Associate Professor Richard Devetak
Professor in Political Thought
Political Science and International Studies
+61 7 336 53446
Researcher biography
Richard Devetak has published on the history of international thought, contemporary theoretical debates in international relations, humanitarian intervention, the 'war on terror', and globalisation's implications for justice and the state. He has also published on foreign policy, refugees and national identity in the Australian context. His major contribution has been in the area of international relations theory, more specifically in the exposition and analysis of Frankfurt School Critical Theory and post-structuralism. His writings in these areas have been published in leading International Relations journals including International Affairs, Millennium and Review of International Studies. His current research interests include: the history of international thought and the history of the states-system. He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Department of International Politics at University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2003), the Department of Politics, Institutions and History at University of Bologna (2008) and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence (2012).
Books
Devetak, Richard (2018). Critical international theory: an intellectual history. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198823568.001.0001
Richard A. Devetak and Christopher W. Hughes eds. (2008). The globalization of political violence: globalization's shadow. Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation; 10, London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203935699
Devetak, Richard, Burke, Anthony and George, Jim (2007). An introduction to international relations : Australian perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139168557
Book Chapters
Devetak, Richard (2022). Post-structuralism. Theories of International Relations. (pp. 164-187) edited by Richard Devetak and Jacqui True. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Devetak, Richard (2022). Critical theory. Theories of International Relations. (pp. 119-140) edited by Richard Devetak and Jacqui True. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Devetak, Richard and True, Jacqui (2022). Introduction. Theories of International Relations. (pp. 1-18) edited by Richard Devetak and Jacqui True. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Devetak, Richard (2021). Reason of state in European international thought. Perspectives on international political theory in Europe. (pp. 29-47) edited by Vassilios Paipais. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-77274-1_3
Devetak, Richard (2021). Vattel’s reception in international relations. Concepts and Contexts of Vattel’s Political and Legal Thought . (pp. 296-320) edited by Peter Schröder . Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108784009.019
Devetak, Richard (2021). Reason of state: an intellectual history. Routledge handbook of historical international relations. (pp. 277-288) edited by Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez and Halvard Leira. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351168960-26
Devetak, Richard and Tannock, Emily (2017). Imperial rivalry and the first global war. The globalization of international society. (pp. 125-144) edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Tim Dunne. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198793427.003.0007
George, Jim, Devetak, Richard and Weber, Martin (2017). Marxism and critical theory. An Introduction to International Relations. (pp. 64-78) edited by Richard Devetak, Jim George and Sarah Percy. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316855188.006
Devetak, Richard (2017). The modern state. An introduction to international relations. (pp. 170-184) edited by Richard Devetak, Jim George and Sarah Percy. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316855188.013
Devetak, Richard (2013). Critical theory. Theories of international relations. (pp. 162-186) New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
Devetak, Richard (2013). 'The fear of universal monarchy': balance of power as an ordering practice of liberty. Liberal World Orders. (pp. 121-137) edited by Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0007
Devetak, Richard (2013). Post-structuralism. Theories of international relations. (pp. 187-216) New York, NY, United States: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-31136-8_8
Devetak, Richard and Gout, Juliette (2013). Obligations beyond the state: Andrew Linklater's 'Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations'. Classics of international relations: essays in criticism and appreciation. (pp. 177-186) edited by Henrik Bliddal, Casper Sylvest and Peter Wilson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203761472
Devetak, Richard (2012). The modern state. An introduction to international relations. (pp. 134-147) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Devetak, Richard, George, Jim and Weber, Martin (2012). Marxism and critical theory. An Introduction to International Relations. (pp. 62-75) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Devetak, Richard (2012). Vico contra Kant: the competing critical theories of Cox and Linklater. Critical theory in international relations and security studies : Interviews and reflections. (pp. 115-126) edited by Shannon Brincat, Laura Lima and Joao Nunes. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203145494
Devetak, Richard (2012). An introduction to international relations: The origins and changing agendas of a discipline. An introduction to international relations. (pp. 1-19) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Devetak, Richard and Higgott, Richard (2009). International Relations Theory. The Australian Study of Politics. (pp. 268-281) edited by Rhodes, R. A. W.. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-0-230-29684-8
Devetak, Richard (2008). Globalization's shadow: An introduction to the globalization of political violence. The globalization of political violence : Globalization's shadow. (pp. 1-26) edited by Richard Devetak and Christopher W Hughes. London & New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203935699
Devetak, Richard (2008). Failures, rogues and terrorists: states of exception and the North/South divide. Security and the war on terror. (pp. 125-141) edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203028094
Davies, Sara Ellen and Devetak, Richard (2008). Conclusion. Security and the war on terror. (pp. 190-198) edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203028094
Devetak, Richard (2007). Between Kant and Pufendorf: Humanitarian intervention, statist anti-cosmopolitanism and critical international theory. Critical International Relations Theory After 25 Years. (pp. 151-174) edited by Rengger, Nicholas John and Thirkell-White, Tristram Benedict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511607912.009
Devetak, Richard and Hughes, Christopher (2007). Preface. The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization's Shadow. (pp. xiii-xv) edited by Richard Devetak and Christopher W. Hughes. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203935699
Devetak, Richard (2007). An introduction to international relations: The origins and changing agendas of a discipline. An introduction to international relations: Australian perspectives. (pp. 1-16) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Devetak, Richard (2007). The modern state and its origins. Introduction to international relations: Australian perspectives. (pp. 121-132) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139168557.012
Devetak, Richard (2007). The project of modernity and international relations theory. Critical theory and international relations: A reader. (pp. 378-390) edited by Steven C. Roach. New York, U.S.: Routledge.
Devetak, Richard (2006). Failed States, Rogue States and the Sources of Terrorism: How the North Views the South. Ethics of War in a Time of Terror. (pp. 99-118) edited by Christian Enemark. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.
Devetak, Richard and Higgott, Richard (2005). Saving the social bond and recovering the public domain. The Market or the Public Domain?: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power. (pp. 360-380) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203996706-25
Devetak, Richard (2005). Violence, order and terror. International Society and Its Critics. (pp. 229-246) edited by Alex J. Bellamy. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/0199265208.003.0014
Devetak, Richard (2005). Foundationalism/Antifoundationalism. Encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 286-289) edited by Martin Griffiths. London: Routledge.
Devetak, Richard and Dunne, Tim (2005). Order. Encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 613-622) edited by Martin Griffiths. London: Routledge.
Devetak, Richard (2005). Postmodernism. Theories of international relations. (pp. 161-187) edited by Burchill, Scott. New York: Palgrave.
Devetak, Richard (2003). Loyalty and Plurality: Images of the Nation in Australia. Political loyalty and the nation-state. (pp. 27-42) edited by Michael Waller and Andrew Linklater. London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203426944
Devetak, Richard (2002). Signs of a new enlightenment? Community and humanity after the Cold War. The new agenda for international relations: From polarization to globalization in world politics?. (pp. 164-183) edited by Stephanie Lawson. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Journal Articles
Devetak, Richard (2020). From historicizing to provincializing the global. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 33 (1), 8-14. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2020.1717846
Coward, Martin, Devetak, Richard, Moulin, Carolina, Paterson, Matthew, Shah, Nisha, Zehfuss, Maja and Zevnik, Andreja (2020). Editorial. Review of International Studies, 46 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1017/S0260210519000469
Dunne, Tim and Devetak, Richard (2017). Civilising statecraft: Andrew Linklater and comparative sociologies of states-systems. Review of International Studies, 43 (4), 686-699. doi: 10.1017/S0260210517000390
Devetak, Richard (2017). ‘The battle is all there is’: philosophy and history in International Relations theory. International Relations, 31 (3), 261-281. doi: 10.1177/0047117817723063
Devetak, Richard (2017). Introduction: The origins and changing agendas of international relations. An Introduction to International Relations, Third edition, 1-21. doi: 10.1017/9781316855188.002
Devetak, Richard, Dunne, Tim and Nurhayati, Ririn Tri (2016). Bandung 60 years on: Rrevolt and resilience in international society. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70 (4), 358-373. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2016.1155201
Devetak, Richard and Walter, Ryan (2016). The critical theorist's labour: empirical or philosophical historiography for international relations?. Globalizations, 13 (5), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1133527
Devetak, Richard (2015). Historiographical foundations of modern international thought: histories of the European states-system from Florence to Göttingen. History of European Ideas, 41 (1), 62-77. doi: 10.1080/01916599.2014.948291
Devetak, Richard (2014). A rival Enlightenment? critical international theory in historical mode. International Theory, 6 (3), 417-453. doi: 10.1017/S1752971914000128
Devetak, Richard (2014). Waltz, the state of international relations, and theoretical abstraction: Contextualising a legacy. Australian Journal of Political Science, 49 (3), 552-557. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2014.937375
Devetak, Richard, Kaempf, Sebastian and Weber, Martin (2013). Conversations in International Relations: interview with Andrew Linklater. International Relations, 27 (4), 481-505. doi: 10.1177/0047117813502504
Devetak, Richard (2012). Histories and crises: Modern, global, natural and social. Global Change, Peace and Security, 24 (1), 31-35. doi: 10.1080/14781158.2012.641274
Devetak, Richard (2011). The moralization of international politics: Humanitarian intervention and its critics. Quaderni di Relazioni Internazionali, 14, 70-85.
Devetak, Richard (2011). Law of nations as reason of state: Diplomacy and the balance of power in Vattel's Law of Nations. Parergon, 28 (2), 105-128. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0080
Devetak, Richard (2010). Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Edited by Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 320p. $19.95.The International Struggle for New Human Rights. Edited by Clifford Bob. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 208p. $22.50.Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention. By Eric A. Heinze. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. 220p. $65.00. Perspectives on Politics, 8 (04), 1182-1184. doi: 10.1017/s1537592710002331
Devetak, Richard (2010). Review of Humanitarianism in question: Politics, power, ethics, Edited by Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss. Perspectives on Politics, 8 (4), 1182-1184. doi: 10.1017/S153759271000232X
Devetak, R (2010). The International Struggle for New Human Rights.. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, 8 (4), 1182-1184.
Devetak, R (2010). Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention.. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, 8 (4), 1182-1184.
Chiaruzzi, Michele and Devetak, Richard (2010). The three traditions in history: A dialogic text. Global Change, Peace and Security, 22 (1), 121-128. doi: 10.1080/14781150903488061
Devetak, Richard (2009). After the event: Don DeLillo's White Noise and September 11 narratives. Review of International Studies, 35 (4), 795-815. doi: 10.1017/S0260210509990192
Curley, Melissa, Davies, Sara, Devetak, Richard and Kaempf, Seb (2009). Twentieth anniversary special issue. International relations: An oceanic perspective. Global Change, Peace and Security, 21 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14781150802659218
Devetak, Richard (2009). An Australian Outlook on International Affairs? The Evolution of International Relations Theory in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55 (3), 335-359. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2009.1521a.x
Devetak, Richard (2008). Foucault, Discipline and Raison d'Etat in Early Modern Europe. International Political Sociology, 2 (3), 270-272. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00049_4.x
Devetak, Richard, Burke, Anthony and George, Jim (2007). Preface and acknowledgments. An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives, xxi-xxii. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139168557.001
Devetak, Richard (2007). An introduction to international relations: The origins and changing agendas of a discipline. An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives, 1-16. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139168557.002
Devetak, Richard (2007). Between Kant and Pufendorf; Humanitarian intervention, statist anti-cosmopolitanism and critical international theory. Review of International Studies, 33 (Special Issue), 151-174. doi: 10.1017/S0260210507007449
Devetak, Richard and True, Jacqui (2006). Diplomatic divergence in the antipodes: Globalisation, foreign policy and state identity in Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Political Science, 41 (2), 241-256. doi: 10.1080/10361140600672451
Devetak, Richard (2005). The Gothic scene of international relations: ghosts, monsters, terror and the sublime after September 11. Review of International Studies, 31 (4), 621-643. doi: 10.1017/S0260210505006662
Devetak, Richard (2004). In fear of refugees: The politics of border protection in Australia. International Journal of Human Rights, 8 (1), 101-109. doi: 10.1080/1364298042000212565
Devetak, Richard and Higgott, Richard (1999). Justice unbound? Globalization, states and the transformation of the social bond. International Affairs, 75 (3), 483-498. doi: 10.1111/1468-2346.00089
Devetak, Richard (1999). Theories, practices and postmodernism in international relations 1. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 12 (2), 61-76. doi: 10.1080/09557579908400243
Devetak, Richard (1995). The project of modernity and international relations theory. Millennium-journal of International Studies, 24 (1), 27-51. doi: 10.1177/03058298950240010401
Reference Entry
Devetak, Richard (2010). Hugo Grotius.