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Patricia Owens (1975-) is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. She is current Head of the Department of International Relations.

Career

She received a 1st in Politics from Bristol University and her M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge in 1998. She was the Jane Eliza Proctor Research Fellow in the Politics Department at Princeton University before completing her PhD at Aberystwyth University in 2003. During her PhD she was a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley on an SSRC research fellowship. Owens was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Southern California. Between 2004-07, she was the Seton-Watson Research Fellow in International Relations at Oriel College, Oxford, and part of the Oxford-Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. Between 2007-2011, Owens was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. In 2010, she was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and moved to Sussex in 2011. In 2012-2013, she was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. She was became a Professor of International Relations in 2015.

Research interests

Owens is best known for her work on the history and theory of counterinsurgency warfare, the history of social and political thought, and for her earlier work on war and international relations in the thought of the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). Currently, she is the Principle Investigator on a Leverhulme Research Project, Women and the History of International Thought, which aims to rewrite the intellectual and disciplinary history of International Relations.

She is one of the editors of European Journal of International Relations and of the leading undergraduate textbook The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations

Personal Life

She was born in London to Irish immigrant parents. She lives in Brighton with her partner and two children

Selected works

Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Studies in International Relations series. Winner of BISA’s 2016 Susan Strange Book Prize; Winner of the International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award

Method or Madness: Sociolatry in International Thought, Review of International Studies, Vol.41, no.4 (2015) pp. 655-674

From Bismarck to Petraeus: The Question of the Social and the Social Question in Counterinsurgency, European Journal of International Relations, 19(1) (2013) pp.135-157

Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (7th edition) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Editor with John Baylis and Steve Smith.

The Globalization of World Politics: International 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Editor with Baylis and Smith. The ‘international’ adaptation of GWP

Reclaiming “Bare Life”? Against Agamben on Refugees, International Relations, Vol.23, no.4 (2009) pp.567-82

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