Lucian Ashworth
Professor

SN 2045
Department of Political Science, Science Building
糖心视频 University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1B 3X9 Canada
Telephone: (709) 864-4402
Email: lashworth[at]mun[dot]ca
Academics
BA Hons (Keele); MA & PhD (Dalhousie)
Areas for Student Research Supervision
- International relations theory
- The history of international thought
- Theories of war and peace
- Gender & race in international relations
- The Anthropocene & geopolitics.
Examples of Recent courses Taught
POSC 1001 Critical Reading and Writing in Politics and Governance
POSC 3230 The Global Politics of the End of the World (As We Know It)
POSC 3235 The First World War in International Politics
POSC 6200 Theories of International Politics
Bio
Before joining the Department I was at the University of Limerick in Ireland for sixteen years. I am the author of A History of International Thought (Routledge, 2014) and I am currently writing a book on international relations and time for the Routledge 鈥榃orlding Beyond the West鈥 series.
Select Papers and Publications
Books
Lucian M. Ashworth, A History of International Thought. From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations (London: Routledge, 2014).
International Relations Theory and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making 1918-1945 (London: IBTauris, 2007).
Creating International Studies. Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).
(Edited with David Long) New Perspectives on International Functionalism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).
Journal Articles
(with Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira) "Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space," Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 2026 6(2), ksag044,
鈥淚R's Roads to Freedom: Rereading Jean-Paul Sartre's Trilogy as an International Relations Text鈥, Review of International Studies, 2023 49(5), 924-936.
鈥溾楳other of the Oceans鈥: Maritime Governance as a Template for a New Global Order in the International Thought of Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918鈥2002)鈥, Global Studies Quarterly, 2023 3(1), ksad010.
鈥淕lobal Governance in the Anthropocenes鈥. International Journal, 2022 77(3), 469鈥484.
鈥淲arriors, Pacifists and Empires: Race and Racism in International Thought Before 1914鈥, International Affairs, 2022 98(1), 281-381.
鈥淐zechs and Germans in the Twenty Years鈥 Crisis. Mackinder, Carr, & Wiskemann on Central and Eastern Europe After the Peace鈥, Journal of International Relations and Development, December 2021 24(4), 848-65.
鈥淎 Forgotten Environmental International Relations: Derwent Whittlesey's International Thought鈥, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume June 2021, 1(2), ksab006.
鈥淩e-reading Niebuhr鈥檚 The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: The Crisis of Democracy in an Interdependent World Then and Now鈥, Journal of International Political Theory, 2021 17(2) 123-138.
鈥淐hronicle of a Death Foretold? The 1953鈥4 CFR Study Group Meeting and the Decline of International Thought鈥 International History Review, 2020 42(3), 656-671.
鈥淒avid Mitrany on the International Anarchy. A Lost Work of Classical Realism?鈥 Journal of International Political Theory, October 2017 13(3), 311-324.
Mapping a New World: Geography and the Interwar Study of International Relations. International Studies Quarterly, March 2013, 57(1), 138鈥149.
鈥淭he Poverty of Paradigms: Subcultures, Trading Zones and the Case of Liberal Socialism in Interwar International Relations鈥, International Relations, March 2012, vol. 26 no. 1, 35-59.
鈥淩ealism and the Spirit of 1919: Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and the Reality of the League of Nations鈥, European Journal of International Relations, June 2011, 17(2), 279-301.
鈥淔eminism, War and the Prospects for International Government. Helena Swanwick (1864-1939) and the Lost Feminists of Interwar International Relations鈥. International Feminist Journal of Politics, March 2011, 13(1) 24-42.
(with Tim Shaw) 鈥淐ommonwealth Perspectives on International Relations鈥, International Affairs, December 2010, 86(5), 1149-1165.
鈥淩ethinking a Socialist Foreign Policy: The British Labour Party and International Relations Experts 1918 to 1931鈥, International Labor and Working-Class History, 2009, 75, 30-48.
鈥淚nterdisciplinarity and International Relations鈥, European Political Science, March 2009, 8(1), 16-25.
鈥淲here are the Idealists in Inter-War International Relations?鈥, Review of International Studies, 2006, 32, 291-308.
鈥淒avid Mitrany and South East Europe: The Balkan Key to World Peace鈥, Historical Review, 2005, 2, 203-224.
鈥淭he Limits of Enlightenment: Inter-State Relations in Eighteenth Century Political Thought鈥, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2003(9), 110-40.
鈥淒id the Realist-Idealist Great Debate Really Happen? A Revisionist History of International Relations鈥, International Relations, 2002, 16(1) 33-51.
Book Chapters
鈥淟iberal Progressivism and International History鈥 in M. Bukovansky, E. Keene, C. Reus-Smit, & M. Spanu (eds) The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 51-64.
鈥溾楾he Past, Present and Future of Global Thought鈥 Reviewing a Handbook Chapter from 2122鈥. In Horn, L., Mert, A., M眉ller, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 31-46.
鈥淒isciplinary Traditions and Debates: The Subject Matters of International Thought鈥 in Benjamin de Cavalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2021), 113-26.
鈥淲omen of the Twenty Years鈥 Crisis: The Women鈥檚 International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problems of Collective Security鈥 in Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler (eds), Women鈥檚 International Thought. A New History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 136-57.
鈥淔rom Emulation to Enmity: the Changing View of Germany in Anglo-American Geopolitics鈥 in Jens Steffek & Leonie Holthaus, Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks: Changing images of Germany in International Relations (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), 64-81.
鈥淟os Mitos Que Me Ense帽贸 Mi Profesor De Relaciones Internacionales Reconstruyendo La Historia Del Pensamiento Internacional鈥 in Alberto Lozano V谩zquez et al (eds) 驴Cien A帽os De Relaciones Internacionales? (Ciudad de M茅xico: Siglo XXI Editores, 2019), 213-249.
鈥淚ndustrialization and Competitive Globalization After 1873: International Thought and the Problem of Resources鈥 in Daniel M. Green (ed.), The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations (London: Routledge, 2019), 119-137.
鈥淗ow Should We Approach the History of International Thought?鈥 in Brian C. Schmidt and Nicolas Guilhot (eds), Historiographical Invesitigations in International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 79-95.
鈥淎 Historiographer鈥檚 View: Rewriting the History of International Thought鈥, in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf (eds), History, The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (London: Sage, 2018), 529-541.
鈥淧rogressivism Triumphant? Isaiah Bowman鈥檚 New Diplomacy in a New World鈥, in Molly Cochran & Cornelia Navari (eds) Progressivism and US Foreign Policy Between the World Wars (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
鈥淭he Republic of Norman Angell (1872-1967): A Dialogue (with Apologies to Plato)鈥, in Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami (eds), The Return of the Theorists. Dialogues with Great Thinkers in International Relations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 182-192.
鈥淒emocratic Socialism and International Thought in Interwar Britain鈥, in Ian Hall (ed.), Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth Century International Thought (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 75-100.
鈥榁on grossen Illusionen und bewaffnetem Frieden: Norman Angell und H. N. Brailsford 眉ber die Ursachen internationaler Konflikte鈥 in Jens Steffek and Leonie Holthaus (eds), Jenseits de Anarchie: Weltordnungsentw眉rfe im fr眉hen 20. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt: Campus, 2014), 73-95.
鈥楢 New Politics for a Global Age. David Mitrany鈥檚 A Working Peace System鈥 in H. Bliddal, C. Sylvest and P. Wilson (eds), Classics of International Relations. Essays in Criticism and Appreciation (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013).鈥
'Missing Voices: Critical IPE, Disciplinary History and H. N. Brailsford's Analysis of the Capitalist International Anarchy' in Stuart Shields, Ian Bruff and Huw Macartney (eds), CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. DIALOGUE, DEBATE AND DISSENSUS (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 9-26.
鈥淚bn Khaldun and the Origins of State Politics鈥 in N. Persram (ed.) Political Theory and Postcolonialism (Lexington: Lexington Books, 2007).
鈥淭he League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order鈥 in T. Moylan and M. Griffin, The Utopian Impulse (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
鈥淐lashing Utopias: H. G. Wells鈥 Reception in Ireland鈥 in P. Parrinder and J. Partington (eds), The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (London: Continuum, 2005).
(Co-authored with Larry Swatuk) 鈥淢asculinity and the Fear of Emasculation in International Relations Theory鈥, in J. Parpart and M. Zalewski (eds), The Man Question in International Relations (Boulder, Co: Westview, 1998)