Overview
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
Qualifications
- Masters (Coursework), University of Oxford
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Research interests
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Works
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2014
Book Chapter
The international system - international society distinction
Dunne, Tim and Little, Richard (2014). The international system - international society distinction. Guide to the English school in international studies. (pp. 91-107) Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Son. doi: 10.1002/9781118624722.ch6
2014
Book Chapter
Good international citizenship
Dunne, Tim and Langlois, Anthony J. (2014). Good international citizenship. Australian foreign policy : controversies and debates. (pp. 211-229) edited by Daniel Baldino, Andrew Carr and Anthony Langlois. South Melboure, Vic., Australia: Oxford University Press.
2013
Journal Article
The end of International Relations theory?
Dunne, Tim, Hansen, Lene and Wight, Colin (2013). The end of International Relations theory?. European Journal of International Relations, 19 (3), 405-425. doi: 10.1177/1354066113495485
2013
Conference Publication
Arguing matters: the responsibility to protect and Libya
Dunne, Tim and Gelber, Katharine (2013). Arguing matters: the responsibility to protect and Libya. ISA 2013: International Studies Association Pre-Conference Workshop, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2 April, 2013.
2013
Book
International relations theories: discipline and diversity
Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith eds. (2013). International relations theories: discipline and diversity. 3rd ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2013
Journal Article
The politics of liberal internationalism
Dunne, Tim and McDonald, Matt (2013). The politics of liberal internationalism. International Politics, 50 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1057/ip.2012.25
2013
Book Chapter
Introduction: liberal world order
Dunne, Tim, Flockhart, Trine and Koivisto, Marjo (2013). Introduction: liberal world order. Liberal World Orders. (pp. 1-22) edited by Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0001
2013
Journal Article
Distributing duties and counting costs
Dunne, Tim (2013). Distributing duties and counting costs. Global Responsibility to Protect, 5 (4), 443-465. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-00504005
2013
Book Chapter
The English school
Dunne, Tim (2013). The English school. International relations theories: discipline and diversity. (pp. 132-152) edited by Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2013
Book Chapter
Internationalism and interventionism
Dunne, Tim (2013). Internationalism and interventionism. Liberal World Orders. (pp. 231-246) edited by Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0013
2013
Book Chapter
Human rights in international relations
Dunne, Tim and Hanson, Marianne (2013). Human rights in international relations. Human rights: politics and practice. (pp. 42-57) edited by Michael Goodhart. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013
Book
Liberal world orders
Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart eds. (2013). Liberal world orders. Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.001.0001
2012
Book Chapter
Operationalising protective intervention: alternative models of authorisation
Wheeler, Nicholas J. and Dunne, Tim (2012). Operationalising protective intervention: alternative models of authorisation. The Routledge handbook of the responsibility to protect. (pp. 87-102) edited by W. Andy Wright and Frazer Egerton. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2012
Book
Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases
Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne eds. (2012). Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases. 2nd ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2012
Book
Terror in our time
Booth, Ken and Dunne, Tim (2012). Terror in our time. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203697252
2011
Journal Article
Libya and the state of intervention
Dunne, Tim and Gifkins, Jess (2011). Libya and the state of intervention. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65 (5), 515-529. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2011.613148
2011
Journal Article
9/11 and the terrorism industry
Dunne, Tim (2011). 9/11 and the terrorism industry. International Affairs, 87 (4), 965-973. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2011.01013.x
2011
Book Chapter
The English School
Dunne, Tim (2011). The English School. Oxford handbook of political science. (pp. 730-747) edited by Robert E. Godwin. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199604456.013.0034
2010
Journal Article
America after Iraq
Dunne, Tim and Mulaj, Klejda (2010). America after Iraq. International Affairs, 86 (6), 1287-1298. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00943.x
2010
Journal Article
Crisis, what crisis? Liberal order building and world order conventions
Koivisto, Marjo and Dunne, Tim (2010). Crisis, what crisis? Liberal order building and world order conventions. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38 (3), 615-640. doi: 10.1177/0305829810363509
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Counterinsurgency and Civilian Protection in Peace Operations
Principal Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Sovereignty and Responsibility in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Richard Devetak
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
France and Human Protection: A Tale of Two Norms
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Richard Devetak
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Reinterpreting Resistance: Hamas' Polysemic Conceptions of Jihad and the Search for Popular Legitimacy
Principal Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Contesting legitimacy: terrorist organisations and legitimacy-seeking behaviours
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Phillips, Professor Shahar Hameiri
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Let's argue about war! Normative arguments about the legitimacy of force 1492 - 2003
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Phillips
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