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

Tel: +61 2 6125 2165
Fax: +61 2 6125 8010
Email: christian.reus-smit@anu.edu.au
Location: Room 3.46, Hedley Bull Centre

Biographical Statement

Chris Reus-Smit is Professor of International Politics and Head of the Department of International Relations. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1995, and has been awarded fellowships and grants by the MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Australian Research Council, and the Social Science Research Council in New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, the European University Institute in Florence, and the British Academy. He is the author of American Power and World Order (Polity 2004) and The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton 1999), co-author of Theories of International Relations (Macmillan/Palgrave 2001, 2005, 2008), editor of The Politics of International Law (Cambridge 2004), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford 2008); Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy (Special Issue International Politics 2007), and Between Sovereignty and Global Governance (Macmillan 1998). His articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including International Organization, Review of International Studies, Millennium, and The European Journal of International Relations. His work has been awarded both the BISA Prize (2001) and the Northedge Prize (1992) He is currently co-editor (with Nicholas Wheeler) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations books series. In 2007 he was awarded the Inaugural Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU, and in 2006 he was elected by the ANU student community to deliver the annual Last Lecture in the Great Hall of University House. Professor Reus-Smit was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2008.

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

• 'Reuniting Ethics and Social Science: The Oxford Handbook of International Relations', Ethics & International Affairs, 22(3) 2008: 261–71 (co-authored with Duncan Snidal).
• 'Reading History Through Constructivist Eyes', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 37(2) 2008: 395–414.
• The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 (co-edited with Duncan Snidal).
• 'Special Issue: Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy', International Politics, 44(2–3) 2007 (co-edited with Ian Clark).
• 'Liberal Hierarchy and the Licence to Use Force', Review of International Studies, 31(SI) 2005: 71–92.
• Theories of International Relations, 3rd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005 (co-authored with Scott Burchill, Richard Devetak, Andrew Linklater, Matthew Paterson and Jacqui True).
• American Power and World Order. Cambridge, MA: 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) 2002: 487–509.
• 'Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty', Review of International Studies, 27(4) 2001: 519–38 (awarded the BISA Prize).
• 'The Strange Death of Liberal International Theory', European Journal of International Law, 12(3) 2001: 573–93.
• The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
• Between Sovereignty and Global Governance: The United Nations, the State, and Civil Society. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998 (co-edited with Albert Paolini and Anthony Jarvis).

Career Highlights

Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2008); Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (2008–09); Professor, ANU (2004–); Senior Fellow, ANU (2001–03); awarded British International Studies Association Prize (2001); Senior Lecturer, Monash University (1998–2000); Lecturer, Monash University (1995–97); SSRC–Macarthur Foundation Fellow (1993–94); Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne (1994); Visiting Scholar, Princeton University (1993); awarded Northedge Prize (1992).