Esref Aksu

Lecturer

BA Bogazici, MA Leeds, PhD La Trobe  

Profile

Esref Aksu is a lecturer in International Relations. His research interests include global governance, multilateral peace operations, and the question of normativity in world politics. He served as advisor to the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) Turkish Task Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the lead-up to the Dayton Agreement, worked as an external affairs officer at the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, and was the coordinator and a working group member of the Global Governance Reform Project (1998-2002).

Current Research Projects

Esref’s recent work has concentrated on the relationship between the eighteenth-century “perpetual peace” tradition and the contemporary notions of “global governance”. He is currently trying to reassess the cosmopolitan thought, with particular emphasis on its intellectual and emotional sources.

Selection of Publications

Aksu, Esref. "Global Collective Memory: Conceptual Difficulties of An Appealing Idea", Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations, 23:3 (July 2009), 317-332.

Aksu, Esref (ed.), Early Notions of Global Governance: Selected Eighteenth-Century Proposals for Perpetual Peace, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008).

Aksu, Esref, “Perpetual Peace: A Project by Europeans for Europeans?”, Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research, 33:3 (2008), 368-387.

Aksu, Esref, “Locating Cosmopolitan Democracy in the Theory-Praxis Nexus”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 32:3 (2007), 275–294.

Aksu, Esref, “International Transitional Administrations: Towards Territorialization of IGOs?”, Journal of International and Area Studies, 13:1 (2006), 37–52.

Aksu, Esref, The United Nations, Intra-state Peacekeeping and Normative Change, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).

Aksu, Esref and Joseph A. Camilleri (eds), Democratizing Global Governance, (Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Current Teaching

INTP 245: Foreign Policy Analysis

INTP 372: International Organisations: Change and Continuity

INTP 447: Global Governance

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