FASS Staff Profile

PROFESSOR TERRY NARDIN
DIRECTOR OF THE COMMON CURRICULUM, YALE-NUS COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT of POLITICAL SCIENCE

Appointment:
PROFESSOR
Office:
RC3/01-03D
Email:
tnardin@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
66013417
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Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polntw/
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Brief Introduction

I joined the Political Science Department in 2006 and served as Head from 2006 until 2014. Since 2015 I've also been teaching in Yale-NUS College where I am responsible for the common curriculum and also coordinate a course in Philosophy and Political Thought. Before coming to NUS I was UWM Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. I studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and then New York University and have a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. I've been a Visitor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, and Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. 

My broad areas of interest are political theory and international relations. At the moment I am especially interested in comparative ethics and the history of international thought. In NUS I regularly teach an honors-year course on Contemporary Political Theory and in Yale-NUS College a common curriculum course on Philosophy and Political Thought.

I am the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton University Press 1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Penn State Press 2001). I've edited or co-edited other books, including Traditions of International Ethics (Cambridge University Press 1992); The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton University Press 1996); International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Princeton University Press 1998); International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (Cambridge University Press 2002); Humanitarian Intervention (New York University Press 2006); Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11 (Indiana University Press 2006); Michael Oakeshott's Lectures in the History of Political Thought (Imprint Academic 2006); Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2015); and Rationality in Poltics and Its Limits (Routledge 2016). 


Some recent and forthcoming papers

Copies of some of these papers can be found by following the links below. Some other papers are here: https://nus.academia.edu/TerryNardin

“Kant’s Philosophy of Right and International Relations Theory,” International Relations 2017, in press.

“The New Realism and the Old,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20(3) 2017, 306–319.

“Michael Oakeshott,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/oakeshott/

"Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars," in The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Poltical Theory, ed. Jacob T. Levy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Available online December 2015.

“Oakeshott as a Moralist,” in Noël O’Sullivan, ed., Oakeshott's Place in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought (Imprint Academic, forthcoming).

"Realism, Republicanism, and Human Rights,” in Henning Glaser, ed., The Emergence, Reproduction and Hegemonization of and by Human Rights Regimes (Baden-Baden: Nomos, forthcoming).

"Oakeshott on Theory and Practice," Special Issue on Rationality in Politics and Its Limits, Global Discourse 5(2) 2015, 310–322, and reprinted T. Nardin, ed. Rationality in Politics and Its Limits (Routledge 2016):  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Y4nshq2pXKkp6XJRVQRC/full

"The Diffusion of Sovereignty,” History of European Ideas 41(1) 2015, 89–102:  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BwPby97bPEQ2aBzAtbJK/full

“Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative,” in Terry Nardin, ed., Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), 23–37.  A video of the talk on which this paper is based can be found here:  http://vimeo.com/53984187

“Realism and Right: Sketch for a Theory of Global Justice,” in Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs: Arguments from the Middle Ground, ed. Cornelia Navari (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 43­–63.

“Historian or Philosopher? Ian Hunter on Kant and Vattel,” History of European Ideas 40(1) (2013), 122–134. 

“From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect: Michael Walzer on Humanitarian Intervention,” European Journal of International Law 23 (2013), 67–82.

“Humanitarian Intervention,” in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

“International Relations: Philosophical and Methodological Debates,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, ed. Byron Kaldis (Sage Publications, 2013).

“Rhetoric and Political Language,” in The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott, ed. Ephraim Podoksik (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 177–98.

“International Political Theory,” in Theories of International Relations, 5th edition, ed. Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 291–318. A revised chapter for the 6th edition is forthcoming in 2017.

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