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30
Citations
7098
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1132
National Ranking
185

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nicholas J. Wheeler is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Social Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scholar's work focuses on diverse subfields including Political Science and International Relations, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, Molecular Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Key research topics covered by Wheeler include:

  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Peacebuilding and International Security

Selected recent papers authored by Wheeler are:

  • "Overcoming the Four Horsemen of Reassurance Diplomacy: Explaining Variation in Face-to-Face Engagement," 2022, Journal of Global Security Studies
  • "The strength of weak bonds: Substituting bodily copresence in diplomatic social bonding," 2021, European Journal of International Relations
  • "'A presumption of trust' in international society," 2020, International Relations

Frequent publication venues where Wheeler's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Global Security Studies
  • European Journal of International Relations
  • Genome Biology
  • International Relations

Wheeler has collaborated often with several co-authors such as Marcus Holmes, Yuk Yee Leung, William S. Bush, Adam C. Naj, and Eden R. Martin.

In addition to journal articles, Wheeler has contributed to book publications with Cambridge University Press, notably the title Drones, Force and Law published in 2023.

Wheeler has received recognition as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics

    Ken Booth;Nicholas J Wheeler

  • Pluralist or Solidarist Conceptions of International Society: Bull and Vincent on Humanitarian Intervention:

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Good International Citizenship: A Third Way for British Foreign Policy

    Nicholas J. Wheeler;Tim Dunne

  • Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power

    Mlada Bukovansky;Ian Clark;Robyn Eckersley;Richard Price

  • Human Rights in Global Politics

    Timothy Dunne;Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Hedley Bull's pluralism of the intellect and solidarism of the will

    Nicholas J. Wheeler;Timothy Dunne

  • ‘We the Peoples’: Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights Theory and Practice

    Tim Dunne;Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • East Timor and the new humanitarian interventionism

    Nicholas J. Wheeler;Tim Dunne

  • Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics

    Nicholas Wheeler

  • The Politics of International Law

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  • The security dilemma

    Ken Booth;Nicholas John Wheeler

  • Special Responsibilities

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  • A Victory for Common Humanity? The responsibility to protect after the 2005 World Summit.

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • The British origins of nuclear strategy, 1945-1955

    Ian Clark;Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Saving Strangers

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  • The Puzzle of Trusting Relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Jan Ruzicka;Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict

    Christian Reus-Smit;Deborah Welch Larson;Andrew Kydd;Lawrence Freedman

  • Guardian Angel or Global Gangster: a Review of the Ethical Claims of International Society

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Legitimating Humanitarian Intervention: Principles and Procedures

    Nicholas J Wheeler

  • Investigating diplomatic transformations

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Agency, Humanitarianism and Intervention:

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Social bonding in diplomacy

    Marcus Holmes;Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Humanitarian Intervention After Kosovo: Emergent Norm, Moral Duty or the Coming Anarchy?

    Nicholas J. Wheeler

  • Special Responsibilities: The ethics of special responsibilities

    Mlada Bukovansky;Ian Clark;Robyn Eckersley;Richard Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Dunne
Tim Dunne University of Queensland
Christian Reus-Smit
Christian Reus-Smit University of Melbourne
Ian Clark
Ian Clark Rothamsted Research
Robyn Eckersley
Robyn Eckersley University of Melbourne
Ken Booth
Ken Booth Aberystwyth University
Lawrence Freedman
Lawrence Freedman King's College London
Andrew Linklater
Andrew Linklater Aberystwyth University
Neta C. Crawford
Neta C. Crawford University of Oxford

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