Dr Richard Illingworth

  • Lecturer in International Relations (Politics)

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in September 2023 as Lecturer in International Relations. My research is concerned with efforts to halt mass atrocities, with a specific focus on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Adopted in 2005, R2P is aimed at protecting populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Yet the sheer number of mass atrocity cases that have occured since 2005 suggest that R2P's adoption has not led to atrocity violence being curbed in the way that proponents would have hoped.

Attempting to understand and address this complex global challenge, my work explores international reform via the application of a cosmopolitan perspective. My research has explored reform to the R2P framework itself, in addition to wider structural reforms at the international level. Such reforms are aimed at strengthening R2P’s practical implementation through a cosmopolitan approach, focused on the provision of duties, justice, and human protection.

I am the author of Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect: A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach (2024).

Research interests

  • The Responsibility to Protect
  • Genocide and mass atrocity prevention
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Cosmopolitan theory
  • Global harms
  • The United Nations

Publications

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Number of items: 8.

2024

Gallagher, A., Illingworth, R. , Raffle, E. and Willis, B. (2024) The permanency of mass atrocities: the fallacy of ‘never again’. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (doi: 10.1177/13691481241241332) (Early Online Publication)

Illingworth, R. (2024) Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but still needed: on Hobson and criticism of the responsibility to protect. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, (doi: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2304457) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Gallagher, A., Lawrinson, B., McKay, G. and Illingworth, R. (2023) The Responsibility to Protect: a bibliography. Global Responsibility to Protect, 16(1), pp. 3-123. (doi: 10.1163/1875984x-20230012)

Illingworth, R. (2023) Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect: A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach. Series: Global politics and the responsibility to protect. Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9781003394105)

2022

Illingworth, R. (2022) Constructing the Responsibility to Protect, edited by Charles T. Hunt and Phil Orchard. Routledge, 2020. E-International Relations, [Book Review]

Illingworth, R. (2022) An R2P Commission: a proposal for holding states accountable to their responsibility to protect. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(1), ksac012. (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksac012)

2021

Illingworth, R. (2021) The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council by Patrick M. Butchard. Global Responsibility to Protect, 13(1), pp. 100-102. (doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-13010008)[Book Review]

2020

Illingworth, R. (2020) Responsible veto restraint: a transitional cosmopolitan reform measure for the responsibility to protect. Global Responsibility to Protect, 12(4), pp. 385-414. (doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-01204008)

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Number of items: 8.

Articles

Gallagher, A., Illingworth, R. , Raffle, E. and Willis, B. (2024) The permanency of mass atrocities: the fallacy of ‘never again’. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (doi: 10.1177/13691481241241332) (Early Online Publication)

Illingworth, R. (2024) Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but still needed: on Hobson and criticism of the responsibility to protect. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, (doi: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2304457) (Early Online Publication)

Gallagher, A., Lawrinson, B., McKay, G. and Illingworth, R. (2023) The Responsibility to Protect: a bibliography. Global Responsibility to Protect, 16(1), pp. 3-123. (doi: 10.1163/1875984x-20230012)

Illingworth, R. (2022) An R2P Commission: a proposal for holding states accountable to their responsibility to protect. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(1), ksac012. (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksac012)

Illingworth, R. (2020) Responsible veto restraint: a transitional cosmopolitan reform measure for the responsibility to protect. Global Responsibility to Protect, 12(4), pp. 385-414. (doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-01204008)

Books

Illingworth, R. (2023) Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect: A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach. Series: Global politics and the responsibility to protect. Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9781003394105)

Book Reviews

Illingworth, R. (2022) Constructing the Responsibility to Protect, edited by Charles T. Hunt and Phil Orchard. Routledge, 2020. E-International Relations, [Book Review]

Illingworth, R. (2021) The Responsibility to Protect and the Failures of the United Nations Security Council by Patrick M. Butchard. Global Responsibility to Protect, 13(1), pp. 100-102. (doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-13010008)[Book Review]

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Teaching

I believe that high-quality teaching is about inspiring students of all backgrounds to fulfil their potential. As a teacher of politics and international studies, I encourage students to become critically engaged, independent thinkers, with the knowledge to understand and help address some of the key issues that shape our world. My professional recognition in student education as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy reflects my commitment to pedagogically engaged, passionate, and committed teaching.

In additional to undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation supervision, I teach on modules such as:

  • Humanitarian Intervention: Civilians or Sovereignty?
  • Introduction to Politics (1A)
  • Introduction to International Relations (1B)
  • International Security and Strategic Studies

Professional activities & recognition

Professional & learned societies

  • 2023 - ongoing: Fellow, Advance HE (HE Academy)
  • 2019 - ongoing: , British International Studies Association