Chandler, David
Mobile: +44 (0)776 525 3
Centre for the Study of Democracy,
University of Westminster,
32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3UW
Email: D.Chandler@westminster.ac.uk
Personal Website: www.davidchandler.org
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at CSD.He is the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and a regular media commentator. His research focus is on new forms of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected in the therapeutic language of ethical foreign policy, the rule of law, human security, empowerment, democratization, state capacity-building, human rights, civil society development, anti-corruption and transparency, country 'ownership', post-conditionality, and 'pro-poor' development.
Publications
Professor Chandler is the author of a number of monographs, including Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building (Pluto, 2006) Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004, 2005); From Kosovo to Kabul (and Beyond): Human Rights and International Intervention (Pluto, 2002, 2006); and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton (Pluto, 1999, 2000).
He has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Paradoxes and Possibilities (with Volker Heins) (forthcoming: Routledge, 2007); Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia (Routledge, 2006); Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (with Gideon Baker) (Routledge, 2005) and Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002).
David Chandler has contributed to many journals including New Left Review; Radical Philosophy; Current History; Review of International Studies; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; the Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Political Studies; Area: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society; The Monist; International Politics; the British Journal of Politics & International Relations; Human Rights Quarterly; the International Journal of Human Rights; WeltTrends: Zeitschrift für internationale Politik; Cahiers Marxistes; Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations; Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales; Globalizations; Global Society; Global Dialogue; Democratization; Ethnopolitics; International Peacekeeping; International Journal of Peace Studies; and Policy and Politics.
He has also contributed chapters to a large number of edited volumes, including: G. Bono (ed.)
The Impact of 11 September 2001 and the 'War on Terror' on European
Foreign and Security Policy (Brussels: Politeia/VUB Press, 2006); N.
Yuval-Davis, K. Kannabiran and U. M. Vieten (eds) Situating
Contemporary Politics of Belonging (London: Sage, 2006); S.
Meckled-Garcia and B. Cali (eds), Legalisation of Human Rights:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2006); M. Brosig
(ed.), Human Rights in Europe: A Fragmented Regime (Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 2006) ;F. Bieber and C. Wieland (eds) Facing the Past,
Facing the Future: Confronting Ethnicity and Conflict in Bosnia and
Former Yugoslavia (Ravenna, Italy: Angelo Longa Editore/ University of
Bologna, 2005); A. J. Bellamy and P. Williams (eds) Peace Operations
and Global Order (Routledge, 2005); J. Demmers et al (eds) Good
Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2004); P.
Burnell and P. Calvert (eds) Civil Society in Democratization (Taylor
& Francis, 2004); H. Mollett (ed) Europe in the World: Essays on EU
Foreign, Security and Development Policies (British Overseas NGOs for
Development, 2003), W. van Meurs (ed.) South Eastern Europe: Weak
States and Strong International Support (Bertelsmann Foundation, 2003),
and D. Archibugi (ed.) Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003).
Media Contributions
Press articles in the Guardian, Spectator, Times Higher and the Daily Mail;
TV studio interviews/ discussion for BBC Newsnight, BBC News 24, Sky News, Al-Jazeera, CNN International, Islam TV and the Open University;
Radio studio interviews/ discussion for BBC Radio 4 programmes including the Today Programme, Analysis, Moral Maze and Women's Hour and regular contributions to the BBC's World Service; and
Internet regular postings of articles and essays for Spiked-Online
Professor Chandler is coordinator of the Westminster International Relations Forum
MA Modules
David Chandler is module leader of the CSD MA modules, 'International Relations II: Beyond International Relations?' and 'International Statebuilding: Exporting Democracy?'