Peter Lawler

The University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences, Faculty Member

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I retired (August 2019) as Professor of international politics in the School of Social Sciences of at the University of Manchester where I am now honorary professor in politics. I have just completed an introductory textbook on international relations theories for Oxford University Press (published Jan 25 2024) and i will return to research around the critical examination of the Western internationalist tradition. I will also be doing some occasional teaching on various European MA programmes.
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University of Manchester
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Peace Studies

A Question of Values

New Labour into Power

The Core Assumptions and Presumptions of Cooperative Security

Theories of international relations

International Affairs, 1997

Reviews : Ferenc Feher and Agnes Heller, Doomsday or Deterrence? (New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1986)

Thesis Eleven, 1988

Peace Research, War, and the Problem of Focus

Peace Review, 2002

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Book Review: Michael Smith, Richard, Little, and Michael Shackleton (eds.), Perspectives on World Politics (London: Croom Helm in association with the Open University Press, 1981 424pp. 5.25)

Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 1981

Peace as nirvana: Some critical comments on Galtung's recent peace research∗

Interdisciplinary Peace Research, 1993

... world divides into the dar-al-Islam (house of Islam or Peace) and the dar-al-harb (house ... ... more

The good state as cosmopolitan agent

Forces for good: cosmopolitan militaries in the twenty …, 2004

... globalisation may well facilitate the emergence of a global regime of cosmopolitan law enforc... more

The good citizen Australia?

Asian Studies Review, 1992

As Ali Alatas notes on the fly-leaf of Australia's Foreign Relations, most foreign ministers... more As Ali Alatas notes on the fly-leaf of Australia's Foreign Relations, most foreign ministers probably aspire to write the definitive book on their country's foreign policy and, assumably, their own unique contribution to international relations. Mercifully, perhaps, few do. Of those who put pen to ...

The Ethics of Postmodernism

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2008

The good citizen Australia?

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A Question of Values: Johan Galtung's Peace Research

International Journal, 1996

Page 1. RITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WORLD POLITICS UESTION JOHAN GALTUNG&#x27;S PEACE RESEARCH PE... more

The 'Good State' debate in international relations

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Interdisciplinary Peace Research, 1992

Peace Studies

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The 'Good State' Debate in International Relations

The idea of the State as embodying moral virtue has a long, mostly inwardly focussed history. In ... more The idea of the State as embodying moral virtue has a long, mostly inwardly focussed history. In international relations thought, sporadic Liberal explorations of the state as a 'good international citizen' have been vulnerable to Realist scepticism or dismissal. The Cold War's end saw a revival of Liberal enthusiasm for the Good State, but the translation of this into the foreign policies of key Western states generated new lines of critique focussing on the underlying universalism. Drawing upon aspects of much less-discussed Scandinavian internationalist discourse, the possibility of a more modest, open and thus sustainable understanding of the Good State is explored.

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The Ethics of Postmodernism

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Janus-Faced Solidarity: Danish Internationalism Reconsidered

Cooperation and Conflict, 2007

With domestic political cultures in which the values of solidarity, equity and social justice fig... more With domestic political cultures in which the values of solidarity, equity and social justice figure large and a long history of internationalism in foreign policy, the Nordic states offer themselves as prototypical 'good international citizens'. Danish foreign policy long had a passive quality to it, nonetheless it has been broadly consistent with the Nordic internationalist tradition, especially with the adoption of 'active internationalism' after 1989. Since the 2001 Election of the first Fogh Rasmussen government, however, the ethico-political rationales underpinning Danish internationalism appear to be changing at the same time as Denmark has enacted a controversially much more restrictive and, critics argue, strongly culturally framed immigration and refugee policy. Although the Fogh Rasmussen governments have not abandoned internationalism, and key aspects of current Danish foreign policy resonate fully with the Nordic internationalist tradition, Denmark is now much more closely aligned with the US and the muscular internationalism that it promotes. It may now be the case that a normatively re-jigged internationalism helps to legitimate an overtly exclusionary Danish national narrative. Since the 'cartoon crisis', however, there are signs of a greater sensitivity to cultural politics in Danish foreign policy, but it remains moot whether this will flow through into the government's handling of the relationship between the peoples that comprise contemporary Denmark.

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Peace Studies

A Question of Values

New Labour into Power

The Core Assumptions and Presumptions of Cooperative Security

Theories of international relations

International Affairs, 1997

Reviews : Ferenc Feher and Agnes Heller, Doomsday or Deterrence? (New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1986)

Thesis Eleven, 1988

Peace Research, War, and the Problem of Focus

Peace Review, 2002

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