Distinguished Visiting Professors

2008

Professor Michael Barnett

The department was honoured to recieve Professor Michael Barnett, Professor and Stassen Chair at the University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairssemester one 2008.

Professor Barnett's recent books include ; Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2002); and, with Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004). His scholarly writings have appeared in major professional journals, including International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, World Politics, and Cultural Anthropology. From 1993 to 1994 Barnett was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the U.S. mission to the United Nations.\

Professor Barnett spoke extensively to the IR and GSIA Communities, including participating in a seminar on humanitarian intervention and giving a seminar on the role of religion in international relations theorising.

2007

Professor Richard Ned Lebow

Professor Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Professor Lebow's recent books include The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (awarded the Alexander L. George Prize for the best book in political psychology); Learning from the Cold War, co-edited with Richard K. Herrmann, New York, Palgrave, 2004; The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner, Duke University Press, 2006; Conflict, Cooperation and Ethics, New York, Routledge, in press; and Social Inquiry and Political Knowledge, co-edited with Mark Lichbach, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, in press.

2006

Professor Anthony Payne
1 January to 31 March 2006

Anthony Payne, Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, has published widely on the politics of the Caribbean, international political economy and the politics of development. His most recent books are The Global Politics of Unequal Development and The New Regional Politics of Development. His current research interests include 'North-South' relations and Theorizing The New Governance.

Professor Richard Rosecrance
28 February to 21 March 2006

Richard Rosecrance, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University, is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California and Senior Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was the former Director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. He has written widely on international topics including: The Rise of the Trading State (1986); The Rise of the Virtual State (1999, translated into Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and German); America's Economic Resurgence (1990); The Costs of Conflict (1999, coeditor); The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy (1993); and The New Great Power Coalition (2001, editor). His edited book No More States? will be published in 2006. He is at work on a book called Mergers and International Politics. He served on the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State and has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, Ford, and many other fellowships. Rosecrance has held regular university posts at Cornell and Berkeley and visiting positions at the IISS, Kings College (London), the London School of Economics, The European University Institute (Florence), and the Australian National University.