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Anothony F Lang, Jr

Reader

Room: 243

Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1

Tel: 3006

Email: al51st-andrews.ac.uk

About

Anthony F Lang, Jr is a reader in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. He received his PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. He was an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, Egypt from 1996-2000. From 2000-2003, he served as a programme officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, where he directed programmes on ethics and the use of force, religion and US foreign policy, and ethics in higher education. He has served as president of the International Ethics section of the International Studies Association (2003-2004), programme chair of the Human Rights Section of ISA (2006-2008), and Chair of the International Ethics section Book Prize Committee (2009-2011). He is currently one of the co-editors of the new journal, Global Constitutionalism, associate and book review editor of Journal of International Political Theory, and serves on the editorial board of Ethics & International Affairs.

 

Research

Keywords: International Political Theory, Global Constitutionalism, International Ethics, International Security, International Organizations, US Foreign Policy, Middle East International Relations

My research focuses on global constitutionalism, or how various aspects of the international political and legal order relate to the rule of law and an institutional balance of power. I am currently working on issues relating to the US role in the global order, international judiciaries, constitutionalism in the Middle East, and international criminal law. I am also working on various elements of the just war tradition and the question of what is international political theory.

My previous work has addressed international political theory, with a particular focus on questions of agency, responsibility and punishment. These theoretical questions have been explored through various global practices such as humanitarian intervention, international security strategy, war crimes, and counter terrorism policy. In this research stream, I explore how is it that various agents in the international system are held responsible and/or accountable for policies at the global level. A corollary to this research is a focus on whether or not agents in the international system are punished when they are held responsible, and who ought to be punishing them.  I have also done work on the political theory of Hannah Arendt, the IR theory of Hans Morgenthau, and humanitarian intervention.

Books

  • Punishment, Justice and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (London: Routledge, 2008) Routledge
  • Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002) Amazon

Edited Books

  • With Amanda Beattie, War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security (London: Routledge, 2008) Routledge
  • With John Williams, Hannah Arendt and International Relations: Reading Across the Lines (New York: Palgrave Press, 2005) Amazon
  • Political Theory and International Relations: Hans J. Morgenthau on Aristotle’s The Politics (Westport CT: Praeger Press, 2004) Amazon
  • With Joel Rosenthal and Albert C. Pierce Ethics and the Future of Conflict: Lessons from the 1990s, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 2004) Amazon
  • Just Intervention, (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003) Georgetown University Press

Articles

Peer reviewed articles

  • “Ethics, Justice and Security” in Robert Denmark, ed. International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume III (Wiley Blackwell, 2010): 1619-1638
  • "The Just War Tradition and the Question of Authority" Journal of Military Ethics 8, 3 (2009): 202-216
  • "Conflicting Rules: Global Constitutionalism and the Kosovo Intervention" Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3,2 (2009): 185-204
  • "Punishment and Peace: Critical Reflections on Countering Terrorism" Millennium 36, 3 (May 2008): 493-511
  • "The Violence of Rules: Rethinking the 2003 War against Iraq" Contemporary Politics 13, 3 (September 2007): 257-276.
  • "Crime and Punishment: Holding States Accountable" Ethics & International Affairs 21, 2 (2007): 239-257
  • "Punitive Justifications or Just Punishment? An Ethical Reading of Coercive Diplomacy" Cambridge Review of International Affairs 19, 3 (2006): 389-403
  • "The Role(s) of Rules: Some Conceptual Clarifications" with Nicholas Rengger and William Walker, International Relations 20 (2006): 274-294
  • "Responsibility in the International System: Reading U. S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East" European Journal of International Relations, 5, 1 (March 1999): 67-107
  • "Between Theory and History: The Remains of the Day in the International Relations Classroom" with James M. Lang, PS: Politics and Political Science, 31, 2 (June 1998): 209-215

Other journal articles

  • "Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law" with Antje Wiener, James Tully, Miguel Poires Maduro, and Mattias Kumm Global Constitutionalism 1, 1 (2012): 1-15.
  • "Kant and the Supreme Proprietor: A Response to Howard Williams" Kantian Review 15, 2 (2010): 78-89
  • "The Politics of Punishing Terrorists", Ethics & International Affairs 24, 1 (2010): 3-12

Online articles

Book Reviews

  • Review of Global Good Samaritans by Alison Brysk, Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming
  • Review of The Problem of Harm in World Politics: Theoretical Investigations by Andrew Linklater in International Affairs, 87, 6 (2011): 1508-1510
  • Review of Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-First Century by David Fisher, in The Expository Times 123, 3 (2011): 151-152
  • Review of The Price of Peace, by Charles Reed and David Ryall, Journal of Military Ethics 7, 2 (2008): 157-159
  • Review of William Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory, by Samuel Chambers and Terrell Carver, International Affairs 84, 4 (July 2008): 831-833

Book Chapters

  • “Punishing Genocide: A Critical Reading of the International Court of Justice” in Tracy Issacs and Richard Vernon, eds., Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing (Cambridge University Press, 2010): 93-118
  • “Authority and the Problem of Non-State Actors” in Eric Heinze and Brent Steele, eds., Just War and Non-State Actors (Routledge, 2010): 47-71
  • “Humanitarian Intervention” in Duncan Bell, ed., Ethics and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010): 324-341
  •  “Humanitarian Intervention” in Patrick Hayden, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Affairs (Ashgate, 2009): 133-150
  •  “Evil, Agency and Punishment” in Renee Jeffery, ed., Confronting Evil: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (Palgrave, 2008): 89-114
  • “A Realist in the Utopian City: Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s Ethical Framework and its Impact” in Kent Kille, ed., UN Secretary-General as a Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007): 265-298
  • “Morgenthau, Agency and Aristotle” in Michael Williams, ed., Reconsidering Realism: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 18-41
  • “Normative Causes and Consequences: Understanding and Evaluating the War with Iraq” in Raymond Hinnebusch and Rick Fawn, eds., The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006): 269-282
  • “Governance and Political Protest: Hannah Arendt on Global Political Protest” in Anthony F Lang, Jr and John Williams, eds., Hannah Arendt and International Relations: Reading Across the Lines (New York: Palgrave, 2005): 179-198.
  • “Punitive Intervention: Enforcing Justice or Creating Conflict?” in Mark Evans, ed., Just War Theory: A Reappraisal (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005): 50-70
  • “Responsibility and Agency:  The UN and the Fall of Srebrenicia” in Toni Erskine, ed., Can Institutions Have Responsibilities? (London: Palgrave Press, 2003): 183-206.
  • “Conflicting Narratives, Conflicting Moralities: The United Nations and the Failure of Humanitarian Intervention” in Francois Debrix, ed., Language, Agency and Politics in a Constructed World (Armonk, M. E. Sharpe, 2003): 171-195

Invited Talks, Lectures and Seminars

  • “What is International Political Theory” Edinburgh University Political Theory workshop, 3 November 2010
  • “Intervention and Statebuilding: State of the Art” Westminster Univeristy, 10 June 2010
  • “An Economic Interpretation of the Global Constitution” Global Crisis and Constitutionalization Workshop, Birmingham University, 17 March 2010
  •  “What is International Political Theory” University of Aberystwyth, 9 November 2009.
  • “What is International Political Theory?” London School of Economics, Department of International Relations IPT Seminar, 19 October 2009
  • “The Authority of the Just War Tradition: Church or Scholar?” Contemporary Just War Dynamics, Durham University, 15-16 September 2009
  • “Politicizing Rules and Responsibility in International Relations” Florida International University Mini-Conference on International Ethics in a Time of Insecurity, 19 February 2009
  • “Punishing States? A Critical Reading of the International Court of Justice” Workshop on Collective Punishment, University of Western Ontario, April 2009
  • “The Politics of International Punishment” London School of Economics Cumberland Lodge Conference, The Politics of International Law, 23-2 November 2007
  • “Can Rules Make us Safer?” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 5 September 2007
  • “Rules and International Security” Institute for International Law and Politics, Georgetown University, 7 September 2007
  • “Punitive Intervention” University of Glasgow Seminar Series, March 14, 2005
  • “Global Capital Punishment: What Should Happen To Osama bin Laden?” Luncheon Address at a conference, “The Past, Present, and Future of Political Violence and Pacifism” University of Southern Mississippi, April 2, 2004.
  •  “Punitive Intervention: Enforcing Justice or Generating Restraint?” International Political Theory Seminar, Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University, UK, November 24, 2003.
  • “Just War and International Law” PIER Summer Institute, Yale University, July 11, 2003
  • “Islam and International Affairs” Star Island International Affairs Conference, July 21-25, 2003
  • “War as Punishment: Challenges for Security and Liberty in the New World Order” Keynote Speaker, Global Understanding Convention, Monmouth University, Monmouth NJ, April 9, 2003
  • “Agency and Ethics: Using Political Philosophy to Interpret Black Hawk Down” United States Naval Academy Ethics Roundtable, Annapolis MD, February 4, 2003
  • “Agency and Ethics: Norms and Humanitarian Intervention” Brown University Ethics Colloquium, Thomas J. Watson Institute, Brown University, February 5, 2002

Affiliations

  • American Political Science Association
  • International Studies Association
  • British International Studies Association
  • American Society of International Law

Editorial Positions

  • Co-editor, Global Constitutionalism
  • Associate and Book Review Editor, Journal of International Political Theory
  • Editorial Board, Ethics & International Affairs

Teaching

 

  • IR3023 US Foreign Policy
  • IR3041 Introduction to International Political Theory
  • IR4518: Ethics and the Use of Force
  • IR5026: Ethics and the Use of Force
  • IR5523: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
  • IR5408: Global Constitutionalism

Administration

  • Director, Centre for Global Constitutionalism

Current Research Students

  • Mohammed Asfhaq
  • David Cowan (jointly with School of Divinity)
  • Mahdi Dajani
  • Radim Dragomaca (co-tutelle agreement with University of Tilberg)
  • Jeremy Kleidosty
  • Jonathan Reilly
  • James Roebuck
  • Patrick Scanlon

PhD Supervision topics

  • International political theory
  • Global Constitutionalism
  • International legal theory
  • State responsibility
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • International Criminal Law
  • Middle East constitutionalism
  • Islamic constitutionalism
  • Liberal international theory
  • Realist international theory
  • International dimensions of the following individual thinkers: Hannah Arendt, John Locke, Hugo Grotius, John Stuart Mill, Hans Morgenthau

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