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Dr Amanda Russell Beattie

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations


Room: NW 810
Phone: 0121 204 3080
Email: a.r.beattie@aston.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • B.A. (Hons) McGill University, Political Science & Religious Studies
  • Ph.D. The University of St. Andrews, International Relations

Teaching

  • History of Political Philosophy
  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Ethics & International Relations

Research interests

I am interested in the problem of human suffering in world politics.  In particular, I examine this problem from a pre-modern interpretation of natural law morality in order to develop an alternative account of morality and justice relevant to a wide variety of topics in contemporary International Relations. I am therefore interested in international political thought and political theory.  At the same time I have a broad interest in the normative discourses of international security studies and the intersection of international politics and ethics. 

Publications

  • Amanda Russell Beattie & Anthony F. Lang, Jr. (eds.) War, Terrorism & Torture: Rethinking the Rules of International Security, (Routledge, 2008).   

  • “The Ends of Action: Rules, Trust & Morality in International Affairs” in War, Terrorism & Torture: Rethinking the Rules of International Security, (Routledge, 2008).  Amanda Russell Beattie & Anthony Lang, Jr. (eds.), (Routledge, 2008). 

  • Justice & Morality: The Problem of Human Suffering (Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming, Ashgate Press).

  • “Roger Ruston’s Human Rights and the Image of God Reviewed,” Politics and Ethics Review, Vol. 2, no. 2, 2006. 

Conference papers

  • 'Being Human or Human Being: Dominion Naturale, Agency, and the Ethics of Love', presented at the 2006 International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 22, 2006, San Diego, United States of America. 

  • 'The New Natural Law & International Relations', presented at the 2004 British International Studies Association Annual Conference, December 20-22, 2004, Warwick, England.

  • 'Recovering the Ontological: The New Natural Law & International Relations', presented at the Standing Group on International Relations Pan-European International Relations Conference, September 9-11, 2004, The Hague, Netherlands.

  • 'Security and Insecurity: Intrinsically Valuing Life and the Threat of Terrorism', article presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, March 17-21, 2004, Montreal Canada. 

Media and Presentations

  • The Globe and Mail.  'Save the United Nations.' Letters to the Editor.  March 20, 2003.

  • CBC Radio One. Guest Speaker on The House, hosted by Anthony Germain.  March 23, 2002.