| Biography: |
Michael Barnett is the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He previous taught at the University of Wisconsin, Macalester College, Wellesley College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and the Dayan Center at Tel-Aviv University.
Barnett teaches and does research on international relations, international organizations, humanitarian action, the United Nations, and the politics of the Middle East. Among his books are Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State and Society in Egypt and Israel (Princeton, 1992), winner of the the ISA’s Quincy Wright award; Security Communities, co-edited with Emanuel Adler (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2002), a Choice outstanding book; Rules for the World: International Organizations and World Politics, co-authored with Martha Finnemore (Cornell University Press, 2004), winner of the ISA’s best book award and ACUNS best book award; Power in Global Governance, co-edited with Raymond Duvall (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, and Ethics, co-edited with Tom Weiss (Cornell University Press, 2008). In addition to his on-going research on the international humanitarian order, Barnett is directing a Luce-funded project on “Religion, Humanitarianism, and World Affairs.”
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| Selected Publications: |
- (with David Kim, Laura Sitea and Madeline O’Donnell), “Peacebuilding: What’s in a Name?” Global Governance, 13:1 (2007), pp.35-58.
- “Building a Republican Peace: Stabilizing States After War,” International Security, 30:4 (2006), pp.87-112.
- “Humanitarianism Transformed,” Perspectives in Politics.
- (with Christoph Zurcher), “The Peacebuilder’s Contract: Why Peacebuilding Recreates Weak States,” in Roland Paris and Tim Sisk, eds., Building States After War (Routldge Press, 2008).
- “Evolution without Progress?: Humanitarianism in a World of Hurt,” forthcoming at International Organization.
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