Dr. Malte Riemann

Malte Riemann is a senior lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Dr Riemann studied in Bremen and Pietermaritzburg, and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University f Reading. His research has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, the Earhart Foundation and the European International Studies Association. His fields of interest include the privatisation of war and its effects on the state’s legitimate monopoly on violence, the medicalization of security, and the historicity of non-state actors. He is currently in the process of writing a monograph in German on the transformation of war provisionally titled ‘War in the 20^th and 21^st Century’ and his most recent publication ‘Problematizing the medicalization of violence: A critical discourse analysis of the ‘Cure Violence’ initiative’ has just appeared in Critical Public Health.

War Amongst the People: Critical Assessments