International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity

About Katarina KuiMilja KurkiSteve SmithTim Dunne

Professor Tim Dunne is Provost & Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey. Prior to his move to Surrey Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland (UQ) including Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for R2P and Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited fourteen books including Terror in our Time (2012) The Globalization of International Society (2017) and a new revised edition of Diplomatic Investigations: Essays on the Theory of International Politics edited by Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (2019) The Rise of the International (2023 in press. Tim is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences Australia; the Queensland Academic of Arts and Sciences; and holds an Emeritus Professorship at The University of Queensland. Professor Milja Kurki is E.H. Carr Chair in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her areas of interest are international relations theory philosophy of science democracy and democracy promotion critical theory and more recently scientific cosmology social-natural science nexus and multispecies politics. Her PhD was focused on the analysis of the meaning of causality in IR scholarship. She then led a major ERC project on the conceptual foundations of democracy promotion practices between 2008 and 2012 a project which involved extensive policy engagement. Dr Katarina Kui is a Marie-Skodowska Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions land politics interpretive and fieldwork-based methodologies and post-colonial and decolonial thought. Her current work explores international political ecologies of land and human-nature relations more broadly. Her PhD and the ensuing monograph provided a conceptual critique of intervention through an ethnographic study of post-war reconstruction efforts in South East Europe. Katarina received her MA from Central European University and holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University. Professor Sir Steve Smith is the U.K. Government International Education Champion and Prime Minister's Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education. He has been Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Exeter from 2002 to 2020. He was previously Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) and Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth as well as Head of the Department of International Politics and Director of the Centre for Public Choice Studies at the University of East Anglia. Sir Steve is a graduate of the University of Southampton and holds a BSc in Politics and International Studies an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations. He has written or edited 17 books published well over 100 academic papers and has given over 170 academic presentations in 22 countries. Sir Steve was knighted in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to higher education locally and nationally.