David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He is a regular media 
commentator, editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and the editor of the Routledge book series Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding.
Professor Chandler is the author of a number of monographs, including: International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance (forthcoming Routledge, 2010); Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance (Pluto, 2009); Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building (Pluto, 2006); Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004, 2005); From Kosovo to Kabul (and Beyond): Human Rights and International Intervention (Pluto, 2002, 2006); and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton (Pluto, 1999, 2000).
His long-term research focus is on new forms of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected in the therapeutic language of ethical foreign policy, the rule of law, human security, empowerment, democratization, state capacity-building, human rights, civil society development, anti-corruption and transparency, country 'ownership', post-conditionality, and 'pro-poor' development.
In the short-term, he is engaged in a variety of projects including: drawing out the social relations underpinning the 'spatial turn' from the national to the global; tracing the shifting emphasis and meaning of 'The Responsibilty to Protect'; work on a book, International Statebuilding, (to be published in the Routledge Critical Issues in Global Politics series); co-editing a book on Critical Approaches to Human Security (with Nik Hynek); understanding the limits of critical IR approaches, for example, in relation to theorists, such as Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Michel Foucault; and developing ideas regarding the limits of the 'Liberal Peace' critique of international intervention.
He has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations (with Nik Hynek) (forthcoming Routledge, 2010); Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms (Routledge, 2009); Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Paradoxes and Possibilities (with Volker Heins) (Routledge, 2007); Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia (Routledge, 2006, 2007); Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (with Gideon Baker) (Routledge, 2005, 2006) and Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002).
David Chandler has contributed well over sixty articles to peer-reviewed journals including:
New Left Review; Radical Philosophy; Current History; Review of International Studies; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; International Political Sociology; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Political Studies; Area: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society; The Monist: An International Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry; International Politics; International Relations; Journal of International Relations and Development; British Journal of Politics & International Relations; Human Rights Quarterly; International Journal of Human Rights; WeltTrends: Zeitschrift für internationale Politik; Cahiers Marxistes; Studia Diplomatica: The Brussels Journal of International Relations; Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales; Stratejik Öngörü Dergisi; Filozofski Godišnjak; Globalizations; Global Society; Global Dialogue; Democratization; Ethnopolitics; Ethics & Global Politics; International Peacekeeping; Security Dialogue; Journal of Conflict, Security and Development; Cooperation and Conflict; International Journal of Peace Studies; and Policy and Politics.
He has also contributed chapters to around forty edited volumes, including:
Michael Goodhart (ed.) Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2009); Michael Pugh, Neil Cooper and Mandy Turner (eds) Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (Palgrave, 2008); Zaki Laïdi (ed.) EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World: Normative Power and Social Preferences (Routledge, 2008); Christpher J. Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe and Alex Gourevitch (eds) Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (UCL Press, 2007); Giovanna Bono (ed.) The Impact of 9/11 on European Foreign and Security Policy (Brussels University Press, 2006); S. Meckled-Garcia and B. Cali (eds) Legalisation of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2006); P. Burnell and P. Calvert (eds) Civil Society in Democratization (Routledge, 2004); Daniele Archibugi (ed.) Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003); Gary Dempsey (ed.) Exiting the Balkan Thicket? Policy Options for the New Administration (Cato Institute, 2002); Tariq Ali (ed.) Masters of the Universe?: Nato's Balkan Adventure (Verso, 2000).
David Chandler's media contributions include:
Press articles in the
Guardian,
Spectator,
Times Higher and the
Daily Mail
TV studio interviews/ discussion for BBC Newsnight, BBC News 24, Sky News, Al-Jazeera, CNN International, Press TV and the Open University
Radio studio interviews/ discussion for BBC Radio 4 programmes including the Today Programme, Analysis, Moral Maze, The World Tonight and Women's Hour and regular contributions to the BBC's World Service
Internet regular postings of articles and essays for Spiked-Online
