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eheinze@ou.eduEric Heinze joined the Department of Political Science and School of International and Area Studies in 2005. He teaches courses in the field of international relations, including classes on international relations theory, international law, international organizations, and international human rights. Professor Heinze’s research deals with normative and ethical issues in international relations with a focus on global governance, armed conflict, and human rights. His current and recent work is on humanitarian military intervention, the politics of genocide, the ethical and legal implications of the Iraq war and the “war on terror,” and the role of non-state actors in armed conflict.
Professor Heinze is the author of Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (State University of New York Press, 2009), and co-editor (with Brent Steele) of Ethics, Authority and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition, which is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. His articles have been published in various journals, including Global Governance, Political Science Quarterly, Polity, the International Journal of Human Rights, Parameters, the Journal of International Political Theory, and the Journal of Military Ethics. He is a member of the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, and the American Society of International Law. He also serves on the board of directors of the Oklahoma City chapter of the United Nations Association.
