Professor Alex Bellamy - Griffith University

Site Degrees

Alex Bellamy

BA Honours (1st Class), MA International Relations, PhD International Politics

Professor of International Security

Contact details for Professor Alex Bellamy

Research interests

International peace and security
Civil war, genocide and mass atrocities
United Nations
Conflict/mass atrocity prevention
Peace operations
Responsibility to Protect

Recent Publications

Work in Progress

Massacres and Morality: Mass Killing and Non-Combatant Immunity book under contract with Oxford University Press (due 2011).
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘On the Limits of Moral Hazard: The Responsibility to Protect, Armed Conflict and Mass Atrocities’, submitted to European Journal of International Relations.
UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia: The UNPROFOR Experience peacekeeping histories book commissioned by the International Peace Institute (due 2013).
Towards Human Security (book under contract with Palgrave)
(with Sara E. Davies and Stephen McLoughlin), Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Early Warnings and Opportunities book being written (target: unknown).

Single Authored Books

Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect: From Words to Deeds (London: Routledge, 2011).
Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (Cambridge: Polity, 2009).
Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq (Cambridge: Polity, 2006). (Spanish edition, Guerras justas. De Cicerón a Iraq published in Spain and Argentina by Fondo De Cultura Economica De Espana in 2009).
Fighting Terror: Ethical Dilemmas (London: Zed Books, 2008).
Security Communities and their Neighbours: Regional Fortresses or Global Integrators? (London: Palgrave, 2004).
The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries old Dream? (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
Kosovo and International Society (London: Palgrave, 2002).

Co-authored Books

(with Paul Williams) Understanding Peacekeeping (Cambridge: Polity, 2nd edition, 2010) (entirely updated and 6 new chapters).
(with Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin) Understanding Peacekeeping (Cambridge: Polity, 2004) (2nd edition 2010).
Securing Southeast Asia: The Politics of Security Sector Reform (London: Routledge, 2008) (with Mark Beeson).

Edited Books

The Responsibility to Protect and International Law (edited with Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville) (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010)
War: Critical Concepts in Political Science, 4 Volumes (London: Routledge, 2009).

         1. The Nature of War
         2. The History of War
         3. Strategies of War
         4. The Ethics and Laws of War

Security and the War on Terror (London: Routledge, 2008) (edited with Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak).
International Society and its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Peace Operations and Global Order (London: Frank Cass, 2005) (edited with Paul Williams).
The Kosovo Tragedy: Human Rights Dimensions (London: Frank Cass, 2000). (Editorial assistant), Ken Booth (ed.).

Special Issues of Journals

(with Sara E. Davies), 'International Relations in Australia: Beyond OCIS' special issues of the Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55 (3) 2009.
'Just and Unjust Wars: Thirty Years on', special issue of Journal of Military Ethics, 6 (2) 2007.
'Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq', special issue of Journal of Military Ethics, 5 (2) 2006.
(with Paul Williams), 'Peace Operations and Global Order', special issue of International Peacekeeping, 11 (1) 2004.

Book Chapters

‘The Institutionalization of Peacebuilding: What Role for the UN Peacebuilding Commission?’, in Oliver Richmond (ed.), Advances in Peacebuilding (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Security Studies (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
(with Catherine Drummond), ‘Southeast Asia: Between Sovereignty as Responsibility and Non-Interference’, in W. Andy Knight and Fraser Egerton, Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Humanitarian Intervention’, in Alan Collins (ed.), Security Studies 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
‘Military Intervention’, in Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
‘Peace Operations and Humanitarian Intervention’ , in Mark Beeson and Nick Bisley (eds.), Issues in 21st Century World Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘Protecting Civilians in Uncivil Wars’, in Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville (eds.), Protecting the Displaced (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010).
(with Ruben Reike), ‘The Responsibility to Protect and International Law’, in Alex J. Bellamy, Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville (eds.), The Responsibility to Protect and International Law (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010).
‘Security’ in Mark Beeson (ed.), Contemporary Southeast Asia: National Differences, Regional Dynamics, 2nd edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009).
‘Torture, Terrorism and the Moral Prohibition on Killing Non-Combatants’, in W. G. Stritzke, W. G. K., Lewandowsky, S., Denemark, D., Morgan, F., & Clare, J. (Eds.), Terrorism and Torture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
(with Roland Bleiker), ‘Introduction’ in Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak (eds.), Security and the War on Terror (London: Routledge, 2008).
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘Peace Operations’, in Sandra Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast (eds.), Conflict (New York: Continuum, 2008), 2nd edition, pp. 330-354.
‘Interests and Values on the Borders on Europe: The Yugoslav Wars of Succession’, in Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds.), Culture of Solidarity and Geo-Strategic Culture (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2008).
‘Pre-empting Terror’, in Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak (eds.), Security and the War on Terror (London: Routledge, 2008).
‘The Responsibility to Protect’, in Paul D. Williams (ed.), Security Studies: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2008).
‘The International Deployment Group’, in Rod Broadhurst and Sara E. Davies (eds.), Australian Policing in Context (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2008).
‘The English School of International Relations Theory’ in Martin Griffiths (ed.), International Relations in the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2007).
(with Bryn Hughes) ‘Emancipation and Force: The Role(s) of the Military in Southeast Asia’, chapter commissioned for Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald (eds.), Critical Security Studies in the Asia-Pacific, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp. 41-55.
‘The Ethics and Laws of War’, in Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds.), Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
(with Tim Edmunds), ‘Civil-Military Relations in Croatia: Politicisation and Politics of Reform’, in Timothy Edmunds, Andrew Cottey and Anthony Forster (eds.), Civil-Military Relations in Postcommunist Europe: Reviewing the Transition (London: Routledge, 2006).
(With Paul Williams), ‘Introduction: Thinking Anew About Peace Operations’, in Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams (eds.), Peace Operations in Global Order (London: Frank Cass, 2005).
‘The “Next State” in Peace Operations Theory?’, in Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams (eds.), Peace Operations in Global Order (London: Frank Cass, 2005).
(With Paul Williams), ‘What Future for Peace Operations? Brahimi and Beyond’ in Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams (eds.), Peace Operations in Global Order (London: Frank Cass, 2005).
‘Introduction: The English School and International Society’, in Alex J. Bellamy (ed.), International Society and its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
‘Whither International Society?’, in Alex J. Bellamy (ed.), International Society and its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
(With Nicholas J. Wheeler), ‘Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics, 3rd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
‘The Pursuit of Security in Southeast Asia: Beyond Realism’, in Mark Beeson (ed.), Contemporary Southeast Asia: National Differences, Regional Dynamics (London: Palgrave, 2004).
‘A Crisis of Legitimacy: Military and Society in Croatia’, in Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds and Anthony Forster (eds.), Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe: Legitimacy and Change (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 185-202.
‘A Revolution in Civil-Military Affairs: The Professionalisation of Croatia’s Armed Forces’, in Anthony Forster, Andrew Cottey and Timothy Edmunds (eds.), The Professionalisation of Armed Forces in Post-Communist Europe (London: Palgrave, 2002).
‘Democratic Control, Professionalisation and Defence Transparency in Croatia’, in BoÅ¾idar JavoroviÄÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ (ed.), Defence Transparency: White Paper in Defence (Zagreb: Defimi, 2002).
‘Like Drunken Geese in the Fog: Developing Democratic Control of Croatia’s Armed Forces’, in Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds and Anthony Forster (eds.), Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Post-Communist Europe (London: Palgrave, 2001).
‘Human Wrongs in Kosovo 1974-99’, in Ken Booth (ed.), The Kosovo Tragedy: Human Rights Dimensions (London: Frank Cass, 2000).
(With Nicholas J. Wheeler), ‘Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

(with Catherine Drummond), ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia: Between Non-Interference and Sovereignty as Responsibility’, Pacific Review forthcoming.
(with Ruben Reike), ‘The Responsibility to Protect and International Law’, Global Responsibility to Protect, 2 (3) 2010.
‘The Responsibility to Protect and Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, forthcoming.
‘The Responsibility to Protect – Five Years on’, Ethics and International Affairs, 24 (2), 2010.
(with Mark Beeson), ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia: Can ASEAN Reconcile Humanitarianism and Sovereignty?’, Asian Security, 6 (3) 2010.
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘The West and Peace Operations’, Journal of Peace Research, 46 (1) 2009.
‘Realizing the Responsibility to Protect’, International Studies Perspectives, 10 (2) 2009.
‘Kosovo and the Advent of Sovereignty as Responsibility’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3 (2) 2009.
‘When is it Right to Fight? International Law and the Just War Tradition’, Journal of Military Ethics, 8 (3) 2009.
(with Sara E. Davies), ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia: Progress and Problems’, Security Dialogue, 40 (6) 2009.
(with Sara E. Davies), ‘International Relations in Australia: OCIS and Beyond’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53 (3) 2009.
‘The Ethics of Terror Bombing: Beyond Supreme Emergency’, Journal of Military Ethics, 7 (1), 2008, pp. 41-65.
‘Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect’, Global Governance, 14 (2) 2008, pp. 135-157.
‘The Responsibilities of Victory: Jus Post Bellum and the Just War’ Review of International Studies, 34 (4) 2008.
‘Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of Military Intervention’, International Affairs, 84, 2008.
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘Contemporary Peace Operations: Four Challenges for the Brahimi Paradigm’, Yearbook of Peace Operations, 11, 2007, pp. 1-28.
‘Dirty Hands and Lesser Evils in the War on Terror’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9, 2007, pp. 509-526.
‘No Pain, No Gain? Ethics and Torture in the War on Terror’, International Affairs, 82 (1) 2006.
(with Paul D. Williams), ‘The UN Security Council and the Question of Humanitarian Intervention in Darfur’, Journal of Military Ethics, 5 (2) 2006.
‘Whither the Responsibility to Protect? Humanitarian Intervention and the 2005 World Summit’, Ethics and International Affairs, 20 (2) 2006.
(with Mark Beeson and Bryn Hughes), ‘Taming the Tigers: Reforming the Security Sector in Southeast Asia’, Pacific Review, 19 (4) 2006, pp. 449-472
(with Paul Williams) ‘Who’s Keeping the Peace? Regionalization and Contemporary Peace Operations’, International Security, 29 (4) 2005.
(with Paul Williams), ‘The Responsibility to Protect and the Crisis in Darfur’, Security Dialogue, 36 (1) 2005 .
(with Tim Edmunds)‘Civil-Military Relations in Croatia: Politicisation and the Politics of Reform’, European Security, 14 (1) 2005, pp. 71-93.
‘Is the War on Terror Just?’, International Relations, 19 (3) 2005, pp. 275-96.
‘A Responsibility to Protect or a Trojan Horse? The Crisis in Darfur and Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq’, Ethics and International Affairs, 19 (2) 2005.
‘Ethics and Intervention: The “Humanitarian Exception” and the Problem of Abuse in the Case of Iraq’, Journal of Peace Research, 41 (2) 2004, pp. 131-147.
(With Paul Williams), ‘Introduction: Thinking Anew about Peace Operations’, International Peacekeeping 11 (1), 2004, pp. 1-16.
‘The “Next Stage” in Peace Operations Theory?’, International Peacekeeping, 11 (1), 2004, pp. 17-38
(With Paul Williams), ‘What Future for Peace Operations? Brahimi and Beyond’, International Peacekeeping, 11 (1), 2004, pp. 183-212.
(With Matt McDonald), ‘Securing International Society: Towards an English School Discourse of Security’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39 (2) 2004, pp. 307-330.
‘Supreme Emergencies and the Protection of Non-Combatants in War’, International Affairs, 80 (5), 2004, pp. 811-833.
‘Motives, Outcomes, Intent and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention’ Journal of Military Ethics, 3 (3), 2004, pp. 1-17.
‘Humanitarian Intervention and the Three Traditions’, Global Society, 17 (1), 2003.
‘Security Sector Reform: Prospects and Problems’, Global Change, Peace & Security (formerly Pacifica Review), 15 (2) 2003, pp. 101-119.
‘Humanitarian Responsibilities and Interventionist Claims in International Society’, Review of International Studies, 29 (3) 2003, pp. 320-341.
(With Mark Beeson), ‘Globalisation, Security and International Order after September 11’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (3) 2003, pp. 339-354
‘International Law and the War in Iraq’, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 4 (2), 2003, pp. 497-520.
‘The Catholic Church and Croatia’s Two Transitions’, Religion, State, and Society, 30 (1), 2002.
‘The New Wolves at the Door: Conflict in Macedonia’, Civil Wars, 5 (1), 2002.
(With Stuart Griffin) ‘OSCE Peacekeeping: Lessons from the Kosovo Verification Mission’, European Security, 11 (1), 2002.
‘The Great Beyond: Rethinking Military Responses to New Wars and Complex Emergencies’, Journal of Defence Studies, 2 (1), 2002.
(With Marianne Hanson), ‘Justice Beyond Borders? Australia and the International Criminal Court’, article written for Australian Journal of International Affairs, 56 (3), 2002.
‘Pragmatic Solidarism and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 31 (3), 2002
.‘Reconsidering Rambouillet’, Contempory Security Policy, 22 (1), 2001.
‘Croatia After Tudjman: The 2000 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections’, Problems of Post-Communism, 2001.
(With Daniela Kroslak) ‘The Dawning of a Solidarist Era? The NATO Intervention in Kosovo’, Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, 2001.
'Breaking the curse of King Zvonimir: The Nationalist Narrative of Franjo Tudjman’, Slovo: Journal of Russian, Eurasian and East European Affairs, 12, 2000.
'Lessons Unlearnt: Why Coercive Diplomacy Failed at Rambouillet’, International Peacekeeping, 7 (3), 2000.
‘Human Wrongs in Kosovo 1974-99’, International Journal of Human Rights, 4 (2-3), 2000.

Review and Discussion Articles

‘The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention’, Peace Review, 2009.
‘A Reply to My Critics’, British Journal of Politics and International Studies, 11 (2) 2009.
‘Understanding and Regulating Contemporary War’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 42 (4) 2007, pp. 701-9.
(With Matt McDonald), ‘Because I Said So’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 2006.
‘The Ethics of Mass Destruction’, Journal of Military Ethics, 2005.
(With Matt McDonald), ‘The Insecurities of an English School Gatekeeper: A Reply to Makinda’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 2005.
‘Peacekeeping in the 1990s: Lessons Learned?’, International Peacekeeping, 11 (3) 2004.
‘Agency, Rules and Argument: New Approaches to Humanitarian Intervention’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 57 (3), 2003 pp. 499-512.
‘Unraveling Balkan Dilemmas?’, International Peacekeeping, 9 (1), 2002.
‘Balkan Delusions?’, Civil Wars, 4 (3) 2002.
(With Matt McDonald), ‘ “The Utility of Human Security”: Which Humans? What Security? A Reply to Thomas and Tow’, Security Dialogue, 33 (3), 2002.
‘What’s So Wrong with Human Rights?’, International Journal of Human Rights, 6 (4), 2002.
‘After the War, the War of Words’, International Journal of Human Rights, 5 (2), 2001.

Other Publications

‘A Cyclone is Not Enough: Disasters and Responsibility to Protect’, Natural Hazards Observer. 34 (3) 2010.
‘Is Torture Ever Justified?’, Security Solutions, Issue 55, 2008.
‘Hard Cases, Dirty Ethics: Rule-Breaking in the War on Terror’ in Christian Enemark (ed.) Ethics of War in a Time of Terror, Canberra Paper in Strategy and Defence 163 (Canberra: Australian National University, 2006).
‘Humanitarian Intervention and the “War on Terror”, Dialogue: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 23 (3), 2004.
‘Grievance and Greed’, The World Today, 57 (4), 2001.
‘US Policy Towards Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) and Kosovo’, briefing paper written for Oxford Analytica, May 2000.
Entries for: ‘Sport and Nationalism’, ‘Gender and Nationalism’, ‘Austro-Hungarian Empire and Nationalism’, ‘Guiseppe Garibaldi’, ‘Count Cavour’, ‘Metternich’, ‘Jan Masaryk’ in The Encyclopedia of Nationalism: Volume 2 (New York: Academic Press, 2000).

Research Funding

2009: Partnership agreement with AusAID to support the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Worth $5.2 million (inc. UQ contributions) over 3.5 years.
2008: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on the Early Warning of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. Worth $350,000 over three years.
2007. Grant from the Australian Federal Police on Success Measures for Overseas Policing Missions. Grant administered through the UQ Social Research Centre, Alex Bellamy as Project Director. Worth $800,000 over four years.
2005. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on the Regionalisation of Peace Operations. Worth $195,000 over three years.
2004. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia. Worth $85,000 over three years.
2003. Fulbright Commission award to host the annual Fulbright Symposium, on Civil-Military Cooperation and the War Against Terror. Worth $20,000.
2003. Australian Strategic Policy Institute contribution to symposium on Civil-Military Cooperation and the War Against Terror. Worth $5,000.
2003. International Peace Academy contribution to symposium on Civil-Military Cooperation and the War Against Terror. Worth $5,000.
2003. University of Queensland Early Career Research Grant. Worth $17,000.
2002. University of Queensland Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Award. Worth $10,000.
2002. University of Queensland School of Political Science and International Studies Symposium award. Worth $5,000.
2001. British Council and Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology Academic Links Interchange Scheme funding for a collaborative project with the University of Zagreb on ‘The Third Way in Croatian Politics’. Worth £32,000 over three years.
2000. British Academy funding for research on civil-military relations in Croatia. Worth £1,400.