Bentley B. Allan

Assistant Professor 271 Mergenthaler Hall Department of Political Science office: 410.516.5837 Johns Hopkins University cell: 614.297.7907 3400 N. Charles Street [email protected] Baltimore MD 21218 www.bentleyallan.com

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, 2012—

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University, Political Science, 2012 MA, The Ohio State University, Political Science, 2008, candidacy exams recognized with distinction HBA, University of Toronto, Peace & Conflict Studies and International Relations, 2006, with high distinction

Books and Edited Volumes

Allan, Bentley B. 2018. Scientific Cosmology and International Orders. Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press.

• Winner, American Political Science Association’s Don K. Price Award for the best book in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics • Runner-up, International Studies Association’s Francesco Guicciardini Prize for the Best Book in Historical International Relations • Reviews: Critical Dialogue in Perspectives on Politics with Nicholas Onuf, The Mightie Frame; Joseph MacKay in Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Hopf, Ted and Bentley B. Allan, eds. 2016. Making Identity Count: Building a National Identity Database. Oxford University Press.

• Reviews: Jeff Checkel in Perspectives on Politics; Dragana Svraka in International Studies Review.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Meckling, Jonas and Bentley B. Allan. 2020. The Evolution of Ideas in Global Climate Policy. Nature Climate Change Vol. 10: 432-438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558- 020-0739-7 Allan, Bentley B. 2019. Paradigm and Nexus: Neoclassical Economics and the Growth Imperative in the World Bank, 1948-2000. Review of International Political Economy Vol. 26, No. 1: 183-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2018.1543719

Updated: March 20, 2020

Allan, Bentley B., Srdjan Vucetic, and Ted Hopf. 2018. The Distribution of Identity and the Future of International Order. International Organization Vol. 72, No. 3: 839- 869. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818318000267 Allan, Bentley B. 2018. From Subjects to Objects: Knowledge in Anglo-American International Relations Theory. European Journal of International Relations Vol. 24, No. 4: 841-864 http://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117741529 Allan, Bentley B. 2018. Social Action in Quantum Social Science. Millennium Vol. 47, No. 1 (2018): 87-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818781690 Allan, Bentley B. 2017. “Second Only to Nuclear War”: Science and the Making of Existential Threat in Global Climate Governance. International Studies Quarterly Vol. 61, No. 4: 809-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqx048 Allan, Bentley B. 2017. Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the Constitution of Global Governance Objects. International Organization Vol. 71, No. 1: 131-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818316000321

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Allan, Bentley B. 2016. “A Method for Uncovering National Identity.” In Ted Hopf and Bentley B. Allan, eds. Making It Count: Building a National Identity Database. Oxford University Press. Hopf, Ted and Bentley B. Allan. 2016. “What Have We Learned.” In Ted Hopf and Bentley B. Allan, eds. Making It Count: Building a National Identity Database. Oxford University Press.

Work in Progress

Book Project

Climate Formations: Knowledge, Geopolitics, and Nature in the History of Climate Governance (book manuscript in preparation)

Working Papers

Creative Action in International Organizations: The Emergence of Green Growth in Global Environmental Policy, with Jonas Meckling (revise and resubmit) Building the Growth-based Order, 1944-1961 (under review) Hegemonic Affinities: Identity Relations and China’s Regional Prospects, with Ted Hopf and Srdjan Vucetic (under review) Developing the Next Generation of Tools for Climate Policy Scientific Worldviews in World Politics. In preparation for Peter J. Katzenstein, ed. Worldviews in World Politics Processes and Mechanisms. In preparation for Stacie Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending, eds. Oxford Handbook on International Political Sociology

Constituting the International: Governance Objects and International Change, with Olaf Corry

Other Writing

Allan, Bentley B. 2020. Why Canada Needs a Green Industrial Policy. Ottawa Citizen January 27, 2020, A7. https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/allan-why- canada-needs-a-green-industrial-policy Allan, Bentley B. 2019. “The E.U.’s looking at a ‘carbon border tax.’ What’s a carbon border tax?” Washington Post – Monkey Cage October 23, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/23/eus-looking-carbon- border-tax-whats-carbon-border-tax/ Critical Dialogue with Nicholas Onuf. 2019. Reciprocal book reviews of Scientific Cosmology and International Orders and The Mightie Frame. Perspectives on Politics Vol. 17, No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592719000021 Vucetic, Srdjan, Bentley B. Allan, and Ted Hopf. 2018. “The Prospects for Chinese Leadership in an Age of Upheaval.” The Conversation 22 July 2018. https://theconversation.com/the-prospects-for-chinese-leadership-in-an-age-of- upheaval-99960 Allan, Bentley B. and Ted Hopf. 2015. “Making Identity Count: Sequencing Methods in the Study of National Identity,” with Ted Hopf. Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research Newsletter 13(2): 18-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.844076

Talks and Presentations (last 5 years)

Invited Talks

Cambridge University, “Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk,” November 2020 Cornell University, “Worldviews in World Politics,” June 2020 Oxford University, “The International Climate Regime 2020-2050,” February 2020 Hamburg University, “Hamburg Insecurity Sessions,” November 2019 Georgetown University, International Theory and Research Seminar, September 2019 University of Chicago, Workshop: “Beyond the Post-Paradigm Moment: Next Generation of International Relations Theory,” May 2018. George Washington University, Departmental Seminar Series, December 2017. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, May 2017. University of Sydney, “Peace and Security in a Quantum Age: Moment, Matter, Mind, and Metaphysics,” February 2016. University of Ottawa, International Theory Network Seminar, September 2015.

Conference Participation

“Reconstructing Norms: The Recursive Institutionalization of International Orders.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 29-September 1, 2019. “Goals and Means in American Foreign Policy: The Foreign Relations of the United States Series as Data,” with Benjamin E. Bagozzi. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 29-September 1, 2019. “Creative Action in International Organizations: The Emergence of Green Growth in Global Environmental Policy,” with Jonas Meckling. Paper presented at the International Studies Association, Toronto, March 27-30, 2019. “Cosmology and the Emergence of Worldviews: Reconstructing Weberian Rationalization.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association, Toronto, March 27-30, 2019. Author Meets Critics Panel on Scientific Cosmology and International Orders. Participants: Martha Finnemore, Peter Haas, Sheila Jasanoff, and Peter Katzenstein. American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29-September 1, 2018. “When Policymakers Make Sense of the World: The Rise of Green Growth” Paper presented at American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29-September 1, 2018. Participant, “The Emergence of Global Governance Objects.” Roundtable at International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 22-25, 2017. Participant, “Methodological Innovations in Global Environmental Politics.” Roundtable at International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 22-25, 2017. Participant, “The Art of Conferencing.” Professional Development Roundtable at International Studies Association, November 3-4, 2016, Baltimore, MD. Chair and Participant, “Building a National Identity Database.” Roundtable at American Political Science Association, September 1-4, 2016, Philadelphia, PA. Participant and Organizer, “National Identity and International Order.” Funded Workshop at the International Studies Association, March 15-20, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Participant, “International Social Theory.” Roundtable at International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 18-21, 2015. “A Method for Uncovering National Identity.” Paper presented at American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 2014. “A Field Theory of International Organizations.” Paper presented at American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 2014.

Grants, Honors, and Awards

Runner-up, Francesco Guicciardini Prize for the Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association, 2020

Winner, Don K. Price Award for the best book in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics, American Political Science Association, 2019 Collaborator, Asia Research Institute Research Cluster, with Ted Hopf and Srdjan Vucetic, 2018-2020, US$1,050,000 (renewable in three year increments, indefinitely) Collaborator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant, with Ted Hopf and Srdjan Vucetic, 2017-21, CDN$130,000 Collaborator, Singapore Ministry of Education Grant, with Ted Hopf and Srdjan Vucetic, 2017-19, US$600,000 Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2016-17 (declined for family reasons) Organizer, International Studies Association Catalytic Grant, 2016, US$6,500 Collaborator, Singapore Ministry of Education Grant, with Ted Hopf, 2012-18, US$150,000 Henry R. Spencer Award for Distinguished Teaching, Ohio State University, 2011 Situating Science Canada Travel Grant, University of British Columbia, 2011 Sisson Professional Development Grant, Ohio State University, 2011 PhD Candidacy Exams Recognized with Distinction, Ohio State University, 2008 Sage Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2006-07

Departmental & University Service

2018-present Environmental Studies Program Board 2018-19 Faculty Search Committee, Department of Political Science 2016-present Departmental Seminar Co-organizer, Department of Political Science 2016-19 Diversity Champion, Department of Political Science 2014-16 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science 2014-15 Faculty Search Committee, Department of Political Science 2012-13 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship selection committee

Professional Contributions

Professional Associations

Executive Council Member, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2019- Prize Selection Committee, Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2016, 2020

Reviewer

Environmental Politics, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance, Global Policy, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, Millennium, Security Dialogue, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press