Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.

Leacock Building, Room 414

Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7

Canada

Phone: 
514-398-4400 ext. 0763
Email address: 
fernando.nunez-mietz [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Office: 
Leacock 536
Degree(s): 

PhD - Political Science (Ohio State University)

Curriculum vitae: 
Research areas: 
International Relations
Areas of interest: 

International security; International law; Human rights; Securitization; Legalization of international politics; International Relations Theory; Global Governance and International Organizations; Evolutionary Theory and International Systems Change

Current research: 
  • Resistance to human rights through securitization.
  • Systems change through the lens of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: A study on the evolution of international anarchy.
Selected publications: 

Selected publications/works in progress

  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz (forthcoming). “Resisting Human Rights through Securitization: Russia and Hungary against LGBT Rights.” Journal of Human Rights.
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz (2019). The Use of Force under International Law: Lawyerized States in a Legalized World. Routledge (New International Relations Series).
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz (2018). “Legalization and the International Legitimation of the Use of Force: Revisiting Kosovo.” International Organization, Volume 72, Issue 3, pp. 725-757.
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz and Lucrecia Garcia Iommi (2017). “Can Transnational Norm Advocacy Undermine Internalization? Explaining Immunization Against LGBT Rights in Uganda.” International Studies Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, pp. 196-209.
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz (2016). “Lawyering compliance with international law: Legal Advisers in the ‘War on Terror’.” European Journal of International Security, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 215–238.
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz. “A Consent-Based System? The Judicial Creation of International LGBT Rights against State Consent.” Under review.
  • Fernando G. Nuñez-Mietz. Mobilizing against Human Rights: The Resistance to LGBT Rights through Securitization. Book manuscript in progress.
Conferences: 
  • Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político (SAAP) - XIV Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política, Buenos Aires (July 17-20, 2019). 
  • International Studies Association - Annual Convention 2019, Toronto (March 27-30, 2019).
  • Prairie Political Science Association – Annual Meeting 2018, Banff (September 14-16, 2018).
  • Social Science History Association - Annual Meeting 2017, Montreal (November 2-5, 2017).
  • International Conference: Localizing and Globalizing Justice (sponsored by the Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ), Yan P. Lin Centre, McGill University; co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata (JA), Goethe University Frankfurt and Free University Berlin), Montreal (September 29-30, 2017).
  • American Political Science Association – Annual Meeting 2017, San Francisco (August 31-September 3, 2017).
  • International Studies Association – International Conference 2017, Hong Kong (June 15-17, 2017).
  • International Studies Association - Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore (February 22-25, 2017).
  • Central and East European International Studies Association - International Studies Association Joint International Conference 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 23-25, 2016).
  • International Studies Association - Annual Convention 2016, Atlanta (March 16-19, 2016).
  • McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - 2016 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada (February 11-12, 2016).
  • International Studies Association - Human Rights Joint Conference 2015, The Hague, Netherlands (June 8-10, 2015).
  • International Studies Association - Annual Convention 2015, New Orleans (February 18-21, 2015).
  • International Studies Association - West Conference 2014, Pasadena, United States (September 26-27, 2014).
  • Fourth Global International Studies Conference 2014, Frankfurt, Germany (August 6-9, 2014).
Selected talks and presentations: 
  • Guest Speaker, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (McGill Division), McGill University (April 3, 2018). Panel Discussion: “Rohingya Crisis: Myanmar and the Responsibility to Protect.”
  • Guest Speaker, Women in International Security Canada at McGill (in partnership with McGill Students for Amnesty International), McGill University (November 28, 2017). Panel Discussion: “Perspectives on Gendered Violence.”
  • Guest Speaker, McGill Model United Nations, Montreal (January 27-28, 2017).
  • Guest Speaker, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (McGill Division), McGill University (March 23, 2016). Panel Discussion: “International Humanitarian Law, Armed Non-State Actors and the Protection of Civilians.”
  • Guest Speaker, “Intervention in the face of the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria” – McGill Students for UNICEF, January 27 2015.
Courses: 

Graduate Courses

  • POLI 670: The Politics of Human Rights (McGill University)
  • POLI 670: International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (McGill University)
  • POLI 670: International Law and State Behaviour (McGill University)

Undergraduate Courses

  • POLI 244: International Politics: State Behaviour (McGill University)
  • POLI 355: The Politics of International Law (McGill University)
  • POLI 444: The Politics of Human Rights (McGill University)
  • POLI 575: Honours Seminar: International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (McGill University)
  • POLI 575: Honours Seminar: International Law and State Behaviour (McGill University)
Group: 
Associate Professor
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