Robert E. Latham
Professor
Office: Ross Building South, 657
Phone: 647-718-9069 Ext: 46011
Email: rlatham1@yorku.ca
Primary website: https://yorku.academia.edu/RobertLatham?from_navbar=true
Secondary website: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=fY3v7UcAAAAJ&hl=en
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Accepting New Graduate Students
TO SEE PROFILE AND PUBLICATIONS GO TO: http://yorku.academia.edu/RobertLatham
and
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=fY3v7UcAAAAJ&hl=en
Degrees
PhD, Department of Political Science, New School for Social ResearchMA, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
BA, Pomona College
Research Interests
- Gordon Foundation. Diasporas and Canadian Foreign Policy 2008 - 2008
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination
2016 The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State (single author book) Routledge, Interventions series (204 pps)
2014 Liberating Temporariness? imagining alternatives to permanence as a pathway for social inclusion (co-edited with Valerie Preston and Leah Vosko), Queens-McGill University Press.
2005 Digital Formations: Information Technology and New Architectures in the Global Realm. Edited Volume: co-edited with Saskia Sassen, Princeton University Press) (368 pps)
-“Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study;” introduction, co-written with S. Sassen (35 pps.).
2003 Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between Information Technology and Security. Edited volume: The New Press. (326 pps.)
-“Introduction” (25 pps.)
2001 Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global/Local Networks of Power. Co-edited volume with Thomas Callaghy and Ronald Kassimir (Cambridge University Press) (322 pps.).
-“Introduction: transboundary formations, intervention, order, and authority”…co-written with T. Callaghy and R. Kassimer (23 pps).
-“Toward a new research agenda,” co-written with R. Kassimir (13 pps.).
1997 The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order. Columbia University Press. In series, New Directions in World Politics. (281 pps)
2018 “Residual silences Toward a radical activist politics of association, in Sophia Dingl and Thomas Cooke, eds. Political Silence(s): investigations at the nexus of silence, power and agency. Routledge
2014 Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion.
Robert Latham, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Melisa Bretón in Liberating Temporariness (co-edited with Preston and Vosko)
2014 “Temporal Orders, Re-Collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States.” Independent chap- ter for co-edited volume, Liberating Temporariness (Queens-MacGill University Press)
2002 “Mapping Global/Local Spaces.” In Yale Ferguson and R.J. Barry Jones (eds.), Political Space: The New Frontier of Global Politics. SUNY Press. (21 pps.)
2001 “Identifying the Contours of Transboundary Political Life.” In Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa, ed. Callaghy, Kassimir, and Latham (Cambridge University Press) (25 pps.)
2001 “Liberalism and War.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (6 encyclopedia pps.)
2011 Book review of David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton). Cold War History. Spring.
Liberalism’s Zeitgeist: The Untethered Disposition of Capitalism
2018 Augmenting the Left AT Kingsmith, J von Bargen, KB Murray, R Latham. Global Discourse 8 (2), 157-168
2018 Contemporary capitalism, uneven development, and the arc of anti-capitalism R Latham. Global Discourse 8 (2), 169-186
2014 “Spatial Alternatives and Counter-Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine” International Political Soci- ology 8/1 (March), pp. 63–81, co-authored with Nir Gazit
2014 “The Governance of Visibility: Bodies, Information and the Politics of Anonymity Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 39/1 (February), pp. 17-36
2013 “Power and Inclusion: relations of knowledge and environmental monitoring in the arctic Journal of Northern Studies 7/1 (September), pp. 7-30, co-author, Lisa Williams
2012 “At the Permanent-Temporary Divide: How Canada (Re)produces Temporariness and Makes Cit- izens through its Security, Work, and Settlement Policies.” Citizenship Studies 16/3-4(April), 483-510 (24pp), co-authored with Valerie Preston, Leah Vosko, Deepa Rajkumar, and Laurel Berkowitz
2010 “Border Formations: Subjectivity and Security at the Border” (Citizenship Studies) (April) (21pp)
2008 “What Are We? From a Multicultural to a Multiversal Canada.” International Journal (Spring)
2006 “Knowledge and Governance in the Digital Age: The Politics of Monitoring Planetary Life.” First Monday (September) (18 pps).
2002 “Information Technology and Social Transformation” (Review Essay). International Studies Review, (Spring) (15 pps.).
2001 “The Public Relevance of International Security Research in an Era of Globalism.” Co-authored with Martin Malin. International Studies Perspectives (Summer) (10 pps.).
2000 “Social Sovereignty.” Theory, Culture & Society (August) (18 pps.).
1997 “Globalization and Democratic Provisionism: Re-Reading Polanyi.” New Political Economy (Winter). (11 pps.)
1997 "History, Theory, and International Order: Some Lessons from the Nineteenth Century." Review of International Studies (Fall) (24 pps.).
1996 "Getting Out From Under: Rethinking Security Beyond Liberalism and the Level-of-Analysis Problem." Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Spring) (32 pps.).
1995 "Liberalism's Order / Liberalism's Other: A Genealogy of Threat." Alternatives. (Winter) (36 pps.)
1995 "Thinking About Security After the Cold War." International Studies Notes (Fall) (8 pps.).
1993 "Democracy and War-Making: Locating the International Liberal Context." Millennium: Journal of International Studies. (Summer) (25 pps.)
2013 “Migration and Institutional Innovation at the Edge of the State” Tikkun Magazine (August)
2009 “A Tale of Two Obamas” Canada Watch Feb/March (6 pp.)
2009 “After Multiculturalism: Canada and its Multiversal Future” Canada Watch Fall 6pp
2000 “The Politics and History of Responsibility across Boundaries.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Summer/Fall) (12 pps.).
2010 "Israel and Palestine: Social Space, Security, and Alternative Sovereignties", Bogazici University DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS July
2009 Workshop Paper, “Mobile Subjectivity and Border Security” Border Governance: A Comparative North American Perspective, IberoAmericana University, Mexico City
2009 Conference Paper, “Post-Multiculturalism and Transnationality,”, Conference, Toward and Demcocratic Cosmopolis: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition, York University
2008 Conference Paper, “Borders, Knowledge, and Justice.” Security and Exclusion, Centre for Studies in Social Justice University of Windsor
2008 “Diasporas and Multiversal Politics” Presentation at workshop, Diasporas and Insecurity: Diasporas, Democracy, and Canada
2008 “What can a Post-Multicultural Society Look Like?” Main keynote speaker, International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
2007 Commenator on "Minority Rights and the New International Politics of Diversity" by Will Kymlicka, Conference for Political Thought – Toronto Chapter.
2007 “Exploring the Relationship between Transnational Relations and Transnational Law as Fields of Study.” Paper delivered at the YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series. 20 February. York University.
2007 “Meta-Security.” Presentation at the Security and Defence Forum-Net Workshop, Developing Security?, McMaster University.
2007 “Reframing Twenty-First Century Military Identity.” Presentation at the Security and Defence Forum-Net Workshop, Popular Violence. York University
2007 “Situating U.S. Policy in Africa.” Presentation for Roundtable Africom/Africaplan: The New Scramble for Africa. York University.
2007 “Translocality and Intervention.” Presentation at the Lines of Flight Seminar Series, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
2007 “U.S.-Iran, Crisis as a Mode of Engagement.” Presentation for Roundtable, “Iran and the Politics of Crisis.” York University.
2007 “What Are We? From a Multicultural to a Multiversal Canada.” Con/founding Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
2005 “Do Liberal Orders Crash and Burn or Just Fade Away?” 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2003 “International Conflict, Cooperation and IT.” Presentation on panel, “Critical Perspectives on Conflict Resolution,” Fulbright Program.
2003 “The Pursuit of Necessary Knowledge.” Presentation at the UNDP Global Meeting on ICT for Development, Ottawa.
2003 “The Technologies of Global Activism.” Presentation on panel, “The Growth of Web Activism: the Use of the Internet as a Political Tool,” School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
2002 “Information Technology and Social Change.” Paper for panel, New Information Technologies: Perspectives from the Research Field, Markle Foundation.
2001 “The Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy in the Information Age.” Presentation at Workshop, “E-Diplomacy and International Organizations.” Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University.
2000 “History, Theory, and Trans-Boundary Relations.” Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles.
1999 “Changing Conceptions of Sovereignty.” Presentation at workshop, “Migration and the (Supra-National) State,” sponsored by the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizen-ship and the European Union Center, New York.
1999 “The Relevance of Political Science for Diplomatic History.” Rountable presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University.
1998 “Transterritorial Deployments, International Arenas, and Translocal Networks.” Paper presented at Pan-European International Relations Conference sponsored by the European Standing Group for International Relations and the International Studies Association, Vienna, Austria
1997 "Bringing Modernity In: the Stakes for Security Studies." 1997 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto.
1997 “Towards a Translocal Politics of Human Rights.” Human Rights Working Group, Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University.
1996 “Going Local: International Order and the Remaking of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War.” 1996 annual meeting of the American Political Science Assoc., San Francisco.
1996 “Modernity and Security.” 1996 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego.
1995 "Global Governance as an International Political Form." 1995 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1994 "Getting Out From Under: Rethinking Security beyond Liberalism and the Level-of-Analysis Problem." 1994 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York.
1994 "International Liberalism in Perspective: The Nineteenth-Century Antecedents." 1994 International Political Science Association Congress, Berlin.
1993 "Liberalism as an International Order: Europe and the World." 1993 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico.
1993 "The Strategic Dimensions of International Liberal Order: Some Lessons from the Cold War." 1993 annual meeting of the Northeast International Studies Association, Newark, New Jersey.
1992 "Atlantic Cooperation and International Liberalism: Is a Military Order a Necessary Condition?" 1992 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1992 "International Liberalism, the Cold War and the Political Contours of the Post-WWII International System in Europe." 1992 annual meeting of the Northeast International Studies Association, Providence, R.I.
1992 “Liberalism, Security, and the New Europe." Fall conference of the Center for Politics, Theory, and Policy, "The Shape of Things to Come: Reflections on the Post-Cold War World," New School for Social Research, New York.
1992 “Military Force and the Organization of an International Liberal Order: A Reconsideration." 1992 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | GS/POLS6086 3.0 | A | Thinking Power and Violence | BLEN |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/POLS1000 6.0 | M | Introduction to Politics | ONLN |
TO SEE PROFILE AND PUBLICATIONS GO TO: http://yorku.academia.edu/RobertLatham
and
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=fY3v7UcAAAAJ&hl=en
Degrees
PhD, Department of Political Science, New School for Social ResearchMA, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
BA, Pomona College
Research Interests
Awards
- Gordon Foundation. Diasporas and Canadian Foreign Policy 2008 - 2008
All Publications
2018 “Residual silences Toward a radical activist politics of association, in Sophia Dingl and Thomas Cooke, eds. Political Silence(s): investigations at the nexus of silence, power and agency. Routledge
2014 Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion.
Robert Latham, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Melisa Bretón in Liberating Temporariness (co-edited with Preston and Vosko)
2014 “Temporal Orders, Re-Collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States.” Independent chap- ter for co-edited volume, Liberating Temporariness (Queens-MacGill University Press)
2002 “Mapping Global/Local Spaces.” In Yale Ferguson and R.J. Barry Jones (eds.), Political Space: The New Frontier of Global Politics. SUNY Press. (21 pps.)
2001 “Identifying the Contours of Transboundary Political Life.” In Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa, ed. Callaghy, Kassimir, and Latham (Cambridge University Press) (25 pps.)
2001 “Liberalism and War.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (6 encyclopedia pps.)
2011 Book review of David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton). Cold War History. Spring.
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination
2016 The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State (single author book) Routledge, Interventions series (204 pps)
2014 Liberating Temporariness? imagining alternatives to permanence as a pathway for social inclusion (co-edited with Valerie Preston and Leah Vosko), Queens-McGill University Press.
2005 Digital Formations: Information Technology and New Architectures in the Global Realm. Edited Volume: co-edited with Saskia Sassen, Princeton University Press) (368 pps)
-“Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study;” introduction, co-written with S. Sassen (35 pps.).
2003 Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between Information Technology and Security. Edited volume: The New Press. (326 pps.)
-“Introduction” (25 pps.)
2001 Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global/Local Networks of Power. Co-edited volume with Thomas Callaghy and Ronald Kassimir (Cambridge University Press) (322 pps.).
-“Introduction: transboundary formations, intervention, order, and authority”…co-written with T. Callaghy and R. Kassimer (23 pps).
-“Toward a new research agenda,” co-written with R. Kassimir (13 pps.).
1997 The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security, and the Making of Postwar International Order. Columbia University Press. In series, New Directions in World Politics. (281 pps)
Liberalism’s Zeitgeist: The Untethered Disposition of Capitalism
2018 Augmenting the Left AT Kingsmith, J von Bargen, KB Murray, R Latham. Global Discourse 8 (2), 157-168
2018 Contemporary capitalism, uneven development, and the arc of anti-capitalism R Latham. Global Discourse 8 (2), 169-186
2014 “Spatial Alternatives and Counter-Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine” International Political Soci- ology 8/1 (March), pp. 63–81, co-authored with Nir Gazit
2014 “The Governance of Visibility: Bodies, Information and the Politics of Anonymity Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 39/1 (February), pp. 17-36
2013 “Power and Inclusion: relations of knowledge and environmental monitoring in the arctic Journal of Northern Studies 7/1 (September), pp. 7-30, co-author, Lisa Williams
2012 “At the Permanent-Temporary Divide: How Canada (Re)produces Temporariness and Makes Cit- izens through its Security, Work, and Settlement Policies.” Citizenship Studies 16/3-4(April), 483-510 (24pp), co-authored with Valerie Preston, Leah Vosko, Deepa Rajkumar, and Laurel Berkowitz
2010 “Border Formations: Subjectivity and Security at the Border” (Citizenship Studies) (April) (21pp)
2008 “What Are We? From a Multicultural to a Multiversal Canada.” International Journal (Spring)
2006 “Knowledge and Governance in the Digital Age: The Politics of Monitoring Planetary Life.” First Monday (September) (18 pps).
2002 “Information Technology and Social Transformation” (Review Essay). International Studies Review, (Spring) (15 pps.).
2001 “The Public Relevance of International Security Research in an Era of Globalism.” Co-authored with Martin Malin. International Studies Perspectives (Summer) (10 pps.).
2000 “Social Sovereignty.” Theory, Culture & Society (August) (18 pps.).
1997 “Globalization and Democratic Provisionism: Re-Reading Polanyi.” New Political Economy (Winter). (11 pps.)
1997 "History, Theory, and International Order: Some Lessons from the Nineteenth Century." Review of International Studies (Fall) (24 pps.).
1996 "Getting Out From Under: Rethinking Security Beyond Liberalism and the Level-of-Analysis Problem." Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Spring) (32 pps.).
1995 "Liberalism's Order / Liberalism's Other: A Genealogy of Threat." Alternatives. (Winter) (36 pps.)
1995 "Thinking About Security After the Cold War." International Studies Notes (Fall) (8 pps.).
1993 "Democracy and War-Making: Locating the International Liberal Context." Millennium: Journal of International Studies. (Summer) (25 pps.)
2013 “Migration and Institutional Innovation at the Edge of the State” Tikkun Magazine (August)
2009 “A Tale of Two Obamas” Canada Watch Feb/March (6 pp.)
2009 “After Multiculturalism: Canada and its Multiversal Future” Canada Watch Fall 6pp
2000 “The Politics and History of Responsibility across Boundaries.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Summer/Fall) (12 pps.).
2010 "Israel and Palestine: Social Space, Security, and Alternative Sovereignties", Bogazici University DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS July
2009 Workshop Paper, “Mobile Subjectivity and Border Security” Border Governance: A Comparative North American Perspective, IberoAmericana University, Mexico City
2009 Conference Paper, “Post-Multiculturalism and Transnationality,”, Conference, Toward and Demcocratic Cosmopolis: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition, York University
2008 Conference Paper, “Borders, Knowledge, and Justice.” Security and Exclusion, Centre for Studies in Social Justice University of Windsor
2008 “Diasporas and Multiversal Politics” Presentation at workshop, Diasporas and Insecurity: Diasporas, Democracy, and Canada
2008 “What can a Post-Multicultural Society Look Like?” Main keynote speaker, International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
2007 Commenator on "Minority Rights and the New International Politics of Diversity" by Will Kymlicka, Conference for Political Thought – Toronto Chapter.
2007 “Exploring the Relationship between Transnational Relations and Transnational Law as Fields of Study.” Paper delivered at the YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series. 20 February. York University.
2007 “Meta-Security.” Presentation at the Security and Defence Forum-Net Workshop, Developing Security?, McMaster University.
2007 “Reframing Twenty-First Century Military Identity.” Presentation at the Security and Defence Forum-Net Workshop, Popular Violence. York University
2007 “Situating U.S. Policy in Africa.” Presentation for Roundtable Africom/Africaplan: The New Scramble for Africa. York University.
2007 “Translocality and Intervention.” Presentation at the Lines of Flight Seminar Series, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
2007 “U.S.-Iran, Crisis as a Mode of Engagement.” Presentation for Roundtable, “Iran and the Politics of Crisis.” York University.
2007 “What Are We? From a Multicultural to a Multiversal Canada.” Con/founding Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
2005 “Do Liberal Orders Crash and Burn or Just Fade Away?” 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
2003 “International Conflict, Cooperation and IT.” Presentation on panel, “Critical Perspectives on Conflict Resolution,” Fulbright Program.
2003 “The Pursuit of Necessary Knowledge.” Presentation at the UNDP Global Meeting on ICT for Development, Ottawa.
2003 “The Technologies of Global Activism.” Presentation on panel, “The Growth of Web Activism: the Use of the Internet as a Political Tool,” School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
2002 “Information Technology and Social Change.” Paper for panel, New Information Technologies: Perspectives from the Research Field, Markle Foundation.
2001 “The Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy in the Information Age.” Presentation at Workshop, “E-Diplomacy and International Organizations.” Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University.
2000 “History, Theory, and Trans-Boundary Relations.” Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles.
1999 “Changing Conceptions of Sovereignty.” Presentation at workshop, “Migration and the (Supra-National) State,” sponsored by the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizen-ship and the European Union Center, New York.
1999 “The Relevance of Political Science for Diplomatic History.” Rountable presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University.
1998 “Transterritorial Deployments, International Arenas, and Translocal Networks.” Paper presented at Pan-European International Relations Conference sponsored by the European Standing Group for International Relations and the International Studies Association, Vienna, Austria
1997 "Bringing Modernity In: the Stakes for Security Studies." 1997 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto.
1997 “Towards a Translocal Politics of Human Rights.” Human Rights Working Group, Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University.
1996 “Going Local: International Order and the Remaking of U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War.” 1996 annual meeting of the American Political Science Assoc., San Francisco.
1996 “Modernity and Security.” 1996 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego.
1995 "Global Governance as an International Political Form." 1995 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1994 "Getting Out From Under: Rethinking Security beyond Liberalism and the Level-of-Analysis Problem." 1994 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York.
1994 "International Liberalism in Perspective: The Nineteenth-Century Antecedents." 1994 International Political Science Association Congress, Berlin.
1993 "Liberalism as an International Order: Europe and the World." 1993 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico.
1993 "The Strategic Dimensions of International Liberal Order: Some Lessons from the Cold War." 1993 annual meeting of the Northeast International Studies Association, Newark, New Jersey.
1992 "Atlantic Cooperation and International Liberalism: Is a Military Order a Necessary Condition?" 1992 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1992 "International Liberalism, the Cold War and the Political Contours of the Post-WWII International System in Europe." 1992 annual meeting of the Northeast International Studies Association, Providence, R.I.
1992 “Liberalism, Security, and the New Europe." Fall conference of the Center for Politics, Theory, and Policy, "The Shape of Things to Come: Reflections on the Post-Cold War World," New School for Social Research, New York.
1992 “Military Force and the Organization of an International Liberal Order: A Reconsideration." 1992 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | GS/POLS6086 3.0 | A | Thinking Power and Violence | BLEN |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/POLS1000 6.0 | M | Introduction to Politics | ONLN |
