Christian Reus-Smit

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Chris Reus-Smit (b. 1961) is Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. He is a leading constructivist scholar in the field of international relations, and is arguably Australia's pre-eminent scholar in the field. Professor Reus-Smit's research focuses on the politics of international ethics and institutions, and he has published widely on issues of American and Australian foreign policy, international law, global governance, multilateralism, human rights, and international relations theory. At present, he is co-editor (with Nicholas J. Wheeler) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, and (with Duncan Snidal) of the Oxford Handbook on International Relations.

1 Career
2 Publications
- 2.1 Books
- 2.2 Selected Articles
3 See also
4 External Link

[edit] Career

Reus-Smit was educated in Australia and the United States, recieving his B.A. and M.A. from La Trobe University in Melbourne. His M.A. dissertation concerned Australian foreign and security policy under during the Fraser era. After completing his M.A. in the mid-1980s, he taught at La Trobe Univerity, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, alongside Andrew Linklater, the renowned international relations academic and current Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Reus-Smit was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton in 1993.

During the mid-1990s, Reus-Smit undertook his PhD at Cornell University, along with other emerging constructivist scholars such as Audie Klotz and Richard Price. His doctoral dissertation was co-chaired by Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, which was later published as The Moral Purpose of the State in 1999.

Reus-Smit returned to teach in Australia in 1997 and held positions as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Monash University before taking up a position as Senior Fellow at the Australian National University in 2001. In 2004, he was appointed as Head of Department of International Relations in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at ANU. He is currently Deputy Director of RSPAS.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

American Power and World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004).
The Politics of International Law Editor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Theories of International Relations Coauthored with Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Jacqui True, Matthew Patterson, and Richard Devetak (London: Palgrave, 2001 Second Edition).
The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Between Sovereignty and Global Governance Coedited with Albert Paolini and Anthony Jarvis. (London: Macmillan, 1998).

[edit] Selected Articles

‘Liberal Hierarchy and the License to Use Force’, Review of International Studies, 31 (December 2005).
'Imagining Society: Constructivism and the English School', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 4 (3), 487-509, 2002.
'Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty', Review of International Studies, 27 (4), 1-20, 2001. (Awarded the BISA Prize.)
'The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory', European Journal of International Law, 12 (3), 573-593, 2001.