Richard Beardsworth

Richard Beardsworth delivered the keynote speech at a UNESCO-organized youth seminar in Cairo in June entitled "Ethical Dilemmas and Democracy." He participated in May in the UK launch of Academics Against Poverty at the Global Ethics Centre, University of Birmingham and has since joined the steering committee for a Global Poverty Consensus Report targeted at the aftermath of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. His article "National Interest, Interdependence and State Responsibility: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism" is presently under review for International Theory. His paper "Political Vision in International Relations" will be given at the Millennium Annual Conference, London in October. 

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 advances the project 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. Present research work considers state responsibility to minimal cosmopolitan commitments and republican example within an uncertain world of plural sites of power.

Research fields: international political theory, global policy, cosmopolitan political ethics.

1990s research work: the political dimension of deconstruction (Derrida and the Political, Routledge: 1996; Nietzsche, Belles Lettres: 1998, numerous articles on critical theory), the philosophy of technology (general editor, Tekhnema: Journal of Philosophy and Technology 1992-2001, translator of Bernard Stiegler), and globalization studies.

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.

 Recent articles

Cosmopolitan Realism. 11,000 word article submitted to International Theory (15/12/2010)

Culture and the Specificity of the Political: A Response to Fred Dallmayr. International Political Theory, 8/1, September 2011

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

Recent conference Papers

When States lead: State Responsibility in a Globalized World. Paper accepted for International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, March 2011 (co-chair of panel on ‘Cosmopolitanism and Global Governance’)

Discussant, ‘Giving up Nuclear Arms’, Centre de recherches et d’études internationales, Sciences Po, Paris, January 2011

Cosmopolitanism and State Responsibility. Political Science Department, Edinburgh University, January 2011

Cosmopolitan realism for the 21^st Century. Centre for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt University, December 2010

Culture, and the Specificity of the Political: Response to Fred Dallymer’s ‘Comparative Political Theory’, International Political Theory conference, St Andrews University, July 2010

Can the EU be a global leader? European and International Studies Seminar, held by European Voice, Committee of the Regions, Brussels, February 2010

For a Cosmopolitan Politics of the Lesser Violence. International Studies Association, February 2010

‘Re-conceiving the State in International Relations’, chair and discussant, International Studies Association, February 2010

Rethinking World Order: Cosmopolitan Vision and Realist Dilemma. Political Science Department, Yale University, and CERI, Sciences Po, Paris, February 2010

Other research-linked activities

Organizer of Working-Paper Series in Social Sciences: see http://www.aup.fr/graduate/mpp-maia/conferences/wpseries.htm

Fairly regular participant in television debates on France 24 on world politics. 

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