Associate Professor Brett Bowden

 

 

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2004
  • Bachelor of International Studies (Honours First Class), Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000

 

Biography

Brett Bowden is Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies. He has previously held appointments at the University of Queensland, The Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has held visiting positions in the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, and in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University in Germany.

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Areas of Research Expertise

International Political Theory; Inter-civilizational Relations; International History; International Law & International Organisation; Global Governance; Inter-civilizational Relations; Ethics and International Politics; Ethics of War & Peace; Terrorism & Political Violence; Theories of Civil Society and the State; World History; Citizenship; Human Rights, Democratic Theory & Good Governance; Imperialism & Anti-imperialism; the Concept of Civilization/s; Theories of Justice & International Justice; History of Political Thought; Modern Political Theory; Political Ideology; Colonialism & Anti-Colonialism; and the Ideas of Progress, Modernity & the Philosophy of History.

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Current Research Projects

Brett is currently working on two major research projects; the first is ‘Ethics and Enemy Others’, which extends arguments he has taken up in a number of recent articles and chapters. The second project is ‘Comparative Political Thought in a World of Civilizations’, which builds on work outlined in a recent Third World Quarterly article and in a number of book chapters.


Awards

2011 - Norbert Elias Prize for ‘The Empire of Civilisation: the Evolution of an Imperial Idea’


Selected Publications

Books

2009, The Empire of Civilization: the Evolution of an Imperial Idea (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009), pp. xiii + 303.

2004, Australian Political Parties in the Spotlight, (with Dean Jaensch and Peter Brent), (Canberra: Democratic Audit of Australia), pp. x + 80.

Edited Collections

2010, (with Michael T. Davis), Disturbing the Peace: Riots, Resistance and Rebellion in Europe, 1381 to the Present (London: Palgrave Macmillan), forthcoming.

2009, Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science, 4 volumes (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 1,779.

2009, (with Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall), The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xiii + 330.

2008 & 2010, (with Michael T. Davis, with a Foreword by Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.), Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press; London & New York: Routledge), pp. xxv + 379.

2006, (with Leonard Seabrooke), Global Standards of Market Civilization, (London & New York Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy), pp. xvii + 248.

Refereed Journal Articles

2007, ‘The River of Inter-civilisational Relations: the Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas and Innovations’, Third World Quarterly (UK), Vol. 28, No. 7, 2007, pp. 1359-1374.

2007, ‘The Terror(s) of our Time(s)’, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (UK), Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 543-556.

2007, ‘Civilization and Savagery in the Crucible of War’, Global Change, Peace & Security (UK), Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 3-16.

2006, ‘Civil Society, the State, and the Limits to Global Civil Society’, Global Society (UK), Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 155-178.

2005, ‘The Colonial Origins of International Law: European Expansion and the Classical Standard of Civilisation’, Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international (EU), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-23.

2004, ‘The Ideal of Civilisation: Its Origins and Socio-Political Character’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (UK), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 25-50.

2004, ‘In the Name of Progress and Peace: the “Standard of Civilization” and the Universalizing Project’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (US), Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 43-68. Translated and reprinted in the Japanese journal Hikakuho-Zassi (Comparative Law Review), Vol. 43, No. 1, 2009, pp. 17-53.

2003, ‘The Perils of Global Citizenship’, Citizenship Studies (UK), Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 349-362.

2003, ‘Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Irreconcilable Differences or Possible Bedfellows?’, National Identities (UK), Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 235-249. Reprinted in Gerard Delanty and David Inglis (eds.), Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4 volumes (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), forthcoming.

2002, ‘Reinventing Imperialism in the Wake of September 11’, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 28-46. Reprinted in Turkish Daily News in two parts, 26 and 27 July 2002.

2000, ‘An act of justifiable civil disobedience, or simply breaking the law?’, Flinders Journal of History & Politics (AUS), Vol. 21, pp. 33-47.

Book Chapters

2010, ‘Civilizational Security’, in The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies, ed. J. Peter Burgess (London & New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 7-16.

2010, Brett Bowden, ‘Civilization and Savagery’, in Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare, eds. John Buckley and George Kassimeris (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashagte), pp. 271-287.

2010, ‘Introduction’ (with Michael T. Davis), in Disturbing the Peace: Riots, Resistance and Rebellion in Europe, 1381 to the Present, eds. Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis (London: Palgrave Macmillan), forthcoming.

2010, ‘1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement’, in Disturbing the Peace: Riots, Resistance and Rebellion in Europe, 1381 to the Present, eds. Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis (London: Palgrave Macmillan), forthcoming.

2009, ‘Editor’s Introduction’, in Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science, 4 volumes (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 1-18.

2009, ‘Introduction’ (with Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall), in The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations, eds. Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-14.

2009, ‘Defining Democracy in International Institutions’ (with Hilary Charlesworth), in The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations, eds. Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 90-110.

2008, ‘The Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas and Innovations: Towards a Global History of Political Thought’, in Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), pp. 87-107.

2008, ‘Post-colonial Nationalist Philosophies, 1945-1980s’, in Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, eds. Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO), vol. 3, pp. 957-970.

2008, ‘Terror(s) throughout the Ages’, in Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605-2005, eds. Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press; London & New York: Routledge), pp. 1-20.

2007, ‘Global Standards of Market Civilization’ (with Leonard Seabrooke), in The Production and Reproduction of ‘Civilizations’ in International Relations, eds. Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (New York & London: Palgrave), pp. 119-133.

2006, ‘Civilization, Standards, and Markets’, in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 19-33.

2006, ‘Civilizing Markets through Global Standards’ (with Leonard Seabrooke), in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 3-16.

2006, ‘Civilizing Global Market Standards: Double-Edged Discourses and their Policy Implications’, (with Leonard Seabrooke), in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 207-216.

2005, ‘Global Civil Society’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, ed. Martin Griffiths (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 318-320.

2005, ‘Standard of Civilisation’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, ed. Martin Griffiths (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 776-778.

2004, ‘Reinventing Imperialism in the Wake of September 11’, in September 11 and World Politics, eds. Gökhan Bacik and Bülent Aras (Istanbul: Fatih University Press), pp. 87-102.

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Professional Affiliations

  • International Academic Advisory Board, Institute for Policy Research and Development, London
  • Author Member, Copyright Australia Limited
  • Australasian Political Studies Association
  • International Studies Association
  • The Academy of Political Science (USA)
  • Mershon Network of International Historians (Ohio State University)
  • Centre for the Study of Long-Term Change in World History (Indiana University)
  • Golden Key International Honour Society

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