Matthew Rendall

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Biography

Matthew Rendall is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, and holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. His earlier research focused on large-scale war and peace, including such topics as nuclear deterrence, whether there is a 'separate peace' among democracies, and collective security. This work often tested theories of war and peace through historical case studies, often drawing on original historical research. More recently he has also been writing about intergenerational justice, climate change and various topics in moral philosophy.

Expertise Summary

Teaching Summary

This autumn I'm convening our introductory IR module, Understanding Global Politics, and team-teaching How to Save a Planet (on environmental philosophy). In the spring, This spring I'll team-teach… read more

Research Summary

My recent work has dealt either with intergenerational justice or with IR theory. 'Discounting, Climate Change and the Ecological Fallacy'--recently published in *Ethics*--proposes an approach to… read more

Recent Publications

• RENDALL, M., 2020. Nuclear Deterrence: Another Perfect Storm? [under contract]. In: The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• RENDALL, M., 2019. Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy Ethics. 129(3), 441-63
• RENDALL, M., 2018. Review of Miroslav Šedivý, Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question European History Quarterly. 48(1), 183-84
• RENDALL, M., 2018. Discounting and the Paradox of the Indefinitely Postponed Splurge. In: RAVI KANBUR and HENRY SHUE, eds., Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy Oxford University Press. 175-87

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PhD Supervision:

All areas of current research interest. More generally, I would be glad to supervise dissertations on the causes of war and peace, climate ethics and intergenerational justice.

PhDs SUPERVISED TO COMPLETION:

Tursun, Özgün, 'Rethinking the Decline of Hegemony: Historical Comparison between British Belle Époque and American Longue Durée' (2019)

Tseng Lan-Shu, 'The Identity of Rising China and India: Peace or Threat' (2016)

Clulow, Zeynep, 'Why Comply With the Global Climate Regime? A Multi-Level Analysis of the Role of Instrumentalist Factors and Worldviews in Climate Policy' (2016)

Shalpykova, Gulnara, 'The Syr Darya River Basin: Riparian Cooperation Unmasked' (2014)

Poberezhskaya, Marianna, 'Contemporary Media and the Construction of Anthropogenic Climate Change Discourse in the Russian Federation' (2013)

Li Hak Yin, 'The Discrepancy of Chinese Non-Intervention Policy and Its Implications Towards the World Order' (2012) Mukherjee, Kunal, 'Islamist Movements, Racism, Cultural Identities and Power Politics in Britain and Pakistan' (2010)

Current Research Students

Genovesi, Marco, 'The Madrid Protocol and the Forthcoming Climate Regime: Intrinsic Value, Persuasion, Monitoring and Enforcement'

Lopez-Benitez, Carlos, 'Aggregate Good and Democratic Theory: The Limits of Deliberative Democracy'

Maitra, Sumantra, 'Neo-Realism and the Return of Russia as a Great Power Under Putin'

This autumn I'm convening our introductory IR module, Understanding Global Politics, and team-teaching How to Save a Planet (on environmental philosophy). In the spring, This spring I'll team-teach Russia and Great Power Politics, and Social & Global Justice.

Current Research

My recent work has dealt either with intergenerational justice or with IR theory. 'Discounting, Climate Change and the Ecological Fallacy'--recently published in *Ethics*--proposes an approach to intergenerational justice that takes due heed of the risk of catastophe while avoiding unreasonably demanding obligations to the future. At present, I'm working on a pair of papers: one on neorealism and theories of natural selection, and the other on Anglo-Russian relations in the 1830s and theories of costly signalling.

Past Research

My dissertation evaluated competing explanations for the long European peace after 1815 through an analysis of Russia's Near Eastern policy, drawing on extensive research in Moscow's archives. I remain interested in the Concert of Europe and Russian foreign policy. ''Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe', appearing in The Review of International Studies in 2006, attacks John Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, arguing that defensive realism gives a better account of the long peace after 1815. I have also written about the Belgian crisis of 1830-32 and the Anglo-French crisis of 1840, and their implications for collective security and democratic peace theory.

Future Research

I have several projects going: on the security dilemma and Russian autocracy, on neorealism and natural selection, and to develop a consequentialist justification for Hans Jonas's imperative of responsibility.

• RENDALL, M., 2020. Nuclear Deterrence: Another Perfect Storm? [under contract]. In: The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• RENDALL, M., 2019. Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy Ethics. 129(3), 441-63
• RENDALL, M., 2018. Review of Miroslav Šedivý, Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question European History Quarterly. 48(1), 183-84
• RENDALL, M., 2018. Discounting and the Paradox of the Indefinitely Postponed Splurge. In: RAVI KANBUR and HENRY SHUE, eds., Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy Oxford University Press. 175-87
• RENDALL, MATTHEW, 2017. Review of Dale Jamieson's Reason in a dark time: Why the struggle against climate change failed - And what it means for our future CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY. 16(1), 155-157
• RENDALL, M., 2016. Review of Eberhard Straub, Der Wiener Kongress. Das große Fest und die Neuordnung Europas German Quarterly. 89(4), 506-7
• RENDALL, M., 2016. Cosmopolitanism and Russian Near Eastern Policy, 1821-41: Debunking a Historical Canard (revised version). In: REVIAKIN, A. V., ed., 200 let Venskoi sisteme: Proekt i praktika evropeiskoi diplomatii MGIMO-Universitet. 127-49
• RENDALL, M., 2015. Carbon Leakage and the Argument from No Difference Environmental Values. 24(4), 535-552
• RENDALL, M., 2015. Mere Addition and the Separateness of Persons Journal of Philosophy. 112(8), 442-55
• RENDALL, M., 2015. Review of Mark Jarrett's The Congress of Vienna and Its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon, and Jennifer Mitzen's Power in Concert: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews. 7(11), 17-23
• RENDALL, M., 2013. Priority and desert Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 16(5), 939-951
• RENDALL, M., 2011. Non-identity, sufficiency and exploitation Journal of Political Philosophy. 19(2), 229-47
• RENDALL, M., 2011. Climate change and the threat of disaster: the moral case for taking out insurance at our grandchildren's expense Political Studies. 59(4), 884-99
• RENDALL, M., 2009. Cosmopolitanism and Russian Near Eastern policy, 1821-41: debunking a historical canard. In: PYTA, W., ed., Das europäische Mächtekonzert: Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik vom Wiener Kongreβ 1815 bis zum Krimkrieg 1853 Böhlau. 237-255
• RENDALL, M., 2007. Nuclear weapons and intergenerational exploitation Security Studies. 16(4), 525-54
• RENDALL, M., 2007. A qualified success for collective security: the Concert of Europe and the Belgian crisis, 1831 Diplomacy & Statecraft. 18(2), 271-295
• RENDALL, M., 2006. Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe Review of International Studies. 32(3), 523-540
• RENDALL, M., 2004. 'The Sparta and the Athens of our age at daggers drawn': polities, perceptions, and peace International Politics. 41(4), 582-604
• RENDALL, M., 2003. Review of Dmitri Trenin's The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization Comparative Political Studies. VOL 36(PART 8), 970-972
• RENDALL, M., 2002. Restraint or self-restraint of Russia: Nicholas I, the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, and the Vienna System, 1832-1841 International History Review. 24(1), 37-63
• RENDALL, M., 2000. Russia, the Concert of Europe, and Greece, 1821-29: A Test of Hypotheses about the Vienna System Security Studies. VOL 9(PART 4), 52-90
• RENDALL, M., 1993. Dead Again? [Review of Allen Lynch's The Cold War is Over--Again] Journal of International Affairs. 46(2), 557-62