Richard Beardsworth presented in February 2010 ‘Rethinking World Order: Cosmopolitan Vision and Realist Dilemma’ at CERI, SciencesPo, Paris, and at the political science department, Yale University; and ‘For a Cosmopolitan Politics of the Lesser Violence’ at the International Studies Association, New Orleans. His forthcoming book Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory is published with Polity Press, Cambridge (Fall 2010).

Richard Beardsworth works in an interdisciplinary manner between the domains of political theory and international relations and focuses on relations between value, law and power in world politics. He is presently concerned with advancing the concerns of a minimal cosmopolitan vision at the global level and has written at length on the importance, and difficulty of relating ethical responsibility to power politics in a world dogged by global collective action problems. Future work considers state responsibility to minimal cosmopolitan commitments and republican example within an uncertain multipolar world.

Richard Beardsworth is director of the Research Center in the Division of International Politics, Economics and Public Policy and chairs the Working Paper Series in the Social Sciences.

Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory (Cambridge, UK, Polity Press: forthcoming 2010).

Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler. In Cultural Politics, 6/2, July 2010.

A Secular Response to Political Messianism. In A. Bradley (ed), Politics to Come: Power, Secularity and the Messianic (London, Continuum: 2010).

Tragedy, World Politics and Ethical Community. In N. Lebow and T. Erskine (eds), Tragedy and International Relations (London, Macmillan: 2010).

Postmodernism. In Encyclopedia of Political Science (Sage: 2009).

Cosmopolitanism and Realism: Towards a Theoretical Convergence? In Millennium: Critical Journal of International Relations, 38/1, 2008.

Hannah Arendt and Political Moralism. In International Politics, 45/4, 2008.

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