* Professor Ian Clark
Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK
Obama, the US, and Future International Order
Chair: Professor Kim Beazley
Political Science and International Relations, UWAJointly sponsored by Political Science and International Relations and the UWA Politics Club
6.00pm Wednesday 22
April 2009
Fox Lecture
Theatre, Arts Building
Ian Clark is the E.H. Carr Professor in the
Department of International Politics at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. A major contributor to the academic study of international
relations, he was previously at Cambridge
University for many years and, before
that, the University
of Western Australia,
where he spent the first decade of his career. His books include International
Legitimacy and World Society (2007), Legitimacy in International Society
(2005), The Post-Cold War Order: The Spoils of Peace (2001), Globalization
and International Relations Theory (1999), Globalization and
Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (1997), Nuclear
Diplomacy and the Special Relationship: Britain’s Deterrent and America,
1957-1962 (1994), all published by Oxford University Press, and The
Hierarchy of States: Reform and Resistance in the International Order
(1989), published by Cambridge University Press. He currently possesses an
Economic and Social Research Council Professorial Fellowship to continue his research
project on Legitimacy and Hegemony in
Contemporary International Society.
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* Professor Kim Beazley
Political Science and International Relations, UWA
What Difference does Obama Make?Guest Speaker, UWA Open Day, 9 August 2009
Barack Obama has shifted international perspectives on the US dramatically. He has moved to run US policy toward the Islamic world, directly rendering his legacy hostage to measurable success. What does this mean to Australia? |