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 Biography

Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies

Richard Devetak is senior lecturer in International Relations. He completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at Monash University and his PhD at Keele University (UK). He had previously been lecturer in International Relations at the University of Manchester, Warwick University and Monash University. He is co-author with Scott Burchill, Jack Donnelly, Andrew Linklater, Matthew Paterson, Chris Reus Smit and Jacqui True of Theories of International Relations, Third Edition (Palgrave, 2005), co-editor with Chris Hughes of Globalization’s Shadow: Globalization and Political Violence (Routledge, forthcoming), and has published on contemporary theoretical debates in international relations, theories of the state, justice and globalisation, humanitarian intervention, terrorism and the war on terror, as well as foreign policy, refugees and national identity in the Australian context.

His current research interests include: the history of international political thought, history of the states-system, international law, the laws of war, humanitarian intervention, the changing character of warfare and the impact of terrorism, torture and states of exception on international society.

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