Recent Publications
“Critical Security Studies” in Victor Mauer and Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Thierry Balzacq, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies 2nd Edition (London: Routledge, 2016), forthcoming.
“Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 4rd Edition (Oxford: OUP, 2016).
“‘Are there any women here?’ Gender representations in Hyena Road” CIPSBLOG Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, 11 December 2015. http://www.cipscepi.ca/2015/12/11/are-there-any-women-here-gender-representations-in-hyena-road/
“Whose Problems are these Anyway? A response to Roland Paris” International Peacekeeping, 29 January 2015, doi: 10.1080/13533312.2014.992573
J. Marshall Beier and David Mutimer, “Pathologizing Subjecthoods: Pop Culture, Habits of Thought, and the Unmaking of Resistance Politics at Guantanamo Bay” International Political Sociology 8 (3) 2014, 311-22.
“Security and Social Critique” in Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov, eds., The Handbook of Global Security Policy (London: Wiley, 2014), 31-50.
“Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 3rd Edition (Oxford: OUP, 2013), 67-86.
“Beyond Strategy: Critical Theory and Security Studies” in Craig Snyder, ed. Contemporary Security Studies, 3rd Edition (London: Palgrave, 2012), 45-71.
“International Arms Control” in BJC McKercher, ed. Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2012), 365-75.
David Mutimer, J. Marshall Beier, and Kyle Grayson, “Critical Studies on Security: An Introduction” Critical Studies on Security 1 (1) 2013: 1-12.
“Our Nuclear (Free) Future?” in Sean Clark and Sabrina Hoque, eds. Debating a Post-American World: What Lies Ahead? (London: Routledge, 2011), 162-68.
David Mutimer and Neil Cooper, eds., ‘Arms Control for the 21st Century’ special issue of Contemporary Security Policy 23 (1) April 2011.
“From Arms Control to Denuclearlisation: Governmentality and the Abolitionist Desire” in Cooper and Mutimer, eds., ‘Arms Control for the 21st Century’ Contemporary Security Policy 32 (1) 2011, 57-75.
Neil Cooper and David Mutimer, “Arms Control for the 21st Century: Controlling the Means of Violence” in Cooper and Mutimer, eds., ‘Arms Control for the 21st Century’ Contemporary Security Policy 32 (1) 2011, 3-19.
“Strategic (Security) Studies” in Bertrand Badie, Kirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino, eds. International Encyclopedia of Political Science London: Sage, 2011.
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2004 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).
“No CANDU: The multiply-nuclear Canadian self” in J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie, eds. Canadian Foreign Policy in a Critical Perspective (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010), 99-112.
“Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 2nd Edition (Oxford: OUP, 2010), 84-105.
“Critical Security Studies” in Victor Mauer and Myriam Dunn Cavelty, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies (London: Routledge, 2010), 45-55.
David Mutimer and Simon Philpott, “The United States of Amnesia: US Foreign Policy and the Recurrence of Innocence” The Cambridge Review of International Affairs 22 (2) 2009, 301-17.
“My Critique is Bigger than Yours: Constituting Exclusions in Critical Security Studies”special issue on ‘Security and Exclusion’ Studies in Social Justice 3 (1) 2009, 9-22.
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2003 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).
“Inside the security perimeter after 9/11" Canada Watch Spring 2009, http://www.robarts.yorku.ca/projects/canada-watch/obama/pdfs/Mutimer.pdf
“Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking in the New Security Studies” (Revised edition), in Craig Snyder, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 2nd Edition (London: Palgrave, 2008)
“Waging Wars in Iraq: The metaphoric constitution of wars and enemies” in Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot, Nisha Shah and Ruben Zaiotti, eds., Metaphors of Globalization: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies (London: Palgrave, 2008).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Previous Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
The Weapon State: Proliferation and the Framing of Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2001 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Contributing Editor, Small Arms Survey 2005: Weapons at War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2000 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1999 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Contributing Editor, Space Security 2003 (Washington: The Eisenhower Institute, 2004).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1998 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003).
Editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1996 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).
Editor, Control But Verify: Verification and the New Non-Proliferation Agenda, (Toronto: YCISS, 1994).
Articles (refereed)
“‘A serious threat to peace, reconciliation, safety, security’: An effective reading of the United Nations Programme of Action” Contemporary Security Policy 27 (1) 2006, 29-44.
Simon Philpott and David Mutimer, “Inscribing the American Body Politic: Martin Sheen and two American Decades” Geopolitics 10 (2) 2005, 335-55.
“Good Grief! The politics of debating NMD — a reply to Frank Harvey” International Journal 56 (2) 2001, 330-46.
“Testing Times: Of Nuclear Tests, Test Bans and the Framing of Proliferation” Contemporary Security Policy 21 (1) 2000, 1-22.
“Reconstituting Security: The Practices of Proliferation Control” European Journal of International Relations, 4 (1) 1998, 99-129.
and Brian T.P. Mutimer, “Chaos, Complexity and the Study of Sports History”, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 24 (2), December 1993, 13-29. (80%)
“1992 and the Political Integration of Europe: Neo-Functionalism Reconsidered” Journal of European Integration, 13 (1) Autumn 1989, 75-101.
Reprinted in Michael O’Neill, ed., The Politics of European Integration: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1996).
Articles (non-refereed)
“From Bosnia to Afghanistan: The Defence Review and the Future of the Canadian Forces” On Track, 7 (3) 2002, 25-27.
and Robert Volterra, “Towards Greater Democratic Participation: Some Critical Comments and Brief Proposal”, Beyond Law Issue #2: “Decentralization and Democracy”, July 1991, 111-22. (50%)
“How Can We Study Soviet Foreign Policy? An Actor Driven Approach”, Problematique: Journal of Political Studies, No. 1, Spring 1991.
Book Chapters
“Sovereign Contradictions: Maher Arar and the Indefinite Future” in Elizabeth Dauphinee and Cristina Masters, eds. The logics of biopower and the war on terror: Living, dying, surviving (London: Palgrave, 2007), 159-79.
“Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford: OUP, 2007), 53-74.
“Nuclear Bullying: Indian-American Nuclear Relations” in Karthika Sasikumar and Wade L. Huntley, eds. Canadian Policy on Nuclear Co-operation with India: Confronting New Dilemmas (Vancouver: Simons Centre for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Research, October 2007), 115-130.
“(Inter)operating within niches of security: A response to Middlemis and Stairs”, in Ann Griffiths, ed., The Canadian Forces and Interoperability: Panacea or Perdition? (Halifax: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2003), 166-71.
“Beyond Strategy: Critical Thinking in the New Security Studies”, in Craig Snyder, ed., Contemporary Security Studies (London: Macmillan, 1999), 77-101. [Refereed]
“Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation”, in Keith Krause and Michael Williams, eds., Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 187-221. [Refereed]
“External Affairs and Defence”, in David Leyton-Brown, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs: 1990, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 74-125
“External Affairs and Defence”, in David Leyton-Brown, ed., Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs: 1989, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).
“Theories of Political Integration”, in Hans Michelmann and P. Soldatas, eds., Theories of European Integration, (University Press of America, 1994), 13-42.
“Introduction: Proliferation Control and International Security”, in David Mutimer ed., Control But Verify, 3-13.
Keith Krause and David Mutimer, “The Proliferation of Conventional Weapons: New Challenges for Control and Verification”, in David Mutimer ed., Control But Verify, 39-65. (40%)
“Conclusion: Control But Verify: The Way Forward”, in David Mutimer ed., Control But Verify, 217-26.
Edited Conference Proceedings
Editor, Canadian International Security Policy: Reflections for a New Era. Selected Proceedings of the International Security Research Outreach Program - York Centre for International and Security Studies Symposium (Toronto: YCISS, 2002)
Editor, Moving Beyond Supplier Controls in a Mature Technology Environment: Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Non-Proliferation Workshop, (Toronto: YCISS, 1995).
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings
“Nuclear Bullying: Indian-American Nuclear Relations” in Karthika Sasikumar and Wade L. Huntley, eds. Canadian Policy on Nuclear Co-operation with India: Confronting New Dilemmas (Vancouver: Simons Centre for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Research, October 2007), 115-130.
“NACD Past, Present and Future: Arms Control in a Time of Terror” in The 5th Canada - Japan Symposium on Peace and Security Cooperation (Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, May 2007).
“Practically Theoretical: Reading State Policy as IR Theory” in Kyle Grayson and Cristina Masters, eds., Theory in Practice: Critical Reflections on Global Policy — Selected Proceedings of the 10th Annual YCISS Conference, (Toronto: YCISS, 2003)
“Introduction: Reflections for a New Era” in Mutimer, ed., Canadian International Security Policy: Reflections for a New Era. Selected Proceedings of the International Security Research Outreach Program - York Centre for International and Security Studies Symposium (Toronto: YCISS, 2002), 1-7.
“The Future of the CTBT: New Paths to Pursue an Old Goal?”in Mutimer, ed., Canadian International Security Policy, 117-31.
“Synergies in a Comprehensive Non-Proliferation Regime” in Bon-Hak Koo, ed., The Korea/Canada North Pacific Arms Control Workshop: 1995 Proceedings (Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1996), 95-110.
and Bon Hak Koo and Roland Reimers, “Regional Specificity and Global Processes: A Tri-regional Perspective on Nuclear Non-Proliferation” in Marshall Beier and Steve Mataija, eds., Proliferation in All its Aspects Post-1995: The Verification Challenge and Response (Toronto: YCISS, 1995), 85-106. (40%)
“Introduction: Emergent Themes in Proliferation Control: Beyond Supplier Controls and Growing Regional Voices”, in David Mutimer, ed., Moving Beyond Supplier Controls, 5-7.
“Verifying a Comprehensive Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: A Tri-regional Perspective”, in David Mutimer, ed., Moving Beyond Supplier Controls, 109-24.
Keith Krause, George Lindsey and David Mutimer, “Advancing Beyond Supplier Controls: Emerging Problems for Future Research”, in David Mutimer, ed., Moving Beyond Supplier Controls, 127-32. (50%)
Research Reports
“Confidence-Building and the Delegitimation of Nuclear Weapons: Canadian Contributions to Advancing Disarmament”, International Security Research and Outreach Programme, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, March 2000.
David Mutimer, Bon-Hak Koo, Sung-Taek Shin and Roland Reimers, “Toward a More Comprehensive Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime: A Triregional Perspective.” Verification Research Programme, Department of Foreign Affairs, May 1996. (40%)
Keith Krause, Ken Epps, William Weston and David Mutimer, “Controlling Conventional Proliferation: A Role for Canada.” Verification Research Programme, Department of Foreign Affairs, March 1996. (15%)
“Understanding the Process of Proliferation: The way forward for control and verification”, Verification Research Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs, May 1994.
“A Proliferation Primer: An introduction to the new international security concern”, Verification Research Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs, December 1993.
“Proliferation in all its Aspects: Defining the problem and categorising the solution”, Verification Research Unit, Department of External Affairs, July 1993.
“Political Cooperation in Europe and the Transatlantic Defence and Defence Industrial Relationship”, Solicited Research Report #2 (Kingston: Centre for the Study of Defence Resource Management), Fall 1990.
Other Publications
“Making Enemies: NATO Enlargement and the Russian ‘Other’,” YCISS Occasional Paper Number 60 (Toronto: York Centre for International and Strategic Studies, September 1999).
“Topic 3: Rethinking Strategy and Security” in Deakin University Strategic Studies Study Guide (Geelong: Deakin University, 1997), 65-85.
“Reimagining Security: The Metaphors of Proliferation”, YCISS Occasional Paper Number 25, (Toronto: York Centre for International and Strategic Studies, August 1994).
“Institutional Change and the New European Politics: The European Community, European Political Cooperation and the Western European Union”, YCISS Occasional Paper Number 12 (Toronto: York Centre for International and Strategic Studies), March 1990.
“Completing Europe’s Internal Market: Implications for Canadian Policy”, YCISS Occasional Paper Number 11 (Toronto: York Centre for International and Strategic Studies), March 1990.
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
“Roundtable on Canadian Critical Security Studies” ISA Canada / CPSA Annual Conference, Wilfred Laurier University, 18 May 2011.
“From Arms Control to Denuclearisation: Governmentality and the Abolitionist Desire” invited address at The Watson Institute, Brown Univerity, 7 December 2010.
“Out of the Darkness: The ongoing crisis of Canadian military identity” Europe and Latin America in Peace Operations: Comparative Perspectives and Practices, Institute of International Relations, PUC-Rio, Rio, Brazil, 14-15 April 2010.
“Torturing Forces? The Canadian Military and the problem of Afghan Detainees” Torture and National Security: The Making of a Social Institution, University of Windsor, 3-4 March 2010
“From Arms Control to Denuclearisation: Governmentality and the Abolitionist Desire” Arms Control for the 21st Century: An International Workshop, York University, 22-23 January 2010
“Drawing Conclusions: Editorial Cartoons and the Response to 9/11" World Politics and Popular Culture, University of Newcastle, 19-20 November 2009.
Roundtable: “Canadian Critical Security Studies” Canadian Political Science Association Conference, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 28 May 2009.
Panelist: “Cooperation and harmonization in cross-border security: practical impediments, benefits and costs” 19th Wayne-Windsor Canadian Studies Symposium: Cross-Border Transportation at the Detroit River: Trade, Security and US-Canada Cooperation University of Windsor, 27 February 2009.
“Positioning Opposition: Synecdoche and the blunting of politics” 50th International Studies Association Convention, New York Marriot Marquis, New York, 17 February 2009.
“Arms Control in a Time of Terror” ISA Venture Workshop: Reconceptualising Arms Control for the 21st Century, New York, 14 February 2009
“My Critique is Bigger than Yours: Constituting Exclusions in Critical Security Studies” Security and Exclusion (Workshop), Centre for Social Justice, University of Windsor, 23-24 October 2008.
“No CANDU: The Multiply Nuclear Canadian Self” Canadian Political Science Association Conference, at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada, Vancouver, Canada, 5 June 2008.
Invited address, “No CANDU: Canada, Nuclear Energy and Proliferation” Hamilton Chapter of the Canadian International Council, 13 May 2008.
“Drawing Conclusion: Editorial Cartoons and the Response to 9/11" Popular Culture Association Annual Convention, San Franciso, USA, 19-22 March 2008.
“Arms control and contemporary security: contributions and caveats” Disarmament and Globalisation: Old and New Wisdoms, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (UK), 7 January 2008.
“No CANDU: The Multiply Nuclear Canadian Self” Association of Canadian Studies in the United States Biannual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 14-18 November 2007.
“Nuclear Bullying: Indian-American Nuclear Relations” Workshop on Canada-India Nuclear Cooperation, Simon’s Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research (UBC), Ottawa, Canada 19-20 March 2007.
Roundtable on Post-Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding, , 48th International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2 March 2007.
“Critical Thinking and the New Security Studies” , 48th International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 28 February 2007.
J. Marshall Beier and David Mutimer, “The Holo-Life”, 48th International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 28 February 2007.
Simon Philpott and David Mutimer, “Remembering to Forget: US Foreign Policy and the Recurrence of Innocence”, 48th International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 28 February 2007.
J. Marshall Beier and David Mutimer, “The Holo-Life”, British International Studies Association, University of Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland, 19 December 2006.
Simon Philpott and David Mutimer, “Remembering to Forget: US Foreign Policy and the Recurrence of Innocence”, British International Studies Association, University of Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland, 19 December 2006.
“NACD Past, Present and Future: Arms Control in a Time of Terror”, Canada-Japan Security Seminar, University of British Columbia, 8-9 September 2006.
“International Problems of SALW”, Joint Arms Control Inspection Group, RAF Henlow, 11 May 2006.
“Waging Wars in Iraq: The Metaphoric Constitution of Wars and Enemies” 47th Annual International Studies Association Convention, San Diego California, USA, 24 March 2006.
“‘A serious threat to peace, reconciliation, safety, security’: An effective reading of the United Nations Programme of Action” British International Studies Association, University of St. Andrews, 20 December 2005.
“Waging Wars Against Iraq: Metaphoric Constitution of the War in the US and the UK” 46th Annual International Studies Association Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2 March 2005.
“Race War: Foucaultian Reflections on the Wars of our Time” Department of Politics, University of Lancaster, 16 February 2005.
“Race War: Foucaultian Reflections on the Wars of our Time” British International Studies Association, University of Warwick, 20 December 2004.
“Society Must Be Secured: Reflections on the wars of our time” Oxford International Relations Theory Seminar ‘New Directions in IR Theory’, 5 March 2004.
Gabriel Stern and David Mutimer, “Space Access”, “Space Industry”, and “Civil Space and Global Utilities” at the Space Security Working Group, The Eisenhower Institute, 24-25 November 2003.
“Practically Theoretical: Reading State Policy as IR Theory” Theory in Practice: Critical Reflections on Global Policy, York University, Toronto, 6 February 2003.
“Questions of Exit and the (Renewed) War Against Iraq” Restructuring the ‘Public Interest’ in a Globalising World: Business, the Professions and the Public Sector, Biannual Conference of the International Institute of Public Ethics, Brisbane, Australia, 7 October 2002.
“Choosing the wrong words: The War on Terrorism” The Americas After September 11: Hemispheric Integration and Human Security, Summer Institute 2002, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, 11 July 2002.
“Terrorism, War and Crime: Reflections on September 11" Alternatives to War and Militarization A Peace Conference, sponsored by the St. Lawrence Centre Forum, Ontario Voice of Women Endorsed by Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, 12 April 2002.
“Nuclear Bullying: India, the United States and those nuclear tests” Dissolving Boundaries: the Nexus Between Comparative Politics and International Relations, 43rd International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans, 24 March 2002.
“Just When You Would Least Expect It: The extraordinary survival of National Missile Defence” Peacekeeping or Gatekeeping? Canadian Security Policy after September 11 York University, 8 February 2002.
“The Future of the CTBT: New Paths to Pursue an Old Goal?” A New Canadian International Security Policy? An ISROP - YCISS Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, May 18-19 2001.
“In Defence of Humanitarian Intervention” Will Canada have a central role in future peacekeeping operations? Annual Conference of the Security and Defence Forum of the Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Ontario, April 24, 2001.
“Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament”, ISROP Workshop on International Security Research, Toronto, Ontario, February 24-25, 2000.
“Testing Times: Of Nuclear Tests, Test Bans and the Framing of Proliferation”, Third Pan-European International Relations Conference, hosted jointly by the ECPR and ISA, Vienna, September 1998, the British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Sussex, December 15, 1998, and also at The International Studies Association, Washington, DC, February 17, 1999.
“Making Enemies: NATO Enlargement and the Russian Other”, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, December 1996, and also at the Political Science Colloquium, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, January 1997.
“Reconstituting Security: The Practices of Proliferation Control”, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, December 1995
with Bon-Hak Koo and Sun-Tak Shin, “Toward a Comprehensive Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime” at the Joint ROC-Canadian Arms Control and Disarmament Symposium, Soeul, Republic of Korea, June 1995.
with Roland Reimers, Bon-Hak Koo and Sun-Tak Shin, “A Tri-regional Study on Regaional Approaches to Non-Proliferation”, at Proliferation in All its Aspects post-1995: The Verification Challenge and Response, Twelfth Annual Ottawa NACD Verification Symposium, March 1995.
“Verifying a Comprehensive Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: A Tri-Regional Perspective” at the Third Canadian Non-Proliferation and Verification Workshop, Ottawa, December 1994.
“Reimagining Security: Mixing the Metaphors of Proliferation” at Strategies in Conflict: Critical Approaches to Security Studies, Toronto, May 1994.
“The UN Arms Register and Multilateral Proliferation Controls” at the Rose-Roth Seminar of the North Atlantic Assembly, Weapons Non-Proliferation and Export Controls, January 1994.
“Non-Proliferation and Sufficiency” at the Second Canadian Non-Proliferation and Verification Workshop, Ottawa, November 1993.
“From Bipolarity to Subsidiarity? European Union and the Future of UN Leadership” at Workshop on UN Reform Issues, York University, September 1992.
“Political Cooperation in Europe and the Transatlantic Defence and Defence Industrial Relationship”, CSDRM Europeanisation Research Project Workshop, University of Manitoba, March 1990.