Aidan Gnoth

Postdoctoral Researcher - Phillips-University Marburg

Aidan’s work specialises in how knowledge surrounding international peacebuilding and governance is contested into policy and practice. He has published on the role of pacifism and nonviolence in peace processes and international relations, and takes a keen interest in contesting the boundaries of utopian thinking and their impacts on political thought. His doctoral research drew on his experience working in disaster relief coordination and the political sphere to explore how attempts to radically transform the objectives and processes of international peace processes are co-opted and reappraised by mainstream actors and interest. His most recent research (SFB/ TRR 138 ) traced the continuities of International Trusteeship Administration into contemporary peacebuilding efforts to explore how political contestation shaped and defined both positive and problematic understandings of international governance. Aidan takes this background into the PoWER project to explore the interplay between politicians and interest groups in contesting and normalising repertoires of economic governance within Germany and the United Kingdom.