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  • Brown, Chris (2025). The duty to secure and the Just war. Journal of International Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882251407982
  • Reeves, Aaron, Brown, Chris, Hanefeld, Johanna (2022). Female political representation and the gender health gap: a cross-national analysis of 49 European countries. European Journal of Public Health, 32(5), 684 - 689. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac122 picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2022). Big pictures - IR's cosmological turn. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 50(2), 591 - 598. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298211063934 picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2020). Deontology, consequentialism and reciprocity in contemporary just war thinking. European Review of International Studies, 7(2-3), 317 – 337. https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-BJA10021 picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2020). From serpents and doves to the war on teleocracy. International Relations, 34(4), 616 - 620. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820968623 picture_as_pdf
  • O’driscoll, Cian, Brown, Chris, Hutchings, Kimberly, Finlay, Christopher J., Whyte, Jessica, Gregory, Thomas (2020). How and why to do just war theory. Contemporary Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00453-x picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2019). The promise and record of international institutions. International Relations, 33(2), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819834650 description
  • Brown, Chris (2017). Political thought, international relations theory and international political theory: an interpretation. International Relations, 31(3), 227-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117817723062
  • Brown, Chris (2017). Poverty alleviation, global justice, and the real world. Ethics and International Affairs, 31(3), 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679417000247
  • Brown, Chris (2016). Review article: International Political Theory today. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 42(2), 193-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816672316
  • Brown, Chris (2015). On the disunity of mankind. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 44(1), 141-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829815588578
  • Brown, Chris (2014). IR as a social science: a response. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1), 351-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814540845
  • Brown, Chris (2013). 'Human nature', science and international political theory. Journal of International Relations and Development, 16(4), 435-454. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2013.17
  • Brown, Chris (2013). The antipolitical theory of responsibility to protect. Global Responsibility to Protect, 5(4), 423-442. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984X-00504004
  • Brown, Chris (2013). The poverty of Grand Theory. European Journal of International Relations, 19(3), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066113494321
  • Brown, Chris (2012). The 'practice turn', phronesis and classical realism: towards a phronetic international political theory? Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 40(3), 439-456. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812441893
  • Brown, Chris (2011). The development of International Relations theory in the UK: traditions, contemporary perspectives, and trajectories. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 11(2), 309-330. https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcr004
  • Brown, Chris (2010). On Amartya Sen and 'The idea of justice'. Ethics and International Affairs, 24(3), 309-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2010.00269.x
  • Brown, Chris (2009). Soldier, I wish you well. Review of International Studies, 35(4), 880-882. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210509990301
  • Brown, Chris (2009). Structural realism, classical realism and human nature. International Relations, 23(2), 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117809104638
  • Brown, Chris (2009). The development of international relations theory in the United Kingdom: traditions, contemporary perspectives and trajectories. International Studies, 46(1-2), 221-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/002088171004600214
  • Brown, Chris (2008). "Delinquent" states, guilty consciences and humanitarian politics in the 1990s. Journal of International Political Theory, 4(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1755088208000086
  • Brown, Chris (2007). The future of the discipline. International Relations, 21(3), 247-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117807082713
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Situating critical realism. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 35(2), 409-416.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). European international relations and the 800-pound gorilla (review article of 'International relations in Europe: traditions, perspectives and destinations' edited by Knud Eric Jorgenson and Tonny Brems Knudsen). International Studies Review, 9(4), 732-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2007.00738.x
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Tragedy, "tragic choices" and international political theory. International Relations, 21(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117807073764
  • Brown, Chris (2006). International relations theory in Britain - the new black? Review of International Studies, 32(4), 677-687. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210506007236
  • Brown, Chris (2006). Conceptions of a rule-governed international order: Europe vs America. International Relations, 20(3), 309-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117806066707
  • Brown, Chris (2006). Philosophie politique et relations internationals anglo-américaines ou 'Pourquoi existe-t-il une théorie internationale?'. Ėtudes Internationales, 37(2), 223-240.
  • Brown, Chris (2005). No jazz on the radio... John Mearsheimer and the British IR (part of article 'Roundtable: the battle rages on'). International Relations, 19(3), 348-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117805055411
  • Brown, Chris (2005). Roundtable on humanitarian intervention after 9/11: What, exactly, is the problem to which the 'five-part test' is the solution? International Relations, 19(2), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117805052814
  • Brown, Chris (2005). The house that Chuck built: Twenty-five years of reading Charles Beitz. Review of International Studies, 31(2), 371-379. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210505006510
  • Brown, Chris (2004). Reflections on the "War on Terror" two years on. International Politics, 41(1), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800069
  • Brown, Chris (2003). Self-defence in an imperfect world. Ethics and International Affairs, 17(1), 2-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2003.tb00412.x
  • Brown, Chris (2002). The 'fall of the towers' and international order. International Relations, 16(2), 263-267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117802016002007
  • Brown, Chris (2002). On morality, self-interest and foreign policy. Government and Opposition, 37(2), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-7053.00093
  • Brown, Chris (2002). The construction of a ‘realistic utopia’ : John Rawls and international political theory. Review of International Studies, 28(1), 5-21.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). 'Special circumstances': intervention by a liberal utopia. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 30(3), 625-633.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). World society and the English School : an 'international society' perspective on world society. European Journal of International Relations, 7(4), 423-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066101007004002
  • Brown, Chris (2001). Moral agency and international society. Ethics and International Affairs, 15(2), 87-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2001.tb00360.x
  • Brown, Chris (2001). A qualified defence of the use of force for 'humanitarian' reasons. International Journal of Human Rights, 4(1/2), 282-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642980008406904
  • Brown, Chris (2000). Cultural diversity and international political theory: from the 'requirement' to 'mutual respect'. Review of International Studies, 26(2), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210500001996
  • Brown, Chris (2000). 'International political theory: a British social science?'. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2(1), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00029
  • Brown, Chris (2000). Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship and global civil society. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 3(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230008403300
  • Brown, Chris (1999). History ends, worlds collide. Review of International Studies, 25(5), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210599000418
    • Book
  • Brown, Chris, Eckersley, Robyn (2018). The Oxford handbook of international political theory. Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2015). International society, global polity: an introduction to international political theory. SAGE Publications.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Practical judgement in international political theory: selected essays. Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten (2009). Understanding international relations [4th edition]. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Understanding international relations (Turkish edition and translation). Yayinodasi Ltd.
  • Brown, Chris (2005). Understanding international relations. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris, Nardin, Terry, Rengger, Nicholas (2002). International relations in political thought: texts in international relations from the ancient Greeks to the first world war. Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2002). Sovereignty, rights and justice : international political theory today. Polity Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). Understanding international relations. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Chapter
  • Brown, Chris (2025). Foreword. In Benevolence In International Relations: A Political Essay . Bristol University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2021). Tolerance in an intolerant age. In Jensen, Kipston E. (Ed.), Preston King: History, Toleration, and Friendship (pp. 125 - 140). Verlag Peter Lang. picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2021). Justified: just war and the ethics of violence and world order. In Brock, Lothar, Simon, Hendrik (Eds.), The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to the Present (pp. 435 - 448). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865308.001.0001 picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2018). International relations and international political theory. In Brown, Chris, Eckersley, Robyn (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory (pp. 48-59). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2018). A new, but still a just war against terror. In Erickson, Debra, Le Chevallier, Michael (Eds.), Jean Bethke Elshtain: politics, ethics, and society (pp. 265-82). University of Notre Dame Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Chris (2017). Revisionist just war theory and the impossibility of a moral victory. In Hom, Andrew R., O'Driscoll, Cian, Mills, Kurt (Eds.), Moral victories: the ethics of winning wars (pp. 85-100). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2017). Michael Walzer. In Brunstetter, Daniel R., O'Driscoll, Cian (Eds.), Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (pp. 205-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/1138122483
  • Brown, Chris (2016). Theory and practice in international relations. In Booth, Ken, Erskine, Toni (Eds.), International Relations Theory Today, 2nd Edition (pp. 39-52). Polity Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2013). Just war and political judgment. In Lang, Anthony F., O’Driscoll, Cian, Williams, John (Eds.), Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice (pp. 25-48). Georgetown University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). The only thinkable figure?: ethical and normative approaches to refugees in international relations. In Betts, Alexander, Loescher, Gil (Eds.), Refugees in International Relations (pp. 151-168). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Rules and norms in a post-Western world. In Kessler, Oliver, Hall, Rodney B., Lynch, Cecelia, Onuf, Nicholas (Eds.), On Rules, Politics and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs (pp. 213-225). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Bob Dylan, Live Aid, and the politics of popular communitarianism. In Brown, Chris (Ed.), Practical Judgement in International Political Theory: Selected Essays . Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Introduction - a life in theory. In Practical Judgement in International Political Theory: Selected Essays (pp. 1-68). Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris (2009). The emerging shape of 21st century international politics. In Brown, Chris, Ainley, Kirsten (Eds.), Understanding International Relations [4th Ed.] (pp. 294-321). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Human rights. In Baylis, John, Smith, Steve, Owens, Patricia (Eds.), The Globalisation of World Politics (pp. 506-521). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). ‘The twilight of international morality'? Hans J. Morgenthau and Carl Schmitt on the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum. In Williams, Michael C. (Ed.), Realism Reconsidered: the Legacy of Hans Morgenthau in International Relations (pp. 42-61). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). From humanised war to humanitarian intervention: Carl Schmitt's critique of the 'just war tradition'. In Odysseos, L, Petito, F (Eds.), The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order (pp. 56-70). Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Global terror and the international community. In Ankersen, Christopher (Ed.), Understanding Global Terror (pp. 17-36). Polity Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Liberalism and the globalization of ethics. In Sullivan, William M., Kymlicka, Will (Eds.), The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (pp. 151-170). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2007). Reimagining international society and global community. In Held, D, McGrew, Anthony (Eds.), Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies (pp. 171-189). Polity Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2006). From international to global justice? In Dryzek, John. S, Honig, Bonnie, Phillips, Anne (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (pp. 621-635). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2006). International relations as political theory. In Dunne, Tim, Kurki, Milja, Smith, Steve (Eds.), International Relations Theories (pp. 34-51). Oxford University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2004). Decent peoples, burdened societies, outlaw states: conceptual categories in the law of peoples. In Proceedings of the 21st Ivr World Congress, Part 1: Justice (pp. 36-44). Franz Steiner Verlag.
  • Brown, Chris (2004). The "English School" and world society. In Albert, Mathias, Hilkermeier, Lena (Eds.), Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics (pp. 59-71). Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris (2004). Political theory and international relations. In Gaus, Gerald F, Kukathas, Chandran (Eds.), Handbook of Political Theory (pp. 289-300). SAGE Publications.
  • Brown, Chris (2004). Universal values and human nature. In Albert, Mathias, Moltmann, Bernhard, Schoch, Bruno, Brock, Lothar (Eds.), Die Entgrenzung Der Politik: Internationale Beziehungen und Friedensforschung (pp. 241-259). Campus Verlag.
  • Brown, Chris (2003). Moral agency and international society: reflections on norms, the UN, the Gulf War and the Kosovo campaign. In Erskine, Toni (Ed.), Can Institutions Have Responsibilities: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (pp. 51-68). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2003). Selective humanitarianism: in defence of inconsistency. In Chatterjee, Deen, Scheid, Don (Eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention (pp. 31-50). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2002). Humanitarian intervention and international political theory. In Moseley, Alexander, Norman, Richard (Eds.), Human Rights and Military Intervention (pp. 153-169). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Brown, Chris (2002). Narratives of religion, civilization and modernity. In Booth, Ken, Dunne, Tim (Eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (pp. 293-302). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2002). International relations and industrial society. In Brown, Chris, Nardin, Terry, Rengger, Nicholas (Eds.), International Relations in Political Thought : Texts From the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (pp. 519-531). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2002). State and nation in nineteenth century international political theory. In Brown, Chris, Nardin, Terry, Rengger, Nicholas (Eds.), International Relations in Political Thought : Texts From the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (pp. 457-469). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). Ethics, interests and foreign policy. In Smith, Karen E., Light, Margot (Eds.), Ethics and Foreign Policy (pp. 15-32). Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). Borders and identity in international political theory. In Albert, Mathias, Lapid, Yosef, Jacobson, David (Eds.), Identities, Borders and Orders (pp. 117-136). University of Minnesota. Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2001). Fog in the channel: continental international relations theory isolated (or an essay on the paradoxes of diversity and parochialism in IR theory). In Crawford, Robert, Jarvis, Darryl S. (Eds.), International Relations: Still an American Social Science? (pp. 203-220). State University of New York Press.
  • Brown, Chris (2000). "Our side?": critical theory and international relations. In Wynn-Jones, Richard (Ed.), Critical Theory and World Politics (pp. 191-204). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
  • Brown, Chris (2000). Justice and international order. In Coates, Tony (Ed.), International Justice . Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Brown, Chris (2000). The English school: international theory and international society. In Albert, Mathias, Brock, Lothar, Wolf, Klaus D (Eds.), Civilising World Politics: Society and Community Beyond the State (pp. 91-102). Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Brown, Chris (2000). Universal human rights? An analysis of the 'human-rights culture' and its critics. In Patman, Robert (Ed.), Universal Human Rights (pp. 31-50). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Brown, Chris (2000). The borders of (international) political theory. In O'Sullivan, Noël (Ed.), Political Theory in Transition (pp. 190-208). Routledge.
  • Brown, Chris (1999). Towards a neo-Aristotelian resolution of the cosmopolitan-communitarian debate. In Fritz, Jan-Stefan, Lensu, Maria (Eds.), Value Pluralism, Normative Theory and International Relations (pp. 76-99). Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Online resource
  • Brown, Chris (2015). The Labour Party plans for ‘Progressive Internationalism’ if it returns to government.
  • Brown, Chris, Sasse, Gwendolyn, Economides, Spyros, Lankina, Tomila V., Hughes, Jim, Knott, Ellie (2014). Crimea referendum – our experts react.
  • Brown, Chris (2013). David Cameron is unlikely to get the results he wants out of the G8 Summit.
  • Ker-Lindsay, James, Featherstone, Kevin, Brown, Chris, Thomas, Daniel, Cherrier, Nick, Pastrorella, Giulia, Besliu, Raluca (2012). EU wins Nobel Peace Prize- reactions from EUROPP experts.
  • Brown, Chris (2012). Diplomacy is the only real way forward in the Syrian conflict: military intervention could make the situation even worse.
  • Brown, Chris (2012). Difficult decisions lie ahead over Syria. But these decisions are mainly for the Turkish leadership rather than the British Cabinet.
  • Brown, Chris (2012). A weak economy in 2012 threatens Britain’s ability to respond to the ‘knowns’ and ‘unknowns’ of foreign policy and defence.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). In its delivery of new aircraft carriers, the MoD has sacrificed short term affordability for long term value for money, a decision that may also leave the UK with a reduced defence capability.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). The Strategic Defence Review is an incoherent mess of stalled (but unresolved) decision making: it creates future problems that will not go away.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). While the UK and Europe can be proud of their role in Libya, there was a dependence on US support and this cannot be relied upon in future conflicts.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). Recent actions in Libya show that ‘liberal interventionism’ to support the human rights of civilians is not exempt from politics.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). Liberal interventionism and the case of Libya.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). The Wikileaks saga has revealed a souring of the US/UK ‘special relationship’, and this foreign policy distance looks set to stay.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). While the economic impetus for cooperation has never been greater the new Anglo-France Defence Treaty falls short of ‘landmark’ status.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Putting Trident on the block will show that Cameron is serious about spending cuts: cancellation is now a real possibility.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Memo to William Hague.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Can only front line service cuts save Defence expenditure?
  • Hagemann, Sara, Brown, Chris, Carrera, Leandro N. (2010). Second debate – international affairs: what our experts said.
  • Brown, Chris (2010). Scrapping or replacing Trident?