Department Member, Politics
Lecturer in International Politics
Peter Jones
Simon Caney
About
See www.jamespattison.co.uk
Dr James Pattison is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. His research interests concern the moral issues raised when using military force abroad, including humanitarian intervention, the responsibility to protect, and the increased use of private military companies. His PhD on humanitarian intervention was awarded the Sir Ernest Barker Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Theory by the Political Studies Association. He has recently completed the book, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in February 2010. He has published various articles on the ethics of force, including for Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Military Ethics, the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, the Journal of International Political Theory, the International Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of Social Philosophy.’ Before joining Manchester, he was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol (from Sept 07-09). He has also spent time as a Research Affiliate at New York University and he was a temporary lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University.
* Areas of specialisation: international political theory, particularly the ethics of war and humanitarian intervention
* Areas of competence: political philosophy, International Relations
Current Work
Pattison is currently working on the normative issues surrounding the use of private military force (most of the work in this area has been empirical and conceptual, rather than normative). His most recent paper (with Deane-Peter Baker) considers the deeper problems with the use of private force for humanitarian intervention.
Contact Information
http://www.jamespattison.co.uk
Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester
01612754931
