School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

International relations, Social constructivism, Narratives, Timing / Time / Temporality, International security, Critical security studies, Disciplinary history, Classical realism, International relations theory

ORCID

Journal Editorships

Co-Lead Editor, Review of International Studies (2024-2027)

Associate Editor, International Relations (2019-2023)

Grants and Awards

Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, ‘Temporal Struggles for Existence,’ (MRF-2023-121, £194,167) | 2024-2027

British Academy Global Convening Programme, ‘The Times of a Just Transition: Exploring the role of temporal frames in enabling and impeding democratic and equitable transitions towards sustainable futures’, Co-Investigator (Nomi Claire Lazar and Keri Facer, Primary Investigators, GCP2S1\100374, £1.5M) | 2023-2025

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, ‘Hollow Victories and the Politics of American Wartime' (RF-2021-450\7; £53,510) | 2022

A. Leroy Bennett Best Paper Award (post-PhD) International Studies Association—Northeast | 2023

Publications

Monograph

2020 | International Relations and the Problem of Time (Oxford University Press).

• Co-Winner of the Yale H. Ferguson Award
• Honourable Mention - ISA Theory Section Best Book Award
• Reviewed in International Affairs, International Studies Review, Perspectives on Politics, and e-International Relations
• New Books in Political Science podcast
• Page 99 Test - Campaign for the American Reader

Edited collections

2023 | Special Issue: Up to Our Necks: Existentialism and International Relations, Review of International Studies 49:5 (with Cian O'Driscoll)

2022 | Special Issue: The Politics of Wartime in the 21st Century, International Relations 36:4 (with Luke Campbell)

2022 | Special Issue: STAGES of Security, Contemporary Voices in International Relations (with Ryan Beasley, Faye Donnelly, Juliet Kaarbo, Andrew Neal, and Ty Solomon).

2020 | Special Issue: The Social Life of Time, Time & Society (with Michelle Bastian, Lisa Baraitser, Michael Flexer, and Laura Salisbury).

2017 | Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (Oxford University Press, with Kurt Mills and Cian O’Driscoll)

2016 | A Space for Time: Essays on Time, Temporality and Global Politics. Bristol: E-International Relations Publishing (with Christopher McIntosh, Alasdair McKay, and Liam Stockdale).

Journal articles

2023 | 'Existentialism and International Relations: In It Up to Our Necks', Review of International Studies Special Issue 49:5, 'Up to Our Necks: Existentialism and International Relations' (with Cian O'Driscoll).

2023 | 'Heidegger's Heritage: The Temporal Politics of Authenticity, Then and Now', Review of International Studies Special Issue 49:5, 'Up to Our Necks: Existentialism and International Relations.'

2022 | 'Wartime in the 21st Century', International Relations Special Issue, 'The Politics of Wartime in the 21st Century' (with Luke Campbell).

2022 | 'The Liturgy of Triumph: Victory Culture, Popular Rituals, and the US Way of Wartiming', International Relations Special Issue, 'The Politics of Wartime in the 21st Century' (with Luke Campbell).

2022 | 'STAGES Introduction', Contemporary Voices in International Relations Special Issue, 'STAGES of Security' (with Ryan Beasley, Faye Donnelly, Juliet Kaarbo, Andrew Neal, and Ty Solomon).

2021 | 'Constructing Time in Foreign Policymaking: Brexit's Timing Entrepreneurs, Malcontemps, and Apparatchiks', International Affairs (with Ryan K. Beasley).

2021 | 'Foreign Policy in the Fourth Dimension (FP4D): Locating Time in Decision Making', Foreign Policy Analysis (with Ryan K. Beasley).

2020 | '"Time Out!": Why We're Talking about Time, All the Time', Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy 28(4): 10-21.

2020 | 'Anxiety, Time, and Ontological Security's Third-image Potential', International Theory 12 (2): 322-336 (with Brent J. Steele).

2020 | 'Introduction', Special Issue: The Social Life of Time, Time & Society (with Michelle Bastian, Lisa Baraitser, Michael Flexer, and Laura Salisbury).

2018 | 'Silent Order: The temporal turn in critical International Relations', Millennium Journal of International Studies 46 (3), Special Conference Issue: 'The Politics of Time in International Relations': 303-330.

2018 | 'Timing is Everything: Toward a Better Understanding of Time and International Politics', International Studies Quarterly 62 (1): 69-79.

2017 | 'Patriots All around: Inter/national Timing, Round Numbers, and the Politics of Commemorative Critique', Australian Journal of Politics and History 63 (3): 442-55.

2017 | '“A Bridge too far”? On the Impact of Worldly Relevance on International Relations', International Studies Review 19(4): 692–721.

2016 | ‘Angst Springs Eternal: Dangerous Times and the Dangers of Timing the “Arab Spring”’, Security Dialogue 47(2): 165-183.

2010 | ‘Hegemonic Metronome: The Ascendancy of Western Standard Time’, Review of International Studies 36(4): 1145-1170.

2010 | ‘Open Horizons: The Temporal Visions of Reflexive Realism’, International Studies Review 12(2): 271-300 (with Brent J. Steele).

2008 | ‘The New Legs Race: Critical Perspectives on Biometrics in Iraq’, Military Review (Jan-Feb): 85-94.

Book chapters

Forthcoming | ‘Foreign Policy Analysis and Critical IR’, with Ryan K. Beasley and Faye Donnelly, in The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis, edited by Juliet Kaarbo and Cameron Thies. Oxford University Press.

2021 | 'Time and History in International Relations', in The Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, edited by Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira. Routledge.

2019 | 'Time in International Relations Theory', in The Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics, edited by Klaus H. Goetz. Oxford University Press.

2018 | 'Truth and power, uncertainty and catastrophe: Ethics in IR realism', in The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations, edited by Eric A. Heinze and Brent J. Steele. Routledge.

2016 | ‘Child’s Play: Temporal Discourse, Counterpower, and Environmental Politics’, chapter in Anna M. Agathangelou and Kyle Killian (eds.), Time, Temporality and Violence in IR: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives. Routledge Interventions Series (with Brent J. Steele).

2016 | ‘Timing, Identity, and Emotion in International Relations’, in Andrew R. Hom, Christopher McIntosh, Alasdair McKay, and Liam Stockdale, eds. ‚Ä™A Space for Time: Essays on Time, Temporality and Global Politics. E-International Relations Publishing (with Ty Solomon).

Reviews

2014 | Review of Mary Dudziak’s Wartime: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, in War in History 21(3): 392-93.

Other media

4 September 2023 | 'Heidegger's Heritage', video analysis, British International Studies Association.

9 November 2020 | 'How Donald Trump almost stole the US election using creative timing', Renewal blog

12 May 2019 | Interview with E-International Relations

7 May 2018 | 'Agenda: A Political Dance to the Music of Time' The Herald.

24 January 2017 | 'Can't Lose for Winning: Victory in the Trump Presidency', with Cian O'Driscoll, The Disorder of Things.

3 October 2016 | 'Degrade and Destroy: Winning the War against Daesh', Defence-in-Depth.

18 June 2015 | ‘The War on Terror: Still a Losing Proposition’, Moral Victories Blog.

24 December 2012 | ‘Two Regimes of Time’, e-International Relations.

Postgraduate supervision topics

Timing, time, & temporality | Security | War | IR theory - especially constructivism, critical approaches, and classical realism (*not* structural or neoclassical realism) | Ontological security studies | Intellectual and disciplinary history of IR

If you are interested in being supervised by Andrew, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics MSc (R) Politics