Barry Buzan

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Barry Gordon Buzan (born April 28, 1946 in London ) is a professor emeritus of international relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin University . Until 2012 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at LSE. He developed the Regional Security Complex Theory and, together with Ole Wæver, is a central figure at the Copenhagen School .

Life

Buzan's family emigrated to Canada in 1954. He has both British and Canadian citizenship. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1968 and received his PhD from the LSE in 1973. He describes his political views as "social democratic" and his religious views as "extreme secularist".

From 1988 to 2002 he was project leader at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was Research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster and prior to that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick . In 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan and in 1997/1998 Olof Palme visiting professor in Sweden.

From 1988 to 1990 he was Chairman of the British International Studies Association , from 1993 to 1994 Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association and from 1994 to 1998 founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee . From 1999 to 2011 he was coordinator of a project to revitalize the English School and from 2004 to 2008 editor of the European Journal of International Relations . In 1998 he was appointed a fellow at the British Academy and in 2001 at the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences .

Buzan's wife, Deborah Skinner, is an artist and the youngest daughter of psychologist BF Skinner . His brother is the author Tony Buzan .

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

  • People, States & Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983; revised 2nd edition 1991)
  • The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993) with Charles Jones and Richard Little
  • Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1997) with Ole Waever , Jaap De Wilde
  • The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998) with Eric Herring
  • The Mind Map Book (2000) with Tony Buzan
  • Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003) with Ole Waever
  • The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004)
  • The Evolution of International Security Studies (2009) with Lene Hansen
  • Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia (2010) with Amitav Acharya
  • "An Introduction to the English School of International Relations: The Societal Approach" (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Buzan, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buzan, Barry Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London