Jacinta O’Hagan, BA (Hons) (University College, Cork), MA (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Fellow, Department of International Relations

Tel: +61 2 6125 2684
Fax: +61 2 6125 8010
Email: jacinta@coombs.anu.edu.au
Location: Room 2.11, Hedley Bull Centre

Biographical Statement

Jacinta O’Hagan is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations and Academic Co-ordinator for the Peace and Conflict Specialization in the Graduate Studies in International Affairs Program. She formerly held appointments as a Third Secretary with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Lecturer in International Relations, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland and as a Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Research Affiliate, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute for Technology. She is author of Conceptions of the West in International Relations Thought: From Oswald Spengler to Edward Said, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2002). She also co-edited with Greg Fry Contending Images of World Politics, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000). Her research interests are in the areas of culture and identity in world politics, with a particular interest in the role of civilizational identities and the concept of the West. She also has interests in the evolution of the concept of humanitarianism and the practices associated with it.

Research Interests

Culture and identity in world politics, of civilizational identity and the concept of the West; humanitarianism.

Key Publications

• Conceptions of the West in International Relations Thought: From Oswald Spengler to Edward Said, (Basingstoke, Hamps: Macmillan, 2002).
• Contending Images of World Politics, (Basingstoke, Hamps: Macmillan, 2000) Co- edited with Greg Fry.
• ‘The Power and The Passion: Civilizational Identity and Alterity in the Wake of September 11’ in Identity and Global Politics: Theoretical and Empirical Elaborations (eds) Kevin Dunn & Patricia Goff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
• ‘Civilisational conflict? Looking for cultural enemies.’ Third World Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, 1995.

Career Highlights

Third Secretary 1987-90 Embassy of Ireland, Canberra, Australia; Lecturer in International Relations, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. July 2000 - July 2003; Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1999 - 2000.