Matthew G. Specter

Matthew Specter is a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’sInstitute for European Studies and teaches in the History Department at Santa Clara University. He also serves as Associate Editor of the journal History & Theory.

Symposium
Interview
International Law and the Political

Towards Realistic Universalism?, or: Provincializing Realism! An Interview with Matthew Specter

Matthew G. Specter Hendrik Simon

In his book The Atlantic Realists, Matthew Specter presents a genealogy of modern realism as a discourse between US-American and German intellectuals. An interview about the origins of the central...

Symposium
Histories of International Law

Historicizing a Classic

Matthew G. Specter

Response to Marcus Payk and Alexandra Kemmerer For several years, I have been researching the intellectual biographies of two major figures in 20th century German political and legal thought: Hans...