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Milan Babik

Title

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government

Department

Government

Information

Office Hours

M,F: 10:50am-12:30pm and by appointment

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
GO131 Introduction to International Relations A
GO223 America and the World A
GO225 Writers against the State: Reading the Political Novel in Prague A
GO260 9/11: Origins, Event, Aftermath 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).