Professor Toni Erskine
Director of Research
| Tel: | +44 (0) 1970 622699 | |
| Fax: | +44 (0) 1970 622709 | |
| Email: | tae@aber.ac.uk |
Room: 3.02
Office Hours
Tuesday 10.30-11.30
Wednesday 11.30-12.30
Profile
In addition to her position in Aberystwyth, Toni Erskine is Lurie-Murdoch Senior Research Fellow in Global Ethics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (2008-11) and Chair of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association (2008-10) http://www.isanet.org/ethics/ . She received a PhD from Cambridge University, where she was also British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She left Cambridge for Aberystwyth in 2002 to take up her first academic post as Lecturer in International Politics. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008 and Professor in 2009.
Her most recent publications include Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities' (Oxford University Press, 2008) and ‘Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations', in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations, ed. by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is currently working on a monograph entitled, Who is Responsible? Institutional Moral Agency and International Relations.
She is on the Editorial Boards of the following journals: International Theory, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Relations, Journal of International Political Theory; International Journal of Intelligence Ethics; and IPT Beacon.
Teaching
The Ethics of War: In Theory and Practice (Undergraduate)
International Politics I: Theories and Concepts (Masters)
International Politics II: Normative Approaches to Global Issues (Masters)
Political Research: Philosophy, Methods and Application (Masters and PhD)
Research Interests
Her research interests include the following: the moral agency and responsibilities of formal organizations such as states, intergovernmental organizations, and transnational corporations; the ethics of war, including issues of non-combatant immunity and intelligence collection; communitarian and cosmopolitan conceptions of duty; the changing nature of norms of restraint in world politics, such as the prohibitions against torture and preventive war; and assumptions of agency within International Relations (IR) theory.
Areas of PhD Supervision
She is primary supervisor for the following doctoral theses:
• Negotiating the Just War Tradition: Anticipation, Punishment, and Humanitarianism After Iraq (successfully defended in 2006; published by Palgrave Macmillan as Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century in 2008)
• Territorial Separatism in International Affairs: Secessionist Politics as Collective Responsible Emancipation (successfully defended in 2007)
• The Freedom of Peoples: John Rawls' Duty of Assistance and the Idea of State Capability (successfully defended in 2009)
• Environmental Human Rights and International Political Theory: Extending the Boundaries of Moral Inclusion
• Intelligence Collection and Ethics: Just War as a Framework for Evaluation
• Reconfiguring the Private: A Feminist Exploration of Citizenship in the European Union