Professor Tim Dunne
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Tim Dunne

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Background

Tim Dunne is Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey, a role that he took up in early 2022. As Provost he has responsibility for the institution’s academic performance across 13 Schools, 3 Faculties and 3 Pan-University Institutes. Prior to his move to Surrey, Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland, including Deputy Provost as well as the Founding Executive Dean of HASS. Tim is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited sixteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and most recently the The Rise of the International (2024) co-edited with Professor Richard Devetak. He is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences in Australia and the Academic of Social Sciences in the UK. He proudly holds an Emeritus Professorship in the School of POLSIS at The University of Queensland.

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Fields of research

Political science

Qualifications

  • Masters (Coursework), University of Oxford
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Research interests

  • Human rights, Human Protection and the Responsibility to Protect

    Tim's research seeks to bridge normative theory and foreign policy. Recent research has focused on the development of the responsibility to protect norm. From 2010 to 2014, Tim was Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (at UQ). Many publications flowed from this period, including the publication of The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (co-edited with Alex Bellamy), published in 2016. Other outputs in this area include collaborations with many UQ staff (and former PhD students), including Richard Devetak, Charles Hunt, Jess Gifkins, Jocelyn Vaughan, Eglantine Staunton, and Katharine Gelber.

  • The Globalisation of International Society

    With Chris Reus-Smit, in the School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), Tim completed a project on The Globalization of International Society which was published by Oxford University Press in February 2017. The project was assisted by two funded workshops, one by the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia, the other by the International Studies Association. Contributors to the book include: Mark Beeson and Stephen Bell, Barry Buzan, Ian Clark, Neta Crawford, Richard Devetak and Emily Tannock, Lene Hansen, Hun Joon Kim, Paul Keal, Audie Klotz, Jacinta O’Hagan, Andrew Phillips, Heather Rae, Gerry Simpson, Hendrik Spruytt, Sarah Teitt, Ann Towns, Jennifer Welsh and Yongjin Zhang. The book has been awarded two prizes from different sections of the International Studies Association.

  • International Terrorism and World Order

    With Ken Booth, Tim has written and edited two books (2002, 2012) that examine how far 9/11 changed the configuration of world order. Rather than viewing terrorism in a reductive manner, commonly found in the terrorism studies literature, my work in this area has focused on the systemic character of international terrorism.

  • International Relations Theory

    Tim's early research has advanced the claim – now widely accepted – that the study of international society constitutes a distinct perspective in the field (see his 1998 book). He continues to write about how the normative order has evolved, and particularly, the impact of the decline of American power on the liberal project. This theme was explored in the Oxford University Press book on Liberal World Orders (2015) that was co-edited with Trine Flockhart. The fifth edition of the bestselling Oxford textbook on International Relations Theory (co-edited with Steve Smith and Milja Kurki) will be published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

  • Foreign Policy

    Tim has also edited a multi-edition textbook on Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases. Co-editors on the project are Steve Smith and Amelia Hadfield. It is now in its 3rd edition (2016) and is published by Oxford University Press.

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103 works between 1994 and 2021
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2021

Conference Publication

Disability digital and inclusion

Dunne, Tim and Harpur, Paul (2021). Disability digital and inclusion. IncludeAbility Employer Network Meeting ", Online, 16 September.

Disability digital and inclusion

2020

Conference Publication

Nothing about us unless it is led by us: realising a vision for ability equality in the academy

Dunne, Tim and Harpur, Paul (2020). Nothing about us unless it is led by us: realising a vision for ability equality in the academy. Australian perspectives on disability and social inclusion: Australia as a compassionate and just society workshop, Harvard Law School, 25 February, 2020.

Nothing about us unless it is led by us: realising a vision for ability equality in the academy

2019

Journal Article

Great illusions or great transformations? Human rights and international relations a hundred years on

Dunne, Tim and Wheeler, Nicholas J. (2019). Great illusions or great transformations? Human rights and international relations a hundred years on. International Relations, 33 (2), 338-356. doi: 10.1177/0047117819851256

Great illusions or great transformations? Human rights and international relations a hundred years on

2018

Book Chapter

Ethical foreign policy in a multipolar world

Dunne, Tim (2018). Ethical foreign policy in a multipolar world. The Oxford handbook of international political theory. (pp. 495-507) edited by Brown, Chris and Eckersley, Robyn. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198746928.013.36

Ethical foreign policy in a multipolar world

2018

Journal Article

After liberal world order

Duncombe, Constance and Dunne, Tim (2018). After liberal world order. International Affairs, 94 (1), 25-42. doi: 10.1093/ia/iix234

After liberal world order

2017

Journal Article

Civilising statecraft: Andrew Linklater and comparative sociologies of states-systems

Dunne, Tim and Devetak, Richard (2017). Civilising statecraft: Andrew Linklater and comparative sociologies of states-systems. Review of International Studies, 43 (4), 686-699. doi: 10.1017/S0260210517000390

Civilising statecraft: Andrew Linklater and comparative sociologies of states-systems

2017

Book Chapter

Introduction

Reus-Smith, Christian and Dunne, Tim (2017). Introduction. The globalization of international society. (pp. 3-17) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Introduction

2017

Book

The Globalization of International Society

Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit eds. (2017). The Globalization of International Society. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

The Globalization of International Society

2017

Book Chapter

The globalization of international society

Reus-Smit, Christian and Dunne, Tim (2017). The globalization of international society. The globalization of international society. (pp. 18-40) edited by Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198793427.003.0002

The globalization of international society

2017

Book Chapter

Conclusion

Dunne, Tim and Reus-Smit, Christian (2017). Conclusion. The globalization of international society. (pp. 425-432) edited by Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Conclusion

2016

Journal Article

Bandung 60 years on: Rrevolt and resilience in international society

Devetak, Richard, Dunne, Tim and Nurhayati, Ririn Tri (2016). Bandung 60 years on: Rrevolt and resilience in international society. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70 (4), 358-373. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2016.1155201

Bandung 60 years on: Rrevolt and resilience in international society

2016

Book Chapter

The Genocide Convention and Cold War humanitarian intervention

Dunne, Tim and Staunton, Eglantine (2016). The Genocide Convention and Cold War humanitarian intervention. The Oxford handbook of the responsibility to protect. (pp. 38-55) edited by Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.001.0001

The Genocide Convention and Cold War humanitarian intervention

2016

Book

The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne eds. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

2016

Book Chapter

Human rights and international relations

Hanson, Marianne and Dunne, Tim (2016). Human rights and international relations. Human rights: politics and practice. (pp. 44-59) edited by Michael Goodhart. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Human rights and international relations

2015

Journal Article

Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect

Dunne, Tim and Teitt, Sarah (2015). Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect. Global Governance, 21 (3), 371-391. doi: 10.1163/19426720-02103003

Contested intervention: China, India, and the responsibility to protect

2015

Journal Article

Leading from the front: America, Libya and the localisation of R2P

Vaughn, Jocelyn and Dunne, Tim (2015). Leading from the front: America, Libya and the localisation of R2P. Cooperation and Conflict, 50 (1), 29-49. doi: 10.1177/0010836714532916

Leading from the front: America, Libya and the localisation of R2P

2015

Journal Article

Text and Context in the Responsibility to Protect: A Reply to Hehir

Dunne, Tim and Gelber, Katharine (2015). Text and Context in the Responsibility to Protect: A Reply to Hehir. Global Responsibility to Protect, 7 (2), 225-233. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-00702008

Text and Context in the Responsibility to Protect: A Reply to Hehir

2015

Book Chapter

Argumentation and the responsibility to protect: the case of Libya

Dunne, Tim and Gelber, Katharine (2015). Argumentation and the responsibility to protect: the case of Libya. Human rights protection in global politics: responsibilities of states and non-state actors. (pp. 288-308) edited by Kurt Mills and David Jason Karp. Basingtoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Argumentation and the responsibility to protect: the case of Libya

2015

Book Chapter

The responsibility to protect and world order

Dunne, Tim (2015). The responsibility to protect and world order. Theorising the responsibility to protect. (pp. 81-100) edited by Ramesh Thakur and William Maley. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139644518.005

The responsibility to protect and world order

2014

Journal Article

Arguing matters: the responsibility to protect and the case of Libya

Dunne, Tim and Gelber, Katharine (2014). Arguing matters: the responsibility to protect and the case of Libya. Global Responsibility to Protect, 6 (3), 326-349. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-00603004

Arguing matters: the responsibility to protect and the case of Libya

Past funding

  • 2012 - 2015
    Core Funding to the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 2012-13 to 2015-16
    AusAID-Australian Agency for International Development
    Open grant
  • 2012
    UQ Category 1 Travel Award - Christopher Browning
    UQ Travel Awards for International Collaborative Research (Category 1)
    Open grant

Availability

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Supervision history

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  • Foreign Policy
  • Human Rights
  • International
  • International Terrorism
  • Responsibility to Protect

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