Professor

Director, Graduate Program

2008-09 UBC Killam Teaching Prize Recipient

Office: Buchanan C415
Office phone: 604-822-3021
Email: rprice(at)politics.ubc.ca

Richard Price (Ph.D., Cornell) specializes in international relations. His research interests focus on the role of norms in world politics, particularly norms limiting warfare; constructivist international relations theory; normative international relations theory; and the politics of international law. His publications include The Chemical Weapons Taboo (Cornell University Press, 1997), The United Nations and Global Security (with Mark Zacher, co-editor, 2004), Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and numerous articles in International Organization, World Politics, International Security, European Journal of International Relations, and the Review of International Studies among others. His teaching interests include courses on world politics, the politics of international law, ethics in world politics, and international relations theory.

Courses, 2008-09

• First Term: Political Science 260: Introduction to Global Politics
  
• Second Term: Political Science 561A, Core Graduate Seminar in International Relations
  

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Ph.D. Supervisions

Completed

Scott Watson (entering class of 2001). Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Securitisation of Humanitarian Migration” defended July 2006. Scott began a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria in September 2006.

Karen Winzoski (entering class of 2001). Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Influence of Industry and Scientific Communities on US Chemical and Biological Weapons Policy" defended April 2007. Karen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. In 2006-07 Karen was Lecturer in the Government Department at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and 2007-08 was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Whitman College.

Radoslav Dimitrov (University of Minnesota, Ph.D.). Rado is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Current

Alana Tiemessen (entering class of 2003). Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Normative Structure of Transitional Justice." University Graduate Fellowship and Canadian Consortium on Human Security Fellowship recipient.

Nevin Aiken, (entering class of 2004). Ph.D. Dissertation: "Overcoming Intractability: Intergroup Reconciliation and the Politics of Identity in Transitional Justice." SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipient and Canadian Consortium on Human Security Fellowship recipient.

Nicolas Dragojlovic (entering class of 2004). Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Psychology of Persuasion in Global Politics: Framing, Identity and International Norms." University Graduate Fellowship recipient (2004-07) and winner of Li Tze Fong Memorial Fellowship (2007-08).

Daisaku Higashi (entering class of 2006). Ph.D. Dissertation Research is on the legitimacy of peacebuilding efforts. University Graduate Fellowship Recipient (2006-07), Killam Predoctoral Fellowship recipient (2009-10), and Toyota Foundation Research Grant for field research in Afghanistan and East Timor (2008).

Michael Cohen (entering class of 2006). Ph.D. Dissertation: "Nuclear Proliferation and the Use of Force." Thurlow Scholarship in Peace and Disarmament Studies recipient, and recipient of Simons Foundation / DFAIT Graduate Research Award in Disarmament, Non-Prolilferation and Arms Control (2008) and University Graduate Fellowships (2008-10).

Adam Bower (entering class of 2006): Ph.D. Dissertation: "Norm Development Without the Great Powers? Assessing the Anti-Personnel Landmine and Intenrational Criminal Court Treaties." SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Recipient and Simons Foundation / DFAIT Graduate Research Award in Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control (2008).

Ph.D. Committee Member

Current

Justin Nankivell (Entering class of 2004): Ph.D. Dissertation research is on the interplay of international law and politics in the Northwest passage dispute.

David Seekings (Entering class of 2004). Ph.D. Dissertation research is on the ethics of foreign health aid.

Post-Doctoral Fellow Supervisions

2006-07

Veronica Kitchen, Ph.D., Brown University 2006. SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. Research interests include the role of identity in security communities. Veronica is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Jonathan Havercroft, Ph.D., University of Minnesota 2005. Center of International Relations Security and Defence Forum Post-Doctoral Fellow. Research interests include indigenous self-determination and global sovereignty norms, and developing norms regarding weaponization of space and space security. Jonathan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma.

Karthika Sasikumar, Ph.D., Cornell University 2006. Simons Center Post-Doctoral Fellow. Research interests include Indian nuclear policy and security policy. Karthika has a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Jose State University.

MA Supervisions

Ryder McKeown. "Norm Regress: American Revisionism and the Slow Death of the Torture Norm." Defended June 7, 2007. A revised version of this thesis has been published in the scholarly journal International Relations, 23:1 (2009), pp.5-25. Ryder is currently a Policy Officer in the Department of Defence in Ottawa.

Daisaku Higashi, “The Battle of the Peace-building Norm After the Iraq War” Defended July 2006. Daisaku entered our Ph.D. program in September 2006.

Michael Cohen, “Nuclear weapons and the 1991 Gulf War: Nuclear Taboo or Risk Aversion?" Successfully defended August 2006. Michael entered our Ph.D. program in September 2006.

Azur Stankovic, “Enforcing Justice: The influence of norms on the efficacy of International criminal tribunals.” September 2005.

Jeremy Brock, “What Kind of Peace Do We Seek? Military Interventions in the Post-Cold War Era, 1999-2004.” 2004.

Luisa Navas, “Antipersonnel Mines in Colombia: Engaging Non-State actors through Norm Compliance and Construction.” August, 2004. Currently employed in Bogota as Advisor to the Vice Minister of Defence for Strategy and Planning, Ministry of Defense, Government of Columbia.

Nicolas Dragojlovic, “Structural Change and Human Rights Norms.” August 2004. Nick entered our Ph.D. program in September 2005.

Miriam Anderson, "Explaining the International Community's Insistence on Real Property Restitution in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia 1995-2003: Exploring Normative Foundations," 2003. Miriam entered the Ph.D. program at Cambridge University in 2004. Her master's thesis will be published in revised form as"Explaining the International Community's Insistence on Real Property Restitution in Bosnia-Herzogovina and Croatia 1995-2003: Exploring Normative Foundations," in Scott Leckie, ed., Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Volume II, Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers (in press).

Michael Schroeder, “Getting the ‘Right’ Agreement: How Norms Influence The Behaviour of International Mediators.” July 2004. Michael entered the Ph.D. program in Political Science at George Washington University in 2004.

Kevin Warrian, US Biological Warfare Policy, August 2003.

• Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics (editor). Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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• The United Nations and Global Security (with Mark Zacher, co-editor). Palgrave, 2004.
• The Chemical Weapons Taboo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997

• "The Ethics of Constructivism," in Duncan Snidal and Christian Reus-Smit (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2008).
  
• "Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics," International Organization 62 (Spring 2008), pp.191-220.
  
• "Nuclear Weapons Don't Kill People, Rogues Do," International Politics, Vol.44, No.2-3 (March-May 2007), Special lssue on Crises of International Legitimacy, pp.232-249.
• "How to Detect Ideas and Their Effects," pp.252-265 in Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin, eds., Contextual Political Analysis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
  
• "Hegemony and Multilateralism," International Journal, Vol.60, No.1 (Winter 2004-05), pp.109-130.
• "From Politics to Law: Emerging Customary Norms and Anti-Personnel Landmines," in Christian Reus-Smit, ed., The Politics of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.106-130.
• "International Tribunals and the Criminalization of Violence," with Joanne Lee, co-author, in Mark Zacher and Richard Price, The United Nations and Global Security, Mark Zacher and Richard Price (eds.), Palgrave, 2004.
• "The United Nations Redux?" in Mark Zacher and Richard Price, The United Nations and Global Security, Mark Zacher and Richard Price (eds.), Palgrave-St. Martin's Press (2004).
• "Transnational Civil Society and Advocacy in World Politics," World Politics 55:4 (July 2003), pp.579-606
• Correspondence ("Isms and Schisms: Culturalism versus Realism in Security Studies"), International Security 24:1 (Summer 1999), pp.169-172.
• "From War Fighting to Crime Fighting: Transforming the American National Security State," International Studies Review 3:3 (Fall 2001), pp.31-52.
• "Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Landmines," International Organization 52:3 (Summer 1998), pp.613-644.
• "Dangerous Liaisons? Constructivism and Critical International Theory" (with Christian Reus-Smit, co-author), European Journal of International Relations, 4:3 (September 1998), pp. 259-294.
• "Compliance with International Norms and the Mines Taboo," pp.340-363 in Maxwell Cameron, Brian Tomlin and Robert Lawson, eds. To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• "A Genealogy of the Chemical Weapons Taboo," International Organization, 49:1 (1995), pp.73-104.