Section: Student Profiles
Robert Duncan
- Name Robert Duncan
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Edinburgh UK
- R.J.Duncan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/robert_duncan
Qualifications
- BA Politics (Stirling University)
- Msc International Conflict and Cooperation (Stirling University)
Working PhD Title
A Theoretical Study of (Mostly) Radical Human Rights and Just War Things
Research Interests
Generally, I’m interested in theoretical work that questions core assumptions commonly overlooked in traditional thinking about international relations. The research I’m about to engage in will theorize, using cosmopolitan theories of just war, outside of statist paradigms, to what extent a citizen, and resident, of a state complicit to, or in execution of, an unjust war can legitimately act as an individual to protect the human rights of others when they are violated by her own intervening states actions.
Further to this I’m interested in the influence of ideology, as held by decision-makers and also in its dominant, operational forms, as a manipulative tool used to justify international interventions to domestic electorates. And, I have an on-going interest in the internal politics of Bolivia and Venezuela, since the election, in both countries, of leaders representing interests of indigenous communities.
Supervisors
Prof. Cecile Fabre
Research Group Membership
Political Theory Research Group
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