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Professor of International Relations Roland Bleiker grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was educated and worked as a lawyer. He then studied international relations in Paris, Toronto, Vancouver and finally in Canberra, where he obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University. Bleiker also worked for two years in a Swiss diplomatic mission in Panmunjom, the Korean DMZ. He held visiting research and teaching affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Bleiker has been at the University of Queensland since 1999. Besides engaging issues of trauma, conflict and reconciliation in divided societies, such as Korea, Bleiker has been particularly interested in exploring alternative sources of insights into international relations. He is currently finishing a book on Aesthetics and World Politics and is conceptualizing a new project that examines the emotional dimensions of security threats, such as terrorism and health, through a range of aesthetic sources, including literature, visual art and photography.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave, forthcoming 2009).
Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 2008).
Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
EDITED VOLUMES
Mediating Accross Difference: Indigenous, Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (with Morgan Brigg). In preparation
Security and the War on Terror (with Alex Bellamy, Sara Davies and Richard Devetak) (Routledge, 2007)
The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East to West (with Stephen Chan and Peter Mandaville), (Palgrave, 2001).
Poetic World Politics, special issue of Alternatives, 25/3, 2000
ARTICLES
“Traversing Patagonia: New Writings on Postcolonial International Relations,” Political Theory, 33/2, 2008.
"Fear No More: Emotions and World Politics," (with Emma Hutchison), Review of International Studies, 34/1, 2008.
“Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment” (with Amy Kay), International Studies Quarterly, 51/1, 2007.
“From the Sublime to the Subliminal: Fear, Awe and Wonder in International Politics,” (with Martin Leet), Millennium, 34/3, 2006.
"Art After 9/11," Alternatives, 31/1, 2006.
"A Rogue is a Rogue is a Rogue: US Foreign Policy and the Korean Nuclear Crisis," International Affairs, 79/4, 2003.
"Why, then, is it so bright? Towards an Aesthetics of Peace at a Time of War," Review of International Studies, 29, 2003.
"Discourse and Human Agency," Contemporary Political Theory, 2/1, 2003
"The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory," Millennium, 30/2, 2001.
"Forget IR Theory," Alternatives, 22/1, 1997.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Visualizing Post-National Democracy," in Mort Schoolman and David Campbell (eds), The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition (Duke University Press, 2008).
"Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War," (with Hoang Young-ju), in Duncan S.A. Bell (ed), Memory, Trauma and World Politics (Palgrave, 2006).
"Of things we hear but cannot see," in M.I. Franklin (ed), Resounding International Relations: On Music, Politics and Culture (Palgrave, 2005).
"Order and Disorder in World Politics," in Alex J. Bellamy (ed), International Society and its Critics (Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Globalizing Political Theory," in Stephen K. White and J. Donald Moon (eds), What is Political Theory (Sage, 2004).
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