Duncan S A Bell

Biographic Data

ID388806
NAMEDuncan S A Bell
GIVEN NAMESDuncan S A
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL D S A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS340
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX7

  • Empire and International Relations in Victorian Political Thought

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEThe Historical Journal2006Cited by: 55

    This essay surveys recent scholarly work on the political theory of empire and international relations in Britain during the long nineteenth century. It traces the dominant themes and arguments to be found, points to some interpretative and methodological weaknesses, and highlights a number of topics that remain to be explored in detail. I focus on the following: the relationship between liberalism and empire and, in particular, the role played b…

  • Unity and difference

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEReview of International Studies2005Cited by: 5

    This article explores the international political thought of one of the most prominent late Victorian public intellectuals, John Robert Seeley (1834–95), the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, and author of the best-selling The Expansion of England (1883). Challenging conventional readings of Seeley, I argue that his vision of global politics must be located within the wider frame of his views on the sacred, and that he is seen best…

  • Dissolving Distance

    Duncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2005Cited by: 11References: 18

  • Mythscapes

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2003Cited by: 196References: 29

    In this paper I seek to challenge the dominant modes of conceiving the relationship between memory and national identity, and in so doing offer analysts of nationalism an improved understanding of the dynamics of national identity formation. The concept of collective memory is invoked regularly in attempts to explain the pervasiveness and power of nationalism. I argue that the concept is misused routinely in this context, and instead I employ a '…

  • History and Globalization

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEInternational Affairs2003Cited by: 2

    Globalization emerged as the buzzword of the 1990s, and, at the dawn of a new millennium, it continues to transfix academics, the media and policy-makers alike. However, one of the key gaps in the research into the process(es) of globalization has concerned its historical identity: the story (and analysis) of its origins, its development and mutation over time, and the continuities and differences between past and present. In this article the aut…

  • Language, Legitimacy, and the Project of Critique

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEAlternatives Global Local Political2002Cited by: 11References: 3

    We are...in a in which power figures and reconfigures; in which human artifice must struggle with human necessities; in which notions such as justice, freedom, compassion, and autonomy, authority, legitimacy, security and force animate, constrain, and enable human beings in each and every arena within which they engage one another. Jean Bethke Elshtain In our own times we can neither endure our thoughts nor task of rethinking them. We think restl…

  • Political theory and the functions of intellectual history

    Duncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEReview of International Studies2002Cited by: 8

    Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.William Golding, Nobel Lecture, http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1983/golding-lecture.html

  • Anarchy, power and death

    Duncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2002Cited by: 12References: 47

    There has recently been a renaissance of interest in ideological analysis, and this is to be greatly welcomed. However, there is a noticeable lack of concern with international political ideologies, a position that mirrors the pernicious disciplinary dichotomy between political theory and international relations (IR) theory. In this essay I offer a critique of this state-centric understanding of ideology, and consequently offer an extension of Mi…

  • International Relations

    Open AccessDuncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEThe British Journal of Politics…2001Cited by: 32References: 7

    Books reviewed in this article: Donnelly, Jack, Realism in International Relations Dunne, Tim, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School Schmidt, Brian, The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations Tuck, Richard, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

  • Back to School? Ethics and International Society

    Duncan S A Bell, Duncan BellARTICLEGlobal Society2001Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Start the Evolution without Us

    Duncan S A Bell, Duncan Bell et al.ARTICLEInternational Security2001Cited by: 7References: 13

    In his provocative article Bringing in Darwin: Evolutionary Theory, Realism, and International Politics, Bradley Thayer appropriates arguments from sociobiology to provide a basis for realist international relations theory, and in so doing he follows a recent trend in the social sciences.1 Thayer's argument is straightforward. First, traditional realist microfoundations are dependent on unacceptably metaphysical or theological assumptions about h…