Chiara Libiseller
Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and author of Reconceptualizing War (Oxford UP, 2026), researching conceptual change and knowledge production in strategic studies.
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May 12, 2026 • 52min
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Dr. Chiara Libiseller, lecturer in strategic studies at King’s College London and author of Reconceptualizing War, studies how concepts in strategic studies go in and out of fashion. She traces RMA, counterinsurgency, and hybrid warfare. Short, sharp takes explore why concepts become dominant, how practitioner-academic ties shape trends, and why reflexivity is needed to avoid narrowing research.
May 12, 2026 • 52min
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Dr. Chiara Libiseller, Lecturer in Strategic Studies at King’s College London and author of Reconceptualizing War, studies how concepts in strategic studies rise like fashions and then fade. She traces revolution in military affairs, counterinsurgency, and hybrid warfare. Short takes explore why concepts swell, become vague, gain authority, and later decline, and why reflexivity matters for the field.
May 12, 2026 • 52min
Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Chiara Libiseller, lecturer in strategic studies at King’s College London and author of Reconceptualizing War, explores how concepts like RMA, counterinsurgency, and hybrid warfare rise to dominance and then fade. She traces their life cycle as fashions in strategic thought. The conversation examines drivers of popularity, how power sustains vague ideas, and calls for greater reflexivity in the study of war.
