David Chandler

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and a new journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. His latest books is Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Routledge, 2014)

Human rights: from universalism to pragmatism

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Human rights have often been critiqued for their abstract universal claims, but human rights approaches are now beginning to lose their universalist baggage in the shift towards more pragmatic approaches of community empowerment. A response to

By David Chandler

/ 7 Aug 2014

Norodom Sihanouk, a Cambodian life

The man who was variously Cambodia's anti-colonial leader, king, prime minister, prince, and exiled figurehead is inseparable from his country's modern history, says David Chandler.

By David Chandler

/ 19 Oct 2012