Felix Berenskötter (PhD LSE) is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Previously, he was based at SOAS, University of London. Felix became interested in the concept of international friendship while doing his PhD. Since then, he has been working on developing a theory of the emergence and dissolution of international friendship by thinking through its connection with concepts of identity, anxiety, trust, security, order, and power. He is exploring these ideas empirically through questions of European security and peace and Germany’s special relationships with other states, such as the US and Israel. Felix co-edits the book series Bristol Studies in International Theory.

Keywords: Theorising international friendship, politics of friendship; trust; estrangement; transatlantic relations.