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 new Routledge book series Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding.
Professor Chandler is the author of a number of monographs, including 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 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.
He has edited or co-edited a number of books, including 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 to many journals including:
New Left Review; Radical Philosophy; Current History; Review of International Studies; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; 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; 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; Globalizations; Global Society; Global Dialogue; Democratization; Ethnopolitics; International Peacekeeping; Security Dialogue; Journal of Conflict, Security and Development; International Journal of Peace Studies; and Policy and Politics.
He has also contributed chapters to over thirty edited volumes, including:
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 and Women's Hour and regular contributions to the BBC's World Service
Internet regular postings of articles and essays for Spiked-Online
