James Der Derian

James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian also directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute’s Global Security Program.

Der Derian was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He was also tenured at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is author of "On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement" (1987) and "Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War" (1992); editor of "International Theory: Critical Investigations" (1995) and "The Virilio Reader" (1998); and co-editor with Michael Shapiro of "International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics" (1989). His articles on international relations have appeared in the "Review of International Studies", "International Studies Quarterly", "Cambridge Review of International Affairs", "International Affairs", "Brown Journal of World Affairs", "Millennium", "Alternatives", "Cultural Values", and "Samtiden". His articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in "The New York Times", "The Nation", "Washington Quarterly", and "Wired". His most recent book is "Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network" (2001).

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