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Milan Babik

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Political Science , 135 Persson Hall
p 315 2286228

Degree

  • D.Phil. International Relations, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford (2009)
  • M.Sc. International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science (2002)
  • B.A. Government and Economics, Colby College (2001)

Specialities

  • classical realist IR thought
  • critical IR theory
  • E.H. Carr
  • 20th-century American liberal internationalism
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • concepts and methods of IR
  • political ideologies

Dissertation

  • "In Pursuit of Salvation: Woodrow Wilson and American Liberal Internationalism as Secularized Eschatology" (D.Phil. diss., University of Oxford, 2009)

Teaching Experience

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Colby College (2010-2011)
  • Visiting Instructor of Government, Colby College (2006-2007)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant in Political Science, McGill University (2002-2003)

Publications

Books

  • Statecraft and Salvation: Wilsonian Liberal Internationalism as Secularized Eschatology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming in 2013).

Refereed Journal Articles

  • “Beyond Totalitarianism: (Re)Introducing Secularization Theory to Liberal Narratives of Progress.” Politics, Religion & Ideology 13, no. 3 (2012): 331-351.
  • “George D. Herron and the Eschatological Foundations of Woodrow Wilson’s Foreign Policy, 1917-1919.” Diplomatic History 35, no. 5 (2011): 837-857.
  • “Nazism as a Secular Religion.” History and Theory 45, no. 3 (2006): 375-396.
  • “The Christian Historical Consciousness: Understanding War in Twentieth-Century Europe.” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 5, no. 1 (2004): 59-93.

Review Essays

  • “The Secret Future of Evil Past.” Review of After Evil, by Robert Meister, and Creating Capabilities, by Martha C. Nussbaum, Political Theory 39, no. 6 (2011): 802-807.
  • Review of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day, by Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, eds. Politics and Religion 3, no. 3 (2010): 661-663.
  • Review of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century, by G. John Ikenberry et al. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 38, no. 2 (2009): 470-473.

Other

  • Languages: Czech, English (fluent); German (advanced), Russian (basic)