Dr Aidan Hehir
I joined the University of Westminster in 2007; previously I worked at the University of Sheffield. I gained my PhD in 2005 from the University of Limerick.
My research interests include transitional justice, humanitarian intervention, and statebuilding in Kosovo.
My book - Hollow Norms and The Responsibility to Protect (Palgrave Macmillan) – won the 2019 British International Studies Association ‘Working Group on Intervention and R2P’ book prize. I have published over fifty academic book chapters and journal articles; my work has been published in International Security, The Journal of Peace Research, The European Journal of International Relations, Ethics and International Affairs, and Cooperation and Conflict. I have given over one hundred papers at conferences worldwide, written over fifty book reviews, and published many other academic commentaries.
I was one of the original co-convenors of the BISA Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect, and I am currently the co-editor of the Routledge "Intervention and Statebuilding" book series. I am a regular contributor to national and international television and radio.
I am author/editor of the following books;
Kosovo and the Internationals: Hope, Hubris and the End of History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Kosovo and Transitional Justice: The Pursuit of Justice After Large Scale-Conflict (co-editor with Furtuna Sheremeti). Routledge, 2022
Hollow Norms and The Responsibility to Protect (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2017. Co-editor)
Libya, The Responsibility to Protect, and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Co-editor)
Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction 2nd Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
The Responsibility to Protect: Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
International Law, Security and Ethics (Routledge, 2010 & 2014. Co-editor)
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding (Routledge, 2010. Editor)
Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Humanitarian Intervention after Kosovo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Statebuilding: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2007 & 2009. Co-editor).