{{Short description|German political scientist}} '''Annette Freyberg-Inan''' is a German-born political scientist and a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2024-09-12 |title=Prof. dr. A. (Annette) Freyberg-Inan |url=https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f/r/a.freyberginan/a.freyberginan.html |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=University of Amsterdam }}</ref> She has written extensively on issues related to international relations theory, politics in Europe, including Turkey, and the internationalization of higher education.

== Career == Freyberg-Inan earned her MA in Political Science and English from the University of Stuttgart and later completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2024-09-12 |title=Prof. dr. A. (Annette) Freyberg-Inan |url=https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f/r/a.freyberginan/a.freyberginan.html#Profile |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=University of Amsterdam }}</ref> Early in her career, she served as a UN consultant in Romania and became a Civic Education Project Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Bucharest (2000-2003).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visiting lectures by prof. Annette Freyberg-Inan from the University of Amsterdam |url=https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/en/news-and-information/news-and-notifications/visiting-lectures-by-prof.-annette-freyberg-inan-from-the-university-of-amsterdam |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=News and notifications }}</ref> During this time, she co-founded The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics in 2000, the first Romanian political science journal to implement double-blind peer review.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics |url=https://www.rjsp.politice.ro/about |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.rjsp.politice.ro}}</ref>

Freyberg-Inan's 2004 book ''What Moves Man'' critically examines the foundations of realist International Relations theory, challenging its assumptions about human nature and advocating for a more nuanced understanding of state behaviour. Scholar Patrick James described it as “the best treatment of realism I have seen from an interdisciplinary standpoint.”<ref>Freyberg-Inan, Annette. What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature. SUNY Press, 2004.</ref>

She has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the University of Edinburgh. Freyberg-Inan returned to the University of Amsterdam in 2013, where she served as the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences (2017-2023).<ref>University of Amsterdam. "Annette Freyberg-Inan Appointed Professor of International Relations Theory." [Online]. Available: https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/professor-appointments/2020/11/annette-freyberg-inan-appointed-professor-of-international-relations-theory.html. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].</ref>

Freyberg-Inan served as the vice-president of the International Studies Association (2013-2014),<ref>International Studies Association. "THEORY Annual Report 2013." [PDF]. Available: https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/THEORY/THEORY%20Annual%20Report%202013.pdf. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].</ref> as president of its Theory Section (2015-2017),<ref>International Studies Association. "Governing Council Meeting 2016 Members." [Online]. Available: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Governance/Governing-Council/Meetings/2016/Members. [Accessed: 16-09-2024].</ref> and on the Executive Council of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (2010-2016). She has held editorial roles including Executive Editor of The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics (2000-2003), Associate Editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2012-2015),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bátora |first=Jozef |last2=Freyberg-Inan |first2=Annette |last3=Gould |first3=John |last4=Hynek |first4=Nik |last5=Karp |first5=David |last6=Roter |first6=Petra |date=2012-07-01 |title=A global journal with Central European roots: a vision for the JIRD |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jird.2012.16 |journal=Journal of International Relations and Development |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=317–320 |doi=10.1057/jird.2012.16 |issn=1581-1980}}</ref> and co-editor of the European Journal of International Relations (2018-2022).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Daxecker |first=Ursula |last2=Freyberg-Inan |first2=Annette |last3=Glasius |first3=Marlies |last4=Underhill |first4=Geoffrey |last5=Vigneswaran |first5=Darshan |date=September 2020 |title=Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and the International Relations event horizon |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354066120952726 |journal=European Journal of International Relations |volume=26 |issue=1_suppl |pages=3–13 |doi=10.1177/1354066120952726 |issn=1354-0661|doi-access=free |hdl=11245.1/b7d460ab-51ea-4062-9a10-cc6598f8cbd6 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>European Journal of International Relations. "Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors." European Journal of International Relations, vol. 27, no. 4, 2021, pp. 969–970. doi:10.1177/13540661211062650.</ref>

== Books ==

* ''What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature'' (SUNY Press, 2004).<ref>Reviews of ''What Moves Man'': *Daniel Nexon (2004), ''Perspectives on Politics'', {{doi|10.1017/S1537592704800586}}, {{jstor|3688610}} *Charles Broughton (2005), ''Millennium: Journal of International Studies'', {{doi|10.1177/03058298050330031002}} </ref> * ''The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or John Dewey Meets Ceausescu: The Promise and the Failures of Civic Education in Romania'' (Ibidem Verlag, 2006).<ref>Reviews of ''The Ghosts in Our Classrooms'': *Tom Gallagher (2007), ''Slavic Review'', {{doi|10.2307/20060171}}, {{jstor|20060171}} *Mihai Varga (2007), ''Osteuropa'', {{jstor|44934131}} </ref> * ''Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation'', co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).<ref>Reviews of ''Rethinking Realism in International Relations'': *Daniel Falkiner (2011), ''Millennium: Journal of International Studies'', {{doi|10.1177/0305829811400354}} *Ian Hall (2010), ''International Affairs'', {{jstor|40664281}} *Thomas Juneau (2010), ''Études internationales'', {{doi|10.7202/044908ar}} *John M. Schuessler (2010), "Should Realism Return to its Roots?", ''International Studies Review'', {{jstor|40931359}} </ref> * ''Human Beings in International Relations'', co-edited with Daniel Jacobi (Cambridge University Press, 2015).<ref>Reviews of ''Human beings in International Relations'': *Asli Calkivik (2016), "Critical Investigations into "Human, All Too Human" IR", ''International Studies Review'', {{jstor|26407956}} *Yuri van Hoef (2016), ''International Affairs'', {{doi|10.1111/1468-2346.12512}}, {{jstor|24757842}} </ref> * ''Growing Together, Growing Apart: Turkey and the European Union Today'', co-edited with Mehmet Bardakci and Olaf Leisse (Nomos, 2016). * ''Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How Do You Know?'' co-edited with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James (Routledge, 2016). * ''Religious Minorities in Turkey: Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom'', co-authored with Mehmet Bardakçi, Christoph Giesel, and Olaf Leisse (Palgrave, 2017).<ref>Review of ''Religious Minorities in Turkey'': Svante Lundgren (2017), ''Babylon Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier'', [https://journals.uio.no/babylon/issue/view/421] (in Norwegian Bokmål) </ref> * ''Universitas: Why Higher Education Must Be International'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025).

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