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Dr Camilla Boisen
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Politics
Post Doctoral Researcher
Biographical
Camilla Boisen holds a BA (University of Copenhagen) and MA (University of Copenhagen) in History; MscEcon (Cardiff University) in Political Theory. She obtained her Ph.D. from Cardiff University, Wales, in 2009, on humanitarian intervention in the classic thinkers on international relations. Her main research interests include history of political theories of international relations, humanitarian intervention, just war theory, natural rights, human rights, history of political thought, the political thought of (among others) Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, and Burke.
Publications
‘Hobbes and Subjecting International Relations to Law and Morality’ in Raia Prokhovnik and Gabriella Slomp (eds.), International Political Theory after Hobbes – Analysis, Interpretation and Orientation, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 81 – 101 (co-authored with David Boucher)
‘Recognising the Historical Foundations of Humanitarian Intervention – the Case of the Spanish Theologians and the Discovery of the New World’, in Science et Esprit, 62/2-3 2010, pp. 255 - 74)
‘Natural Law’ in Encyclopaedia of Modern Political Thought, (Washington DC: CQ Press, forthcoming)
Contact Details
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 2638
Auckland Park Kingsway Campus: C-Ring 710
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