Seán Molloy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4012897 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Seán Molloy |
| NOMBRES | Seán |
| APELLIDO | Molloy |
| FIRMA | MOLLOY S |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0431-0554 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Shifting sands
This article explores the marginalisation of children in peace processes as peace-making itself evolves. Earlier liberal models treated peace agreements as transformative opportunities, justifying calls for children’s participation through legal, normative and strategic arguments. Contemporary practices, however, increasingly prioritise elite bargains and transactional settlements, leaving less room for the inclusion of previously excluded groups…
Hegel’s First Attempt to Re-Philosophize Natural Law
Hegel’s ‘Natural Law’ essay is widely discussed but its substance and the implications of its argument are misunderstood. Hegel’s essay is most often read via other philosophers. Interpretations of this kind are useful but only illuminate those parts of Hegel’s text that intersect with other philosophers’ concerns. This article takes a different approach by focusing on the entirety of the essay and exploring the implications of its two primary ar…
Living apart together
Connecting Truth Commissions, Socioeconomic Harms and Child Participation
This article sits at the intersection of two debates in the field of transitional justice. The first concerns the extent to which and how children and young people should participate in transitional justice mechanisms, particularly truth commissions. The second addresses whether the field and its mechanisms should cover socioeconomic harms, alongside civil and political rights violations. The primary argument advanced is that the inclusion of the…
The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12
Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) requires that states afford children the opportunity, subject to certain qualifications, to express their views on all matters that affect them. Alongside the substantive, procedural and normative significance of this right, Article 12 both reflects and contributes to progressive understandings of childhood more generally; it recognizes children as agentic beings ‘w…
Child Soldiers and Peace Agreements
For societies transitioning from conflict to peace, the phenomenon of child soldiers poses significant challenges. These include quandaries associated with assisting in the reintegration of serving child soldiers, determining how to prevent future recruitment of child soldiers, and pursuing accountability of those who utilize child soldiers. In addition, questions are also raised as to whether and how child soldiers responsible for crimes committ…
Exclusionary Inclusion? Peace Agreements and Provisions on Child Protection
Peace agreements often serve as roadmaps for peacebuilding and the reconstruction of the post-conflict state. They do this by, among other things, delineating issues to be addressed as part of the transition from conflict to peace, reforms to be enacted, and the groups that are to benefit from them. It follows that what and who is included in a peace agreement matters. Often overlooked in the scholarship, however, are the potential implicationspo…
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes
Proponents of transformative justice articulate an approach to dealing with the past that seeks to change pre-conflict structures in ways that make society more inclusive and equal in the future. However, a criticism arises that transformative justice has been better at diagnosing the limitations associated with transitional justice rather than defining solutions and pathways to achieve its primary objectives. This paper examines the potential fo…
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era
The United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally exerted significant influence on the global human rights agenda through its diplomacy in multilateral human rights forums. This influence, stemming from the UK’s geopolitical standing, its membership of the European Union (EU) and the perception that the UK is a strong supporter and advocate of human rights, has been utilised to advance its own human rights priorities and influence the activities of other…
Contemplating the Lundy Model as a Framework for Children’s Participation in Peace Negotiations
Peace agreements attempt to do more than end war. Ostensibly, they can also serve as the foundation for a new post-conflict state, one underpinned by fairness, equality and inclusion. Ensuring that children’s issues are included in a peace accord is, therefore, viewed as essential for the realisation of their rights in the post-conflict state. Yet there is scant consideration dedicated to understanding or theorising how and whether the perspectiv…
Reception, context and canonicity
G. W. F. Hegel is one of the most significant philosophers in history yet the reception afforded to him in International Relations (IR) does not compare with his peers, most notably Immanuel Kant. Although by no means absent from IR he cannot be described as a canonical figure. Given his stature in philosophy this comparatively minor interest in Hegel prompts investigation into his failure to enter the pantheon of ‘Great Thinkers’ in IR. The crit…
Advancing Children’s Rights in Peace Processes
The cessation of violent conflict offers crucial opportunities to increase the likelihood that children’s rights are respected, protected and realized in the post-conflict state. Peace processes—which include peace negotiations, peace agreement(s) and the implementation of peace agreement provisions—can be central to the realization of this objective. This article examines the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child th…
Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020. This global health crisis demanded a quick, decisive and efficient response by governments to protect lives, curb the spread of the virus and prevent public health systems from being overwhelmed. This report explores the way governments undergoing transitions to peace and democracy have triggered emergency legal frameworks to disable some ordinary (demo…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
Navigating Human Rights in a ‘Post-Human Rights’ Era
International human rights law and mechanisms tasked with promoting state compliance with it are being increasingly challenged. Opposition is originating from, amongst others, countries that have historically supported the global human rights project. These new trends and sites of contestation bolster opposition from other countries and regions that have consistently diverged from international human rights norms. Examining the relationship betwe…
Why do states ratify human rights treaties in transitioning societies
From Northern Ireland to Sierra Leone, Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan to Nepal, the transition from war to peace has historically presented an opportunity for the adoption of international human rights treaties (IHRT). This paper examines the relationship between peace agreements and treaty ratification by exploring when, how and why peace negotiations and the agreements that result from them might affect stat…
Brexiting human rights diplomacy at the United Nations Human Rights Council
In recent years, the United Kingdom’s influence in multilateral human rights diplomacy has stemmed from its ability to advance its own priorities independently while contemporaneously shaping the collective concerns championed by the European Union. This paper explores the ways in which Brexit may change this state of play. Based on analysis of contributions made at the interactive dialogue sessions at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the…
Lacan, Deleuze and world politics
In this fascinating study, Andreja Zevnik challenges dominant modes of global politics and their theorization. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the book is Zevnik's use of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre as a prism through which she channels the light of Lacan and Deleuze, thereby illuminating the practices of sovereign power and resistance in a period in which what constitutes law at the domestic and international levels is contested. T…
Cautious politics’
An ‘All-Unifying Church Triumphant’ A Neglected Dimension of Kant's Theory of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to examine the religious and theological elements of Immanuel Kant's work. This is an area of Kant's oeuvre that has been neglected in the history of international thought; this is problematic as it is in these works that Kant addresses many themes which are important to his international-relations project, for example, human nature, the corruption of society, the possibility of ethical community, and cosmopolitanis…
Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis
This article reads Carr through the lens of Spinoza's ethics, and Spinoza through the prism of Carr's IR Theory. The argument of the piece is that there are significant parallels in the ethical projects of both writers, which upon further examination reveal important aspects of global political life and the nature and limits of ethics in International Relations. The close, critical examination of Spinoza ad Carr undertaken in this article also sh…
From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Seán Molloy (bio) But staggering subsets, fellows - you see what this means don't you? Those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as 'this' one (Against the Day, 1212). In her discussion of Orwell's 1984, Judith S…
Hans J. Morgenthau Versus E. H. Carr
It is commonplace to assert that realism is an amoral or immoral theory of international politics, that its focus on power is to the exclusion, or at best the marginalization, of ethical concerns. The purpose of this chapter is to challenge this general criticism and to identify the ethical content in the works of two of the most foundational realist thinkers, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau. The selection of Carr and Morgenthau is not arbitrary, …
The Hidden History of Realism
Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about a central tradition - Realism - Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the t
Truth, Power, Theory
The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the political realism of Hans J. Morgenthau. The article traces the development of his thought from his earliest writings on social science and politics in English in the 1940s through to his formulation of political realism in the classic text Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace and finally to his reconsideration of this theory in a series of texts that have been neglected by his…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics
Reception, context and canonicity
G. W. F. Hegel is one of the most significant philosophers in history yet the reception afforded to him in International Relations (IR) does not compare with his peers, most notably Immanuel Kant. Although by no means absent from IR he cannot be described as a canonical figure. Given his stature in philosophy this comparatively minor interest in Hegel prompts investigation into his failure to enter the pantheon of ‘Great Thinkers’ in IR. The crit…
Dialectics and Transformation
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes
Proponents of transformative justice articulate an approach to dealing with the past that seeks to change pre-conflict structures in ways that make society more inclusive and equal in the future. However, a criticism arises that transformative justice has been better at diagnosing the limitations associated with transitional justice rather than defining solutions and pathways to achieve its primary objectives. This paper examines the potential fo…
Why do states ratify human rights treaties in transitioning societies
From Northern Ireland to Sierra Leone, Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan to Nepal, the transition from war to peace has historically presented an opportunity for the adoption of international human rights treaties (IHRT). This paper examines the relationship between peace agreements and treaty ratification by exploring when, how and why peace negotiations and the agreements that result from them might affect stat…
Cautious politics’
Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis
This article reads Carr through the lens of Spinoza's ethics, and Spinoza through the prism of Carr's IR Theory. The argument of the piece is that there are significant parallels in the ethical projects of both writers, which upon further examination reveal important aspects of global political life and the nature and limits of ethics in International Relations. The close, critical examination of Spinoza ad Carr undertaken in this article also sh…
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Seán Molloy (bio) But staggering subsets, fellows - you see what this means don't you? Those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as 'this' one (Against the Day, 1212). In her discussion of Orwell's 1984, Judith S…
The Realist Logic of International Society
The purpose of this article is to reassert the importance of realist thought in the international theory of Martin Wight. Following Hedley Bull, it has become prevalent in international relations theory to present Wight as a rationalist thinker, and international society as a rationalist principle that offers an alternative or third way in international relations. I argue that international society is actually Wight's attempt to integrate two per…
Living apart together
Exclusionary Inclusion? Peace Agreements and Provisions on Child Protection
Peace agreements often serve as roadmaps for peacebuilding and the reconstruction of the post-conflict state. They do this by, among other things, delineating issues to be addressed as part of the transition from conflict to peace, reforms to be enacted, and the groups that are to benefit from them. It follows that what and who is included in a peace agreement matters. Often overlooked in the scholarship, however, are the potential implicationspo…
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era
The United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally exerted significant influence on the global human rights agenda through its diplomacy in multilateral human rights forums. This influence, stemming from the UK’s geopolitical standing, its membership of the European Union (EU) and the perception that the UK is a strong supporter and advocate of human rights, has been utilised to advance its own human rights priorities and influence the activities of other…
Contemplating the Lundy Model as a Framework for Children’s Participation in Peace Negotiations
Peace agreements attempt to do more than end war. Ostensibly, they can also serve as the foundation for a new post-conflict state, one underpinned by fairness, equality and inclusion. Ensuring that children’s issues are included in a peace accord is, therefore, viewed as essential for the realisation of their rights in the post-conflict state. Yet there is scant consideration dedicated to understanding or theorising how and whether the perspectiv…
Advancing Children’s Rights in Peace Processes
The cessation of violent conflict offers crucial opportunities to increase the likelihood that children’s rights are respected, protected and realized in the post-conflict state. Peace processes—which include peace negotiations, peace agreement(s) and the implementation of peace agreement provisions—can be central to the realization of this objective. This article examines the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child th…
An ‘All-Unifying Church Triumphant’ A Neglected Dimension of Kant's Theory of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to examine the religious and theological elements of Immanuel Kant's work. This is an area of Kant's oeuvre that has been neglected in the history of international thought; this is problematic as it is in these works that Kant addresses many themes which are important to his international-relations project, for example, human nature, the corruption of society, the possibility of ethical community, and cosmopolitanis…
Dialectics and Transformation
The Realist Logic of International Society
The purpose of this article is to reassert the importance of realist thought in the international theory of Martin Wight. Following Hedley Bull, it has become prevalent in international relations theory to present Wight as a rationalist thinker, and international society as a rationalist principle that offers an alternative or third way in international relations. I argue that international society is actually Wight's attempt to integrate two per…
Truth, Power, Theory
The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the political realism of Hans J. Morgenthau. The article traces the development of his thought from his earliest writings on social science and politics in English in the 1940s through to his formulation of political realism in the classic text Politics Among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace and finally to his reconsideration of this theory in a series of texts that have been neglected by his…
The Hidden History of Realism
Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about a central tradition - Realism - Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the t
The hidden history of realism
Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about perhaps its most central tradition--Realism--Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the theory of power politics in International Relations into a paradigmatic straitjacket that is simply inadequate and inappropriate to the task of encompassing its diversity
Hans J. Morgenthau Versus E. H. Carr
It is commonplace to assert that realism is an amoral or immoral theory of international politics, that its focus on power is to the exclusion, or at best the marginalization, of ethical concerns. The purpose of this chapter is to challenge this general criticism and to identify the ethical content in the works of two of the most foundational realist thinkers, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau. The selection of Carr and Morgenthau is not arbitrary, …
From The Twenty Years’ Crisis to Theory of International Politics
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth-Anarchy and Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Seán Molloy (bio) But staggering subsets, fellows - you see what this means don't you? Those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as 'this' one (Against the Day, 1212). In her discussion of Orwell's 1984, Judith S…
Cautious politics’
An ‘All-Unifying Church Triumphant’ A Neglected Dimension of Kant's Theory of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to examine the religious and theological elements of Immanuel Kant's work. This is an area of Kant's oeuvre that has been neglected in the history of international thought; this is problematic as it is in these works that Kant addresses many themes which are important to his international-relations project, for example, human nature, the corruption of society, the possibility of ethical community, and cosmopolitanis…
Spinoza, Carr, and the ethics of The Twenty Years' Crisis
This article reads Carr through the lens of Spinoza's ethics, and Spinoza through the prism of Carr's IR Theory. The argument of the piece is that there are significant parallels in the ethical projects of both writers, which upon further examination reveal important aspects of global political life and the nature and limits of ethics in International Relations. The close, critical examination of Spinoza ad Carr undertaken in this article also sh…
Lacan, Deleuze and world politics
In this fascinating study, Andreja Zevnik challenges dominant modes of global politics and their theorization. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the book is Zevnik's use of the Guantánamo Bay detention centre as a prism through which she channels the light of Lacan and Deleuze, thereby illuminating the practices of sovereign power and resistance in a period in which what constitutes law at the domestic and international levels is contested. T…
Brexiting human rights diplomacy at the United Nations Human Rights Council
In recent years, the United Kingdom’s influence in multilateral human rights diplomacy has stemmed from its ability to advance its own priorities independently while contemporaneously shaping the collective concerns championed by the European Union. This paper explores the ways in which Brexit may change this state of play. Based on analysis of contributions made at the interactive dialogue sessions at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the…
Navigating Human Rights in a ‘Post-Human Rights’ Era
International human rights law and mechanisms tasked with promoting state compliance with it are being increasingly challenged. Opposition is originating from, amongst others, countries that have historically supported the global human rights project. These new trends and sites of contestation bolster opposition from other countries and regions that have consistently diverged from international human rights norms. Examining the relationship betwe…
Why do states ratify human rights treaties in transitioning societies
From Northern Ireland to Sierra Leone, Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan to Nepal, the transition from war to peace has historically presented an opportunity for the adoption of international human rights treaties (IHRT). This paper examines the relationship between peace agreements and treaty ratification by exploring when, how and why peace negotiations and the agreements that result from them might affect stat…
Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020. This global health crisis demanded a quick, decisive and efficient response by governments to protect lives, curb the spread of the virus and prevent public health systems from being overwhelmed. This report explores the way governments undergoing transitions to peace and democracy have triggered emergency legal frameworks to disable some ordinary (demo…
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now
This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared comm…
Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes
Proponents of transformative justice articulate an approach to dealing with the past that seeks to change pre-conflict structures in ways that make society more inclusive and equal in the future. However, a criticism arises that transformative justice has been better at diagnosing the limitations associated with transitional justice rather than defining solutions and pathways to achieve its primary objectives. This paper examines the potential fo…
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era
The United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally exerted significant influence on the global human rights agenda through its diplomacy in multilateral human rights forums. This influence, stemming from the UK’s geopolitical standing, its membership of the European Union (EU) and the perception that the UK is a strong supporter and advocate of human rights, has been utilised to advance its own human rights priorities and influence the activities of other…
Contemplating the Lundy Model as a Framework for Children’s Participation in Peace Negotiations
Peace agreements attempt to do more than end war. Ostensibly, they can also serve as the foundation for a new post-conflict state, one underpinned by fairness, equality and inclusion. Ensuring that children’s issues are included in a peace accord is, therefore, viewed as essential for the realisation of their rights in the post-conflict state. Yet there is scant consideration dedicated to understanding or theorising how and whether the perspectiv…
Reception, context and canonicity
G. W. F. Hegel is one of the most significant philosophers in history yet the reception afforded to him in International Relations (IR) does not compare with his peers, most notably Immanuel Kant. Although by no means absent from IR he cannot be described as a canonical figure. Given his stature in philosophy this comparatively minor interest in Hegel prompts investigation into his failure to enter the pantheon of ‘Great Thinkers’ in IR. The crit…
Advancing Children’s Rights in Peace Processes
The cessation of violent conflict offers crucial opportunities to increase the likelihood that children’s rights are respected, protected and realized in the post-conflict state. Peace processes—which include peace negotiations, peace agreement(s) and the implementation of peace agreement provisions—can be central to the realization of this objective. This article examines the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child th…
Exclusionary Inclusion? Peace Agreements and Provisions on Child Protection
Peace agreements often serve as roadmaps for peacebuilding and the reconstruction of the post-conflict state. They do this by, among other things, delineating issues to be addressed as part of the transition from conflict to peace, reforms to be enacted, and the groups that are to benefit from them. It follows that what and who is included in a peace agreement matters. Often overlooked in the scholarship, however, are the potential implicationspo…
The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12
Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) requires that states afford children the opportunity, subject to certain qualifications, to express their views on all matters that affect them. Alongside the substantive, procedural and normative significance of this right, Article 12 both reflects and contributes to progressive understandings of childhood more generally; it recognizes children as agentic beings ‘w…
Child Soldiers and Peace Agreements
For societies transitioning from conflict to peace, the phenomenon of child soldiers poses significant challenges. These include quandaries associated with assisting in the reintegration of serving child soldiers, determining how to prevent future recruitment of child soldiers, and pursuing accountability of those who utilize child soldiers. In addition, questions are also raised as to whether and how child soldiers responsible for crimes committ…
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