Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Dr. Steven Slaughter

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email steven.slaughter@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 925 17755
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood - Room: D 3.17
Role and profile Dr Steven Slaughter BA (Hons) Monash, Grad.Dip. Public Policy (Murdoch), PhD (Monash) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Victoria. He is currently the Discipline Convener for International Relations.

Before joining Deakin University in 2004 he taught at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Monash University, Melbourne University and the Australian National University. He has also taught at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS) in Canberra.

Steven’s research focuses upon the significance of ideas, ethics and public involvement in respect to globalisation and global governance. He researches using the approaches of democratic theory - especially republican, cosmopolitan and deliberative democracy theory, International Relations/ International Political Theory and Global Political Economy.

He is particularly interested in democratic theory as it relates to globalisation and global governance, the practice and prospects of transnational civil society and public involvement in global governance, the G20 and economic diplomacy/governance, and public concerns and controversies related to global capitalism.
Teaching responsibilities AIR 236 Global Capitalism and its Discontents, AIR 4/719 The UN and International Law, AIR 742 International Relations Theory
Research interests 1. Democratic Theory and Global Governance: Liberal, Cosmopolitan, Deliberative and Republican theory

2. Transnational Activism and Global Politics: the actual and prospective role of NGOs and social movements in global governance

3. Diplomacy and Global Governance: especially with respect to the UN and the G20

4. The Politics and Ethics of Globalisation and Neo-liberalism: public concerns about democracy and social justice with respect to global capitalism
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Discipline Convenor for International Relations June 2008-

Internship Coordinator (postgraduate) for International Relations October 2008- July 2010

Honours Coordinator for the School of International and Political Studies November 2005-December 2008
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Publications

Books

Liberty Beyond Neo-liberalism: A Republican Critique of Liberal Governance in a Globalising Age (Houndsmills, Palgrave Press, 2005) pp. 1-257.

(With W Hudson) (eds.) Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge (London, Routledge, 2007)

Articles and Chapters

"Debating the International Legitimacy of the G20: Global Policymaking and Contemporary International Society" Global Policy (Forthcoming)

"The Prospects of Deliberative Global Governance in the G20: Legitimacy, accountability, and Public Contestation" Review of International Studies (Forthcoming)

“Globalisation and its Critics” in R Devetak et al (eds.), Introduction to International Relations Second Edition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011)

“Reconsidering the State: Cosmopolitanism, Republicanism and Global Governance” in S van Hooft and W Vandekerckhove (eds.) Questioning Cosmopolitanism (Springer, 2010)

“Reconsidering Institutional Cosmopolitanism: Global Poverty and the Importance of the State in International Political Theory” Global Change, Peace & Security (Volume 21, Issue 1 2009) pp. 37-52.

“The Republican State and Global Environmental Governance” The Good Society Volume 17, Number 2, 2008, pp. 25-31.

“The Future of the United Nations” in S Burchill and S Totman (eds.), Global Crises and Risk (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008) pp. 171- 186.

“Globalisation and its Critics” in R Devetak et al (eds.), Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007) pp. 295-306.

(With W Hudson) “Globalisation and Citizenship” in W Hudson and S Slaughter (eds.) Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge (London, Routledge, 2007) pp. 1-12.

“Cosmopolitanism and Republican Citizenship” in W Hudson and S Slaughter (eds.) Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge (London, Routledge, 2007) pp. 85-99.

“The Republican State: An Alternative Foundation for Global Environmental Governance” in J Barry and R Eckersley (eds.), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2005) pp. 207-227.

Non- Refereed

“An Interview with Dr Steven Slaughter: Comments on the Axis of Democracy-Republicanism” Journal of Democratic Theory 1, 4 (2011) 47-60

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22nd April 2013