Academic articles

  • with Mathew Davies, ‘An Embarrassment of Changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Australian Journal of International Affairs (Online First).

  • ‘The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16:3 (2022).

  • ‘Democracy’s conceptual politics: liberalism and its others’, Democratic Theory, 8:2 (2021).

  • ‘Democracy: trap, tragedy or crisis?’, Political Studies Review, 16:1 (2018).

  • ‘Democratic Peace: Progress and Crisis’, Perspectives on Politics, 15:3 (2017).

  • Co-editor and contributor for forum section, ‘The Ethics of Scholarship in a Changing Region’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71:1 (2017).

    • with Mathew Davies, ‘The Ethics of Scholarship in a Changing Region’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71:1 (2017).

    • ‘Reckoning with our limits’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71:1 (2017).

  • ‘Responding to Failure: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya’, Millennium, 44:3 (2016).

  • ‘Privatizing the War on Drugs’, Third World Quarterly, 35:8 (2014).

  • Co-editor and contributor for special issue of International Politics: ‘The Existence and Use of “Evil” in International Politics’.

    • with Anna Geis, ‘The Existence and Use of “Evil” in International Politics’, International Politics, 51:4 (July 2014), pp. 417-423.

    • ‘Challenging “Evil”: Continuity and Change in the Drug Prohibition Regime’, International Politics, 51:4 (July 2014), pp. 525-542.

  • ‘What Role for Nuclear Power in Japan’s Future?’, Japan Focus, 11:27:2 (2013).

  • with Andrew DeWit, ‘Abe at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi’, Japan Focus, Volume 11:12:1 (2013).

  • ‘Addressing Climate Change and Promoting Democracy Abroad: Compatible Agendas?’, Democratization, 19:5 (2012), pp. 973-991.

  • ‘Liberal Democracy and Beyond: Extending the Sequencing Debate’, International Political Science Review, 33:4 (2012), pp. 441-454.

  • ‘Towards a Critical Theory of Democratic Peace’, Review of International Studies, 37:4 (2011), pp. 1903-1922.

  • Editor and contributor for roundtable in International Relations: ‘Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace’.

    • ‘Introduction’, International Relations, 25:2 (2011), pp. 1-4.

    • ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, International Relations, 25:2 (2011), pp. 25-31.

  • ‘The Limits of Liberal Democracy Promotion’, Alternatives, 34:4 (2009), pp. 383-405.

  • ‘Beyond the End of History: The Need for a “Radical Historicisation” of Democracy in International Relations’, Millennium, 37:3 (2009), pp. 631-657.

  • ‘Revolution, Representation and the Foundations of Modern Democracy’, European Journal of Political Theory, 7:4 (2008), pp. 465-87.

  • ‘Democracy as Civilisation’, Global Society, 22:1 (2008), pp. 75-95.

  • ‘A Forward Strategy of Freedom in the Middle East: US Democracy Promotion and the “War on Terror”’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59:1 (2005), pp. 39-53.

  • ‘Rethinking Democracy: The End of Democratic Transitions?’, Melbourne Journal of Politics, 29 (2003/04), pp. 56-67.

Book chapters

  • ‘Democracy and the Death Penalty’ in Anthony Newell and Mark Jewel (eds), Language, Economics, and Politics: 12 Perspectives (Tokyo: Waseda University Press, 2016).

  • with Paul Bacon, ‘Human Security Comes Home: Responding to Japan’s Triple Disaster’ in Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson (eds), Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • ‘Hidden Insecurities: The Workers of Fukushima Dai-ichi’ in Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson (eds), Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • ‘Life after the Triple Disaster: Human Security and the Future’ in Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson (eds), Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • with Paul Bacon, ‘Incorporating Natural Disasters into the Human Security Agenda’, in Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon and Robin Cameron (eds), Human Security and Natural Disasters (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • ‘Human Security after the shock: Vulnerability and Empowerment’ in Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon and Robin Cameron (eds), Human Security and Natural Disasters (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • ‘Human Security and Fortuna: Preparing for Natural Disasters’ in Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon and Robin Cameron (eds), Human Security and Natural Disasters (London: Routledge, 2014).

  • ‘Democracy, Democratization and the Death Penalty’ in Madoka Futamura and Nadia Bernaz (eds), The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition (London: Routledge, 2013).

  • with Milja Kurki, ‘Democracy Promotion as a Practice of Liberal World Order’ in Tim Dunne, Trine Flockhart and Marjo Koivisto (eds), Liberal World Orders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

  • ‘Democracy Promotion’ in Stephen Stockwell and Benjamin Isakhan (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012).

  • with Milja Kurki, ‘Introduction: The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion’ in Christopher Hobson and Milja Kurki (eds), The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion (London: Routledge, 2011).

  • with Milja Kurki, ‘Conclusion: Reflections on a New Approach in a New Era of Democracy Promotion’ in Christopher Hobson and Milja Kurki (eds), The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion (London: Routledge, 2011).

  • ‘Escaping the Liberal Straitjacket: Re-examining Democracy’s History’ in Joe Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenborg (eds), Interrogating Democracy in World Politics (London: Routledge, 2011).

Policy briefs

  • ‘Rebuilding Trust after Fukushima’, Fukushima Global Communication Programme Working Paper Series, Number 4, March 2015.

  • ‘Rethinking Human Security after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Accident’, Fukushima Global Communication Programme Working Paper Series, Number 1, March 2014.

  • with Jeff Bridoux and Milja Kurki, ‘Rethinking Democracy Support’, Policy Paper (Tokyo: UNU Press, 2012).