Duncan Bell (born 31 December 1976)[1] is Professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Bell’s first degree was a BA in War Studies from King’s College London (1995–1998). He was awarded an M.Phil in International Relations (1999) and a PhD in History (2004) from the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Jesus College. During the academic year 2000–2001 he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2004–2008), and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2008–2010), Bell was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).[2] He was promoted to a professorship in 2019. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Darmstadt and the FU Berlin. He is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.[3]
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 (Princeton University Press, 2007)[5][6][7]
Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2016)[8][9][10][11][12]
Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020)[13]
(ed.), Political Theory and Architecture (with Bernardo Zacka). (Bloomsbury, 2020)[14]
(ed.), Empire, Race, and Global Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2019)[15]
(ed.), Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (with Joel Isaac). (Oxford University Press, 2012)[16]
(ed.), Ethics and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010)[17]
(ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme (Oxford University Press, 2008)[18]
(ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth Century British Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007)[19]
(ed.), Memory, Trauma, and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)[20]
^Kendle, John (1 October 2008). "Duncan Bell. The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 321. $45.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern". The American Historical Review. 113 (4): 1245–1246. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.4.1245.
^Middleton, Alex (1 June 2017). "Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire, by Duncan Bell". The English Historical Review. 132 (556): 744–745. doi:10.1093/ehr/cex085.
^Getachew, Adom (June 2018). "Book Review: Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire , by Duncan Bell". Political Theory. 46 (3): 487–493. doi:10.1177/0090591717749487. S2CID149277707.
^Sagar, Paul (November 2017). "Book Review: Duncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire". Political Studies Review. 15 (4): 613–614. doi:10.1177/1478929917712148. S2CID149049920.