Dr Julian Reid
Lecturer in International Relations, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Strand, London, UK, WC2R 2LS.
Academic Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Politics
Awarded by the University of Lancaster, U.K., 2004
Thesis Title: Wars Without Ends: Power, Modernity, and Counter-Strategy
Examiners: Professor David Campbell (Durham) and Professor Scott Wilson (Lancaster)
Thesis nominated for British International Studies Association Prize, Best PhD Thesis 2004.
Master of Philosophy in International Political Economy
Awarded by the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1999
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in War Studies
Simon O’Dwyer Russell Prize, Best Undergraduate 1996
Awarded by King’s College, University of London, U.K., 1996
Academic Positions Held
Full-Time
2006-Present
Lecturer in International Relations (Permanent), King’s College London.
2004-2005
Lecturer in International Relations (Permanent), University of Sussex.
2002-2004
Lecturer in International Politics (Temporary), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Part-Time
2003-2004
Lecturer in International Studies, University of Cambridge.
2001-2002
Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh.
2000-2002
Tutorial Fellow in Politics, University of Edinburgh.
1998-2001
Tutorial Fellow in Politics, University of Lancaster.
Publications
Monographs
1. The Biopolitics of the War on Terror (Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, Reappraising the Political Series, John Simons and Simon Tormey eds., Forthcoming, Autumn 2006)
2. The Liberal Way of War (with Michael Dillon) (New York, Routledge, Global Horizons Series, RBJ Walker and Richard Falk eds., Under Contract, 2007)
Articles in Refereed International Journals
1. Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault, Social Text (86, Spring 2006).
2. Immanent War, Immaterial Terror..., Culture Machine(with Keith Farquhar)(7, February 2005: Biopolitics).
Republished in Multitudes(October 2005).
Republished in Keith Farquhar, Bastards: The Creatures Made From Clothes(New York, Nyehaus, 2005).
3. The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: A Critique of the ‘Return of Imperialism’ Thesis in International Relations, Third World Quarterly (vol. 26, no.2, June 2005), pp237-252.
4. Architecture, Al-Qaeda, and the World Trade Center: Rethinking the Relations Between War, Modernity and City Spaces After 9/11, Space and Culture(vol. 17, no.4, 2004), pp396-408.
5. War, Liberalism, and Modernity: The Biopolitical Provocations of ‘Empire’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (vol.17, no.1, 2004), pp63-79.
6. Deleuze’s War Machine: Nomadism Against the State, Millennium: Journal of International Studies(vol.32, no.1, 2003).
7. Foucault on Clausewitz: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between War and Power, Alternatives (vol.28, no.1, 2003), pp1-28
8. Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security and War (with Michael Dillon), Millennium: Journal of International Studies (vol. 30, no. 1, 2001), pp41-65.
9. Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency (with Michael Dillon), Alternatives(vol.25, no.4, 2000), pp111-138.
Republished and translated into Portugese: Governança liberal global: biopolítica, segurança e guerra, Estudos de Sociologia, Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da UFPE. Recife, (vol. 8, no. 1, e. 2, Jan.-Dez, 2002), pp. 69-99.
10. Migration, (Im-)mobility and Modernity: Toward a Feminist Understanding of the Global Prostitution Scene in Amsterdam (with Marianne Marchand and Boukje Berents), Millennium: Journal of International Studies (vol. 27, no.4, 1998), pp955-981.
Book Chapters
1. Re-appropriating Clausewitz: The Neglected Dimensions of Counter-Strategic Thought in Beate Jahn (ed.), Classical Theory and International Relations: Critical Investigations(Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, forthcoming 2006).
Book Reviews
1. Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia (eds.), Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11, Contemporary Political Theory(vol.3, no.2 2004), pp234-235.
2. Paul Virilio/Sylvere Lotringer, Crepuscular Dawn, Contemporary Political Theory (vol.3, no.1 2004), pp120-121.
3. N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (vol. 28, no.3, 1999), pp778-780.
Working Papers
1. Distortion Effects and Hegemony: The Case for Empathy between Critical Theory and Strategic Studies, Amsterdam International Studies Series (no.50, 1997), pp1-15.
Conference and Convention Papers and Presentations
Humanism beyond Security
BISA Annual Conference, St Andrews University, December 2005
Nomadic Life: War, Sovereignty, and Resistance to the Biopolitical Imperium
The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics, Copenhagen, November 2005
Toward a Politics of Transition: Liberal Humanism and the Crises in Political Imaginations
Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic Societies, Konjic, Bosnia, July 2005
Re-Appropriating Clausewitz: The Neglected Dimensions of Counter-Strategic Thought
ISA Annual Convention, Hawaii, USA, March 2005
The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: A Critique of the ‘Return of Imperialism’ Thesis in International Relations
BISA Annual Conference, University of Warwick, December 2004
Life Struggles: War, Disciplinary Power, and Biopolitics
Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, July 2004
War, Liberalism and Modernity: The Biopolitical Provocations of Modernity
ISA Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada, March 2004
War, Liberalism and Modernity: The Logistical Society and its Enemies
BISA Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, December 2003
The Contemporary Strategisation of City Spaces: Thoughts on the Relations Between War, Power and Transurbanism
Cities as Strategic Sites Conference, Manchester UK, November 2002
A Genealogy of Global Liberal Governance
ISA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, USA, March 2000.
Resisting the Net: The Syntactics of Networks and the Semantics of Thought
BISA Annual Conference, University of Manchester, December 1999.
Encoding Clausewitz: The Strategy of Power and Network-Centric Warfare
BISA Annual Conference, University of Manchester, December 1999.
Resisting the Net: The Syn-tactics of Networks and the Sem-antics of Thought
Obscene Powers Conference, Southampton University, December 1999.
Resisting the Net: The Syn-tactics of Networks and the Sem-antics of Thought
Contesting Identities Conference, University of Edinburgh, November 1999.
Metis and the Problematic of Hypersecurity
ISA Annual Conference, Marriot Hotel, Washington DC, USA, February 1999.
Becoming Dangerous: A Theorisation of Complex Political Emergencies
BISA Annual Conference, University of Sussex, December 1998.
Migration, Immobility and Modernity
Gender and International Studies Conference, London School of Economics, September 1998.
War and Modernity: The Dialectics of Total War
Research Center for International Political Economy Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam, May 1997.
Research Seminar Papers and Presentations
The Biopolitics of the War on Terror
Centre for Rights, Justice, Violence & War Seminar Series, University of Sussex, February 2005
The Biopolitics of the War on Terror
CSD Research Seminar Series, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, October 2004
Workshop Papers and Presentations
The Biopolitics of the War on Terror
ISGG Workshop on Security and Violence in the Contemporary Age, Birkbeck College London, November 2004
Wars without Ends
ELISE Workshop, University of Montreal, Canada, March 2004
Consequences of the War on Terror for the Organisation of Power Internationally
Political Studies Department Workshop, SOAS, December 2003
War and Modernity: Michel Foucault on the Strategy of Power
Political Theory Workshop, University of Edinburgh, August 2002
Global Governance, Liberal Peace, and Complex Emergency
Contemporary Research in Political Theory Workshop, University of Aberystwyth, May 2000.
Strategy and the Sign: The Syn-tactics of Networks and the Sem-antics of Thought
Contemporary Research in Political Theory Workshop, London School of Economics, June 1999.
Roundtable Presentations
Theoretical Encounters and Critical Discontents
Contemporary Research in Political Theory Workshop, London School of Economics, University of London, May 2004.
Discussant Presentations
Discussant to John R. Hall, ‘Towards a Cultural Sociology of 9/11’
Sociology Departmental Symposium, University of Sussex, March 2005
Discussant to David Chandler and Volker Heinz, Ethics and Foreign Policy Panel
International Studies Association Convention, Hawaii, USA, March 2005
Discussant to Ulrich Brand ‘The World-Wide Web of Anti-Neoliberal Struggles: The Impossibility of Global Keynesianism’,
International Relations Departmental Research Seminar, University of Sussex, February 2005
Discussant to Ronnie Lipschutz, ‘War, Discipline and Imperium’
International Relations Departmental Research Seminar, University of Sussex, November 2004
Discussant to Antonio Negri, Time For Revolution.
Workshop with Antonio Negri, Birkbeck College, June 2004
Discussant to Stefan Elbe, Peter Nyers and Louiza Odysseos, Globalisation and Political Activism Panel
International Studies Association Convention, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.
Discussant to Andreas Antoniades and Claudia Aradau, Contemporary Research in Political Theory Panel
British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK, December 2003.
Chair Sessions
Rights Workshop Seminar
Rights, Justice, Violence and War One Day Workshop, March 2005.
Society Must Be Defended Panel
Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, July 2004.
Post-Structuralist Politics Working Group Panel
BISA Annual Conference, University of Warwick, December 2004.
Performances and Exhibitions
Rites of Passage (with Keith Farquhar), Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy, May 10, 2003.
Academic Prizes and Awards
Economic and Social Research Council Studentship 1998 - 2001.
Simon O’ Dwyer Russell Prize 1996, Awarded by King’s College London.
Research Employment and Experience
January-March 2001
DERA Project (ContractCU005-03514), Researcher. Report Title: Pathologies of Network Society: Strategy, Capital, and Vice.
January-March 2000
DERA Project (Contract CU0005-0000001776), Researcher. Report Title: Information, Communication and Non-Linearity.
Independent Reviewing Employment
Independent Reviewer, Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, Switzerland.
Refereeing Employment
Referee for the journal, Millennium: Journal of International Studies
Referee for the journal, Journal of Cultural Research.
Referee for the journal, Review of International Studies
Referee for the journal, European Journal of International Relations
Referee for the journal, Foucault Studies
Referee for the journal, Contemporary Political Theory
Referee for the journal, Citizenship Studies
External Examining Appointments
External Examiner, Economic and Social Research Council, Civil Contingencies Research Projects, 2005.
External Examiner, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, 2003.
Languages Other than English
Dutch (fluent, written and spoken).