Andrew Linklater

Andrew Linklater

Andrew Linklater is a renowned international relations academic, and is the current Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. In 2000, he was featured as one of the fifty thinkers in Martin Griffiths' "Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations".

Early life and education

Linklater holds a BPhil degree from the University of Oxford, a MA degree from the University of Aberdeen, and a PhD degree from the London School of Economics.

Teaching

His teaching career began at the University of Tasmania from 1976 to 1981, before moving to Monash University in 1982, where he taught for ten years. In 1993, he became Professor of International Relations at Keele University, and became Dean of Postgraduate Affairs in 1997 until he left Keele in 1999. In January 2000 he joined the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth, where he teaches today.

Research

Linklater has written and edited several books on International Relations, but one of his most important works is "The Transformation of Political Community". Published in 1998, it was hailed by fellow academics Chris Brown (academic) and Steve Smith as "one of the most important books in international theory published in this decade". [ [http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/EAST/EAST4/toderean1.html Utopia and International Relations Today: Reviewing Andrew Linklater’s "The Transformation of Political Community." By Olivia Toderean.] ] Linklater's research interests include the idea of harm in International Relations and critical theories of International Relations. In 2001 he became a member of the Academy of Learned Societies, and in 2005 he also became a Fellow of the British Academy.

Publications

*"The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Assessment" (with Hidemi Suganami), Cambridge University Press, 2006.
*"Theories of International Relations" (edited with Scott Burchill), Palgrave, 2005. (Now on its third edition, originally published in 1996)
*"Political Loyalty and the Nation-State" (edited with Michael Waller), Routledge, 2003.
*"International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science", Routledge, 2000
*"The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-westphalian Era," Polity Press, 1998.
*"Boundaries in Question: New Dirctions in International Relations," (edited with John MacMillan) Frances Pinter, 1995.
*"Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations", MacMillan Press, 1990.
*"New Horizons in Politics: Essays with an Australian Focus", (edited with Hugh V. Emy), Allen and Unwin, 1990.
*"Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations", MacMillan Press, 1982.
*"New Dimensions in World Politics," (edited with G. Goodwin) Croom Helm, 1975.

References

External links

* [http://www.aber.ac.uk/~inpwww/staff/linklater_pub.html List of all publications]
* [http://www.aber.ac.uk/~inpwww/staff/linklater.html Profile on UWA website]


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