Matthew S. Weinert Vitae

Ph.D., International Relations and Political Theory, November 2002: Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; Denver, CO
M.A., International Affairs, May 1994: The American University; Washington, DC
B.A., International Affairs, Magna Cum Laude with Distinction, May 1991: Boston University; Boston, MA

Ph.D. Dissertation, with Distinction: Democratic Sovereignty
M.A. Thesis: Space for World Order: Reconceptualizations for Late-Modern Publics
B.A. Thesis: Conflict Management: United Nations Experience and Innovation

Forthcoming: 2009: "Ethics and Sovereignty," The International Studies Compendium Project, International Ethics Volume (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell); expected publication: December

Books and Articles: 2009: "From State Security to Human Security," The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Affairs (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, September 2009), pp. 151-165; 2009: "Popularizing International Politics: Human Agency and the Politics of World Order," Perspectives: Central European Review of International Affairs, vol. 17(1), Spring: 5-26.; 2008: "'Being' Witness to Human Rights Abuse," Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice; Volume 20(1), Spring: 84-91.; 2007: Democratic Sovereignty: Authority, State and Legitimacy in a Globalizing World. London: University College of London Press; 2007: “Bridging the Human Rights – Sovereignty Divide: Theoretical Foundations of a Democratic Sovereignty,” Human Rights Review, vol. 8(1), January-March: 5-32; 2006: “Democratic Sovereignty and The Responsibility to Protect,” Journal of International Political Theory (formerly known as Politics and Ethics Review); vol. 2(2), October: 139-58; 1994: “Making Space for World Order,” The Graduate Review; Washington, DC: American University Press, vol. 1(6): 22-27; 1992: “Peacekeeping and the Gulf War: UN Action in Perspective,” United Nations Association of Greater Boston Forum; Boston: United Nations Association, Spring

Peer Reviewed Review Essays: Fall 2006: “Adolf Eichmann: Understanding Evil in Form and Content;” Human Rights & Human Welfare; vol. 6: 151-164; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2006/weinert-2006.pdf
: February 2005: “Globalizing Democracy or Democratizing Globalism?” Human Rights & Human Welfare; volume 5: 17-30; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2005/weinert-2005.pdf.; July 2004: “Negotiating Toleration: Engagement, Enforcement, and the Politics of Recognition,” a review essay; Human Rights & Human Welfare; volume 4: 101-113; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2004/weinert-b-2004.pdf; April 2004: “Cosmopolitanism-and Cruelty-on Trial,” Human Rights & Human Welfare; volume 4: 33-43; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2004/weinert-2004.pdf

Peer Reviewed Book Notes
: May 2008: Sandra MacLean, et. al. (eds), A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralisms, in Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/booknotes/2008/weinert-2008c.html; April 2008: Charles T. Call (ed), Constructing Justice and Security after War, in Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/booknotes/2008/weinert-2008b.html; March 2008: Steven Wheatley, Democracy, Minorities, and International Law; Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2008/weinert-2008a.html; March 2008: Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam (eds), Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period; Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2008/weinert-2008.html; January 2007: S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong, Human Security and the UN: A Critical History, Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2007/weinert-2007a.html; January 2007: Mark Freeman, Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness; Human Rights & Human Welfare http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2007/weinert-2007.html; January 2004: Slavery and Emancipation, eds. Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago; Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2004/weinert-2004b.html; January 2004: Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary eds. Howard de Nike, John Quigley, and Kenneth Robinson; Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2004/weinert-2004a.html; October 2003: Geoffrey Robertson,Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice; Human Rights & Human Welfare; http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/booknotes/2003/weinert-2003.html

Review Essay for Human Rights & Human Welfare (peer-reviewed review essay)
"Human Security's Pluralist Solidarism: Re-Framing the Pluralist - Solidarist Debate," International Relations

10/09: Thinking Outside the Anarchical Box: International Studies Association - Northeast; Baltimore, Maryland
04/09: Compassionate Security: George W. Bush's Untold Human Security Agenda: Conference on the United States in the Global System; Newark, DE
03/09: Roundtable Participant: International Justice Across the Disciplines: 41^stAnnual International Studies Association; New York, New York
10/08: Martti Ahtisaari and the Nobel Peace Prize: 2^nd Annual University of Delaware Nobel Prize Symposium
10/08: Human Security’s Pluralist Solidarism: Re-Articulating the Pluralist – Solidarist Debate: International Studies Association—Northeast; Baltimore, Maryland
07/08: Popularizing International Politics: Human Agency and the Politics of World Order: 2^nd Global International Studies Conference; Ljubljana, Slovenia
04/08: Tea with Mussolini: Dictatorships and Democracies: University of Delaware Honors Program Student – Faculty Salon Series
4/08: From State Security to Human Security: 66^th Annual Midwestern Political Science Association Conference; Chicago, Illinois
4/08: Chair and Discussant: Power and Institutional Concerns: 66^th Annual Midwestern Political Science Association Conference; Chicago, Illinois
4/07: Disaggregating International Politics: Human Security and World Order: 65^th Annual Midwestern Political Science Association Conference; Chicago, Illinois
4/07: Discussant: Economic and Social Integration: 65^thAnnual Midwestern Political Science Association Conference; Chicago, Illinois
12/05: Sovereignty and The Responsibility to Protect: Theoretical Reflections on the UN Report: British International Studies Association; St. Andrews, Scotland
6/05: Chair and Discussant, The Perplexities of Cosmopolitan Law: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Humanitarian Intervention: Law and Society Association; Las Vegas, Nevada
3/03: Chair and Discussant,Emancipation, Sovereignty, and Supranational Institutions: Western Political Science Association; Denver, Colorado
11/02: Democratic Justice: Normative Governance at Home and Abroad: 34^th Annual Northeast Political Science Association Conference; Providence, Rhode Island
3/02: Sovereignty, Justice, and International Relations: 43^rdAnnual International Studies Association Conference; New Orleans, Louisiana
11/01: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Evolution of International Relations Theory: 33^rd Annual Northeast Political Science Association Conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3/01: Sovereignty: Career of a Concept: 81^st Annual Southwestern Social Science Association Conference; Forth Worth, Texas
10/99: Discussant,The New World Order and the Fate of Democracy: 2^nd Annual Conference on Divided Nations; Metropolitan State College of Denver
4/96: Inside/Outside Israel: Zionism as (Anti) Democratic Ideology: 5^th Annual International Conference on Democracy and Democratization; University of Denver

Reframing World Order: Global Governance, Human Security, and the Ethhics of Care (tentative title for second book)
"The UN Security Council and Human Security: Expanding Boundaries with Thematic Resolutions," co-authored with Nicholas Wicks (UD undergraduate student)

Assistant Professor: Dept. of Political Science and International Relations; University of Delaware; 9/07 - present
Director of Internships; 9/09 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor: Dept. of Political Science and International Relations; University of Delaware; 8/06 – 6/07
Marsico Lecturer: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Division; University of Denver; 9/04 – 6/06
Instructor: Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; 9/02 – 6/04
Teaching Assistant: Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; 9/98 – 11/98 and 9/99 – 11/99
Instructor: University of Colorado-Denver, CU-Succeed Program; 8/99 – 12/99
Research Assistant: Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; 9/97 – 12/98
Supervisor: Jack Donnelly, Andrew Mellon Professor; Director, Ph.D. Program
Instructor: The Metropolitan State College of Denver; 8/97 – 5/98

Grants Writer (1/01-8/02) Grants Assistant (9/00-1/01): The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Houston, TX
Grant Administrator: Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; (10/99 - 8/00)
Administrator: Asian Chamber of Commerce; Denver, CO; (1/00 - 8/00)
Political Affairs: U.S. Department of State; U.S. Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; (5/93 - 9/93)

Normative (legal and moral) dimensions of global political change; global governance; international law; international organization; sovereignty; history of the state; international systems theory; international ethics; political theory

POSC 240-011: Introduction to International Relations
POSC 240-080: Introduction to International Relations (Honors)
POSC 363: International Law and Organization (Honors and regular sections)
POSC 390: Honors Colloquium, "Portrait of a Pariah: The Politics of Exclusion"
POSC 408: International Organizations
POSC 409: Topics in World Politics: International Criminal Law
POSC 448: International Relations Theory
POSC 463: The UN in the World
POSC 842: International Organization
POSC 843: Global Governance

Courses at University of Denver

     Introduction to World Politics
     Introduction to International Politics
     Global Issues
     Introduction to International Law
     Law and Society in a Global Age
     Prosecution, Penance, Pinochet: Thinking about International Criminal Law
     Great Powers in International Relations
     Dictators and Despots: Tyranny in the 21 ^st Century
     The Human Monster: Illiberal Regimes, Illiberal Selves
     Portrait of a Pariah: The Politics of Exclusion
     B.A. Honors Thesis Seminar
     International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Individual (graduate)
     Sovereignty: Past, Present, Future (graduate)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Member, Undergraduate POSCIR Committee, 2008 - 09
Elected Member, POSCIR Executive Committee, 2007 - 08
Member, Search Committee for POSCIR Assistant Professor of Public Law, Fall 2007
Chair, Global Governance Web Portal, 2007 - present
Member, Ad hoc Committee for POSCIR website redesign, Summer 2007

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Elected Faculty Senator, UD Faculty Senate, 2008 - 2010
Faculty Advisor, World Peas (for World Peace), 2007 - present
Faculty Advisor, Youth Votes, 2007 - 08

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Elected Member, Governing Council, International Studies Association—Northeast, 11/08 – 11/10
Faculty Steering Committe, Journal of Advanced International Studies, 03/09 - present
Editorial Review Board member, Human Rights & Human Welfare, 03/09 - 12/10
Manuscript Referee, International Studies Quarterly, 2008
Book Manuscript Referee, Continuum Publishers, International Law division, 2008
Book Manuscript Referee, Aspen Publishers, International Law division, 2008
National Security Agency seminar, "Globalization and National Security, 06/07 and 06/08
Referee, Politics and Ethics Review, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
Referee, Human Rights Review, Loyola University, 2007

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Studies Association - Northeast, 9/08 - present
International Studies Association, 9/04 - present
American Political Science Association, 6/01 - present
Midwest Political Science Association, 12/06 - 3/09

AWARDS AND HONORS

University of Delaware, General University Research Grant, 2008 – 09
University of Delaware, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Enrichment Research Award, 07/08
University of Delaware, Center for International Studies Travel Award, 07/08
International Studies Association, Travel Award, 07/08

Research Mentor, UD Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant; summer 2008

joint student-faculty research on UN Security Council consideration of non-country specific security threats

Recipient, University of Denver Summer Partners in Scholarship (PINS); summer 2004

awarded an undergraduate research assistant

Research Mentor, University of Denver Summer Partners in Scholarship (PINS); summer 2005

supervised undergraduate research on reducing ethnic tensions in post-genocidal Rwanda

Recognition, Who's Who Among American Teachers & Educators, 2006 - 07
Recognition for Outstanding Teaching, DU Sigma Iota Rho Honor Society, January 2004
Recognition for Outstanding Teaching, DU Delta Zeta Sorority, November 2003

Distinction on Doctoral Dissertation, 8/02
Distinction, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams, 5/97
Distinction, M.A. Comprehensive Exams, 5/94
Magna Cum Laude with Distinction, B.A., 5/91