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Dr Anthony J. Langlois

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Academic qualifications:

BA (Hons) (University of Tasmania), PhD (Australian National University)

Phone

61 8 8201 5595

Fax

61 8 8201 5111

Email

Anthony.Langlois@flinders.edu.au

Postal address  

School of Political and International Studies 
Faculty of Social Sciences 
Flinders University  GPO Box 2100  ADELAIDE   SA   5001

Areas of expertise

International Relations; Political Philosophy; Human Rights theory; Political Theology; Ethics; Moral Philosophy

Indicative research publications

With Karol Soltan (eds), Difficulties in Global Democracy, forthcoming.

"Liberal Autonomy and Global Democracy", in Karol Soltan and Anthony J. Langlois (eds), Difficulties in Global Democracy, forthcoming.

"Introduction: The Difficulties of Democratization", in Karol Soltan and Anthony J. Langlois (eds), Difficulties in Global Democracy, forthcoming.

"Human Rights and the Defence of Liberal Democracy: A Response to David Little", Journal of Religious Ethics, 35: 4, 2007.

"Reciprocity in the Justification of Rights", Australian Journal of Human Rights, 13: 1, 2007.

"A New Cosmopolitanism" in Vin D'Cruz (ed) As Others See Us, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, forthcoming.

"Human Rights and Australian Foreign Policy", in Devetek et al (eds), Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

"Republicanism and Liberalism", Politics, Vol. 27 No. 2, 2007.

"Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Liberalism", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 10, No. 1, 2007.

"International Political Theory", in Martin Griffiths (ed.), International Relations Theory for the Twentieth Century, New York: Routledge, 2007.

"Religion and the Defence of Human Rights", Overland, Vol. 181, 2005.

"Conceiving Human Rights Without Ontology", Human Rights Review, Vol 5, 2005.

"The Narrative Metaphysics of Human Rights", The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 9, No 3, 2005.

"Human Rights", "Asian Values", "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights", "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", in Martin Griffiths (ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and World Politics, 2005.

"The Elusive Ontology of Human Rights", Global Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2004.

"Human Rights and Stranger Narratives", Australian Journal of Human Rights, Spring 2003.

"Human Rights without Democracy? A Critique of the Separationist Thesis", in Human Rights Quarterly, 25, 2003, 990-1019.

"Human Rights and Modern Liberalism: A Critique", in Political Studies, 51, 2003, 509-523.

"The Internet Communications Revolution and the Republic", The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 11 June 2002.

“Human Rights: the Globalisation and Fragmentation of Moral Discourse”, Review of International Studies, 28, 2002, 479-496.

The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory, Cambridge University Press, (December) 2001.

"Australian Politics, Human Rights and Moral Authenticity", Policy, Organisation and Society, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2000, 1-22.

"Redescribing Human Rights", Millenium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1998, 1-22.

"Reconciling Universal Human Rights and Pluralism", Quadrant, June 1998, No. 347, Vol. XLII, No. 6, 12-17.

Administrative Responsibilities

Honours Coordinator
Member of the Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee
Faculty Liason Officer for the Ethics Centre of South Australia

Teaching

POLI3059 Debating Human Rights in International Relations
POLI3060 Globalisation and Ethics
POLI7062 International Human Rights: Theory and Practice
INTR9010 International Relations and World Politics
INTR9029 Debating Human Rights in International Relations
INTR9030 International Human Rights: Theory and Practice
INTR9040 Ethics and International Politics