Dr Quinn joined the POLSIS Department as a Lecturer in January 2009, having previously worked in the same capacity at the University of Leicester. He obtained his doctorate at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008. He became Senior Lecturer in International Politics in 2013.

His primary area of interest is American grand strategy, especially the relationship between America's relative power in the international system and its internal ideological debates over foreign policy. He is also interested in International Relations theory, especially realist approaches. His first book, US Foreign Policy in Context: National Ideology from the Founders to the Bush Doctrine  (2010), sought to locate the National Security Strategy of the George W. Bush administration within the long-term context of American thinking about international order. 

Dr Quinn is currently the leader of an ESRC Seminar Series on 'The Future of American Power', which will take place during 2013-14. This is in collaboration with the LSE, Chatham House, University of Warwick and City University, London. He was convenor of the US foreign policy group of the British International Studies Association (BISA) 2008-12, and convened the US foreign policy section of the general conference of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) in 2009 and 2011. He served as a trustee and executive committee member of BISA in 2010 and 2011. He was founding editor of the BISA magazine, International Studies Today, and of its USFP working group counterpart, Argentia, He is a Fellow of the Transatlantic Programme at the LSE IDEAS research centre. He is an alumnus of the US-UK Fulbright programme's Summer Institute hosted by New York University, which he attended in July-August 2009. He has also attended the US-UK Strategic Dialogue, co-convened by Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 and 2013

I am convenor of the following modules:

• POLS 218 – International Security
• POLS 310 – US Foreign and Security Policy
• POLS G23 – US Foreign and Defence Policy (MA level)

Dr Quinn has previously supervised two Doctoral Researchers to successful completion:

• Andrew Futter (The domestic politics of American missile defence programmes)
• Mark McClelland (Neoconservatism after the end of the Cold War)

 

He is currently the  primary supervisor co-superviser to two Doctoral Researchers:

• Andris Banka, first year (Drone warfare and the erosion of the norm against targeted assassination)
• Jonna Nyman (The securitisation of energy policy in the United States and China)

Research and academic interests

• United States foreign policy
• International security
• American history
• Political ideology
• International Relations theory

 

Current and recent projects

My current research focuses on the ongoing relative decline of American power: its nature, implications, and the American response.

Administrative responsibilities

Director of Postgraduate Research (head of the doctoral programme)

Convenor of the POLSIS Research Seminar Series (visiting speaker series)

• Book

Quinn, A. (2010) US Foreign Policy in Context: National Ideology from the Founders to the Bush Doctrine, (London and New York:Routledge)

This was launched with a talk at the IDEAS research centre at the London School of Economics (LSE). An audio recording of that talk, as well as a short promotional video, can be found here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/events/individualEvents/100119-Quinn.aspx

 

• Journal articles

Quinn, A. (2013), 'Kenneth Waltz, Adam Smith and the Limits of Science', International Politics, 50:2., pp. 159-182

Quinn. A. (2013). Extended book review (8000 words) 'A House Divided’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26:1, March

Quinn, A. (2011) ‘The Art of Declining Politely: Obama's prudent presidency and the waning of American power'. International Affairs, 87:4 July, pp.803-824

Quinn, A. (2010) ‘Language, Truth and Logic: the battle to preserve meaning in International Relations', Geopolitics, History and International Relations, pp.124-133

Quinn, A. (2008) ‘The Deal’: The balance of power, military strength and liberal internationalism in the Bush National Security Strategy. International Studies Perspectives, 9(1), Feb, pp.40-56

Quinn, A. and Cox, M. (2008) Renovating Realism. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(9), May, pp.1362-1369

Quinn, A. (2007) ‘The Great Illusion: Chimeras of Realism and Isolationism in Post-Iraq US Foreign Policy., Politics & Policy, 36(3), Sep, pp.522-547

Quinn, A. and Cox, M. (2007) ‘For Better, For Worse: How America’s Foreign Policy became Wedded to Liberal Universalism’, Global Society, 21(4), pp.499-519

 

• Book chapters

Quinn, A. (2013) ‘US Decline and Systemic Constraint’ in Jack Holland and Michelle Bentley (eds), Obama’s Foreign Policy: Ending the War on Terror, London: Routledge 

Quinn, A. (2013) ‘The United States’, in Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangov (eds), Handbook of Global Security Policy London: Wiley-Blackwell

Quinn, A. (2012) ‘Theodore Roosevelt and the “Civilizing Mission”’, in Michael Cox, Nicholas Bouchet and Timothy Lynch, US Presidents and Democracy Promotion, London: Routledge

Berenskoetter, F, and Quinn, A (2012),'Hegemony by invitation: neoclassical realism, soft power and US–European relations' in Asle Toje and Barbara Kunz (eds) (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 

Quinn, A. (2009) ‘Admiration Reborn: The British View of the US Presidential Election’, in M. Maass, ed. The World Views of the US Presidential Election, London: Macmillan

Quinn, A. and Cox, M. (2008) Fear and Loathing in Brussels: The Political Consequences of European anti-Americanism.  In R. Higgott and I. Malbasic, eds. The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism, London: Routledge,

Quinn, A. and Cox, M. (2008) Hard Times for Soft Power: America and the Atlantic Community. In D. Held and H. L. Moore, eds. Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity, and Innovation, David Held and Henrietta L. Moore, (eds), Oxford: Oneworld. Ch.21