Institutskolloquium: War, Authority, and the Ethics of Defensive Killing

Christopher Finlay is currently <link http: www.birmingham.ac.uk schools government-society departments political-science-international-studies staff profiles finlay-christopher.aspx external-link-new-window external link in new>Reader in Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He completed his Ph.D. in Modern History at Trinity College, University of Dublin.

His research focuses on just war theory, applied ethics in international relations, and the history of political thought. He is currently working on projects dealing with human rights, oppression and radical politics, critical dimensions of the ethics of political violence, and security in political philosophy.

In his recently published work Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Finlay discusses the ethical dimensions of terrorism and explores the conditions, which make irregular armed resistance justifiable.

His other publications include The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in Britain, Ireland and America 1689-1815 (co-ed. with Daniel Carey) (Irish Academic Press, 2011), and Hume’s Social Philosophy (Continuum, 2007).