Staff Profile:Dominik Zaum

Name:

Dr Dominik Zaum

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

I am a Reader in International Relations, teaching both undergraduate and Masters modules. My teaching includes a Part III module on the United Nations and International Order, and graduate classes in Conflict and Conflict Resolution, and International Security Studies. I am also the programme director for the MA Programme in Oman, and a board member of the Kosovo Stability Initiative.

 

Areas of Interest:

• Global Governance and the United Nations

• Post-Conflict Statebuilding

• Legitimacy in International Relations

• I am currently co-directing with Prof. Mats Berdal (King's College London) a research project on Power after Peace: The Political Economy of Post-Conflict Statebuilding, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Publications:

Books

• (2008), The United Nations Security Council and War, co-edited with Vaughan Lowe, Sir Adam Roberts, and Jennifer Welsh (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Reviewed in Foreign Affairs (2008), International Affairs Vol.89/1 (2009), and Survival 51/1 (2009).
• (2008), Selective Security: War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945, Adelphi Paper 395, co-authored with Adam Roberts (Abingdon/London: Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies).
• (2007), The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Reviewed in the American Journal of International Law Vol. 102 (April 2008), Foreign Affairs (Nov./Dec. 2007) and International Affairs, Vol.83, No.5 (Sep. 2007).

Articles and Book chapters

• (2009) 'Two Decades of Military Interventions: Questions of Law, Morality and Effectiveness', British Academy Review Issue 14.
• (2009) International Conflict Prevention: lessons from statebuilding in Kosovo (Institute for Public Policy Research: London).
• (2009) 'The Norms and Politics of Exit: Ending Post-Conflict Transitional Administrations', Ethics and International Affairs, Vol.23, No.2.
• (2009) 'Muddling Through in Kosovo', Survival, Vol.51, No.1, pp.13-20. Co-authored with Oisín Tansey.
• (2009), 'Justice as Statebuilding in Kosovo', in Phil Clark and Zachary Kauffman (eds.), After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond
• (2009), 'International Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Wars', Civil Wars, Vol.11, No.1. Special Issue on the role of non-sate actors in civil wars.
• (2008), 'The Security Council, the General Assembly, and War: The Uniting for Peace Resolution' in Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum (eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• (2008), 'Introduction' in Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum (eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Co-authored by all editors.
• (2008), International Peacekeeping, Special issue on Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (co-edited with Christine Cheng). Includes an introduction by the editors.
• (2008), 'Peace Operations and Exit', RUSI Journal Vol.153/2.
• 2006, 'The Authority of International Administrations in International Society', Review of International Studies, Vol.32/3.
• 2006, 'Wen schützen die Protektorate? Sicherheit und Demokratie nach militärischen Interventionen', in Katrin Klingan and Ines Kappert (eds.), Sprung in die Stadt: Kulturelle Positionen, politische Verhältnisse. Sieben Szenen aus Europa (Cologne: DuMont, 2006).
• 2005, 'Economic Reform and the Transformation of the Payment Bureaux in Bosnia and Herzegovina', International Peacekeeping, Vol.12/3.
• 2003, 'The Paradox of Sovereignty: International Involvement in Civil Service Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina', International Peacekeeping, Vol.10/3.

Qualifications:

BA (hons), Oxford
M.Phil., Oxford
D.Phil., Oxford