James Der Derian is the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at The University of Sydney, having taken up his appointment in January 2013. His research and teaching interests are in international security, information technology, international theory and documentary film. Prior to his appointment, Der Derian was a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at

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. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute's Global Security Program. Der Derian also directed the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute's Global Security Program. Der Derian was educated at

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and was a

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at Balliol College at

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, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in

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. At Balliol, his D.Phil supervisor was Hedley Bull. He has been a visiting scholar at the

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, MIT,

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, Oxford, Copenhagen University and at the

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. He was also tenured at the

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. He is author of ''On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement'' (1987) and ''Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War'' (1992); editor of ''International Theory: Critical Investigations'' (1995) and ''The Virilio Reader'' (1998); co-editor with Michael Shapiro of ''International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics'' (1989); ''Global Voices: Dialogues In International Relations'' (with others) (1993); and, ''Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network'' (2001; 2nd edition, 2009). His most recent books are a collection of selected essays, titled ''Critical Practices of International Relations: Selected Essays'' (2009), and a co-edited volume with Alexander Wendt, ''Quantum International Relations: A Human Science for World Politics'' (2022). His articles on international relations have appeared in the ''

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'', '' International Studies Quarterly'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Alternatives'', ''Cultural Values'', and ''

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''. His articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Wired''. Der Derian has produced three film documentaries with Udris Film, ''Virtual Y2K'', ''After 9/11'', and most recently, '' Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic'', which won the Audience Award at the 2009

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in Florence and has been an official selection at numerous international film festivals. His most recent documentary, ''Project Z: The Final Global'' (co-produced with Phillip Gara), premiered at the 2012

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Film Festival. Der Derian is the recipient of the Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin from January - March 2011.

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*The University of Sydney Department of Government and International Relations. (n.d.). Retrieved November 25, 2014, from http://sydney.edu.au/arts/government_international_relations/staff/profiles/james.derderian.php

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