Daniel Deudney
· ProfessorJohns Hopkins University · Political Science
Active 1981–2025
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About
Daniel Deudney is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches international relations and political theory. He holds a BA in political science and philosophy from Yale University, an MPA in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University, and a PhD in political science from Princeton University. His research interests encompass general international relations theory, international political theory and republicanism, and contemporary global issues such as nuclear policy, outer space, environment, and energy. Deudney has contributed extensively to the field through his publications, including co-authoring 'RENEWABLE ENERGY' and co-editing 'CONTESTED GROUNDS: Conflict and Security in the New Global Environmental Politics.' His notable book, 'BOUNDING POWER: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village,' received awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. His most recent book is 'DARK SKIES: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics and the Ends of Humanity.' Over his twenty years of teaching, he has received four major teaching awards, including the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award at Johns Hopkins University.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Physics
- Law
- Philosophy
- Law and economics
- Political economy
- Astronomy
- Geology
- Astrobiology
Selected publications
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 76 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present, and future. Thinking about space, and the visions fervently promoted by the global space movement, is dominated by geographic misperceptions and utopian illusions. The parts of space where almost all activity has occurred are part of the planet Earth, its astrosphere, and, in practical terms, are smaller than the atmosphere. Contrary to frontier visions, orbital space is already congested and degr…
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity
2020 · 70 citations
1st authorCorresponding"Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions fervently promoted by the global space movement, are dominated by geographic misperceptions and utopian illusions. The parts of space where almost all activity has occurred are part of the planet Earth, its astrosphere, and are, in practical terms, smaller than the atmosphere. Contrary to frontier visions, orbital space is already congested and degraded wit…
2023-03-23 · 9 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingAbstract In the late twentieth century, the narrative of universalization of Western liberal democratic modernity dominated the international scene. A few decades later, a new plurality of narratives has emerged, reflecting both a global redistribution of geopolitical power and deep political transformation within Western liberal societies. Each of the new, or most often reinvented, narratives combines stories of the past with understandings of the present and attractive visions of the future. T…
Nuclear One-Worldisms, Planetary Vulnerability and Whole Earth Security
2024-02-27 · 3 citations
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorrespondingNuclear weapons have triggered a great debate on world political order across three phases and with three main positions: repair, reform and revolution. The revolutionary answer, nuclear one-worldism (NOW), argues for major world order changes arising from the intersection of new knowledges about the material world and a cascade of technological empowerments in collision with basic and long-standing human goals of survival, security and well-being. Early NOW thinkers viewed a world state as the…
2023-03-23 · 3 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 28 shared
G. John Ikenberry
- 4 shared
Thomas J. Biersteker
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- 4 shared
William C. Wohlforth
Dartmouth College
- 3 shared
John Agnew
- 3 shared
Christopher Flavin
- 2 shared
Edward J. Walsh
- 2 shared
Arthur M. Eckstein
- 2 shared
Karoline Postel Vinay
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Awards & honors
- Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in international po…
- Book of the Decade award from the International Studies Asso…
- Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award at Johns Hopkins Univers…
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