Dr Adam Bower

Lecturer in International Relations

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 461977

Email

asb20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Dr Adam Bower joined the School of International Relations as a Lecturer in October 2015. He is the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Governance (with Dr Mateja Peter) and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research at St Andrews.

Dr Bower?s research explores how international norms and multilateral treaties shape the behaviour of actors in the international system. Theoretically, he works primarily within the constructivist IR tradition and its intersection with processes of contestation and strategic action. Substantively, his work addresses questions of institutional change and efficacy specifically concerning conventional weapons disarmament, international justice (especially the International Criminal Court), and space governance.

Dr Bower previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College) and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow). Dr Bower received his PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in 2012.

Further information on research and teaching can be found at his personal website: http://adam-bower.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/.

PhD supervision

• Robin El Kady

Selected publications

• Entrapping Gulliver: the United States and the antipersonnel mine ban

  Bower, A., 11 Feb 2020, In : Security Studies. 29, 1, p. 128-161

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Contesting the International Criminal Court: Bashir, Kenyatta, and the status of the non-impunity norm in world politics

  Bower, A. S., 20 Feb 2019, In : Journal of Global Security Studies. 4, 1, p. 88-104

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Norms without the great powers: international law and changing social standards in world politics

  Bower, A., 19 Jan 2017, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. 320 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Networking for the ban: network structure, social power, and the movement to ban antipersonnel mines

  Bower, A. S., 23 Jun 2016, The New Power Politics: Networks and Transnational Security Governance. Avant, D. & Westerwinter, O. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 169-195

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Arguing with law: strategic legal argumentation, US diplomacy, and debates over the International Criminal Court

  Bower, A. S., Apr 2015, In : Review of International Studies. 41, 2, p. 337-360

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Norms without the great powers: international law, nested social structures, and the ban on antipersonnel mines

  Bower, A. S., 1 Sep 2015, In : International Studies Review. 17, 3, p. 347-373

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban

  Bower, A. S. & Price, R., 2013, Justice, Sustainability, and Security: Global Ethics for the 21st Century. Heinze, E. (ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 131-169

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

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