Academics
Meet the Faculty
Robert E. Williams
Associate Professor of Political Science
Division: Social Science Division
Office: Appleby Center (APC) 245
Phone: (310) 506-4175
Fax: (310) 506-7271
E-mail: robert.williams@pepperdine.edu
- Ph.D., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1987
- M.A., International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, 1982
- B.A., History, Abilene Christian University, 1980, Summa Cum Laude
Courses:
- International Relations
- International Organizations and Law
- Ethics and International Politics
- Social Action and Justice Colloquium
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- Board of Directors, El Rescate Legal Services, 1998-2003, 2005-
- Board of Directors, International Monitor Institute, 2000-2002
- Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Arms Control and Disarmament, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1986-1987
- American Political Science Association
- International Studies Association
Academic Interests:
- Gender and Politics
- Human Rights
- Normative Theory in International Relations
- Security Studies
Selected Works:
- Seeking Security in an Insecure World, 2nd ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), with Dan Caldwell.
- Arms Control: History, Theory, Policy (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2012), general editor (with Paul R. Viotti).
- "From Malabo to Malibu: The Consequences of Corruption in an African Petrostate," Human Rights Quarterly, forthcoming.
- "Jus Post Bellum: Just War Theory and the Principles of Just Peace," International Studies Perspectives 7 (November 2006): 309-320, with Dan Caldwell.
- "The Impact of Feminist Thought on Human Rights," Global Society 11 (January 1997): 111-28.
- Arms Control and Disarmament in the Nuclear Age, in Community, Diversity, and a New World Order: Essays in Honor of Inis L. Claude, Jr., ed. Kenneth W. Thompson (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America for The Miller Center, 1994), 145-66.
- "Christian Realism and 'The Bomb': Reinhold Niebuhr on the Dilemmas of the Nuclear Age," Journal of Church and State, 28 (Spring 1986): 289-304.
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