Here is a list of my published books.
- War, Law and Rights and the Making of Global Insecurities
- Human Rights in War
- Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity
- Postinternationalism and Small Arms Control: Theory, Politics, Security
War, Law and Rights and the Making of Global Insecurities
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, War, Law and Rights and the Making of Global Insecurities focuses on the foundational problem of political violence in world affairs, the trouble with international law when it deals with security challenges, and the tragedy of human rights in the age of the Anthropocene. It draws on political concepts from Foucault, Bourdieu, and Latour to cast new light on how and why global insecurities are made.
Human Rights in War
(Singapore,: Springer, 2022)
This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war. It offers myriad perspectives on the content and application of legal protections offered to civilians, including women, children and the elderly, and to others who are ‘no longer active in the fight.’ A series of carefully researched case studies illustrates the extent to which human rights violations occur in recent and current armed conflict, and signals the ways in which these violations are dealt with. Each of the contributing authors has been selected on the basis of their international academic reputation and/or professional standing within the human rights field. Given the alarming numbers of people harmed in recent and current armed conflict, this book will be of great interest to researchers, policymakers and opinion-shapers alike.
Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice. It explores the efforts of three successive generations of international prosecutors, recognising the vital roles they play in the enforcement of international criminal law. By critically examining prosecutorial performance during the pre-trial and trial phases, the volume argues that these prosecutors are simultaneously political actors serving in the interests of economic liberalisation. It also posits that international prosecutors help wage a mostly silent and largely unacknowledged politico-cultural war fought for control over the institutions governing modernist international affairs. In this book I contend that international prosecutors are best understood as agents not only of the law and politics, but also of a war fought by proponents of various utopian projects.
Postinternationalism and Small Arms Control: Theory, Politics, Security
Even though impacts generated by the widespread availability and ongoing use of small arms and light weapons have not reached a magnitude sufficient to radically reorder contemporary world affairs, awareness of the nature and extent of these impacts has compelled some international actors to take decisive action. In this book, I examine how the international community has responded to the challenge of controlling small arms and light weapons since the early 1990s. Using a postinternationalist analytic framework, I specifically focus on the maturing relationships between particular actors of world affairs and the nascent interconnectivity between their strategies for, and approaches toward, controlling these weapons. Furthermore, I identify ways in which the captains of small arms industry, arms brokers and chief users of these weapons are able to mitigate, resist or elude the intended effects of those responses.