Professor Andrew Linklater
| Tel: | +44 (0) 1970 621596 | |
| Fax: | +44 (0) 1970 622709 | |
| Email: | adl@aber.ac.uk |
Room: 2.01
Office Hours
Tuesday 1.30-2.30
Thursday 2.30-3.30
Profile
Andrew Linklater holds an MA from Aberdeen University , a BPhil from Oxford and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He taught at the University of Tasmania between 1976 and 1981, and at Monash University between 1982 and 1992. Between 1993 and 1999, he was Professor of International Relations at Keele University where he was the inaugural Dean of Postgraduate Affairs from 1997 to1999. He joined the Department as the 10 th Woodrow Wilson Professor in January 2000 and was the Director of Research between 2006 and 2008. In 2001, he became a member of the Academy of Learned Societies in The Social Sciences, and in 2005 a Fellow of the British Academy .
Research interests have included theories of the state, citizenship and humanity which formed the subject matter of Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations, first published in 1982 and reprinted in 1990. The relationship between critical theory and international relations was discussed in Beyond Realism and Marxism which was published in 1990. The Transformation of Political Community, which appeared in 1998, used critical social theory to consider the possibility of new forms of community and citizenship. The English School of International Relations , co-authored with Hidemi Suganami and published in 2006, provides a critical assessment of the theory of international society. Critical Theory and World Politics which appeared in 2007 is a collection of papers on approaches to community and citizenship and on the analysis of harm in world politics.
Current research analyses the problem of harm in world politics – the ways in which different international systems have dealt with the human capacity to cause violent and non-violent harm. The first of three volumes on this topic deals with theoretical issues which arise in studying harm in world politics. The second volume will consider particular dimensions of the control of harm in the development of the Western system of international relations. The third volume will broaden the investigation to consider the problem of harm in connection with the study of world history.
Teaching responsibilities have included teaching the first year introduction to international politics and seminars in the Master's module on theories of international relations. The specialist seminar, Harm and World Politics, has been taught in recent years. Supervisory interests include theories of international relations, the relevance of Eliasian sociology for world politics, and approaches to world history.
He delivered the E. H. Carr Memorial Lecture at Aberystwyth in 1996 and the Martin Wight Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics in 2000. He will give the keynote lecture on the subject of grand narratives and international relations at the 3 rd Oceanic International Studies Conference which will be held in Brisbane in 2008.