältnis von Nichtregierungsorganisationen und privaten Unternehmen in der globalen Umwelt‑, Menschenrechts- und Sicherheitspolitik, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 31, 193–216, DOI:10.1007/s41358-021-00268-1
Hickmann, Thomas; Prem, Berenike (2018): Von Gegnern zu Partnern? Zum Verhältnis von NGOs und Unternehmen in der internationalen Klimapolitik, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 48-54.
Prem, Berenike (2013): Deutschland in der „Multilateralismusfalle“? Reaktionen auf Zielkonflikte der intentionalen Sicherheitspolitik in der out-of-area-Debatte 1992-1994, TranState Working Papers N° 174, University of Bremen: Collaborative Research Center 597.
Book chapters:
Prem, Berenike; Krahmann, Elke (2019): Private Military and Security Companies. In. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.279.
Prem, Berenike (2018): Who Am I? The Blurring of the Private Military and Security Company (PMSC) Category. In: Bures, Oldrich and Helena Carrapico (eds.): Security Privatization: How Non-security-related Private Businesses Shape Security Governance. London: Springer, 51-76.
Neue Technologien in der internationalen Sicherheitspolitik
Transformations of the State
Übung zur Einführung in die Theorie und Geschichte in die Internationale Politik
Die Privatisierung des Krieges
Frieden, Sicherheit und Menschenrechte
Sicherheit und Global Governance
Globalization and Global Governance
Macht in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Internationalization and Privatization of Security (zusammen mit Katharina Emschermann)
Forschungsansätze der Politikwissenschaft (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer)