- Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater is a renowned
international relations academic, and is the currentWoodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics atAberystwyth University . In 2000, he was featured as one of the fifty thinkers inMartin 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 theLondon School of Economics .Teaching
His teaching career began at the
University of Tasmania from 1976 to 1981, before moving toMonash University in 1982, where he taught for ten years. In 1993, he became Professor of International Relations atKeele 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 inInternational Relations and critical theories of International Relations. In 2001 he became a member of theAcademy of Learned Societies , and in 2005 he also became a Fellow of theBritish Academy .Publications
*"The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Assessment" (with
Hidemi Suganami ),Cambridge University Press , 2006.
*"Theories of International Relations" (edited withScott Burchill ),Palgrave , 2005. (Now on its third edition, originally published in 1996)
*"Political Loyalty and the Nation-State" (edited withMichael 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 withJohn 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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