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Politics and International Studies

Publications

Books

  • The Ironic State: British Comedy as Everyday Global Resistance. Bristol University Press, forthcoming.
  • Affective Politics of the Global Event: Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject. Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, 2018.
  • Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax. Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, 2010, Paperback, 2013.

Edited Journal Special Issues

  • 'Security and the Politics of Resilience', Politics, 2013, 33(4), co-edited with Stuart Croft and Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'Governing Traumatic Events', Alternatives, 2012: 37(3), co-edited with Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'Legitimacy and Global Governance', Review of International Political Economy, co-edited with Eleni Tsingou.
  • 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis: The Economics, Politics and Ethics of Response', New Political Economy, co-edited with Lena Rethel and Mat Watson.
  • 'Deliberation and Global Governance', Review of International Studies, co-edited with William Smith.
  • 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', British Journal of Politics and International Studies, 2009 11(3), co-edited with Lena Rethel and Mat Watson.
  • 'Ethics in World Politics: Cosmopolitanism and Beyond?', International Politics, co-edited with Dan Bulley, 2007, 44(1).

Journal Articles

  • 'British Satire, Everyday Politics: Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, and Charlie Broooker', in British Journal of Politics and International Studies, forthcoming, with Alex Sutton.
  • 'Mobile Payments, Social Money: Everyday Politics of the Consumer Subject', in New Political Economy, forthcoming, with Ruben Kremers
  • 'Building Resilient Finance? Uncertainty, Complexity and Resistance', in British Journal of Politics and International Relations, forthcoming, with Chris Holmes.
  • 'British Comedy, Global Resistance: Russell Brand, Charlie Brooker and Stewart Lee', European Journal of International Relations, forthcoming.
  • 'Security and the Performative Politics of Resilience', Security Dialogue, forthcoming, with Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'Sexy Money: The Hetero-Normative Politics of Global Finance', Review of International Studies, forthcoming, with Lena Rethel.
  • 'Law, Interupted: On Legislative Disruption and Deliberative Democracy', Democratization, 2013, 20(3): 522-538, with William Smith.
  • 'Introduction: An Agenda for Resilience Research in Politics and International Relations', in Politics, 2012, 33(4): 221-228, with Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'Performing the Sub-Prime Crisis: Trauma and the Financial Event', International Political Sociology, 2012, 6: 4-20, with Chris Clarke.
  • 'Governing Traumatic Events', in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2012, 37(3): 183-187, with Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'Private Experiments in Global Governance', International Theory, 2012, 4(3): 367-399, with Ben Richardson and William Smith.
  • 'Crisis Is Governance: Sub-Prime, the Traumatic Event, and Bare Life', Global Society, 2012, 26(1): 19-42, with Nick Vaughan-Williams.
  • 'The Politics of Legitimate Global Governance', Review of International Political Economy, 2011, 18(1): 1-16, with Eleni Tsingou.
  • 'After Walker', contribution to a forum on the political thought of Rob Walker, Contemporary Political Theory, 2011, 10(2): 286-310.  
  • 'Cosmopolitan Sentiments After 9-11: Trauma and the Politics of Vulnerability', Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, 2011, 3: 12-29.
  • 'International Political Economy and the Question of Ethics', Review of International Political Economy, 2010, 17(3): 425-453, with Chris Holmes.
  • 'Deliberation and Global Civil Society: Agency, Arena, Affect', Review of International Studies, 2010, 36(2): 413-430, with William Smith.
  • 'A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax Campaign: The Politics of Sentimental Education', European Journal of International Relations, 2009, 15(3): 447-476.
  • 'British Irony, Global Justice: A Pragmatic Reading of Chris Brown, Banksy and Ricky Gervais', Review of International Studies, 2009, 35(1): 219-245.
  • 'Deliberation and Global Governance: Liberal, Cosmopolitan and Critical Perspectives', Ethics and International Affairs, 2008, 22:1, pp. 69-92, with William Smith.
  • 'Cosmopolitanism vs. Terrorism? Discourses of Ethical Possibility Before and After 7/7', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2008, 36(2): 121-147.
  • 'Ethics in World Politics: Cosmopolitanism and Beyond?', International Politics, 2007, 44(1):1-18, with Dan Bulley.
  • 'Contingent Borders, Ambiguous Ethics: Migrants in International Political Theory', International Studies Quarterly, 2005, 49(2): 233-253, with Owen Parker.
  • 'Building the Normative Dimension(s) of a Global Polity', Review of International Studies, 2003, 29(SI): 29-55, with Richard Higgott.

Other Publications

  • 'British Comedy and the Politics of Resistance: The Liminality of Right Wing Comedy', in Julie Webber (ed.) Satire Confornts Neoliberalism.
  • 'Post-Structural Approaches to Global Governance', in Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, forthcoming.
  • 'Anti-Globalization 2.0: The Contested Ethics of International Political Economy' in Birgit Schippers (ed.) Handbook of Ethics and International Relations, forthcoming with Marco Andreu.
  • 'Ethics and International Political Economy', in Brent J. Steele and Eric Heinze (Eds.) Ethics and World Politics, Routledge.
  • 'Bio-Fuels and the Ethics of Globalisation', im Steele and Heinze (Eds.) Ethics and Worls Politics, Routledge, with Ben Richardson and Will Smith, forthcoming,
  • 'Popular Documentaries About the Financial Crisis', in Rens Van Munster and Casper Sylvest (Eds.) Documentaries and World Politics, Routledge.
  • 'The Politics of Resilience From a Practitioners Perspective: An Interview with Helen Braithwaite OBE' in Politics 33(4): 229-239
  • 'The Ethical Dimensions of Global Governance', in Tony Payne and Nicola Phillips (Eds.) The International Political Economy of Governance.
  • 'Global Rules, Local Rulers', Carnegie UK Trust. Commissioned Report on Global Governance and Democratic Civil Society.
  • 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis: The Economics, Politics and Ethics of Response' in New Political Economy 15(1), with Lena Rethel and Matthew Watson.
  • 'Experimentalist Governance, Deliberation, and Democracy', CSGR Working Paper 2710. 
  • 'Introduction to the Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis' in British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11(3), with Lena Rethel and Matthew Watson.
  • 'Richard Rorty' in Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan Williams (eds.) Critical Theorists and International Relations, Routledge, forthcoming.
  • 'The Perfromance of Global Democracy: Parody and the Political', CSGR Working Paper, 269/10.
  • 'The Ethics of Global Governance and the Global Governance of Ethics' in Hayden, P. (ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations, Ashgate, 2009.
  • 'Cosmopolitanism vs. Terrorism? Discourses of Ethical Possibility Before and After 7/7', Revised and Reprinted in Angharad Closs-Stephens and Nick Vaughan Williams (eds.) Terrorism and the Politics of Response. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • 'Mutiny or Mirror? Politicising the Limit/Ethics of the Tobin Tax' in Kornprobst, M. et al. (eds.) Metaphors of Globalization: mirrors, magicians or mutinies. Palgrave: Macmillan, 2006.
  • 'Global Justice/Global Democracy: A Critical Analysis of the UK Campaign for the Tobin Tax', 2007, United Nations Research Institute fior Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. Substantially revised and re-printed for a collection with Routledge, edited by Peter Utting, forthcoming.
  • 'Just Deconstruction? Derrida and Global Ethics' in Hayden P. and El-Ojeili, C. (eds.) Confronting Globalization: Humanity, Justice and the Renewal of Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2005, with Federico Merke.
  • 'Globalising Pragmatism', CSGR Working Paper.