Chris Reus-Smit, BA, MA (La Trobe), DipEd (Melb), MA, PhD (Cornell)
Deputy Director, RSPAS
Professor and Head, Department of International Relations

Email: christian.reus-smit@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Professor Reus-Smit's research focuses on the politics of international ethics and institutions, and he has published widely on issues of global governance, multilateralism, human rights, and international relations theory. 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. He is author of American Power and World Order (Polity Press, 2004) and The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton, 1999), co-author of Theories of International Relations (Palgrave, 2001,2005), editor of The Politics of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and co-editor of Between Sovereignty and Global Governance (Macmillan, 1998). Professor Reus-Smit is currently engaged in projects on Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy (funded by the British Academy and the Rockefeller Foundation), and on the role of rights politics in the development of the modern international system (funded by the Australian Research Council).

Research Interests

International relations theory, international history, international law, multilateralism, the United Nations, culture and international relations, human rights, international ethics, social and political theory, Australian foreign policy.

Key Publications

• ‘Liberal Hierarchy and the License to Use Force’, Review of International Studies, 31 (December 2005).
• American Power and World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004).
• The Politics of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Editor.
• '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.
• Theories of International Relations (London: Palgrave, 2001 Second Edition), Coauthored with S. Burchill, A. Linklater, J. True, M. Patterson, and R. Devetak.
• The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
• Between Sovereignty and Global Governance (London: Macmillan, 1998). Coedited with A. Paolini and A. Jarvis.

Career Highlights

Professor, ANU, (2004-); Senior Fellow, ANU (2001-2003); awarded British International Studies Association Prize (2001); Senior Lecturer, Monash University (1998-2000); Lecturer, Monash University (1995-1997); SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1993-1994); awarded Northedge Prize (1002); Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne (1994); Visiting Scholar, Princeton University (1993).