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.

Dr. Zaum is on leave from the university until April 2012, working for the UK Stabilisation Unit as part of the ESRC Public Sector Placement Fellowship scheme. He has also been appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) from 2011 – 2013.

 

Areas of Interest:

• Global Governance and the United Nations

• Post-Conflict Statebuilding

• Legitimacy in International Relations
  

• International Law and 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

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Books

• Christine Cheng and Dominik Zaum (eds.), Corruption and Post-conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011). (click here for a podcast of a talk on corruption and post-conflict peacebuilding by Dominik Zaumj at the 1st Oxford Anti-Corruption Conference, 13 January 2011).

• (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

• (2010) 'Sovereignty, Statebuilding, and Forced Migration', in Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher (eds.), Refugees in International Relations (Oxford: OUP), pp.285-305.
• (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