International Relations Theories, 6th Edition

Professor Tim Dunne is Provost & Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey. Prior to his move to Surrey, Tim held several 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. His research focuses on human rights protection and foreign policy-making within a changing world order. He has authored and co-edited fourteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and a revised edition of Diplomatic Investigations: Essays on the Theory of International Politics (2019). His latest book, The Rise of the International, is forthcoming in 2023. Professor Dunne is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia, and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also holds an Emeritus Professorship at The University of Queensland.

Milja Kurki

Professor Milja Kurki is the E.H. Carr Chair in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her research interests encompass international relations theory, philosophy of science, democracy and democracy promotion, critical theory, and more recently, scientific cosmology, the social-natural science nexus, and multispecies politics. Her PhD explored the meaning of causality in International Relations scholarship. Between 2008 and 2012, she led a major ERC project on the conceptual foundations of democracy promotion practices, which included significant policy engagement.

Katarina Kušić

Dr Katarina Kušić is a Marie-Skłodowska 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 examines international political ecologies of land and human-nature relations. Her PhD and subsequent monograph critically analyzed intervention through an ethnographic study of post-war reconstruction efforts in South East Europe. Dr Kušić holds an MA from Central European University and a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University.

Sir Steve Smith

Professor Sir Steve Smith is the UK Government’s International Education Champion and the Prime Minister’s Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education. He served as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Exeter from 2002 to 2020. Previously, he was Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) and Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and also held positions 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, holding a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies, and a PhD in International Relations. He has authored or edited 17 books, published over 100 academic papers, and delivered more than 170 academic presentations in 22 countries. He was knighted in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours for his contributions to higher education.