Professor Robyn Eckersley
Professor Robyn Eckersley
Background
Robyn Eckersley was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught political science at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. She has published widely in the intersecting fields of political theory (especially environmental political theory and democratic theory), global environmental politics and international relations theory, including journals such as Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Ethics and International Affairs and Global Environmental Politics. Her book The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (2004) won the Melbourne Woodward Medal in 2005 for the best research in Humanities and Social Sciences and was runner up in the International Studies Association’s Sprout Award for 2005 for the best book on Environmental Studies. She was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, from August 2009 to January 2010; and served as Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo, November 2010 to January 2011. She was elected as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2007. She served as Chair of the Discipline of Political Science from 2008-2010 and is currently Director of the Master of International Relations Program. Co-convenor/Treasurer APSA Environmental Policy and Politics Research Standing Group http://www.ecopolitics.org.au/
A full CV can be downloaded here
Research
- International politics, (particularly international relations theory)
- Environmental philosophy, politics and policy, including global environmental politics (particularly the international politics of climate change)
- Political theory (particularly democratic theory)
She is on the editorial boards of Environmental Politics; New Political Economy; Organisation and Environment; Global Environmental Politics; Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy and geography; Global Change, Peace & Security; International Political Theory; Environmental Values: Ethics and International Affairs; and International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy.
Subjects taught
- International Politics
- Global Environmental Politics
- Justice, Democracy and Difference
- International Governance and Law
Supervision
- International politics
- Environmental philosophy, politics and policy; global environmental politics
- Political theory (especially liberalism, democracy, justice, multiculturalism, the state and the ‘politics of difference’)
Publications (since 2004)
Books
- (co-editor with D. Altman, J. Camilleri and G. Hoffstaedter) Why Human Security Matters: Rethinking Australian Foreign Policy (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2012), forthcoming
- (co-author with M. Bukovansky, I. Clark, R. Price, C. Reus-Smit and N.J. Wheeler, N.J.) Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in press
- (editor, with Andrew Dobson) Political Theory and the Environmental Challenge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- (editor, with John Barry) The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
- (author) The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004)
Book chapters
- ‘Who’s Afraid of a Climate Treaty?’ in Raimond Gaita and Gerry Simpson (eds.) Who’s Afraid of International Law? (Perth: UWA Press) forthcoming
- 'Comparative State Responses' (co-authored with Peter Christoff), in The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, edited by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg (Oxford University Press, 2011) forthcoming
- 'Representing Nature' in The Future of Representative Democracy, edited by Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), forthcoming
- 'Just Carbon Trading?' in Jeremy Moss (ed.), Climate Change and Social Justice (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009)
- 'Understanding the Interplay between the Climate Regime and the Trade Regime', in Climate and Trade Policies in a Post-2012 World (Geneva: United Nations Environment Program, 2009)
- 'Environment Security, Climate Change and Globalising Terrorism' in Damian Grenfeld and Paul James (eds.) Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? (Routledge,2009), 85-97
- 'Ecological Security in a Global Risk Society’, in Damian Grenfeld and Paul James (eds.) Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? (Routledge, 2008)
- ‘US Foreign Policy and the Environment’ in Mick Cox and Doug Stokes (eds.) US Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 374-98
- ‘The Ethics of Critical Theory’ in Christian Reus Smit and Duncan Snidal (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 346-358
- (with Peter Christoff), ‘Kyoto and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate’ in Tim Bonyhady and Peter Christoff (eds.) Climate Law in Australia (Sydney: Federation Press, 2007), 32-45
- ‘Environmental Patriotism: An Unholy Alliance?’ in Aleksandar Pavkovic and Igor Primoratz (eds.) Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007), 183-200
- ‘Global Environmental Politics’ in Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds.), Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 362-72
- ‘Green Theory’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2006), 247-265
- ‘Communitarianism’ in Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley (eds.) Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- ‘Greening the Nation-state: From Exclusive to Inclusive Sovereignty’ in John Barry and Robyn Eckersley (eds.) The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 159-180
- 'Soft Law, Hard Politics and the Climate Change Treaty' in Christian Reus-Smit (ed.), The Politics of International Law, (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 80-105
Journal articles
- ‘Moving Forward in the Climate Negotiations: Multilateralism or Minilateralism?’ Global Environmental Politics, 12(2) (2012), forthcoming
- 'Moving Forward in Climate Negotiations: Multilateralism or Minilateralism?' Global Environmental Politics, 2011, forthcoming
- 'The Politics of Carbon Leakage and Fairness of Border Measures' Ethics and International Affairs 24(4) (2010): 367-93
- ‘Ecological Intervention: Prospects and Limits’, Ethics and International Affairs 21(3) (2007): 275-396
- ‘From Cosmopolitanism Nationalism to Cosmopolitan Democracy’, Review of International Studies, 13(3) (2007): 329-356
- ‘A Green Public Sphere in the WTO?: The Amicus Curiae Interventions in the Trans-Atlantic Biotech Dispute’, European Journal of International Relations 13 (2007): 329-356.
- ‘Ambushed: The Kyoto Protocol, the Bush Administration and the Erosion of Legitimacy’, International Politics 44(2) (2007), 306-24
- ‘From the Liberal to the Green Democratic State: Upholding Autonomy and Sustainability’, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development 1(4) (2006): 266-83
- ‘The State as Gate-keeper: Reply’, Politics and Ethics Review 2(2) (2006): 127-38
- ‘Translating Science and Restoring our Sense of Wonder: The End of Nature as Landmark’, Special Symposium on Bill McKibben, The End of Nature (London: Penguin, 1990), Organization and Environment (2005), 18 (2) (2005): 193-197
- ‘Climate Change at the Crossroads’, Guest Editor’s Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Climate Change and the Reluctant States’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 17(1) February 2005, 7-10
- ‘Ecocentric Discourses: Problems and Future Prospects for Nature Advocacy’, Tamkang Review, Vol XXXIV, Nos. 3-4 (Spring-Summer 2004): 155-86 (also reprinted in John Dryzek and David Schlosberg (eds.), Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 364-381)
- 'The Big Chill: The WTO and Multilateral Environmental Agreement', Global Environmental Politics 4 (2) 2004: 24-50
Conference papers
- 'Climate Leadership and US Exceptionalism', paper presented to the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Melbourne, 27-29 September, 2010
- World's Apart?: Multilateralism, Democracy and the Challenge of Climate Change', Keynote Paper presented to the 'Democratizing Climate Governance Conference, Australian National University, 15-16 July, 2010
- 'Ethics at the Border: Are Carbon Trading Tariffs an Appropriate Response to Carbon Leakage?', Paper presented to Fourth Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS IV), University of Auckland, 30 June to 2 July, 2010
- 'The Politics of Carbon Leakage: Ecological Modernisation or Ecological Mercantilism?', Paper presented at the Western Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1-3 April, 2010
- 'The Bali Roadmap and Beyond: Opportunities for Australia', in Bali and Beyond: Planning for a Post-Kyoto World, AIIA Policy Commentary, Deakin, ACT: Australian Institute of International Affairs, February (launched at the AIIA, Victoria Division on 8 May 2008)
- ‘Norms and Interests in US Climate Policy: The Fate of “Common but Differentiated Responsibilities”’, Paper presented at the Panel on Global Climate Justice and Reception in Developed Countries at the 4th General European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007
- ‘Teaching and Learning about Globalisation in Australia’. Keynote presentation at the Social Education in Victoria Conference (VCE International Politics and Sociology, VELS, Civics and Citizenship and the Humanities), Deakin University, Burwood Campus, 4 December 2006
- ‘Environmentalism and Patriotism: An Unholy Alliance?’ Paper presented to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics Workshop on Patriotism on 21-22 August 2006
- ‘The Kyoto Protocol, the Bush Administration and the Erosion of Legitimacy’, paper presented at a research workshop on ‘Resolving Crises of Legitimacy in International Politics', held at the Rockefeller Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy on 8-13 May 2006
- ‘From the Liberal Democratic State to the Green Democratic State’, Keynote paper presented to the 7th Nordic Environmental Social Science Research Conference, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 15-17 June 2005
- ‘Biosafety and Ecological Security: Resisting the Trade in GM Food’, Electronically published proceedings of the International Sources of Insecurity Conference, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, 17-19 November 2004