François Debrix

• Contemporary Political Theory
• Biopolitics/Necropolitics
• Critical International Relations Theory
• Critical Geopolitics
• Critical Approaches to Neoliberalism
  
• Critical World Order Studies

• PhD in Political Science, Purdue University, 1997.
• MA in Political Science, Purdue University, May 1993.
• Diplome de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po.)/ BA in International Law, Political Science, and Diplomatic History, University of Strasbourg, France, 1991.
• BA in Spanish and English. University of Haute Normandie, Rouen, France, 1988.

Administrative Positions:

• Director, ASPECT Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. July 2011-June 2022.
  
• Associate Chair, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, FL. January 2009-May 2011 (Interim Chair, Summer 2009, and Summer 2010).
• Director, Ruth K. and Shepard Broad International Lecture Series, School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University, Miami, FL. 2008-2009; Department of International Relations, FIU. 2005-2008.

Academic Positions:

• Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. July 2011-
• Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, FL. June 2004-June 2011.
• Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, FL. 1998-2004.
• Imnstructor, Department of Political Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. 1997-1998.

Books

Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces (London: Routledge, 2017).

Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror (with Alexander Barder) (London: Routledge, 2011; paperback edition 2012).

Tabloid Terror: War, Culture and Geopolitics (New York: Routledge, 2008).

Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1999).

Journal Articles

“The Viral Mediation of Terror: ISIS, Image, Implosion” (co-authored with Ryan Artrip), Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2018), pp. 74-88.

“Horror beyond Death: Geopolitics and the Pulverization of the Human,” New Formations, Issue 89-90 (2017), pp. 85-100.

“Topologies of Vulnerability and the Proliferation of Camp Life,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2015), pp. 444-459.

“Katechontic Sovereignty: Security Politics and the Overcoming of Time,” International Political Sociology, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015), pp. 143-157.

“The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation” (co-authored with Ryan Artrip), International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2014), no pages available (online journal).

“The Subject of Governance,” SPECTRA: The ASPECT Journal, Vol. 2. No. 2 (2013), no pages available (online journal).

“Reading Daniel Deudney’s Bounding Power” (co-authored with Mat Coleman, John Agnew, Alexander Murphy, and Daniel Deudney), Political Geography, Vol. 31, No. 6 (2012), pp. 389-398.

“Agonal Sovereignty: Rethinking War and Politics with Schmitt, Arendt, and Foucault” (co-authored with Alex Barder), Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 7 (2011), pp. 775-793.

“We Other IR Foucaultians,” International Political Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2010), pp. 197-199.

Edited Books

Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations, edited with Caroline Alphin (New York: Routledge, 2020).

The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power, and Foreign Policy, edited with Mark Lacy (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2003).

Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning, edited with Cynthia Weber (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

Book Chapters

“Introduction: Necrogeopolitics and Death-Making” (co-authored with Caroline Alphin), in Caroline Alphin and François Debrix (eds), Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 1-14.

“Confronting Horror: International Relations beyond Humanity,” in Jenny Edkins (ed), Handbook of Critical International Relations (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 77-87.

“Dealing with Disastrous Life,” in Jennifer Lawrence and Sarah Wiebe (eds), Biopolitical Disaster (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 257-263.

“The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Violent Defacing of the Other,” in Scott Nelson and Nevzat Soguk (eds), The Ashgate Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations (London: Ashgate, 2016), pp. 129-148.

“Falling Bodies: Confronting the Iconography of Terror,” in Priya Dixit and Jacob L. Stump (eds), Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 177-188.

“Bordering Violence? Natality and Alterity in Hannah Arendt’s Thought,” (co-authored with Alex Barder), in Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti (eds), Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community, and Securitizing Space (London: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 17-34.

“The Virtual Nomos?” in Stephen Legg (ed), Sovereignty, Spatiality, and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 220-26.

“Jean Baudrillard,” in Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams (eds), Critical Theorists and International Relations (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 54-65.

Essays

“Making Sense of Resilient Life at the International Center of Photography Museum in New York City,” SPECTRA: The ASPECT Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2018) (no pages available, online journal).

“Celebrity Humanitarianism and Its Critics,” SPECTRA: The ASPECT Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2016) (no pages available, online journal).

Interviews

“International Intersections: An Interview with François Debrix,” by journal editors Kris Coffield and Midori Hirai, Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events, Vol. 1, No. 1 (May 2013) (www.interstitialjournal.com).