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Professional Background
Brett received a Bachelor of International Studies (Hons) from Flinders University of South Australia (1997-2000) and a PhD from The Australian National University (2004). Prior to joining UNSW@ADFA in July 2007 he held positions at the ANU and at the University of Queensland. He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for International Governance & Justice at the ANU. He has held visiting positions at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, London, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Courses Taught
Politics 1B: World Politics
Politics of Globalization
Global Governance
Research Interests / Projects
Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities that cuts across fields such as politics, political philosophy, history, international relations and international law. More specifically
- International political theory
- Social and political theory
- Comparative political thought
- Ethics and international affairs
- Ethics of war & peace
- Inter-civilizational relations
- Terror, terrorism and the war on terror
Consulting / Professional Activities
Brett is a regular commentator and contributor in both the electronic (TV and radio) and print media in Australia. His essays have appeared in magazines such as Counterpunch and Online Journal, while his commentary and opinion columns have appeared in The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Sunday Age in Melbourne, The Canberra Times, Australian Policy Online, and Online Opinion. He is a regular expert commentator on international affairs for Radio 938 Live in Singapore and China Radio International, and has provided commentary for news services such as Yahoo! News, USA Today and The Straits Times.
PUBLICATIONS
Books (recent)
2009, The Empire of Civilization: the Evolution of an Imperial Idea (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009), pp. xiii + 303.
2009, Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science, 4 volumes (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 1,779.
2009, (with Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall),The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. xiii + 330.
2008,(with Michael T. Davis, with a Preface by Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.), Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press; London & New York: Routledge), pp. xxv + 379.
2006, (with Leonard Seabrooke), Global Standards of Market Civilization, (London & New York Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy), pp. xvii + 248.
Articles (recent)
2007, ‘The River of Inter-civilisational Relations: the Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas and Innovations’, Third World Quarterly (UK), 28(7), in press.
2007, ‘The Terror(s) of our Time(s)’, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (UK), 13(4), pp. 543-556.
2007, ‘Civilization and Savagery in the Crucible of War’, Global Change, Peace & Security (UK), 19(1), pp. 3-16.
2006, ‘Civil Society, the State, and the Limits to Global Civil Society’, Global Society (UK), 20(2), pp. 155-178.
2005, ‘The Colonial Origins of International Law: European Expansion and the Classical Standard of Civilisation’, Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international (EU), 7(1), pp. 1-23.
2004, ‘The Ideal of Civilisation: Its Origins and Socio-Political Character’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (UK), 7(1), pp. 25-50.
2004, ‘In the Name of Progress and Peace: the “Standard of Civilization” and the Universalizing Project’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (US), 29(1), pp. 43-68.
2003, ‘The Perils of Global Citizenship’, Citizenship Studies (UK), 7(3), pp. 349-362.
2003, ‘Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Irreconcilable Differences or Possible Bedfellows?’, National Identities (UK), 5(3), pp. 235-249.
Book Chapters (recent)
2009, ‘Civilizational Security’, in Handbook on New Security Studies, ed. J. Peter Burgess (London & New York: Routledge), in press.
2009, ‘Editor’s Introduction’, in Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science, 4 volumes (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 1-18.
2009, ‘Civilization and Savagery’, in Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare, eds. John Buckley and George Kassimeris (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashagte), in press.
2009, ‘Introduction’ (with Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall), in The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations,eds. Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-14.
2009, ‘Defining Democracy in International Institutions’ (with Hilary Charlesworth), in The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations,eds. Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 90-110.
2008, ‘The Ebb and Flow of Peoples, Ideas and Innovations: Towards a Global History of Political Thought’, in Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, eds. Takashi Shogimen and Cary Nederman (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), pp. 87-107.
2008, ‘Post-colonial Nationalist Philosophies, 1945-1980s’, in Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, eds. Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO), vol. 3, pp. 957-970.
2008, ‘Terror(s) throughout the Ages’, in Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605-2005, eds. Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press; London & New York: Routledge), pp. 1-20.
2007, ‘Global Standards of Market Civilization’ (with Leonard Seabrooke), in The Production and Reproduction of 'Civilizations' in International Relations, eds. Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (New York & London: Palgrave), pp. 119-133.
2006, ‘Civilization, Standards, and Markets’, in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 19-33.
2006, ‘Civilizing Markets through Global Standards’ (with Leonard Seabrooke), in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 3-16.
2006, ‘Civilizing Global Market Standards: Double-Edged Discourses and their Policy Implications’, (with Leonard Seabrooke), in Global Standards of Market Civilization, eds. Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London & New York: Routledge), pp. 207-216.
Extensive Publications List
Media
Brett is a regular commentator and contributor in both the electronic (TV and radio) and print media in Australia. His essays have appeared in magazines such as Counterpunch and Online Journal, while his commentary and opinion columns have appeared in The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Sunday Age in Melbourne, The Canberra Times, Australian Policy Online, and Online Opinion. He is a regular expert commentator on international affairs for Radio 938 Live in Singapore and China Radio International.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
I am capable and willing to supervise graduate students in any of these broad or broader research fields.
- International political theory
- History of ideas
- Social and political theory
- Comparative political thought
- Ethics and international affairs
- Ethics of war & peace
- Inter-civilizational relations
- Terror, terrorism and the war on terror