Martin Weber

Associate Professor Martin Weber is a faculty member in the School of Political Science and International Studies within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southampton and a Masters by coursework from Universität Stuttgart. His academic career at UQ includes roles such as Member of the BSocSci Management Committee, Deputy Chair of the HASS Low and Negligible Risk Ethics Committee, and Director of Indigenous Engagement. Weber's research centers on international social and political theory, international environmental politics, and political economy/international political economy. He examines contributions of critical theory to normative international political theory and the social turn in international relations theory, addressing limitations in critical approaches. His work also focuses on the political analysis of global governance, particularly global health governance and global environmental governance. Weber has received several University of Queensland grants, including the Early Career Researcher Grant in 2009 for advancing research into democracy and democratisation, the New Staff Research Start-Up Fund in 2006-2007 for the formation of transnational counter-public spheres, and various travel awards.

Weber has published extensively in leading journals and edited volumes. Key journal articles include 'What is it about Australian-based normative IR theory? Notes towards opening a dialogue' (Global Change, Peace and Security, 2023), 'Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’' (Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2023), 'Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR' (Review of International Studies, 2021, with Brigg and Graham), 'The normative grammar of relational analysis: recognition theory's contribution to understanding short-comings in IR's relational turn' (International Studies Quarterly, 2020), and 'From Alma Ata to the SDGs: the politics of global health governance and the elusive “health for all”' (Global Governance, 2020). Book chapters feature 'Marxism and critical theory' (An Introduction to International Relations, 2017, with George and Devetak) and 'The environmental politics of development' (Politics of Development: A Survey, 2014). He is currently completing a monograph titled Critical Theory and Global Political Ecology. His scholarship appears in prominent outlets such as the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Global Environmental Politics, contributing to theoretical and empirical debates in international relations.