Brook Blair

Contact Information

Education

• Ph.D., Politics (1997) - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• M.Sc., International Relations (1990) - London School of Economics and Political Science
• Diploma, World Politics (1989) - London School of Economics and Political Science
• B.A., Philosophy (1985) - The Colorado College

Professional/Academic Experience

Professor Blair teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs and currently serves as Department Chair.  He teaches a range of courses in the areas of Political Philosophy, Latin American Politics, the Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Political Economy and the History of the State, International Relations, and International Political Economy. 

Other Experience

Professor Blair is an active citizen on campus and serves as UNC’s faculty advisor to the Political Science and International Affairs Club as well as to UNC’s annual constituency of student representatives at the Model Arab League (National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations).

Research/Areas of Interest

Professor Blair’s research areas of interest include political philosophy, the history of ideas, political economy, and state theory.  He is currently working on a manuscript dealing with the ideological crisis of modernity and the emergence of fascism during the interwar years.

Publications/Creative Works

Juried

• "Antonio Negri and the Discourse on Poverty: On Two Motifs in Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo." History of European Ideas, Volume 48, Issue 7, 29 June 2022, 1-23.
• The Nietzschean Subject: Toward a Praxis of Becoming. Lanham: Lexington P, 2018.
• “Postmodernism, Robert Musil, and the Problem of Subjectification.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Vol. 34, No. 18, July 2018.
• “Revisiting the ‘Third Debate’ (Part One),” Review of International Studies (Cambridge UP), Vol. 37, No. 2, March 2011, 825-854.
• “Nietzsche and the New Image of Thought,” Theory and Event  (Johns Hopkins UP), Vol. 10, No. 4, December 2007, 6-60.
• “The Idealist Origins of the Realist Theory of International Relations,” co-authored with Ronen P. Palan; republished, in Russian translation, in Eurozine (NZ 43, April 2005), a Russian interdisciplinary journal, as the foreign-language text judged fundamental to the issue’s central topic: “The Liberal Heritage” —Nota bene: This article was previously published in Review of International Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Cambridge UP),October 1993, 385-399.  
• “Post-metaphysical and Radical Humanist Thought in the Writings of Machiavelli and Nietzsche,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Pergamon), April 2001, 199-238.
• “The Idealist Origins of the Realist Theory of International Relations,” co-authored with Ronen P. Palan, Review of International Studies (Cambridge UP), Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1993, 385-399.

Non-Juried

• Review Essay: Aris Fioretos, ed., The Solid Letter; Martin Heidegger, Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry; and Dieter Henrich, The Course of Remembrance – “The Virtue of Falling: Hölderlin’s Landscapes and Measures,” The European Legacy (Routledge), Vol. 9, No. 4 (Routledge), August 2004, pp. 525–532.
• Book Review, Benedetto Fontana, “Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies.  (U of Minnesota P), Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1995.

Honors and Awards

His teaching has been recognized in numerous instances, including the Arts and Sciences Teaching Award (2003), a Disability Access Center Certificate for Outstanding Assistance to Students with Disabilities (2004), Favorite Professor Lunch Guest (1998, 2001, and 2002), a National Society of Collegiate Scholars’ Inspire Integrity Award  (2009), the Mortar Board Honor Society (1999, 2005, and 2010), Delta Zeta’s Outstanding Professor Award (2006 and 2007), and Residence Life Academic Recognition (2004, 2005, and 2007).