Timothy J. Dunne

Timothy J. Dunne

University of Queensland - Australia, Pro-vice-Chancellor

International Relations Theory, Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Changing dynamics of world order after 9/11

Biography

Professor Timothy J. Dunne was appointed to the role of Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey in April 2022. Previously, Timothy J. Dunne was Pro-Vice-Chancellor at The University of Queensland, Australia, where he is also Professor of International Relations in the School of Political Science. Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland (UQ), including Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Deputy Provost. Throughout his eleven years at University of Queensland, he continued to be an active researcher and teacher in the School of Political Science. Tim previously held discipline and faculty-level leadership roles at the University of Exeter and Aberystwyth University. Professor Dunne completed his undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia in 1989 and received his MPhil and DPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where he won a national prize for his PhD. As a theorist, Dunne has written on many paradigms, but his primary theoretical interest is in the English school.  As a theorist, Dunne has written on many paradigms, but his primary theoretical interest is in the English school.  International Journal of Human Rights, He has served as an associate editor for several journals, including the Review of International Studies, the International Journal of Human Rights, and was an editor of  the European Journal of international Relations (which is in the top 5 journals in the world for impact, according to the Journal Citation Reports). Professor Dunne completed his undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia in 1989 and received his MPhil and DPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford. His theoretical research interests connect to an applied agenda. He has published widely on human rights, on foreign policy (with particular reference to the United Kingdom), on the changing dynamics of world order after 9/11, and on global responsibility for the protection of human rights. He writes for UK and international media, including The Guardian. Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (co-edited with Alex J. Bellamy, 2016), The Globalization of International Society (co-edited with Christian Reus-Smit in 2017), and a new edition (with Ian Hall) of Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations: Essays in the Theory of International Politics (2019). He is currently working on a collaborative book project called The Rise of the International. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

Publications

Books
  • Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Steve Smith eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: OUP, 2nd edition, 2010).
  • Tim Dunne, Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield eds., Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford: OUP, 2008).
  • Tim Dunne and Ken Booth eds., Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (London Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002).
  • Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler eds., Human Rights in Global Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • Tim Dunne, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School (London: Macmillan, St Antony’s Series, 1998).
  • Tim Dunne, Michael Cox, Ken Booth eds., The Eighty Years’ Crisis: International Politics, 1919-1999.
 
Significant articles
  • Koivisto, Marjo; Dunne, Tim (2010). “Crisis, What Crisis? Liberal Order Building and World Order Conventions”. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 38 (3): 615–640.
  • Dunne, Tim (2009). “Liberalism, International Terrorism, and Democratic Wars”. International Relations. 23: 107–114.
  • Dunne, TIM (2008). “Good citizen Europe”. International Affairs. 84: 13–28. 
  • Dunne, Tim (2005). “System, State and Society: How Does It All Hang Together?1”. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 34: 157–170.
  • Dunne, Tim (2007). “The Rules of the Game are Changing’: Fundamental Human Rights in Crisis After 9/11″. International Politics. 44 (2–3): 269–286.
  • Dunne, Tim (2004). “When the shooting starts’: Atlanticism in British security strategy”. International Affairs. 80 (5): 893–909.