The following is a brief CV. A full CV is available on request.

Copies of some published and unpublished papers can be found in the Publications and Research pages of this site.

Qualifications

Publications

Books and Special Issues

• Cities Under Fire (London: Routledge, under contract for delivery in 2010)
• Urbicide: The Politics Of Urban Destruction (London: Routledge, 2008)
• Editor, Special Issue: Being-with: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community, Journal for Cultural Research, 9:4 (October 2005)

Journal Articles

• ‘Network-centric Violence, Critical Infrastructure and the Urbanisation of Security’, Security Dialogue, Special Issue on Urban Insecurities, 40:4-5 (2009), pp.399-418
• ‘Urbicide Reconsidered’, Theory and Event, 10:2 (2007)
• ‘Against Anthropocentrism: The Destruction of the built environment as a distinct form of political violence’, Review of International Studies, 32:3 (2006), pp.419-437.
• ‘International Relations in the Post-Globalisation Era’, Politics, 26:1 (2006), pp.54-61.
• ‘The Globalisation Of Enclosure: Interrogating The Geopolitics Of Empire’, Third World Quarterly, 26:6 (2005), pp.855-871
• The Imperial Character Of The Contemporary World Order’, Theory & Event, 8:1 (2005)
• ‘Editor’s Introduction – Special Issue: Being-with: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community’, Journal for Cultural Research, 9:4 (October 2005)
• ‘Community as Heterogeneous Ensemble: Mostar and Multiculturalism’, Alternatives, 27 (2002), pp.29-66.

Book Chapters

• ‘Jean-Luc Nancy’ in Edkins and Vaughan-Williams, eds., Critical Theorists and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2008)
• ‘Securing the global (bio)political economy: Empire, post-structuralism and political economy’ in De Goede M, ed., International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics (London: Palgrave, 2006)
• ‘Urbicide in Bosnia‘ in S Graham, ed., Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), pp.154-171

Review Articles

• ‘Review of Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan M Roberts (eds.) An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (London: Routledge, 1998)’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 28: 3 (1999), pp.716-718
• ‘Review of Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby & Paul Routledge (eds.) The Geopolitics Reader (London: Routledge, 1998)’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 27:3 (1998), pp.781-783
• ‘Review of Jean-Luc Nancy & Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Retreating the Political (edited by Simon Sparks) (London: Routledge, 1997) and Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks & Colin Thomas (eds.) On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1997)’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 27: 1 (1998), pp.194-197

Invited Seminars/Lectures

• ‘Confronting organised violence in and against the city: what do current trends in urban securitisation tell us about how climate change violence might be addressed?’, Crisis Forum Climate Change and Violence Seminar, Institute Of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 9^th October 2009
• ‘Urbicide and the disavowal of agonism’, ESRC Conflict in Cities Workshop, Exeter University, 17-19 September 2009
• Invited participant, RCUK ‘Security in Cities’ workshop, RIBA, London, 6^th May 2009
• Symposium on Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction, CTLab: The Complex Terrain Laboratory, 10^th-15^th March, 2009
• ‘Taking Urbanity Seriously In IR Theory’ presented at the ‘New Voices in International Relations’ Seminar, Series, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University, 1^st May 2008.
• ‘Global Urbanisation, War And The Securitisation Of The 21st Century City’ presented at Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, 19^th February 2008.
• ‘The Globalisation Of Enclosure: Interrogating The Geopolitics Of Empire’ presented at University of Brighton Philosophy Society, 19^th May 2005.
• ‘Against Anthropocentrism: The Destruction Of The Built Environment As A Distinct Form Of Political Violence’ presented at Rethinking Security And Violence In Contemporary World Politics Workshop, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, 12^th November 2004.
• ‘Ethnic-Nationalism, Identity and Violence’, presented at the Security and Identity course, University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, 7^th May 2004.
• ‘Swarms, Networks and Strategy: The Transformation of the Geo-Politics of Security’, presented at the Globalisation and Security course, University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, 30^th October 2003.

Conference/Seminar papers

• ‘Between us in the city: the subject of International Relations in an era of global urbanisation’ presented at Another Politics, Another Subject conference, Aberystwyth, 20-22^nd April 2009
• ‘From ‘Shock and Awe’ To ‘7/7’: Attacks on Infrastructure as a Lens For Understanding the Contemporary Urbanisation of Warfare’ presented at ESRC Contemporary Biopolitical Security Workshop on ‘Securing Mobilities and Circulations’, Keele University, 27^th-28^th November  2008.
• ‘Global Urbanisation, War And The Securitisation Of The 21st Century City’ presented at Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, University of Cambridge, 19^th December 2007.
• ‘Against Anthropocentrism: The Destruction Of The Built Environment As A Distinct Form Of Political Violence’ presented at Urbicide: The Killing of Cities Workshop, University of Durham, 24^th-25^th November 2005.
• ‘The Globalisation Of Enclosure: Interrogating The Geopolitics Of Empire’ presented at Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, University of Warwick, 21^st December 2004.
• ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Permanent War and the Spatialities of Global Conflict after 9/11′ presented at Global Justice/Political Violence Network Seminar, Sussex University, 14^th January 2004.
• ‘The Empire Strikes Back: Permanent War and the Spatialities of Global Conflict after 9/11′ presented at Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, University of Birmingham, 17^th December 2003.
• ‘Urbicide in Bosnia’, presented at International Relations and Politics Research in Progress Seminar, Sussex University, 3^rd February 2003.
• ‘Urbicide in Bosnia’, presented at Cities as Strategic Sites: Militarisation, Anti-Globalisation and Warfare conference, Salford University, 6th – 9th November 2002.
• ‘Urbicide in Bosnia’, presented at Global Justice/Political Violence Network Seminar, Sussex University, 30^th October, 2002.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Introduction to International Security, Second Year Undergraduate
• Globalisation and Contemporary Conflict, Final Year Undergraduate Dissertation Option
• Global Politics and Violence, Final Year Undergraduate Dissertation Option
• The Politics of Fear: Security in International Relations, Final Year Undergraduate Specialist Option
• Introduction to International Relations, First Year Undergraduate core course
• Issues in Contemporary International Relations, First Year Undergraduate core course
• Concepts in International Relations, First Year Undergraduate core course

Postgraduate

• Contemporary Warfare and Society, MA Core Course
• Ethnic Nationalism, Idenity and Violence, MA Option

Doctoral Supervision

• 2 completion (2006+2009)
• 4 current supervisons

Referees available on request.