DrEmily Tannock

I am a Lecturer in War Studies at the Centre for Future Defence and National Security in Canberra. Prior
to joining Deakin, I was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of
Political Science and International Studies, at the University of Queensland.

I have a long experience of researching normative debates about the legitimacy
of war. I research how we make decisions about when it is justified, the kinds
of arguments we use to justify our choices, and how these have changed over
time.

I am working on two projects. The first is a monograph on the history of legal,
moral and constitutional arguments that actors draw on when they argue about
the legitimacy of force. The second is about how debates about the legitimacy
of force have been shaped, and influenced by, ideas of progress in the post
war era.

Excerpts of my work have appeared in internationally recognized publications.
I co-authored an article in the European Journal of International Relations
with some of my conclusions applied to the jus in bello, and published a book
chapter about the Seven Years' War in a prize-winning Oxford UP book.