Daniel R. BrunstetterAssistant Professor, Political Science Faculty Director, Study Abroad |
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Research Interests |
just war, Enlightenment, otherness/identity, New World Discovery, Montaigne, Rousseau, French immigration, Silk Road | |
| URLs | Olive Tree Initiave | |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | ||
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Academic Distinctions |
Awards for the Olive Tree Initiative U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, in association with the U.S. Department of State "Top Ten" innovative program in higher education, 2010 Inaugural University of California President’s Award for Outstanding Leadership among all ten University of California campuses, 2010 Interfaith Peace Ministry of Orange County Paul S. Delp Peace Award, 2010 Orange County Human Relations Commission Community Leadership Award, 2009 |
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| Appointments | Chateaubriand Fellowship; 2005-06 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France | |
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Research Abstract |
Daniel studies political theory, with a focus on early modern thought and just war. His book revisits Europe’s initial encounter with the Native Americans of the New World to shed light on how the West’s initial defense of so-called ‘barbarians’ has influenced the way we think about diversity today, and elucidate the arguments of exclusion that unconsciously permeate the moral world we live in. The main thread of the book traces Bartolomé de Las Casas’s oft heralded defense of the Native Americans in the sixteenth century through the French Enlightenment. While this defense has been rightly lauded as an early example of human rights discourse, tracing Las Casas’s arguments into the eighteenth century shows how his view of equality enabled arguments legitimizing the annihilation by ‘just’ war of those perceived to be ‘barbarians’. This philosophical narrative can be useful when thinking about concepts such as just war, multiculturalism, and immigration, or any area in which politics confronts radical difference. His current research interests include questions of otherness linked to race and ethnicity, just war theory, drone warfare, early modern political thought, comparative political theory, French political thought in the Enlightenment, and immigration in France. His new book project, tentatively titled 'US Presidents and the Just War Tradition,' examines ways in which US presidents have understood and implemented the ethical principles of the just war. Daniel is also co-director of UCI's Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a faculty advisor to the Olive Tree Initiative: A University of California initiative that promotes conflict analysis and resolution through experiential education by providing students and community with the education, training and experiences needed to better negotiate and solve conflicts. |
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| Publications | Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, "State of the Union: A Decade of Armed Drones", Brown Journal of World Affairs, forthcoming. | |
| Daniel Brunstetter, "Trends in Just War Thinking during the U.S. Presidential Debates 2000-12: Genocide Prevention and the Renewed Salience of Last Resort", Review of International Studies, forthcoming. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, "The Messy Legality of Drones", New York Daily News, (2013); http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/messy-legality-drones-article-1.1269026. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, "From Jus ad Bellum to Jus Ad Vim: Recalibrating Our Understanding of the Moral Use of Force", Ethics & International Affairs, 27, 1 (2013), pp. 87-106. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, "Drones: The Future of Warfare?", e-International Relations, 2012; http://www.e-ir.info/2012/04/10/drones-the-future-of-warfare/ | ||
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Daniel R. Brunstetter, "Can We Wage a Just Drone War?", The Atlantic, 2012. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/can-we-wage-a-just-drone-war/260055/ |
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| Daniel Brunstetter, Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (New York: Routledge,2012) | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, "Rousseau and the Tensions of France's Contrat d'Accueil et d'Integration", Journal of Political Ideologies 17, 1 (2012), pp. 95-114 | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, "Fiction and the Political: Towards a Critical Engagement with Power Relations" (Review essay of Reverzy, Fonkoua, and Hartmann, Les fables du politique des Lumières à nos jours) Modern and Contemporary France, 2012 | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun, “The Implications of Drones on the Just War Tradition”, Ethics & International Affairs, 25,3 (Fall 2011) | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter and Scott Brunstetter, ‘“Shades of Green: Engaged Pacifism, the Just War Tradition, and the German Greens”, International Relations, 25, 1 (2011), pp. 65-84. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter and Dana Zartner, “Just War Against Barbarians: Revisiting the Valladolid Debates Between Sepúlveda and Las Casas", Political Studies, 59, 3 (2011), pp. 733-52. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, “Sepúlveda, Las Casas and the Other: Exploring the Tension between Moral Universalism and Alterity”, The Review of Politics 72 (2010), pp. 409- 35. | ||
| Daniel Brunstetter, “Old World Philosophy in a New World: From Natural Slave to Natural Man,” in Old Worlds, New Worlds. European Cultural Encounters, c.1000 – c.1750, ed. L. Bailey, L. Digglemann, and K.M. Phillips. Brepols Publishers (2009), pp. 101-120. | ||
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Translations (French to English) Bertrand de Jouvenal, “An Essay on Rousseau’s Politics”; (tr. Daniel Brunstetter) in Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 Vols., ed. John T. Scott, London: Routledge, 2006, Vol. 1, p. 79-140. Eric Weil, “J.J. Rousseau and His Politics”; (tr. Daniel Brunstetter) in Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 Vols., ed. John T. Scott, London: Routledge, 2006, Vol. 1, p. 141-63. Jean Wahl, “Rousseau’s Bipolarity”; (tr. Daniel Brunstetter) in Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 Vols., ed. John T. Scott, London: Routledge, 2006, Vol. 1, p. 193-97. Felicity Baker, “The Contrary Route”; (tr. Daniel Brunstetter) in Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 Vols., ed. John T. Scott, London: Routledge, 2006, Vol. 1, p. 313-39. Gustave Lanson, “The Unity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Thought”; (tr. Daniel Brunstetter) in Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading |
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| Grants | Albert and Elain Borchard Foundation grant | |
| Chateaubriand Fellowship | ||
| Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies | ||
| Single Investigator Innovation Grant, from the Academic Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources | ||
| Foreign Language Area Studies fellowship - Portuguese | ||
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation summer research grant | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Political Science Association MidWest Political Science Association Western Political Science Association |
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| Research Centers | Center for Citizen Peace Building | |
| Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies | ||
| UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality | ||
| UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library | ||
| Center for International Studies (Associate Director) | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5355 | |
| Last updated | 03/05/2013 | |