January 2017
Terry Nardin
Current position
Professor, Division of Social Sciences, and Director of the Common Curriculum, Yale-NUS College
Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Education
Undergraduate: University of Chicago, then New York University, B.A. in Philosophy, 1963
Graduate: New York University, then Northwestern University, Ph.D. in Political Science, 1967
Employment history
Director of the Common Curriculum, Yale-NUS College, 2016–
Professor of Social Sciences (Political Science), Yale-NUS College, 2015–
Professor of Political Science, NUS, 2006–
Head, Department of Political Science, NUS, 2006–14
University Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2003–06
Professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1985–06
Director, University Honors Program, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1985–95
Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1978 and 1982–84
Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973–85
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, 1968
Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967–73
Fellowships
Visiting Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004
Fellow, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2001–02
Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1998–99
Visitor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1991–92
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow, 1978–79
Research Fellow, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY Buffalo, 1974–75
National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 1966–67
New York State Regents Graduate Fellow, 1963–67
Grants
Yale-NUS Conference/Workshop Grant, S$20,000 for Symposia on Political Theory, FY2017-2018
Heads and Deans Research Support Scheme grant, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, between
S$15,000 to S$40,000 annually, 2008–14, for research and symposia on political theory
Co-PI on major grants from the Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation, the Humanities and Social
Sciences Research Foundation of Canada, and the Asia Research Institute at NUS for six
workshops on East Asian Perspectives on Politics, 2009–12
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs, US$10,000 pilot grant to establish a research
program on international ethics in the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies, 2001–02
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, US$491,000 to establish three professorships in the
University Honors Program at UWM, 1992–95; renewed at US$425,200 in 1995–98
The Pew Charitable Trusts, US$100,000 for two Ethikon Institute conferences, 1992–94
UWM Graduate School Research Committee Awards, US$9,277 in 1988 and US$9,870 in 1996
National Science Foundation Research Grant, US$5,100, 1972–73
Faculty Research Grants, SUNY at Buffalo, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1978, and 1981
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Selected professional activities
Editorial Board, Rising Powers Quarterly, 2016–
Editorial Board, Journal of International Political Theory, 2011–
Editorial Board, Global Discourse, 2011–
Editorial Board, British Idealist Studies, 2001–
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2012–2016
Editorial Advisory Board, Ethics & International Affairs, 1986–2000, 2003–15
NUS Advisory Board, International Studies Review, 2013–15
Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of Political Science, 2006–09; Editorial Advisor, 2009–2012
Editorial Board, International Studies Quarterly, 2003–08
Editorial Review Board, Human Right and Human Welfare, 2001–09
International Advisory Board, European Journal of International Relations, 1994–99
Advisory Board, Humanitarian Intervention Centre (HIC), London, 2014–
Advisory Board, Theory Section, International Studies Association, 2011–
Steering Committee, Shibusawa Foundation Project on East Asian Perspectives on Politics, 2006–14
Co-organizer and Chair, Workshop on East Asian Perspectives on Legal Order, ARI and FASS, 2010
Organizer and Chair, Symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust
Wars, Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs, 1996
Vice President and Program Director, The Ethikon Institute, 1993–96; Member, Board of Directors,
1991–98. Organized conferences on the Restructuring of Political and Economic Systems
(Berlin, 1991), Ethics of War and Peace (Jerusalem, 1993), Constitution of International
Society (Napa, 1994), and Ethics of National Boundaries (New York, 1997)
Series Editor, The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics, Princeton University Press, 1995–98
Chair, ISA/Carnegie Council Working Group on International Ethics, 1987–91
Member, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Conference for
the Study of Political Thought, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy,
Association for Political Theory, Michael Oakeshott Association, Collingwood Society
Convener, Singapore Chapter of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)
Invited lectures, Universities of California (Irvine), Canterbury, Chicago, Colorado, Columbia, Hull,
Harvard, Monash, Northwestern, Oxford, Princeton, Toronto; also Yale Law School, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, London School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study
(Princeton), Goethe University (Frankfurt), Griffith University (Brisbane), National Chengchi
University (Taiwan), and others
Referee, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities and
Social Sciences Research Council (Canada), Israel Science Foundation, as well as many
refereed journals and academic publishers
Member, Distinguished Professors Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003–2006
Convener, International Studies Masters Programme, NUS, 2006–2009
Member, Faculty Senate, NUS, 2006–
Member, Social Sciences Search Committee, Yale-NUS College, 2012–14
Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee (UPTC), 2010–14
Member, UPTC Sub-Committee for the Appointment of President’s Assistant Professors, 2013–14
Member, University Teaching Excellence Committee (UTEC), 2014–15
Member, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Benchmarking Consultative Committee (HSS–
RBCC), 2013–
Chair, University Mid-Term Academic Review Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS
MTARC), 2015–
Associate Member, Centre for Legal Theory, NUS Faculty of Law, 2015–
Member, Common Curriculum External Review Committee, 2015
Chair, President’s Task Force on History in the Common Curriculum, 2015–16
Member, President’s Task force on Science in the Common Curriculum, 2015–15
Member, Academic Committee, Yale-NUS College, 2016–
Member, Appointments Committee, Yale-NUS College, 2015–
Member, President Search Committee, Yale-NUS College, 2016–17
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Books
The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Penn State University Press, 2001), 246 pp.
Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton University Press, 1983), 364 pp. Trans: La Ley y
la Moral an las Relaciones entre los Estados (Mexico City: Edamex, 1985); Lei, Moralidade
e as Relações entre os Estados (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Forense–Universitaria, 1987).
Edited books
Rationality in Politics and Its Limits, edited with an introduction by Terry Nardin (Routledge, 2016),
150 pp. This reprints a 2015 special issue of Global Discourse.
Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism, edited with an introduction by Terry Nardin (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2015), 200 pp.
Lectures in the History of Political Thought, Vol. 2 of Michael Oakeshott, Selected Writings, edited
with introduction by Terry Nardin and Luke O’Sullivan (Imprint Academic, 2006), 516 pp.
Humanitarian Intervention, Vol. 47 of NOMOS: Yearbook of the American Society for Political and
Legal Philosophy edited by Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams, with an introduction by
Terry Nardin (New York University Press, 2006), 336 pp.
Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, edited with an introduction by Daniel J. Sherman and
Terry Nardin (Indiana University Press, 2006), 296 pp.
International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War
edited by Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, and Nicholas Rengger (Cambridge University Press,
2002), 640 pp. Kurdish translation 2007, Chinese translation 2013.
International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, edited with an introduction by David R. Mapel
and Terry Nardin, Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics (Princeton University Press, 1998),
263 pp.
The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives, edited with introduction by Terry
Nardin, Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics (Princeton University Press, 1996), 286 pp.
Traditions of International Ethics, edited by Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel, Cambridge Studies in
International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 326 pp.
Journal special issues
Intellectual History and International Relations Theory, edited with and introduction by William Bain
and Terry Nardin, International Relations (2017), in press.
Rationality in Politics and Its Limits, edited with an introduction by Terry Nardin, Global Discourse
5, no. 2 (June 2015), 177–327.
Approaches to Asian Constitutionalism, edited with an introduction by Ernest Caldwell and Terry
Nardin, Chicago-Kent Law Review 88, no. 1 (2013), 1–184.
Twenty Years of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, edited by Terry Nardin, Ethics &
International Affairs 11 (1997), 1–104
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Journal articles
“Kant’s Republican Theory of Justice and International Relations,” Special Issue on Intellectual
History and International Relations Theory, International Relations, forthcoming 2017.
“The New Realism and the Old,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy,
forthcoming 2017.
“Oakeshott on Theory and Practice,” Global Discourse 5, no. 2 (June 2015), 310–322, with reply by
Steven B. Smith.
“The Diffusion of Sovereignty,” History of European Ideas 41, no. 1 (2015), 89–102.
“Historian or Philosopher? Ian Hunter on Kant and Vattel,” History of European Ideas 40 (2014),
122–34.
“From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect: Michael Walzer on Humanitarian Intervention,”
European Journal of International Law 24 (2013), 67–82.
“Justice and Authority in the Global Order,” Review of International Studies 37 (2011), 2059–72.
“Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist?” Ethics &
International Affairs 25, no. 1 (2011), 1–10.
“Globalization and the Public Realm,” Critical Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy, 12 (2009), 297–312. Reprinted in Nöel O’Sullivan, ed., The Concept of the
Public Realm (Routledge, 2009).
“Theorizing the International Rule of Law,” Review of International Studies 34 (2008), 385–401.
“International Political Theory and the Question of Justice,” International Affairs 82 (2006), 449–66.
“Humanitarian Imperialism,” Ethics & International Affairs 19 (2005), 85–91. Reprinted in Ethan
Kapstein and Joel Rosenthal, eds., Ethics and International Relations (Ashgate, 2009), 81–92.
“The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention,” Ethics & International Affairs 16 (2002), 57–70.
Reprinted in Anthony Lang, ed., Humanitarian Intervention: The Moral Dimension
(Georgetown University Press, 2003), 11–27; Stephen Chan and Cerwyn Moore, eds.,
Theories of International Relations (Sage Publications, 2006), 390–96. Reprinted with
revisions in Joel H. Rosenthal, ed., Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader, 3rd ed.
(Georgetown University Press, 2009), 85–101.
“International Pluralism and the Rule of Law,” Review of International Studies 26 (2000), Special
Issue, 95–110. Reprinted in Ken Booth, Tim Dunne, and Michael Cox, eds., How Might We
Live? Global Ethics in the New Century (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 95–110.
“The Rule of Law in International Relations,” International Legal Theory 5, No. 1 (1999), 2–12.
“Michael Oakeshott’s World of Ideas,” Studies in Political Thought, 2 (1993), 17–29.
“International Ethics and International Law,” Review of International Studies, 18 (1992), 19–30.
Reprinted in Ethan Kapstein and Joel Rosenthal, eds., Ethics and International Relations
(Ashgate, 2009), 81–92, and Mervyn Frost, ed., International Ethics, Vol. 3 (Sage, 2011).
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“Interests vs. Principles: Reassessing the U.S. Commitment to Israel,” by Jerome Slater and Terry
Nardin, Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, 13, No. 3 (1991), 84–98. Reprinted in
The Middle East: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press, 1992).
“Moral Renewal: The Lessons of Eastern Europe,” Ethics & International Affairs, 5 (1991), 1–14.
Reprinted in Joel H. Rosenthal, ed., Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader, 1st ed.
(Georgetown University Press, 1995), 135–49.
“Realism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Rule of Law,” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1987 (1990), 416–20. Reprinted in Anthony D’Amato, ed., International Law
Anthology (Anderson, 1994), 351–54.
“The Problem of Relativism in International Ethics,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 18
(1989), 149–62.
“Realism and Redistribution,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 23, no. 3 (1989), 209–25.
“Reason and Tradition: Recent Literature in Foreign Affairs,” Ethics & International Affairs 2 (1988),
219–36.
“Nonintervention and Human Rights,” by Jerome Slater and Terry Nardin, Journal of Politics, 48
(1986), 86–96.
“The Moral Basis of the Law of War,” Journal of International Affairs, 37 (1984), 295–310.
“Distributive Justice and the Criticism of International Law,” Political Studies, 29 (1981), 232–44.
“Vietnam Revised,” by Terry Nardin and Jerome Slater, World Politics, 33 (1981), 436–48.
“The Laws of War and Moral Judgment,” British Journal of International Studies, 3 (1977), 121–36.
Reprinted in Richard A. Falk, et al., eds., International Law: A Contemporary Perspective
(Westview, 1985).
“Philosophy and International Violence,” American Political Science Review, 70 (1976), 952–61.
“The Military-Industrial Complex Muddle,” by Jerome Slater and Terry Nardin, Yale Review, 65
(1975), 1–23.
“Conflicting Conceptions of Political Violence,” Political Science Annual, 4 (1973), 75–126.
“Reliability and Validity of Some Patterns of International Interaction in an Inter-Nation Simulation,”
by Terry Nardin and Neal Cutler, Journal of Peace Research, 6 (1969), 1–12.
“Communication and the Effects of Threats in Strategic Interaction,” Peace Research Society
(International) Papers, 9 (1968), 69–86.
Chapters in edited volumes
“Oakeshott as a Moralist,” in Noël O’Sullivan, ed., Oakeshott's Place in Contemporary Western and
Non-Western Thought (Imprint Academic, forthcoming 2017).
“Realism, Republicanism, and Human Rights,” in Henning Glaser, ed., The Emergence, Reproduction
and Hegemonization of and by Human Rights Regimes (Baden-Baden: Nomos, forthcoming
2017).
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“Michael Oakeshott,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/oakeshott/>.
“Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars,” in Jacob T. Levy, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Classics in
Contemporary Political Theory (Oxford University Press, published online 2016).
“Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative,” in Terry Nardin, ed., Michael Oakeshott’s
Cold War Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 23–37.
“Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice,” in Cornelia Navari, ed., Ethical
Reasoning in International Affairs: Arguments from the Middle Ground (Palgrave Macmillan,
2013), 43–63.
“Humanitarian Intervention,” in Hugh LaFollette, ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics (WileyBlackwell, 2013), 2477–2486.
“International Relations: Philosophical and Methodological Debates,” in Byron Kaldis, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Sage Publications, 2013), 498–501.
“Rhetoric and Political Language,” in Ephraim Podoksik, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Oakeshott (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 177–98.
“Political Philosophy in a Globalizing World,” in George Klosko, ed., Oxford Handbook of the
History of Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011), 501–13.
“International Political Theory,” in Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater, eds., Theories of
International Relations, 4th ed. (2009); 5th ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 291–318.
Indonesian translation 2013. Albanian and Turkish translations 2014.
“Emergency Logic: Prudence, Morality, and the Rule of Law,” in Victor V. Ramraj, ed., Emergencies
and the Limits of Legality (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 97–117.
“International Ethics,” in Chris Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal, eds., Oxford Handbook of
International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2008), 594–611.
“Justice and Coercion,” in Alex J. Bellamy, ed., International Society and Its Critics (Oxford
University Press, 2005), 247–63.
“Oakeshott’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences,” in Timothy Fuller and Corey Abel, eds., The
Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott (Imprint Academic, 2005), 220–37.
“Epilogue,” in Fabio Petito and Pavlos Hatzopoulos, eds., Religion in International Relations: The
Return from Exile (Palgrave, 2003), 271–82.
“Legal Positivism as a Theory of International Society,” in David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin, eds.,
International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 1998), 17–
35. Reprinted with revisions in Cecelia Lynch and Michael Loriaux, eds., Law and Moral
Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 3–23.
“The Philosophy of War and Peace,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 9 (Routledge, 1998),
684–91. Reprinted in part in the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1999).
“The Comparative Ethics of War and Peace,” in Terry Nardin, ed., The Ethics of War and Peace:
Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 1996), 245–64.
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“Private and Public Roles in Civil Society,” in Michael Walzer, ed., Toward a Global Civil Society
(Berghahn Books, 1995), 29–34.
“Tesón on Low–Intensity Conflict and State Sovereignty,” in Alberto R. Coll, et al., eds., Legal and
Moral Constraints on Low-Intensity Conflict (Naval War College, 1995), 109–14.
“Perspectives on Values, Ethics, and National Security,” in Richard Shultz, Roy Godson, and George
H. Quester, eds., Security Studies for the 21st Century (Brassey’s, 1993 and 1997), 13–41.
“Alternative Ethical Perspectives on Transnational Migration,” in Brian Barry and Robert Goodin,
eds., Free Movement: Ethical Issues in the Transnational Migration of People and Money
(Penn State Press, 1992), 267–78.
“Ethical Traditions in International Affairs,” in Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel, eds., Traditions of
International Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1–22.
“Convergence and Divergence in International Ethics,” by David R. Mapel and Terry Nardin, in Terry
Nardin and David R. Mapel, eds., Traditions of International Ethics (Cambridge University
Press, 1992), 297–322.
“Nuclear War and the Argument from Extremity,” in Avner Cohen and Steven Lee, eds., Nuclear
Weapons and the Future of Humanity (Rowman and Allanheld, 1986), 289–305.
“Commentary on O’Brien,” in John D. Jones and Marc F. Griesbach, eds., Just War Theory in the
Nuclear Age (University Press of America, 1985), 128–32, 134, 135–36.
“Theory and Practice in Conflict Research,” in Ted Robert Gurr, ed., Handbook of Theory and
Research on Political Conflict (Free Press, 1980), 461–89.
“The Concept of a Military-Industrial Complex,” by Jerome Slater and Terry Nardin, in S. Rosen, ed.,
Testing the Theory of the Military-Industrial Complex (Lexington Books, 1973), 27–60.
Shorter monographs
Ethics and Intervention: The United States in Grenada, 1983, by Terry Nardin and K. Pritchard. Case
Studies in Ethics and International Affairs (Georgetown University, 1990). 45 pp.
Violence and the State: A Critique of Empirical Political Theory, No. 20 of Sage Professional Papers
in Comparative Politics (Sage Publications, 1971), 72 pp. Excerpt reprinted in Y.–A.
Michaud, ed., La Violence (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1973).
Theories of Conflict Management, No. 4 of Peace Research Reviews (Canadian Peace Research
Institute, 1971), 93 pp.
Book reviews
A Companion to Michael Oakeshott, ed. by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh. Philosophy of the Social
Sciences 44 (2014), 839–43.
The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests, and Orders, by Richard Ned Lebow. International
History Review, 27 (2005), 453–55.
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Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, by Mark Juergensmeyer. Journal
of Politics, 63 (2001), 683–84.
Limiting Government: An Introduction to Constitutionalism, by András Sajó. Europe-Asia Studies, 52
(2000), 1547–49.
Justice among Nations, by Thomas L. Pangle and Peter J. Ahrensdorf, and Political Theories of
International Relations, by David Boucher. Ethics & International Affairs, 14 (2000), 182–
86.
Thinking about International Ethics, by Frances V. Harbour. Millennium: Journal of International
Studies, 28 (1999), 424–25.
Ethics and International Politics, by Luigi Bonanate. Ethics & International Affairs, 10 (1996), 205–
207.
International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches, by Chris Brown, and Inside/Outside:
International Relations as Political Theory, by R. B. J. Walker. Journal of Politics, 56
(1994), 570–74.
Nationalism, 4th ed., by Elie Kedourie; The Wrath of Nations, by William Pfaff; and On Justice,
Power, and Human Nature, by Thucydides. Ethics & International Affairs, 8 (1994), 215–16.
Law and Morality in Israel’s War against the PLO, by William V. O’Brien. International Journal of
Middle East Studies, 24 (1992), 721–23.
Elements of International Political Theory, by Michael Donelan. American Political Science Review,
86 (1992), 282–83.
Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World, by Robert H. Jackson.
Journal of Asian Studies, 50 (1991), 887–88.
The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals, by Hidemi Suganami. American Journal of
International Law, 85 (1991), 571–72.
Hobbes: War among Nations, ed. Timo Airaksinen and Martin Bertman. International Hobbes
Association Newsletter, 12 (1990), 9–14.
Political Realism and International Morality, ed. Kenneth Kipnis and Diana Meyers. Ethics, 99
(1989), 451.
Normative Politics and the Community of Nations, by Haskell Fain. American Political Science
Review, 82 (1988), 1033–34.
Problems of International Justice, ed. Steven Luper-Foy. Ethics, 100 (1989), 220.
Ethics and International Relations, ed. Anthony Ellis. Ethics, 98 (1988), 866–67.
The Diplomacy of Human Rights, ed. David D. Newsom. Perspective, 16, no. 3 (1987), 91.
Visions of World Order, by Julius Stone. American Political Science Review, 80 (1986), 1079–80.
War and Justice, by Robert L. Phillips, and Can Modern War Be Just? by James Turner Johnson.
Worldview, 28, no. 5 (1985), 24–26.
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Durkheim and the Law, by Steven Lukes and A. Scull. Perspective, 13, no. 4 (1984), 87.
How Wars End, by S. Bailey, and To End War, by Robert Woito. Worldview, 26, no. 8 (1983), 26–28.
Human Rights and World Politics, by David Forsythe. Perspective, 12, no. 8 (1983), 186.
Boundaries: National Autonomy and Its Limits, ed. Peter Brown and Henry Shue. Perspective, 11, no.
5 (1982), 103–104.
The Conduct of Just and Limited War, by William V. O’Brien. Worldview, 25, no. 8 (1982), 29.
Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War, by James Johnson. Worldview, 25, no. 3 (1982), 28–29.
Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran, by Barry Rubin. Perspective, 10,
no. 4 (1981), 74.
Ideas and Ideologies: Justice, ed. Eugene Kamenka and Alice Erh-Soon Tay. Perspective, 10, no. 2
(1981), 46–47.
Political Theory and International Relations, by Charles R. Beitz. American Political Science Review,
74 (1980), 795–96.
Images of Conflict, by Albert Eldridge. Perspective, 9, no. 6 (1980), 113.
Negotiations, by Daniel Druckman, and The Negotiation Process, by I. W. Zartman. American
Political Science Review, 73 (1979), 1127–28.
Of Powers and Their Politics, A. L. Burns. American Political Science Review, 63 (1969), 1343–44.
Selected conference presentations and invited lectures
“Oakeshott as a Moralist,” The Inaugural Michael Oakeshott Lecture, University of Hull, and keynote
address for the 2015 Conference, Michael Oakeshott Association, September 2015.
“Kant’s Philosophy of Right and International Relations Theory,” Symposium on the History of
Political Thought and International Relations Theory: Partners, Strangers, Antagonists,
Department of Political Science, NUS, March 2015, and Centre for Governance and Public
Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, February 2016.
“The New Realism and the Old,” Conference on Realism in Contemporary Political Theory, Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; also NUS Department of Political Science, January 2015,
and Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, August 2016.
“Realism, Republicanism, and Human Rights,” Conference on the Emergence, Reproduction and
Hegemonization of and by Human Rights Regimes, German-Southeast Asian Center of
Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University, Bangkok,
December 2014.
“Theorizing and Doing as Distinct,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013, and
Symposium on Rationality in Politics and Its Limits, Department of Political Science, NUS,
April 2014.
“The Diffusion of Sovereignty,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 2013, and
Symposium on the Foundations of Modern International Thought, NUS, April 2013.
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“Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative,” Conference on Michael Oakeshott’s Cold
War Liberalism, Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, November 2012.
“Historian or Philosopher? Ian Hunter on Kant and Vattel,” Workshop on Enlightenment, Law and
Government, Department of Political Science, NUS, April 2012.
“Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice,” International Studies Association, San
Francisco, April 2013, and Monash University, Melbourne, March 2012.
“From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect: Michael Walzer on Humanitarian Intervention,”
Conference on the 30th Anniversary of Just and Unjust Wars, New York University School of
Law, 2010; also presented at the Political Theory Colloquium, Department of Political
Science, Columbia University, 2010.
“What is the Political in International Political Theory?” Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2010; also
presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Study Group on International
Relations Conference, Stockholm, 2010.
“Political Philosophy in a Globalizing World,” Department of Political Science, National Chengchi
University, Taipei, 2009.
“Justice and Authority in the Global Order,” Workshop on International Law and Global Justice,
Oxford University, 2009; versions of this paper were also presented in 2009 at National
Cheng Kung University, Tainan; National Chengchi University, Taipei; and National
University of Singapore.
“Twentieth-Century International Thought,” Roundtable on Twentieth-Century International Thought,
American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston, 2008.
“Emergency Logic: Prudence, Morality, and the Rule of Law,” Symposium on Terrorism and the
Rule of Law,” Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 2007.
“Defending the International Rule of Law,” Conference on Philosophical Issues in International Law,
Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2006.
“International Political Theory and the Question of Justice,” International Studies Association, San
Diego, 2006.
“Comparative Ethics and the Virtues of Leadership,” Shibusawa Foundation North American
Seminar, “Japan as a Normal Country,” Munk Center for International Studies, University of
Toronto, 2005.
“Political Theory and International Relations: the Question of Humanitarian Intervention,”
Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, 2005.
“Religion, Ethics, and International Affairs,” University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand,
2004.
“Culture and Politics after 9/11,” University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004.
“One World? Some Questions about Global Justice,” Midwest Political Science Association, 2003.
“Common Morality and International Ethics,” Carnegie Council Faculty Development Workshop,
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 2002.
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“Oakeshott’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences,” Inaugural Conference of the Michael Oakeshott
Association, London, 2001.
“The Moral Basis of Humanitarian Intervention,” Travers Program in Ethics and Politics, University
of California, Berkeley, 2000; Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of
California, Irvine, 2000; International Studies Association, 2001; Center for International
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001; Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, 2001; and Carr Center for Human Rights, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, 2001.
“Ethical Traditions in International Affairs,” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 1999,
and Conference on International Security, Fudan University, Shanghai, 1999.
“The Rule of Law in International Relations,” Conference on International Norms, The Leonard
Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997.
“International Relations Theory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” International Studies
Association, Toronto, 1997.
“Is International Ethics a Field?” International Studies Association, Chicago, 1995.
“Ethics and Security: The Moral Basis,” Conference on Global Politics in the 1990s, University of
Cincinnati, 1995.
“Comparative Research on International Ethics,” International Studies Association, Chicago, 1995.
“Comparative International Ethics,” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Faculty
Institute on Ethics and International Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1994.
“Legal Positivism as a Theory of International Society,” Ethikon Institute Conference, Napa, 1994,
and Conference on Moral Foundations of International Law, Northwestern University, 1994.
“Intervention to Protect Human Rights,” Conference on Democracy and Human Rights, Institute for
World Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1993.
“On The Study and Teaching of International Ethics,” Plenary Address, Midwest International
Studies Association, Chicago, 1993.
“Humanitarian Intervention,” Conference on Ethnic Violence and Intervention, State University of
New York at Buffalo, 1993.
“Reform Intervention and Low-Intensity Conflict,” Conference on Ethics and Low Intensity Conflict,
US Naval War College, Newport, RI, 1992.
“Oakeshott on Theory and Practice,” Political Philosophy Colloquium, Princeton University, 1992.
“Michael Oakeshott’s World of Ideas,” School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, 1992.
“Values, Ethics, and National Security,” National Security Studies Curriculum Review Conference,
Warren, Vermont, 1991. Repeated at Bowdoin College in 1992 and 1993.
“Michael Walzer on Civil Society,” Conference on Common Dilemmas and Common Perspectives
of the European and American Left, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington, DC, 1991.
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“International Ethics and International Law,” Yale Law School, 1991.
“Ethical Traditions in Foreign Affairs,” Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security,
University of Chicago, 1990.
“Ethical Traditions and the Restructuring of Europe,” Conference on Ethics and Foreign Policy,
Wilton Park, Sussex, 1990.
“Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Intervention,” Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame, 1990.
“The Problem of Relativism in International Ethics,” British International Studies Association,
London, 1990.
“Traditions of Ethical Judgment in International Affairs,” Carnegie Council Summer Institute on
Teaching Ethics and International Affairs, Yale University, 1989.
“Alternative Ethical Perspectives on Transnational Migration,” Ethikon Institute Conference on The
Transnational Migration of People and Money, Mont St. Michel, France, 1989.
“The Moral Status of Foreign Intervention,” Morris Colloquium Lecture, Department of Philosophy,
University of Colorado, Boulder, 1989.
“Engaging the Moral Issue in Nuclear Policy Debates,” Nuclear Defense Policy Faculty Seminar,
Columbia University, 1988.
“Morality and Consequences: Ethical Theory in Public Affairs,” International Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., 1988.
“Political Realism and the Ownership of Natural Resources,” Ethikon Institute Colloquium on Ethics
and Ownership of Natural Resources,” California Institute of Technology, 1987.
“The Ethics and Economics of International Law,” Program on Interdependent Political Economy and
Center for Ethics, Rationality and Society, University of Chicago, 1987.
“Realism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Rule of Law,” American Society for International Law, Boston,
1987.
“Nuclear War and the Argument from Extremity,” Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and
Society, Chicago, 1983.
“War and the Bounds of Moral Conduct,” Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, 1982.
“Two Conceptions of International Society,” The London School of Economics, 1982.
“The Reagan Administration and Arms Control,” Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 1982.
“The State and the Theory of the Just War,” by Jerome Slater and Terry Nardin, American Political
Science Association, Washington, DC, 1981.
“International Relations Theory and Human Rights,” International Studies Association, Washington,
DC, 1978.
“Distributive Justice and the Revision of International Law,” American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, 1977.
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“International Adjudication and the Authority of International Law,” International Studies
Association, St. Louis, 1977.
“International Law and the Regulation of Armed Conflicts,” International Studies Association,
Chicago, 1975.
“Is There a Military-Industrial Complex?” by Jerome Slater and Terry Nardin, American Political
Science Association, Chicago, 1971.
“Communication and Threats in Strategic Interaction,” Peace Research Society (International),
Cambridge, MA, 1967.