Professor Roland Bleiker
Professor of International Relations, Peace Studies and Political Theory
Professor
School of Political Science and International Studies
+61 7 336 51068
Researcher biography
Roland is Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the Visual Politics Research Program. His research explores how images and emotions shape political phenomena, including humanitarianism, security, peacebuilding, protest movements and the conflict in Korea. Books include Visual Global Politics (Routledge, 2018); Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave, 2009/2012); Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 2005/2008) and Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (CUP, 2000).
Roland's main current research project is an interdisciplinary ARC Linkage collaboration (2022-2026) on The Politics and Ethics of Visualising Humanitarian Crises. The project involves eight researchers and the World Press Photo Foundation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Australian Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Roland grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, where he was educated and worked as a lawyer. He studied international relations in Paris, Seoul, Toronto, Vancouver and Canberra. Roland also worked for two years in a Swiss diplomatic mission in the Korean DMZ and held visiting affiliations at Harvard, Cambridge, Humboldt, Tampere, Yonsei and Pusan National University as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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Selection of Recent Publications
"Decolonising Affect" Cooperation and Conflict (2024)
"Un-Disciplining the International" Alternatives: Local, Global, Political (2023)
"Visualizing International Relations" Journal of Visual Political Communication, 10,(2023
"Visual Violence" Interview with Brad Evans, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3 Jan 2022.
Publications
Books
Roland Bleiker ed. (2018). Visual global politics. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge - Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315856506
Bleiker, Roland (2012). Aesthetics and world politics. Houndmills, U. K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, R. (2009). Aesthetics and World Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, Roland (2005). Divided Korea: Toward a culture of reconciliation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press.
Bleiker, Roland (2000). Popular dissent, human agency and global politics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2022). Art and Aesthetics. Gender Matters in Global Politics. (pp. 94-108) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003036432-10
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2021). Visuality of peace and conflict. The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. (pp. 1-17) edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.14
Bleiker, Roland, Campbell, David and Hutchison, Emma (2021). Refugees, asylum seekers, and emotions. The Oxford handbook of Australian politics. (pp. 222-240) edited by Jenny M. Lewis and Anne Tiernan. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805465.013.14
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2021). Performing political empathy. The Oxford handbook of politics and performance. (pp. 595-608) edited by Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward. New York, NY USA: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.27
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2021). Performing political empathy. The Oxford handbook of politics and performance. (pp. 594-608) edited by Shirin M. Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward. New York, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.27
Bleiker, Roland (2020). The politics of images: a pluralist methodological framework. Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation. (pp. 272-288) edited by Shine Choi, Anna Selmeczi and Erzsébet Strausz. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315104997-21
Bleiker, Roland (2019). The politics of photography: Reflections on Salvatore Vitale's How to Secure a Country. How to Secure a Country: From Border Policing via Weather Forecast to Social Engineering — A Visual Study of 21st-Century Statehood. (pp. 267-272) edited by Salvatore Vitale and Lars Willumeit. Zürich, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publisher.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2019). In public: collectivities and polities. A cultural history of the emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age. (pp. 145-159) edited by Jane W. Davidson and Joy Damousi. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781474207072
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2019). Gender and violence in news media and photography. Handbook on Gender and Violence. (pp. 231-247) edited by Laura J. Shepherd. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788114691.00023
Bleiker, Roland (2018). Visual security: patterns and prospects. Visual security studies: sights and spectacles of insecurity and war. (pp. 189-200) edited by Juha A. Vuori and Rune Saugmann Andersen. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315387581-11
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2018). Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics. Researching emotions in international relations: methodological perspectives on the emotional turn. (pp. 325-342) edited by Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65575-8_14
Bleiker, Roland (2018). Aesthetic turn in international relations. International relations. (pp. 1-13) edited by Patrick James. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199743292-0236
Bleiker, Roland (2018). Mapping visual global politics. Visual global politics. (pp. 1-29) edited by Roland Bleiker. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315856506-1
Butler, Sally and Bleiker, Roland (2017). Embodied witnessing: Indigenous performance art as political dissent. Art as political witness. (pp. 99-115) edited by Kia Lindroos and Frank Moller. Berlin, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Bleiker, Roland (2017). Multidisciplinarity. Routledge handbook of international political soociology. (pp. 319-327) edited by Xavier Guillaume and Pınar Bilgin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315446486-32
Bleiker, Roland (2017). Postmodernism. An introduction to international relations. (pp. 94-105) edited by Richard Devetak, Jim George and Sarah Percy. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316855188.008
Premaratna, Nilanjana and Bleiker, Roland (2016). Arts and theatre for peacebuilding. The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. (pp. 82-94) edited by Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Jasmin Ramović. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_7
Duncombe, Constance and Bleiker, Roland (2015). Popular culture and political identity. Popular culture and world politics: theories, methods, pedagogies. (pp. 35-44) edited by Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton. Bristol, United Kingdom: E-International Relations.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2015). Grief and the transformation of emotions after war. Emotions, politics and war. (pp. 210-221) edited by Linda Åhäll and Thomas Gregory. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Bleiker, Roland (2014). Can we move beyond conflict?. Global politics: a new introduction. (pp. 564-589) edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routedge.
Wilson, Erin and Bleiker, Roland (2014). Performing political apologies. Memory and trauma in international relations: theory, cases, debates. (pp. 42-56) edited by Erica Resende and Doville Budryte. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315882659
Hutchison, Emma, Bleiker, Roland and Campbell, David (2014). Imaging catastrophe: the politics of representing humanitarian crises. Negotiating relief: the politics of humanitarian space. (pp. 47-58) edited by Michele Acuto. London, United Kingdom: Hurst & Co Publishers.
Bleiker, Roland (2014). Visual assemblages: from causality to conditions of possibility. Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations. (pp. 75-81) edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137383969.0014
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2014). Art, aesthetics and emotionality. Gender matters in global politics: a feminist introduction to international relations. (pp. 349-360) edited by Laura J. Shepherd. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Chou, Mark and Bleiker, Roland (2013). Betrayed by Democracy: Verbatim Theater as Prefigurative Politics. Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics. (pp. 231-256) edited by Nancy Sue Love and Mark Mattern. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press (SUNY).
Bleiker, Roland and Kay, Amy (2013). Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: pluralist photography and local empowerment. HIV in world cultures: three decades of representations. (pp. 169-202) edited by Gustavo Subero. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315586939
Leet, Martin and Bleiker, Roland (2013). Between consensus and deconstruction A feminist reading of dialogue. Dialogue, politics and gender. (pp. 120-145) edited by Jude Browne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139855938.006
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2013). Reconciliation. The Routledge handbook of peacebuilding. (pp. 81-90) edited by Roger Mac Ginty. Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2012). Ungendering the links between emotions and violence: towards a political appreciation of empathy and compassion. Gender, agency and political violence. (pp. 151-168) edited by Linda Åhall and Laura J. Shepherd. Houndmills, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, Roland (2012). Postmodernism. An introduction to international relations. (pp. 91-102) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Port Melbourne Vic., Australia: Cambridge University Press.
Bleiker, Roland (2012). Conclusion - everyday struggles for a hybrid peace. Hybrid forms of peace: From everyday agency to post- liberalism. (pp. 293-309) edited by Oliver P. Richmond and Audra Mitchell. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, Roland and Young-ju, Hoang (2011). Korean sources of conflict resolution: An inquiry into the concept of Han. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 248-269) edited by Roland Bleiker and Moragn Brigg. Honolulu, HI, United States: University of Hawai'i Press.
Bleiker, Roland and Kay, Amy (2011). Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist photography and local empowerment. The culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and healing in music and the arts. (pp. 404-426) edited by Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press.
Brigg, Morgan and Bleiker, Roland (2011). Post-colonial conflict resolution. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 19-37) edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. doi: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834593.003.0002
Brigg, Morgan and Bleiker, Roland (2011). Introduction. Mediating across difference: Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution. (pp. 1-15) edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker. Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press.
Nilanjana Premaratna and Roland Bleiker (2010). Art and peacebuilding: How theatre transforms conflict in Sri Lanka.. Palgrave advances in peacebuilding: Critical developments and approaches. (pp. 376-391) edited by Oliver P. Richmond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, Roland (2010). Towards a sustainable diplomacy in divided Korea. Sustainable Diplomacies. (pp. 235-255) edited by Costas M. Constantinou and James Der Derian. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230297159_12
Bleiker, Roland and Chou, Mark (2010). Nietzsche's style: On language, knowledge and power in international relations. International relations theory and philosophy: Interpretive dialogues. (pp. 8-19) edited by Cerwyn Moore and Chris Farrands. London, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203865903
Bleiker, R. (2009). Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy: The Cultural Dimension of International Theory. Approaches to International Relations Volume IV Non-Western Approaches to International Relations. (pp. 104-124) edited by Chan, Stephen and Moore, Cerwyn. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Can we move beyond conflict?. Global Politics: A new Introduction. (pp. 454-482) edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss. London and New York: Routledge.
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Poetic Resistance to Cold War Politics. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 112-127) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_7
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Aesthetics and World Politics. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 1-252) Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Poetic World Politics. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 84-96) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_5
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Poetics and the Politics of Memory. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 141-151) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_9
Bleiker, Roland (2009). The Sublime Nature of Global Politics. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 67-83) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_4
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Art after 9/11. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 48-66) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_3
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Come See the Blood in the Streets. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 128-140) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_8
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Conclusion. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 171-188) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_11
Bleiker, Roland (2009). The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 18-47) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_2
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Introduction. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 1-17) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_1
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Poetry after Auschwitz. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 97-111) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_6
Bleiker, Roland (2009). The Poetic Search for Identity and Community. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. (pp. 152-170) Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230244375_10
Bleiker, Roland (2008). Art against terror: Nonviolent alternatives through emotional insight. Nonviolence: An Alternative for Defeating Global Terror(ism). (pp. 169-186) edited by Senthil Ram and Ralph Summy. New York, U.S.: Nova Science Publishers.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Emotions in the war on terror. Security and the war on terror. (pp. 57-70) edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203028094
Bellamy, Alex J. and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Introduction. Security and the war on terror. (pp. 1-6) edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. London, England: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203028094-5
Bleiker, Roland (2008). Visualizing Post-National Democracy. The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition. (pp. 121-142) edited by David Campbell and Morton Schoolman. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2008). Fear no more: Emotions and world politics. Cultures and politics of global communication. (pp. 115-135) edited by Costas M. Constantinour, Oliver P. Richmond and Alison M. S. Watson. Cambridge , U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Bleiker, R. (2007). Dealing with a nuclear North Korea: Conventional and alternative security scenarios. Critical security in the Asia Pacific. (pp. 215-230) edited by Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Bleiker, Roland and Hoang, Young-Ju (2007). On the use and abuse of Korea's past: An inquiry into history teaching and reconciliation. Teaching the violent past: History, education and reconciliation. (pp. 249-274) edited by Elizabeth A. Cole. Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Bleiker, Roland (2007). Postmodernism. An introduction to international relations: Australian perspectives. (pp. 86-95) edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Bleiker, Roland (2007). Postmodernism. An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspectives. (pp. 86-95) Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139168557.009
Bleiker, Roland (2006). Aesthetic turn in international political theory. Approaches to international relations: Realism. (pp. 297-321) edited by Stephen Chan and Cerwyn Moore. London, U.K.; New York: Sage Publications.
Bleiker, R (2006). The contradictions of 'hawk engagement': An analysis of Washington's Korea policy. Bush and Asia: America's evolving relationship with East Asia. (pp. 196-212) edited by Mark Beeson. London and New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203965078
Bleiker, R and Hoang, Y (2006). Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation. Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present. (pp. 195-212) edited by D.Bell. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9780230627482
Bleiker, R. (2005). Order and Disorder in World Politics. International Society and its Critics. (pp. 179-192) edited by Alex J. Bellamy. United States of America: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/0199265208.003.0011
Bleiker, R. (2005). Alternatives to Peacekeeping in Korea: The Role of Non-State Actors and Face-to-Face Encounters. Peace Operations and Global Order. (pp. 143-159) edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul Williams. United States of America: Routledge.
Bleiker, R. (2005). Of things we hear but cannot see: Musical explorations of international politics.. Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture and Politics. (pp. 179-195) edited by M. I. Franklin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bleiker, R. (2005). Seattle and the struggle for a global democratic ethos.. Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement'. The Politics of Global Resistance. (pp. 195-211) edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca. United States of America: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203428016
Bleiker, R. (2005). Political boundaries, poetic transgressions. The Global Resistance Reader. (pp. 411-422) edited by Louise Amoore. London and New York: Routledge.
Bleiker, R. (2005). Writing human agency after the death of God. The Global Resistance Reader. (pp. 92-98) edited by Louise Amoore. London : New York: Routledge.
Bleiker, R. (2004). Globalising political theory. What is Political Theory. (pp. 124-144) edited by S. K. White and J. D. Moon. London, U.K: Sage Publications.
Bleiker R. (2004). Globalizing political theory. What is Political Theory. (pp. 124-144) 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom : SAGE Publications Inc.. doi: 10.4135/9781446215425.n7
Evans-Kent, Bronwyn and Bleiker, Roland (2003). Peace beyond the state? NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mitigating Conflict: The Role of NGOs. (pp. 102-118) Frank Cass. doi: 10.4324/9780203503898
Bleiker, Roland (2002). Living with rupture: Postmodern perspectives on international events. International relations and the "third debate" : Postmodernism and its critics. (pp. 15-42) edited by Darryl S. L. Jarvis. Westport, CO, U.S.A.: Praeger.
Bleiker, R. (2001). East-west stories of war and peace: Neorealist claims in light of ancient Chinese philosophy. The Zen of international relations: IR theory from East to West. (pp. 177-201) edited by S. Chan, P. Mandaville and R. Bleiker. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave.
Bleiker, R. (2001). Forget IR theory. The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East to West. (pp. 37-66) edited by S. Chan, P. Mandaville and R. Bleiker. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
Bleiker, R. (2000). The 'end of modernity'?. Contending images of world politics. (pp. 227-241) edited by G. Fry and J. O'Hagan. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan Press.
Journal Articles
Hutchison, Emma, Bleiker, Roland, Bourne, Josephine and Hoang, Young-ju (2024). Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace. Cooperation and Conflict, 59 (2), 149-170. doi: 10.1177/00108367241244956
Bleiker, Roland (2023). Un-Disciplining the International. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 49 (3), 198-203. doi: 10.1177/03043754231181743
Bleiker, Roland (2023). Visualizing international relations: Challenges and opportunities in an emerging research field. Journal of Visual Political Communication, 10 (1), 17-25. doi: 10.1386/jvpc_00022_1
Bleiker, Roland (2023). Foreword: Decolonizing Visual Global Politics. Political Campaigning and Communication, v-viii.
Bleiker, Roland (2021). Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 75 (6), 573-590. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2021.1992129
Bleiker, Roland, Chapman, David and Shim, David (2021). Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics. Asian Studies Review, 45 (3), 374-380. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2021.1937836
Bleiker, Roland (2021). Commentary for Visual Studies. Visual Studies, 36 (3), 215-217. doi: 10.1080/1472586x.2021.1970337
Bleiker, Roland (2019). AJPS Forum on ‘exploring the (multiple) futures of world politics through popular culture,’ edited by Penny Griffin. Australian Journal of Political Science, 54 (4), 505-507. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2019.1663401
Bleiker, Roland (2019). Visual autoethnography and international security: insights from the Korean DMZ. European Journal of International Security, 4 (3), 274-299. doi: 10.1017/eis.2019.14
Bleiker, Roland (2019). Writing Visual Global Politics: in Defence of a Pluralist Approach—a Response to Gabi Schlag, “Thinking and Writing Visual Global Politics”. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 32 (1), 115-123. doi: 10.1007/s10767-018-9299-5
Aistrope, Tim and Bleiker, Roland (2018). Conspiracy and foreign policy. Security Dialogue, 49 (3), 165-182. doi: 10.1177/0967010617748305
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2018). Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics. Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives On the Emotional Turn, 325-342. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65575-8_14
Bleiker, Roland (2018). Review of Jieun Baek, North Korea's hidden revolution: how the information underground is transforming a closed society, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2016, ISBN 10 0300217811, ISBN 13 9780300217810 (hbk), 312 pp. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31 (2), 239-242. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2018.1446708
Koschut, Simon, Hall, Todd H., Wolf, Reinhard, Solomon, Ty, Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2017). Discourse and emotions in international relations. International Studies Review, 19 (3), 481-508. doi: 10.1093/isr/vix033
Bleiker, Roland (2017). In search of thinking space: reflections on the aesthetic turn in international political theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45 (2), 258-264. doi: 10.1177/0305829816684262
Butler, Sally and Bleiker, Roland (2016). Radical dreaming: Indigenous art and cultural diplomacy. International Political Sociology, 10 (1), 56-74. doi: 10.1093/ips/olv004
Bleiker, Roland (2016). Visuality and creativity in global politics: in memory of Alex Danchev. New Perspectives, 24 (2), 13-22. doi: 10.1177/2336825x1602400202
Bleiker, Roland (2015). Pluralist methods for visual global politics. Millennium-Journal of International Studies, 43 (3), 872-890. doi: 10.1177/0305829815583084
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2014). Introduction: emotions and world politics. International Theory, 6 (3), 490-491. doi: 10.1017/S1752971914000220
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2014). Theorizing emotions in world politics. International Theory, 6 (3), 491-514. doi: 10.1017/S1752971914000232
Bleiker, Roland (2014). North Korea in transition: politics, economy, and society. International Affairs, 90 (4), 1001-1002.
Bleiker, Roland (2014). De-bordering Korea: Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68 (2), 243-244. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2013.866188
Bleiker, Roland, Campbell, David and Hutchison, Emma (2014). Visual cultures of inhospitality. Peace Review, 26 (2), 192-200. doi: 10.1080/10402659.2014.906884
Bleiker, Roland (2014). Authenticity and deception in an age of visual wearables. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 33 (2) 6824348, 26-27. doi: 10.1109/MTS.2014.2319895
Bleiker, Roland, Campbell, David, Hutchison, Emma and Nicholson, Xzarina (2013). The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees. Australian Journal of Political Science, 48 (3), 398-416. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2013.840769
Bleiker, Roland (2013). Gedanken zur Entwicklung der sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Korea. Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift, 178 (July), 18-20.
Bleiker, Roland (2012). Review of Defacing power: The aesthetics of insecurity in global politics by Brent J. Steele. Perspectives On Politics, 10 (2), 552-553. doi: 10.1017/S1537592712000412
Bleiker, Roland (2012). The politics of illegalised migration. Australian Journal of Political Science, 47 (2), 311-316. doi: 10.1080/10361146.2012.677395
Chou, Mark and Bleiker, Roland (2010). Dramatizing war: George Packer and the democratic potential of verbatim theater. New Political Science, 32 (4), 561-574. doi: 10.1080/07393148.2010.520441
Bleiker, Roland (2010). Negotiating with Nuclear North Korea / Negocier avec la Coree du Nord? Question nucleaire et relations intercoreennes. Critique Internationale, 49 (4), 21-36. doi: 10.3917/crii.049.0021
Bleiker, Roland and Brigg, Morgan (2010). Introduction: Forum on autoethnography and International Relations II. Review of International Studies, 36 (4) doi: 10.1017/S0260210510001178
Brigg, Morgan and Bleiker, Roland (2010). Autoethnographic international relations: Exploring the self as a source of knowledge. Review of International Studies, 36 (3), 779-798. doi: 10.1017/S0260210510000689
Bleiker, Roland and Brigg, Morgan (2010). Introduction to the RIS Forum on autoethnography and International Relations. Review of International Studies, 36 (3), 777-778. doi: 10.1017/S0260210510000677
Roland Bleiker and David Hundt (2010). Ko Un and the poetics of postcolonial identity. Global Society, 24 (3), 331-349. doi: 10.1080/13600826.2010.485557
Chou, M. and Bleiker, R. (2009). The Symbiosis of Democracy and Tragedy: Lost Lessons from Ancient Greece. Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 37 (3), 659-682. doi: 10.1177/0305829809103238
Bleiker, Roland (2009). Civilization Exposed, review of Bowden, Brett, The Empire of Civilization: The Evolution of an Imperial Ideal. Australian Book Review, 313 (July/Aug), 44-44.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Emotional reconciliation: Reconstituting identity and community after trauma. European Journal of Social Theory, 11 (3), 385-403. doi: 10.1177/1368431008092569
Bleiker, Roland (2008). Review of Myth, Protests and Struggle in Okinawa by Miyume Tanji. Australian Journal of Political Science, 43 (1), 161-162. doi: 10.1080/10361140701851954
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2008). Fear no more: Emotions and world politics. Review of International Studies, 34 (Supp. 1), 115-135. doi: 10.1017/S0260210508007821
Barnsley, Ingrid and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Self-determination: From decolonization to deterritorialization. Global Change, Peace and Security, 20 (2), 121-136. doi: 10.1080/14781150802079797
Bleiker, Roland (2008). The Politics of Change: why global democracy needs dissent. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 9 (2), 33-40.
Brigg, Morgan J. and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Expanding Ethnographic Insights into Global Politics. International Political Sociology, 2 (1), 89-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00035_4.x
Bleiker, Roland (2008). Review of America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire by Mark L. Gillem. Journal of Military Ethics, 7 (2), 160-161. doi: 10.1080/15027570802094572
Bleiker, Roland (2008). Review essay: Traversing Patagonia: New writings on postcolonial international relations. Political Theory, 36 (2), 313-320. doi: 10.1177/0090591707312454
Bellamy, Alex J. and Bleiker, Roland (2007). Introduction. Security and the War on Terror, 1-6. doi: 10.4324/9780203028094
Bleiker, R. and Kay, A. (2007). Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist photography and local empowerment. International Studies Quarterly, 51 (1), 139-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00443.x
Hundt, D. and Bleiker, R. (2007). Reconciling colonial memories in Korea and Japan. Asian Perspective, 31 (1), 61-91.
Bleiker, Roland (2006). Comparative and International Politics: Review of Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia by William A. Callahan. Australian Journal of Political Science, 41 (4), 656-657. doi: 10.1080/10361140600959858
Bleiker, Roland (2006). Searching for difference in a homogeneous discipline: Book review of International Relations and the Problem of Difference. International Studies Review, 8 (1), 128-130.
Bleiker, R. (2006). Art after 9/11. Alternatives, 31 (1), 77-99. doi: 10.1177/030437540603100104
Bleiker, Roland and Leet, Martin (2006). From the sublime to the subliminal: Fear, awe and wonder in international politics. Millennium-journal of International Studies, 34 (3), 713-737. doi: 10.1177/03058298060340031201
Bleiker, Roland (2006). Nationalism with a global face: Review of Nairn, Tom and Paul James, Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism. Australian Book Review (282), 22-22.
Bleiker, R. (2006). Book Review: Ellen W. Gorsevski, Peaceful Persuasion: the geopolitics of nonviolent rhetoric. Journal of Peace Education, 3 (1), 117-118.
Bleiker, Roland (2006). How to deal with rogues: Review of Renegade Regimes: Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics. By Miroslav Nincic. International Studies Review, 8 (2), 303-305. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2006.00581.x
Bleiker, R. (2005). War and genocide: Organized killing in modern society. Australian Journal Of Political Science, 40 (3), 478-479.
Bleiker, R. (2005). Review of: Ordering international politics: Identity, crisis and representational force by Janice Bially Mattern. Millennium, 33 (3), 904-905. doi: 10.1177/03058298050330031009
Bleiker, R. (2005). Human remolding in North Korea: A social history of education. Pacific Affairs, 78 (4), 670-671.
Bleiker, Roland (2004). Identity, difference, and the dilemmas of inter-Korean relations: Insights from northern defectors and the German precedent. Asian Perspective, 28 (2), 35-63.
Bleiker, Roland (2004). Art, emotions and global terrorism. Social Alternatives, 23 (2), 48-53.
Bleiker, R. (2004). Alternatives to peace keeping in Korea: the role of non-state actors and face-to-face encounters. International Peacekeeping, 11 (1), 143-159. doi: 10.1080/1353331042000228490
Bleiker, R (2004). Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to deal with a nuclear North Korea. Australian Journal of Political Science, 39 (3), 674-675.
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Aestheticising terrorism: Alternative approaches to 11 September. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (3), 430-445. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00297
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Why, Then, Is It So Bright? Towards an Aesthetics of Peace at a Time of War. Review of International Studies, 29 (3), 387-400. doi: 10.1017/S0260210503003875
Bleiker, R. (2003). A rogue is a rogue is a rogue: US foreign policy and the Korean nuclear crisis. International Affairs, 79 (4), 719-737. doi: 10.1111/1468-2346.00333
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Discourse and human agency. Contemporary Political Theory, 2 (1), 25-47. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300073
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Die Deutsche Einheit als psychologischer Problemfall. Korea Forum (1-2003), 47-50.
Evans-Kent, Bronwyn and Bleiker, Roland (2003). Peace beyond the State? NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Peacekeeping, 10 (1, Spring), 103-119. doi: 10.1080/714002396
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Contesting global governance: Multilateral economic institutions and global social movements. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (3), 462-463. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00299
Bleiker, Roland (2003). Psychological difficulties of German unification: Implications for Korea. Korea Observer, 34 (2), 403-416.
Bleiker, Roland (2002). From state to human security: Reflections on inter-Korean relations. KNDU Review: Journal of National Security Affairs*, 7 (2), 143-169.
Bleiker, Roland (2002). Activism after Seattle: Dilemmas of the anti-globalisation movement. Pacifica Review: Peace, Security and Global Change (Australia), 14 (3), 191-207. doi: 10.1080/1323910022000023138
Bleiker, Roland (2002). Rawls and the Limits of Civil Disobedience. Social Alternatives, 21 (2), 37-40.
Bleiker, Roland (2002). Towards a culture of reconciliation in Korea. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 14 (3), 297-302.
Bleiker, R (2002). Book Review: Alain Joxe, Empire of Disorder. Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 31 (3), 697-699. doi: 10.1177/03058298020310030402
Bleiker, R (2002). Keeping the edge: Managing defense for the future. Political Studies, 50 (1), 197-198.
Bleiker, Roland (2001). Editor's introduction: The politics of visual art. Social Alternatives, 20 (4), 3-9.
Bleiker, Roland (2001). Anna Akhmatova's search for political light. Peace Review, 13 (2), 181-186. doi: 10.1080/10402650120060346
Candio, Patrick and Bleiker, Roland (2001). Peacebuilding in East Timor. The Pacific Review, 14 (1), 63-84. doi: 10.1080/09512740010018561
Bleiker, Roland (2001). Identity and security in Korea. Pacific Review, 14 (1), 121-148. doi: 10.1080/09512740121622
Bleiker, Roland (2001). Identity and security in Korea. Pacific Review, 14 (1), 121-148. doi: 10.1080/09512740010018589
Bleiker, R. (2001). Busted flat in Baton Rouge or how I became a word addict. Social Alternatives, 20 (2), 7-10.
Bleiker, R. (2001). Abstracting the political: David Rankin interviewed by Roland Bleiker. Social Alternatives, 20 (4), 16-21.
Bleiker, Roland (2001). The aesthetic turn in international political theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 30 (2), 509-533. doi: 10.1177/03058298010300031001
Bleiker, R (2001). Ethics, economics and international relations: Transparent sovereignty in the commonwealth of life. Australian Journal of Political Science, 36 (2), 403-404.
Bleiker, Roland and McGibbon, Rodd (2001). Timor-Oriential: Le combat pour la paix et pour la reconciliation. Cultures et Conflits. Pacifications, Reconciliations (2) (41), 15-46.
Bleiker, R. (2000). Special issue - Poetic world politics - Editor's introduction. Alternatives-social Transformation And Humane Governance, 25 (3), 269-284.
Bleiker, R. (2000). The changing space and speed of dissident politics. Social Alternatives, 19 (1), 9-15.
Bleiker, R. (2000). Stroll through the wall: Everyday poetics of cold war politics. Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance, 25 (3), 391-408. doi: 10.1177/030437540002500313
Bleiker, R. (2000). 'We don't need another hero': Women and the collapse of the Berlin wall. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2 (1), 30-57. doi: 10.1080/146167400407000
Bleiker, Roland (2000). Editor's Introduction. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 25 (3), 269-284. doi: 10.1177/030437540002500301
Bleiker, R (1999). Pablo Neruda and the struggle for political memory. Third World Quarterly, 20 (6), 1129-1142. doi: 10.1080/01436599913325
Bleiker, R. (1999). The politics and ethics of relocated art. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 53 (3), 311-326. doi: 10.1080/00049919993881
Bleiker, R (1999). Disarming strangers: Nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. Millennium-journal of International Studies, 28 (3), 771-774. doi: 10.1177/03058298990280030431
Bleiker, R (1999). Korea and its futures: Unification and the unfinished war. Millennium-journal of International Studies, 28 (3), 771-774. doi: 10.1177/03058298990280030431
Bleiker, R (1999). 'Give it the shade': Paul Celan and the politics of apolitical poetry. Political Studies, 47 (4), 661-676. doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00223
Bleiker, Roland (1998). Retracing and redrawing the boundaries of events: Postmodern interferences with international theory. Alternatives, 23 (4), 471-497. doi: 10.1177/030437549802300403
Bleiker, R (1997). Forget IR theory. Alternatives-social Transformation And Humane Governance, 22 (1), 57-85. doi: 10.1177/030437549702200103
Bleiker, R., Bond, D. and Myung-Soo Lee, (1994). The role and dynamics of nongovernmental actors in contemporary Korea. Korean Studies, 18, 103-122.
Bleiker, Roland (1993). Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy: The Cultural Dimension of International Theory. Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 22 (3), 401-421. doi: 10.1177/03058298930220030801
Conference Papers
Chou, Mark, Bleiker, Roland and Premaratna, Nilanjana (2016). Elections as theater. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/S1049096515001225
Chou, Mark and Bleiker, Roland (2009). The Symbiosis of democracy and tragedy: Lost lessons from ancient greece. doi: 10.1177/0305829809103238
Bleiker, R. (2000). Globalisation, identity and prospects for peace. World Order and Peace in the New Millennium, Seoul, 26-27 May, 2000. Seoul, Korea: Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
Working Papers
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2007). Understanding emotions in world politics: reflections on method. Working Paper. 2007/5. Dept. of International Relations, Australian National University.
Bleiker, R. (2001). The ethics of speed: Global activism after Seattle. Working Papers - General Series. 344.