Rate My Professor Eric Heinze

Heinze's research examines ethical and legal issues in international relations, with a focus on international norms pertaining to armed conflict, human rights, genocide and mass atrocity, humanitarian intervention, the Responsibility to Protect, international law and non-state armed groups, and the law and ethics of limited wars. His major publications include *Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues* (Routledge, 2016), *Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention* (SUNY Press, 2009), and co-edited volumes *Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations* with Brent J. Steele (Routledge, 2018) and *Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Key articles feature “International Law, Self-Defense, and the Israel-Hamas Conflict” (*Parameters*, 2024), “Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict” with Rhiannon Neilsen (*Ethics and International Affairs*, 2020), and “The Evolution of International Law in Light of the ‘Global War on Terror’” (*Review of International Studies*, 2011). Heinze has received awards including the Fort Hays State University Young Alumni Award (2012), multiple Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowships and Research Grants from the University of Oklahoma, Phi Beta Delta Outstanding International Scholar Award (2004), and various faculty development and enrichment grants.