Associate Professor

PhD University of Toronto

catherine (dot) lu(at)mcgill(dot)ca

Research interests

International political theory; contemporary political theory; ethical challenges of ‘humanitarian intervention’; justice and reconciliation after violence, oppression and atrocity; cosmopolitanism and its critics; and literature and philosophy.

Recent and forthcoming publications

“Humanitarianism and the Use of Force,” in The Ethics of Global Governance, Antonio Franceschet, ed. (Boulder: Lynne Reiner, forthcoming).

“Intervention,” Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Mark Bevir, ed. (Sage), forthcoming.

“Shame, Guilt and Reconciliation after War,” The European Journal of Social Theory 11, 3 (2008) 367-38.

“Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Ambition and Political Constraints,” International Journal 62, 4 (Autumn 2007) 934-943.

“Justice and Reparations in World Politics,” in Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, eds. Rahul Kumar and Jon Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 193-212.

“World Government,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

(Book) Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

“The International Criminal Court as an Institution of Moral Regeneration: Problems and Prospects,” Bringing Power to Justice, eds. Joanna Harrington, Michael Milde and Richard Vernon (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), 191-209.

“Introducing New Orders and Modes: Lessons from Machiavelli,” in “Symposium Issue: The UN at Sixty – Celebration or Wake?” Journal of International Law and International Relations, 2, 1 (Winter 2005) 177-184.

“Whose Principles? Whose Institutions? Legitimacy Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention,” in Humanitarian Intervention, Nomos XLVII (Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), eds. Terry Nardin and Melissa Williams (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 188-216.

“Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs,” in Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case, eds. David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 147-164.

“Cosmopolitan Liberalism and the Faces of Injustice in International Relations,” Review of International Studies 31, 2 (April 2005) 401-8.

Other professional activities

Vice-Chair for the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association (2008-10): http://www.isanet.org/ethics/.

Co-Convenor of Standing Group on International Political Theory of the European Consortium for Political Research: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/ipt/ipt.aspx.