François Debrix

Professor Debrix’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of social and political theory, international relations theory, critical geopolitics, and the media and popular culture. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech, Professor Debrix was in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. Professor Debrix is the author of Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces (Routledge, 2017); Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics (Routledge, 2011; co-authored with Alex Barder); Tabloid Terror (Routledge, 2008); and Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). He is also the editor or co-editor of Rituals of Mediation (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), and The Geopolitics of American Insecurity (Routledge, 2009). His research has been published in various journals, including New Formations, Alternatives, International Political Sociology, Millennium, Telos, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Third World Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, Political Geography, Society and Space, New Political Science, and SPECTRA. His latest book, edited with Caroline Alphin, is Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations (Routledge, 2020).