Charli Carpenter
Professor of Political Science
Degree: PhD, University of Oregon
Area of Study: International relations
Program: Political Science
Bio
My teaching and research interests include the politics of war law, transnational advocacy networks, protection of civilians, humanitarian disarmament, and the role of popular culture in global human security policy. I have a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security. I work with graduate students who have an interest in international human security norms. In the past, I have hired graduate student research assistants to help me with focus group research, survey experiments and qualitative text analysis. I have co-authored with graduate students on human security agenda-setting, public opinion on the laws of war, and political science fiction.
Grants
August 2007-July 2010: National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics Initiative, for data collection, coding and analysis of advocacy websites, surveys, focus groups and interviews with human rights advocates to explore variation in issue adoption within the human rights network.
July 2007-September 2008: National Science Foundation Law and Social Sciences grant, to study international criminal law norm creation.
September 2004-August 2005: National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics Exploratory Grant, to conduct research on the humanitarian response to children born as a result of wartime sexual violence.
November 2003-April 2005: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, to conduct research on the humanitarian response to children born of forced pregnancy in the Balkans.
October 2003: International Studies Association Workshop Grant, to organize an interdisciplinary workshop on “Gender, Ethnicity and Children’s Human Rights: Theorizing Babies Born of Wartime Sexual Violence” at the 2004 Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada.
Publications
Please visit Prof. Carpenter's personal website for more publications.
Books
Refereed Journal Articles
“You Talk of Terrible Things So Matter-of-Factly in This Language of Science”:Constructing Human Rights in the Academy.” Forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics.
“Assessing Virtual Networks: Transnational Advocacy in Real- and Cyber-Space.” Forthcoming in Global Networks.
“Vetting the Advocacy Agenda: Networks, Centrality and the Paradox of Weapons Norms.” In International Organization,Vol 65, No. 1 (Winter 2011)
“IR 2.0: New Media for an Old Profession.” Co-authored with Daniel Drezner. In International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Fall 2010).
“A Fresh Crop of Human Misery”: Representations of Bosnian ‘War Babies’ in the Global Print Media, 1991-2006.” InMillennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Fall 2009)
“Serious ‘Games’ for Serious Times: Pax Warrior in the Global Affairs Classroom.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2008).
“Forum: Mainstreaming Gender into the International Relations Curriculum.” In International Studies Perspectives. Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2007).
“Studying Issue (Non)-Adoption in Transnational Networks.” International Organization. Vol. 61, No. 3. (Summer 2007).
“Setting the Advocacy Agenda: Issues and Non-Issues Around Children and Armed Conflict.” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1 (March 2007).
“Recognizing Gender-Based Violence Against Civilian Men and Boys in Conflict Zones,” in Security Dialogue, Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 2006).
“‘Women, Children and Other Vulnerable Groups’: Gender, Strategic Frames, and the Protection of Civilians as a Transnational Issue” in International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2 (June 2005).
“Some Other Conceptual Problems: A Reply to Winter, Thompson and Jeffrey’s Critique of the U.N.’s Approach to Harmful Traditional Practices” in International Journal of Feminist Politics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 2004).
“Stirring Gender into the Mainstream: Feminism, Constructivism and the Uses of Theory,” in International Studies Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, (Summer 2003).
“‘Women and Children First’: Gender, Norms and Humanitarian Evacuation in the Balkans, 1991-1995” in International Organization, Vol. 57, No. 4, (Fall 2003). Reprinted in International Security and Conflict, edited by Bruce Russett. London: Ashgate, 2008.
“Gender Theory in World Politics: Contributions of a Non-Feminist Standpoint” in International Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, (Fall 2002).
Book Chapters and Non-Refereed Publications
“Security or Human Security? Civil-Military Relations in Battlestar Galactica.” Manuscript in progress with Hrvoje Cvijanovic. Under review as chapter in Iver Neumann ed, Battlestar Galactica and International Relations, Routledge Press. Forthcoming 2010
“Fighting the Laws of War: Protecting Civilians in Asymmetric Conflicts.” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2011.
“Governing the Global Agenda: ‘Gatekeepers’ and ‘Issue Adoption’ in Transnational Advocacy Networks.” In Who Governs the Globe? edited by Martha Finnemore, Deborah Avant and Susan Sell. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
“The Enemy We Seek to Destroy,” in Evoking Genocide, edited by Adam Jones. Key Press: 2009.
“Orphaned Again? Children Born of Wartime Rape as a Non-Issue for the Human Rights Network,” in The International Struggle for New Human Rights, edited by Clifford Bob. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
“Geneva 2.0,” in The National Interest, Summer 2008.
“Gender, Ethnicity and Children’s Human Rights: Theorizing Babies Born of Rape and Exploitation.” In Born of War,edited by Charli Carpenter. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.
“Protecting Children Born of War.” In Born of War, edited by Charli Carpenter. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press 2004.
“Beyond ‘Gendercide’: Operationalizing Gender in Comparative Genocide Studies” in International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 4, (Winter 2002). Reprinted in “Beyond ‘Gendercide’: Operationalizing Gender in Comparative Genocide Studies,” in Gendercide and Genocide, edited by Adam Jones. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press 2004.
“Forced Maternity, Children's Rights and the Genocide Convention” in Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, (July 2000).
“Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape Discourse” in Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 22, No. 2, (May 2000). Reprinted in Women’s Human Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader, edited by Bert Lockwood. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press 2006.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Introduction to World Politics; Rules of War
Graduate: Global Agenda-Setting; Seminar in IR Theory, Human Security