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Professor of International Relations
BA (Paris, Toronto), MA (British Columbia), Ph.D. (ANU)
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General Purpose North 3 (#39A)
+61 7 3365 1068
+61 7 3365 1388
bleiker@uq.edu.au
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Teaching Interests:
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Conceptions of World Politics |
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Politics and Art |
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Ethics and Human Rights |
Background:
Roland Bleiker grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was educated and worked as a lawyer. He then studied international relations in Paris, Toronto, Vancouver and finally in Canberra, where he obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University. Bleiker also worked for two years in a Swiss diplomatic mission in Panmunjom, the Korean DMZ. He held visiting research and teaching affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.
Bleiker has been at the University of Queensland since 1999. Besides engaging issues of trauma, conflict and reconciliation in divided societies, such as Korea, Bleiker has been particularly interested in exploring alternative sources of insights into international relations. He has recently finished a single-authored book on Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and an co-edited volume with Morgan Brigg on Mediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (forthcoming University of Hawaii Press). He is currently conceptualizing a new joint project with Emma Hutchison about the linkages between conflict, emotions and reconciliation. Bleiker’s work has been supported by grants from the United States Institute of Peace, the Humboldt Foundation, the Japan Foundation, UNESCO, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Selected Publications:
Recent Publications;
“The Symbiosis of Democracy and Tragedy: Lost Lessons from Ancient Greece” (with Mark Chou), in Millennium: Journal of International Studies,” Vol. 37, No 3, 2009.
“Traversing Patagonia: New Writings on Postcolonial International Relations” Political Theory, Vol. 36, No 2, April 2008.
Emotional Reconciliation: Reconstituting Identity and Community After Trauma” (with Emma Hutchison), European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, No 3, 2008.
"Fear No More: Emotions and World Politics” (with Emma Hutchison), Review of International Studies, Vol.34, No 1, 2008.
"Visualising Post-National Democracy," in Mort Schoolman and David Campbell (eds), The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008)
"Can me move beyond conflict?”, in Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds), Global Politics: A New Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2008)
Single-Authored Books
Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave, 2009).
Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).
Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Edited Volumes (selection)
Mediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming)
Security and the War on Terror (with Alex Bellamy, Sara Davies and Richard Devetak) (Routledge, 2008)
The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East to West (with Stephen Chan and Peter Mandaville), (Palgrave, 2001).
Journal Articles (selection)
"Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment" (with Amy Kay), International Studies Quarterly, 51/1, 2007.
"From the Sublime to the Subliminal: Fear, Awe and Wonder in International Politics", (with Martin Leet), Millennium, 34/3, 2006.
"Art After 9/11", Alternatives, 31/1, 2006.
"A Rogue is a Rogue is a Rogue: US Foreign Policy and the Korean Nuclear Crisis", International Affairs, 79/4, 2003.
"Why, then, is it so bright? Towards an Aesthetics of Peace at a Time of War", Review of International Studies, 29, 2003.
"Discourse and Human Agency", Contemporary Political Theory, 2/1, 2003
"The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory", Millennium, 30/2, 2001.
"Forget IR Theory", Alternatives, 22/1, 1997.
Book Chapters (selection)
"Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation," (with Hoang Young-ju), in Duncan S.A. Bell (ed), Memory, Trauma and World Politics (Palgrave, 2006).
"Of things we hear but cannot see: Musical explorations of international politics," in M.I. Franklin (ed), Resounding International Relations: On Music, Politics and Culture (Palgrave, 2005).
"Order and Disorder in World Politics," in Alex J. Bellamy (ed), International Society and its Critics (Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Seattle and the Struggle for a Global Democratic Ethos," in Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca (eds), Critical Theories, World Politics and the Anti-Globalisation Movement (Routledge, 2005).
"Globalizing Political Theory," in Stephen K. White and J. Donald Moon (eds), What is Political Theory (Sage, 2004).
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