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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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
2010
Book Chapter
The English school
Dunne, Tim (2010). The English school. International relations theories: Discipline and diversity. (pp. 135-156) edited by Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
2010
Book
International relations theories: Discipline and diversity
Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith eds. (2010). International relations theories: Discipline and diversity. 2nd ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2009
Journal Article
Liberalism, international terrorism, and democratic wars
Dunne, Tim (2009). Liberalism, international terrorism, and democratic wars. International Relations, 23 (1), 107-114. doi: 10.1177/0047117808104156
2009
Journal Article
Editorial
Wight, Colin, Hansen, Lene and Dunne, Tim (2009). Editorial. European Journal of International Relations, 15 (1), 5-7. doi: 10.1177/1354066108100072
2009
Book Chapter
Human rights in international relations
Hanson, Marianne and Dunne, Tim (2009). Human rights in international relations. Human rights : Politics and practice. (pp. 59-74) edited by Michael Goodhart. Oxford United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2008
Journal Article
Defending the society of states: Why America opposes the International Criminal Court and its vision of world society
Dunne, Tim (2008). Defending the society of states: Why America opposes the International Criminal Court and its vision of world society. International Affairs, 84 (4), 839-840.
2008
Book Chapter
Realist and reflectivist perspectives on international relations and the US "War on Terror"
Dunne, Tim and Stansfield, Gareth (2008). Realist and reflectivist perspectives on international relations and the US "War on Terror". America's "War on Terrorism": New dimensions in U.S. government and national security. (pp. 139-158) edited by John E. Owens and John Dumbrell. Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: Lexington Books.
2008
Journal Article
Good citizen Europe
Dunne, Tim (2008). Good citizen Europe. International Affairs, 84 (1), 13-28. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00686.x
2008
Book Chapter
Britain and the gathering storm over Iraq
Dunne, Tim (2008). Britain and the gathering storm over Iraq. Foreign policy: Theories, actors, cases. (pp. 339-357) edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
2008
Book Chapter
The English school
Dunne, Tim (2008). The English school. The Oxford handbook of international relations. (pp. 267-285) edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
2008
Book
Foreign policy: Theories, actors, cases
Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne eds. (2008). Foreign policy: Theories, actors, cases. Oxford, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
2007
Journal Article
The British Committee on the theory of international politics (1954-1985): The rediscovery of history
Dunne, Tim (2007). The British Committee on the theory of international politics (1954-1985): The rediscovery of history. International History Review, 29 (4), 913-915.
2007
Journal Article
'The rules of the game are changing': Fundamental human rights in crisis after 9/11
Dunne, Tim (2007). 'The rules of the game are changing': Fundamental human rights in crisis after 9/11. International Politics, 44 (2), 269-286. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800188
2007
Book Chapter
The English school
Dunne, Tim (2007). The English school. International relations theories: discipline and diversity. (pp. 127-147) edited by Timothy Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
2006
Journal Article
Review: Anne-Marie Slaughter, "A New World Order." Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Dunne, Tim (2006). Review: Anne-Marie Slaughter, "A New World Order." Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004.. International History Review, 28 (1), 225-226.
2005
Book Chapter
Global governance: an English school perspective
Dunne, Tim (2005). Global governance: an English school perspective. Contending perspectives on global governance: Coherence, contestation and world order. (pp. 72-87) edited by Alice D. Ba and Matthew J. Hoffmann. London, U.K.: Routledge.
2005
Journal Article
Forum afterword: Barry Buzan's "From International to World Society?"
Adler, Emanuel, Buzan, Barry and Dunne, Tim (2005). Forum afterword: Barry Buzan's "From International to World Society?". Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 34 (1), 195-199. doi: 10.1177/03058298050340010301
2005
Book Chapter
Order
Devetak, Richard and Dunne, Tim (2005). Order. Encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 613-622) edited by Martin Griffiths. London: Routledge.
2005
Book Chapter
Terrorism
Dunne, Tim (2005). Terrorism. Issues in world politics. (pp. 257-273) edited by Brian White, Richard Little and Michael Smith. New York, NY, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Funding
Past funding
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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