Barry Buzan

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); honorary professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities, and at the University of International Relations (Beijing); a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas; and a Fellow of the British Academy. From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden. He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. From 1999-2011 he was general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004-8 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations. He took his first degree at the University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973). He retired in 2011, but continued to research and write as an independent author.

He has written, co-authored or edited over thirty books, written or co-authored over one hundred and seventy articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries. In addition to theory, he has engaged in the public policy debates about security in Europe, South Asia, Southern Africa, and East Asia. His current research interests focus on:

1) International society, and the English school approach to International Relations;

2) International history and International Relations;

3) China and international society

Books: Seabed Politics (1976); People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983, revised 2nd edn. 1991); South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers (1986, with Gowher Rizvi and others); An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987); The European Security Order Recast: Scenarios for the Post-Cold-War Era (1990, with Morten Kelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer and Ole Wæver);The Logic of Anarchy : Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993, with Charles Jones and Richard Little); The Mind Map Book (1993, with Tony Buzan); Identity, Migration, and the New Security Agenda in Europe (1993, with Morten Kelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Ole Wæver, et al.); Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998, with Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde); Anticipating the Future (1998, with Gerald Segal); The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998, with Eric Herring); International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000, with Richard Little); Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, with Ole Wæver); From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (2004); Does China Matter? (2004, co-edited with Rosemary Foot); The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004); co-edited with Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez, International Society and the Middle East: English School Theory at the Regional Level, (2009); with Lene Hansen, The Evolution of International Security Studies (2009); co-edited with Amitav Acharya, Non-Western International Relations Theory (2010). co-edited with Yongjin Zhang, Contesting International Society in East Asia (2014); An Introduction to the English School of International Relations: The Societal Approach (2014); with George Lawson, The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations (2015); Global International Society: A New Framework for Analysis (2018, with Laust Schouenborg); The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary (2019, with Amitav Acharya); Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities (2020, with Evelyn Goh); Re-Imagining International Relations: World Orders in the Thought and Practice of Indian, Chinese, and Islamic Civilizations (2022, with Amitav Acharya); Great Power Responsibility and Global Environmental Politics (co-edited with Robert Falkner); Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras (2023).

Books in progress: The Market and Global International Society (with Robert Falkner).

I am experimenting with writing future fiction for a wider audience, but I do not know whether I will succeed at mastering this form or not. Worth a shot, and fun to do.