Everything about Barry Buzan totally explained
Barry Buzan is a Professor of International Relations at the
London School of Economics, and honorary professor at the
University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of
international relations. He defines his interests as:
- the conceptual and regional aspects of international security;
- international history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory;
- international relations theory, particularly structural realism;
- international society, and the 'English School' approach to International Relations.
He took his first degree at the
University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973).
From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the
Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the
University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the
University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the
International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.
He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. Since 1999 he's been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004 he's editor of the
European Journal of International Relations. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the
British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
Mind map writer
Tony Buzan is his brother, with whom he co-authored the 'Mind Map Book'. Barry Buzan's wife, Deborah, is an artist, and the youngest daughter of psychologist
B. F. Skinner.
Works
Seabed Politics (1976)
Change and the Study of International Relations: The Evaded Dimension (1981) editor with R. J. Barry Jones
People, States & Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983; revised second edition 1991)
An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987)
The International Politics of Deterrence (1987) editor
Anticipating the Future: Twenty Millennia of Human Progress (1988) with Gerald Segal
European Security Order Recast: Scenarios for the Post-Cold War Era (1990)
The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993) with Charles Jones and Richard Little
Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1997) with Ole Waever, Jaap De Wilde
The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998) with Eric Herring
International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000) with Richard Little
Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003) with Ole Waever
Does China Matter?: A Reassessment (2004) editor with Rosemary Foot
From International to World Society: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalization (2004)
The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics In The Twenty-First Century (2004)
Other
Barry Buzan teaches the IR100 course (The Structure of International Society) and IR 435 (International Security) at the LSE.
Books with Tony Buzan
The Mind Map Book (2000)Further Information
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