Eno Trimcev

• 04/2024-present: Post-Doctoral Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Political Theory and the History of Ideas (Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner)
• 2015-2024: Post-Doctoral Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at University of Greifswald, Chair of Political Theory and the History of Ideas (Prof. Dr. Hubertus Buchstein)
• 2021: External Lecturer, CODE University of Applied Sciences (Berlin)
• 2018: Theodor Heuss Lecturer, The New School, Eugène Lang College of Liberal Arts (New York, United States)
• 2014: Verwaltungsprofessor in Practical Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2013: DPhil in Political Theory at University of Oxford, Thesis: „Rethinking Political Foundations with Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin“
• 2009-2012: Sub-Dean an der St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
• 2010: Lecturer in American Government, Oxbridge Learning Academy (Washington D.C., United States)
• 2008: MSc in Political Theory, Title: „Plato’s Truth or Plato’s Intent? Two Readings of The Statesman“, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, Great Britain)
• 2005-2007: Director of Albanian Institute for International Studies, Tirana (Albania)
• 2005: MA in Political Sience, Title: „Democracy, Intellectuals and the State: The Case of Albania“ at University of Calgary (Canada)
• 2002: BA in Political Science & BA in Economics an der University of Calgary (Canada)

• Democratic Theory
• Political Ideologies
• Politcs & Technology
• Ancient Political Thought
• Albanian Studies

Monographies

• Thinking Founding Moments with Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017).
• Democracy, Intellectuals, and the State: The Case of Albania (Tirana: AIIS, 2005).

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• “Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato’s Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory.” American Journal of Political Science (online first 2023: http://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12761 ).
• “Conservative Theory as Sympathetic Dissent: The Example of Michael Oakeshott.” Journal of Political Ideologies. Vol. 24. No. 3 (2019): 275-294.
• “Conservatism: Empirical or Metaphysical?” Cosmos + Taxis. Vol. 6. No. 3 + 4 (2019): 3-14.
• “Pathways to the Problem of Founding in Contemporary Political Thought.” Trópoς: Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica. XI. 2 (2018): 75-92.
• “‘Flying Spark of Fire’: Thinking (and) Action in Hannah Arendt.” Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory. Vol. 20. No. 2 (Autumn 2017): 182-199.
• “Liberalism and the Challenge of Dostoyevsky.” Polis. 16 (2017): 5-17.

Book Chapters

• “Under the Law of Ruin: Practice, Aesthetics, and the Civil Association.” In: Eric Kos (ed.) Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022): 11-30.
• “Structural Theory and the Trans-Atlantic Rift.”  Perspectives on War—Volume III (Calgary: Center for Military and Strategic Studies, 2005), 241-66.

Handbook articles

• “Leo Strauss: Naturrecht und Geschichte.” In: Michael Kühnlein (ed.) Handbuch Werke der Geschichtsphilosophie. De Gruyter (im Erscheinen).
• “Konservatismus.” In: Michael G. Festl (ed.) Handbuch Liberalismus. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2021, 271-279.

Other articles 

• “Postdjathtas në Postmodernizëm” (Post-Right in Postmodernity). Medius, 15 (January-March 2022). Republished in Peizazhet e Fjalës.
• “Primitivism, Eschatology and the Politics of Time.” Cosmos + Taxis. Vol. 8. Issue 10+11 (2020): 66-74.

Reviews

• “Robert Howse. Leo Strauss: Man of Peace.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. Volume 50. Issue 2 (Summer 2017): 652-654.”Johnson, Paul Elliott. I the People. The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States (Tuscaloosa, AL: UAP, 2022).” Neue Politische Literatur 2/2024: doi: 10.1007/s42520-024-00599-7 [X].
• “Between Philosophy & Politics: Reflections on the Three Cities of Martin Palouš.” Review of: Martin Palouš. Once Upon a Time of Transition: Fourteen Exercises in Political Thought (Washington/London: Academica Press, 2021). Voegelin View (August 21, 2021).
• “Trevor Shelley. Globalization and Liberalism: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent.” Global Intellectual History Vol. 7. No. 4 (2022): 846-849.
• “Matthew Slaboch. A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics.” Interpretation. Volume 45. Issue 1 (Sept 2018): 147-151.

Albanian Studies

• “Foreign Policy, Elites and Regional Identity.” Dialogues: Ownership for Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: June 2009): 31-44.
• “Internal Party Democracy in Albania: Present Needs and Trends.” In Georgi Karasimeonov, ed., Reshaping the Broken Image of Political Parties: Internal Party Democracy in South Eastern Europe (Sofia: GorexPress, 2007): 12-36.
• “Les citadins se sentient assiégés par les ruraux.” Alternatives Internationales. Mars 2007. Numéro 34: 9.
• “Albania.” Nations in Transit 2007: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia (New York: University Press of America, 2007).
• “Albania.” Nations in Transit 2006: Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia (New York: University Press of America, 2006).
•  “Dalla kulla al parlamento.” LIMES: Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica: 133-144.
• Albania and EU: Perceptions and Realities, 2006. Albanian Institute for International Studies: Tirana, 2006.
• Local Government and Corruption: The Case of Albania. Albanian Institute for International Studies: Tirana, 2006.
• Albanian Brain Drain: Turning the Tide. Policy Paper.  Albanian Institute for International Studies: Tirana, 2005.
• Democratic Governance at Local Level—The Case of Albania.  Albanian Institute for International Studies: Tirana, 2003. (Co-author)
• “Organized Crime in Albania: An Unconventional Security Threat,” in Pedrag Jurekovic and Frederic Labarre, eds., Crushing Crime in Southeast Europe: A Struggle of Domestic, Regional and European Dimensions, (Vienna: May 2003): 51-60.
• Book Review: James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers, “Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity.” The International Journal of Albanian Studies. Vol. II. No. 1 (Spring 1998): 129-131.

Lectures

• Einführung in die politische Ideengeschichte (mit Rieke Trimçev, University of Greifswald)
• American Government & Politics (Georgetown University)

BA-Seminars

• Democracy as a Way of Life: The Political Theory of American Pragmatism (University of Greifswald)
• International Law and Democratic Peace (University of Greifswald)
• Theories of Democracy Individual Freedom and Political Institutions (University of Greifswald)
• The Political Theory of Liberalism (University of Greifswald)
• Contemporary Democratic Theory (University of Greifswald, The New School & FAU)
• Ancient Greek Democracy: Classical & Contemporary Perspectives (University of Greifswald)
• On Tyranny: Ancient and (Post) Modern (CODE University)
• John Rawls and the Social Contract Theory (University of Greifswald)
• Theories of Tolerance (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• American Political Thought (University of Greifswald)
• Democracy, Education, and Philosophy (University of Greifswald)
• The Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (University of Greifswald)
• Social Contract Theory in the History of Political Ideas (University of Greifswald)
• Intellectuals and Politics (University of Greifswald)
• Ethical Issues in Contemporary Technological Development (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Applied Ethics: Human Enhancement (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• American Pragmatism as Cultural Philosophy (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• The Idea of Universal History: A Critical Introduction (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Reflections on Political Founding (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Introduction to Political Science (University of Calgary)

MA-Seminars

• Technology & Politics / Digitalization & Democracy (University of Greifswald)
• Controversies in 20^th Century Political Theory (University of Greifswald)
• Theories of Political Representation (University of Greifswald)
• The Idea of Eternal Peace: from Kant to the Present (University of Greifswald)
• Liberalism and its Critics (University of Greifswald)
• Conservative Currents in Modern Political Theory (University of Greifswald)
• American Government: Theories and Institutions (University of Greifswald)