Christian Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD from Cornell University and has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Macarthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the European University Institute in Florence, the Social Science Research Council in New York, and the British Academy. He is the author of International Relations: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford 2020), On Cultural Diversity (Cambridge 2018); Individual Rights and the Making of the International System (Cambridge 2013), American Power and World Order (Polity 2004), and The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton 1999); co-author of Special Responsibilities in World Politics (Cambridge 2012); editor of The Politics of International Law (Cambridge 2004); and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford 2023), Culture and Order in World Politics (Cambridge: 2020), The Globalization of International Society (Oxford 2017), The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford 2008), and Between Sovereignty and Global Governance (Macmillan 1998). His articles have appeared in a wide range of journalsincluding International Organization, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, International Affairs, and Millennium. And his work has been awarded the Northedge Prize (1992), the BISA Prize (2002), the Susan Strange Prize (2014), and the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award in International Relations (2020). He has twice won the ISA Best Edited Book in International Theory Prize (2018 with Tim Dunne, and 2021 with Andrew Phillips), and twice been runner up for the ISA Joseph Fletcher Best Edited Book in Historical IR Award (2020 with Tim Dunne, and 2021 with Andrew Phillips). Professor Reus-Smit edits (with Evelyn Goh and Nicholas Wheeler) the Cambridge Studies in International Relations books series, is a General Editor (with Duncan Snidal) of a multi-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of International Relations, and was a Founding Editor of the journal International Theory (with Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt). Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he was Professor at the University of Queensland, the European University Institute, and the Australian National University (where he was Head of the Department of International Relations from 2001 to 2010). Professor Reus-Smit was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Science in Australia in 2008 and was Vice-President of the International Studies Association for 2013-2014.

Prof

Christian Reus-Smit

Professor, International Relations

School of Social and Political Sciences

Prof

Christian Reus-Smit

Contact Christian

Division

Faculty of Arts

Prof

Christian Reus-Smit

Print

Christian's Short Profile

Enquiries

Contact