Barry BUZAN (巴里•布赞)

Barry Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the LSE; honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities; and Academic Advisory at the Centre for NTS-PD, Zhejiang University.

Email: b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk

Professional Activities: From 1988 to 2002 Professor Buzan was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.Professor Buzan was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. Since 1999 he has been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004-8 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations.Professor Buzan has written, co-authored or edited over twenty books,written or co-authored more than one hundred articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries. In addition to theory, he has engaged in the public policy debates about security in Europe, South Asia, Southern Africa and East Asia.

Current Research Interests:
·   International society, and the English school approach to International Relations;
·   The conceptual and regional aspects of international security;
·   International history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory;
·   International Relations theory, particularly structural realism.

Recent books include: Seabed Politics (1976); People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983, revised 2^ndedn. 1991); South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers (1986, withGowher Rizvi and others); An Introduction to Strategic Studies: Military Technology and International Relations (1987); The European Security Order Recast: Scenarios for the Post-Cold-War Era (1990, with MortenKelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer and Ole Wæver);The Logic of Anarchy : Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993, with Charles Jones andRichard Little); The Mind Map Book (1993, with Tony Buzan); Identity, Migration, and the New Security Agenda in Europe (1993, with MortenKelstrup, Pierre Lemaitre, Ole Wæver, et al.); Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998, with Ole Wæver and Jaap de Wilde); Anticipating the Future (1998, with Gerald Segal); The Arms Dynamic in World Politics (1998, with Eric Herring); International Systems in World History: Remaking the Study of International Relations (2000, with Richard Little); Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, withOle Wæver); From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (2004); Does China Matter? (2004, co-edited with Rosemary Foot); The United States and the Great Powers: World Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004); co-edited withAna Gonzalez-Pelaez, International Society and the Middle East: English School Theory at the Regional Level, (2009); with Lene Hansen, The Evolution of International Security Studies (2009).For a fuller list of publications please see http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk.