
Milan Babik
Title
Associate Director of Student Engagement and Fellowship Advising
Department
DavisConnects
Information
- (207) 859-5309
- [email protected]
- (207) 859-5229
- Lovejoy 108
Office Hours
M,F: 10:50am-12:30pm and by appointment
Current Courses
CRS | Title | Sec |
---|---|---|
GO225 | Writers against the State: Reading the Political Novel in Prague | A |
Education
- D.Phil., International Relations, University of Oxford (2009)
- M.Sc., International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science (2002)
- B.A., Government and Economics, Colby College (2001)
Areas of Expertise
- Post-positivist IR
- 20th-century international history
- Aesthetic turn in IR
- Critical historiography
- Narrative theory
Publications
Books
- Babík, Milan. The Poetics of International Politics: Fact and Fiction in Narrative Representations of World Affairs. London: Routledge, 2019.
- ---. Statecraft and Salvation: Wilsonian Liberal Internationalism as Secularized Eschatology. Waco, TX.: Baylor University Press, 2013.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- ---. "Honor Thy Father... But What About the Bible?" Dějiny a současnost (2018).
- ---. "POTUS: The American President as a Global Phenomenon." Dějiny a současnost (2018).
- ---. "What Would Mr. X Say? George F. Kennan and Russian Expansionism from the Perspective of Today." Dějiny a současnost (2017).
- ---. "'X' Ten Years On: The Fictions of George F. Kennan's Recent Factual Representations." Review of International Studies (2016).
- ---. "Realism as Critical Theory: The International Thought of E.H. Carr." International Studies Review (2014).
- ---. "Beyond Totalitarianism: (Re)Introducing Secularization Theory to Liberal Narratives of Progress." Politics, Religion & Ideology (2012).
- ---. "George D. Herron and the Eschatological Foundations of Woodrow Wilson's Foreign Policy, 1917-1919." Diplomatic History (2011).
- ---. "Nazism as a Secular Religion." History and Theory (2006).
- ---. "The Christian Historical Consciousness: Understanding War in Twentieth-Century Europe." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (2004).