Anthony F. Lang, Jr., is director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism and senior lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on international political theory, specifically humanitarian intervention, political responsibility, the just war tradition, punishment, and international rules. Lang is the author of Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (2002) and Punishment, Justice, and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (2008), and has edited or coedited several other volumes. His current work focuses on global constitutionalism, the role of judges in the Middle East, and the ethics of military force.
Featured Work
OCT 3, 2023 • Video
Making Global Ethics More Global
Ahead of Global Ethics Day, scholars discuss barriers to knowledge production in the academic world and how to welcome Global South voices.
MAR 23, 2022 • Podcast
Tech, AI, & Global Norms
How do tech, AI, and global norms intersect to generate political, legal, and ethical dilemmas? In this event, Carnegie New Leader Josephine Jackson leads a ...
AUG 30, 2013 • Article
Syria: The Case for Punitive Intervention
"If framed in terms of punishment for a wrong committed, and if undertaken in a way that respects the rule of law at the global ...
FEB 3, 2011 • Article
Egypt: Liberalism and Intervention
The next time we claim that some peoples, traditions, religions, or civilizations cannot achieve democracy, rights, or freedom unless we help them, we might want ...
JUL 30, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Good Ideas Are From Anywhere
The recent confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor touched upon a central issue of the international legal and moral order: natural law and ...
SEP 5, 2007 • Podcast
Can Rules Make Us Safer? International Security and the Dilemma of Rules
Anthony F. Lang, Jr. explores what rules can and cannot do in the war on terrorism, pointing toward a possible world order that emphasizes constitutionalism ...
JUL 16, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rules for Globalization's Unruliness
Globalization provides a unique opportunity to rethink the rules of the international system. One way to combine the need for rules with the need for ...
AUG 7, 2006 • Article
Democracy Cannot be Imposed by Force
While democratic states tend to protect their own citizens and tend to be more peaceful, does it follow that democratic systems ought to be imposed ...
NOV 9, 2004 • Article
Aristotle on Democracy
An abridged and edited excerpt from "Political Theory and International Affairs: Hans J. Morgenthau on Aristotle's 'The Politics,'"(Greenwood Praeger, 2004). Edited by former Carnegie ...
SEP 3, 2003 • Podcast
Teaching Environmental Values
How do you incorporate the environment into a curriculum on ethics and international affairs?