Tim Dunne is Professor of International Relations in the School of Political Science and International Studies, and Research Director at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland. Previously he spent seven years at the University of Exeter where he was Head of Politics and Dean of the Social Sciences. He has written and edited ten books, which include Terror in our Time (co-authored with Ken Booth; Routledge, 2012), and an edited collection of essays on Liberal World Orders (Oxford University Press, 2013). He currently serves on the governing council of the International Studies Association.

In this seminar, and building on arguments advanced in a new book on the idea of 'special responsibilities' in world politics, Prof Dunne will address the problem that decisive R2P action is being hampered by the absence of a consensus on how the burdens and costs associated should be distributed. The argument will be made that, with better burden-sharing arrangements, great powers will be more inclined to accept the further movement of R2P in the direction of an obligatory regime.

Venue: Dean’s Seminar Room, Humanities Building, 7-14 (Building 2 on the campus map)
Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Time: 09h00-11h00
RSVP: Ms Wilma Martin ([email protected])