Honorary Research Fellow - Michael Neu

Dr. Michael Neu, MA (Sheffield, International Studies), MA (Siegen, Politics and History), PhD (Sheffield)

Honorary Research Fellow

Michael Neu studied at the Universities of Siegen (Germany), British Columbia (Canada) and Sheffield (UK), whilst holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. He was awarded an M.A. in History and Politics from Siegen University (2006), and an M.A. in International Studies from Sheffield University (2005), for which he won the Bethan Reeves Memorial Prize.

Having received a University Research Studentship from Sheffield, he then spent three years studying for his PhD, which he was awarded in January 2010. For this work, he has won the Andrew Gamble Prize For an outstanding Thesis from the Politics Department of Sheffield University and the Sir Ernest Barker Prize for the best dissertaion in political theory from the Political Studies Association.

Having worked as an English and Philosophy Teacher at the Städtisches Gymnasium Kreuztal for two years, Michael is now a Lecturer in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Brighton. He has published three articles:

"Why there is no such thing as just war pacifism and why just war theorists and pacifists can talk nonetheless", in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 73, No. 3, 2011.
"The fragility of justified warfare: a comment on Steinhoff", in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2012.
"Why Jeff McMahan's just wars are only justified and why that matters", in Ethical Perspectives, 2012, forthcoming (Jeff McMahan responds to this critique in the same issue).