Research Report 2009 - School of Political Science and ...

Research Report 2007 - 2009
Visiting Scholars
2007 - 2009
Great Court, St Lucia Campus
The School of Political Science and International Studies is keen to establish and
consolidate relationships with scholars from Australia and overseas. The Visiting
Scholars Program was established in 2007 to encourage exceptional scholars working
in related fields to spend a period of time researching and collaborating with scholars
within the School. Experience with the program indicates that our visiting scholarships
are keenly sought and are highly competitive.
The Visiting Scholars Program is ideally suited to scholars who are on sabbatical or
research leave and who are interested in collaborating with members of the School.
2007
Jason Ralph
Jason Ralph is Reader of International
Relations at the University of Leeds. He
specializes in the “English School”
approach to International Relations,
which is interested in the question of
whether ‘Society’ can exist beyond the
state. It focuses on how the institutions
of international society (eg
international law, war, balance of
power), are being changed by the
process of globalization. His
contribution to this research agenda
has been to highlight the social role
that international criminal justice has
played in reconstructing international
and world society along ‘solidarist’
lines.
During his time at the Universtiy of
Queensland he completed work that led
to the publication of ‘The Laws of War
and the state of the American
Exception’, Review of International
Studies Vol 35, no.3, pp631 – 649, and
‘Which Cosmopolitanism? Whose
Empire? Or why the Schmittian charge
of Liberal Imperialism is only half
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