J. Marshall Beier

Publications

Books

J. Marshall Beier, forthcoming 2026. Childhood, Militarism and Everyday Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. forthcoming 2026. Childhood and Governance. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak, eds. forthcoming 2026. Militarism in the Lifeworlds of Children. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents, eds. 2023. Children, Childhoods and Global Politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak, eds. 2021. Childhoods in Peace and Conflict. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. 2020. Discovering Childhood in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. 2017. Childhood and the Production of Security. London: Routledge.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. 2014. The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. 2011. The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie, eds. 2010. Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
J. Marshall Beier, ed. 2009. Indigenous Diplomacies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier. 2009. International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Marshall Beier. 2005. International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Special Issues

J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents. forthcoming 2026. Guest Editors, Imagined Childhood as a Social Technology of Governance, Globalizations.
J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. 2025. Guest Interventions Editors, Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies, Critical Studies on Security 13(2).
J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. 2020. Guest Editors, Children, Childhoods, and Everyday Militarisms, Childhood: Journal of Global Child Research 27(3).
J. Marshall Beier 2015. Guest Editor, Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies, Critical Studies on Security 3(1).
J. Marshall Beier. 2007. Guest Editor, Indigenous Diplomacies, Canadian Foreign Policy 13(3).

Journal Articles

  • J. Marshall Beier. 2026. “Missing the Work of Children.” International Political Sociology 20(1).
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2025. “Rights Education and the Children’s University.” Journal of Human Rights 24(4): 389-405. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2025.2530101.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. 2025. “Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies: Taking Stock and Thinking Forward.” Critical Studies on Security 13(2): 256-258. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2025.2502715.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2024. “Not the Usual Suspects: Making Child Soldiers in the Gunsight.” Civil Wars 26(4): 676-694. doi: 10.1080/13698249.2024.2306594.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2023. “Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations.” Australian Journal of International Affairs 77(6): 670-676. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2268030.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2022. “‘This Changes Things’: Children, Targeting, and the Making of Precision.” Cooperation and Conflict 57(2): 210-225. doi: 10.1177/00108367211050274.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2022. “Governing Conflict through Childhood.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 23(1): 52-58. doi: 10.1353/gia.2022.0009.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2021. “Exceptional Childhood and COVID-19: Engaging Children in a Time of Civil Emergency.” Childhood: Journal of Global Child Research 28(1): 154-169. doi: 10.1177.0907568220977629.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. 2020. “Children, Childhoods, and Everyday Militarisms.” Childhood: Journal of Global Child Research 27(3): 281-293. doi: 10.1177/0907568220923902.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2020. “Short Circuit: Retracing the Political for the Age of ‘Autonomous’ Weapons.” Critical Military Studies 6(1): 1-18. doi: 10.1080/23337486.2017.1384978.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Sandeep Raha. 2020. “Cultivating an Ethos: Collegial Co-Discovery in a Children and Youth University.” Children’s Geographies 18(1): 44-57. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2019.1584270.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2019. “Implementing Children’s Right to be Heard: Local Attenuations of a Global Commitment.” Journal of Human Rights 18(2): 215-229. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2018.1515620.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2019. “Binding Gestures: A Customary Norm Regarding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?” Children’s Geographies 17(3): 309-320. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2018.1495315.
  • Krista Paquin, Beth Levinson, J. Marshall Beier, and Sandeep Raha. 2018. “The Role of Partnerships in Delivering a Children’s University Program: A Case Study of the McMaster Children and Youth University.” E-Mentor 16(4), 8-13. doi: 10.15219/em76.1370.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2018. “Ultimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of Protection.” Global Responsibility to Protect 10(1-2): 164-187. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-01001009.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2015. “Shifting the Burden: Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood.” Critical Studies on Security 3(3): 237-252. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2015.1114459.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2015. “Children, Childhoods, and Security Studies: An Introduction.” Critical Studies on Security 3(1): 1-13. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2015.1019715.
  • J. Marshall Beier and David Mutimer. 2014. “Pathologizing Subjecthoods: Pop Culture, Habits of Thought, and the Unmaking of Resistance Politics at Guantanamo Bay’” International Political Sociology 8(3): 311-323. doi: 10.1111/ips.12059.
  • David Mutimer, Kyle Grayson, and J. Marshall Beier. 2013. “Critical Security Studies: An Introduction.” Critical Studies on Security 1(1): 1-12. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2013.801126.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2011. “Dangerous Terrain: Re-Reading the Landmines Ban through the Social Worlds of the RMA.” Contemporary Security Policy 32(1): 159-175. doi: 10.1080/13523260.2011.556857.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2007. “Grave Misgivings: Allegory, Catharsis, Composition.” Security Dialogue 38(2): 251-269. doi: 10.1177/0967010607078528.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2007. “Inter-National Affairs: Indigeneity, Globality, and the Canadian State.” Canadian Foreign Policy 13(3): 121-131. doi: 10.1080/11926422.2007.9673446.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2006. “Outsmarting Technologies: Rhetoric, Revolutions in Military Affairs, and the Social Depth of Warfare.” International Politics 43(2): 266-280. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ip8800144.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2005. “Doubting Hephaestus: Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence.” Contemporary Security Policy 26(3): 431-446. doi: 10.1080/13523260500500567.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2005. “Bear Facts and Dragon Boats: Rethinking the Modernization of Chinese Naval Power.” Contemporary Security Policy 26(2): 287-316. doi: 10.1080/13523260500190393.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Samantha L. Arnold. 2005. “Becoming Undisciplined: Toward the Supradisciplinary Study of Security.” International Studies Review 7(1): 41-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1521-9488.2005.00457.x.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2003. “Discriminating Tastes: ‘Smart’ Bombs, Non-Combatants, and Notions of Legitimacy in Warfare.” Security Dialogue 34(4): 411-425. doi: 10.1177/0967010603344003.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2003. “‘Emailed Applications are Preferred’: Ethical Practices in Mine Action and the Idea of Global Civil Society.” Third World Quarterly 24(5): 795-808. doi: 10.1080/0143659032000132858.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2002. “Siting Indiscriminacy: India and the Global Movement to Ban Landmines.” Global Governance 8(3): 305-321. doi: 10.1163/19426720-00803005.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2001. “Postcards from the Outskirts of Security: Defence Professionals, Semiotics, and the NMD Initiative.” Canadian Foreign Policy 8(2): 39-49. doi: 10.1080/11926422.2001.9673244.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Ann Denholm Crosby. 1998. “Harnessing Change for Continuity: The Play of Political and Economic Forces Behind the Ottawa Process.” Canadian Foreign Policy 5(3): 85-103. doi: 10.1080/11926422.1998.9673151.

Chapters in Books

  • J. Marshall Beier. forthcoming 2026. “Fathers and Sons: Childhood in the Visual Economies of War,” in Jonathan Josefsson, Björn Lundberg, and Joel Löw, eds., Children, Youth and the Making of International Society in the Twentieth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • J. Marshall Beier. forthcoming 2026. “The Age of Childhood,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Childhood and Governance. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • J. Marshall Beier. forthcoming 2026. “Imagining Childhood as a Technology of Governance,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Childhood and Governance. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. forthcoming 2026. “Children, Militarism, and Everyday Lifeworlds: Navigation and Negotiation,” in J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak, eds., Militarism in the Lifeworlds of Children. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • J. Marshall Beier and David Mutimer. forthcoming 2026. “Knowing Ourselves or Imagining More?” in Michael P.A. Murphy, ed., International Relations in Canada: Understanding the Field. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • J. Marshall Beier. forthcoming 2026. “Finding Childhood in Canadian Foreign Policy,” in Liam Midzain-Gobin, David Black, David Hornsby, and Heather Smith, eds., Critical Understandings of Canada in the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2026. “Childhood and the Parent Subject: Encounters in Public Memory,” in Kirsten J. Fisher and Caitlin Mollica, eds., Parents, Children, and the Ripples of Transitional Justice. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 40-51.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2026. “Childhoods’ Diplomacies,” in Lana Wylie, Mary M. Young, and Susan J. Henders, eds., Other Diplomacies and Canada: Representations and Relationships Beyond the State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 208-225.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2025. “Critical Security Studies II – Narratives of Security: Other Stories, Other Actors,” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 7th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 121-135.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2025. “Childhood,” in Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 40-41.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents. 2023. “Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective,” in J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents, eds., Children, Childhoods and Global Politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 1-13.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2022. “Critical Security Studies II – Narratives of Security: Other Stories, Other Actors,” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 6th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-125.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2021. “Traditions, Truths, and Trolls: Critical Pedagogies in the Era of Fake News,” in Heather Smith and David Hornsby, eds., Teaching International Relations in a Time of Disruption. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 63-73.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak. 2021. “Other Childhoods: Finding Children in Peace and Conflict,” in J. Marshall Beier and Jana Tabak, eds., Childhoods in Peace and Conflict. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-19.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2020. “Subjects in Peril: Childhood Between Security and Resilience,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Discovering Childhood in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 219-242.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2020. “Making Sense of Childhood in International Relations,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Discovering Childhood in International Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-19.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2019. “Poststructural Insights: Making Subjects and Objects of Security,” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-125.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2019. “Ultimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of Protection,” reprinted in Bina D’Costa and Luke Glanville, eds., Children and the Responsibility to Protect. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 158-181.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2016. “Indigenous Diplomacy,” in Costas M. Constantinou, Pauline Kerr, and Paul Sharp, eds., SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy. Los Angeles: SAGE, 642-653.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2016. “Critical Interventions: Subjects, Objects, and Security,” in Alan Collins, ed., Contemporary Security Studies, 4th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 108-121.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2012. “Dangerous Terrain: Re-Reading the Landmines Ban through the Social Worlds of the RMA,” reprinted in Neil Cooper and David Mutimer, eds., Reconceptualizing Arms Control: Controlling the Means of Violence. London: Routledge, 157-173.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2011. “War Stories: Militarized Pedagogies of Children’s Everyday,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 95-110.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2011. “Everyday Zones of Militarization,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 1-15.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2011. “Thinking and Rethinking the Causes of War,” in Craig A. Snyder, ed., Contemporary Security and Strategy, 3rd edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 128-146.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2010. “At Home on Native Land: Canada and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” in J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie, eds., Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 175-186.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie. 2010. “What’s So Critical about Canadian Foreign Policy?” in J. Marshall Beier and Lana Wylie, eds., Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2009. “Forgetting, Remembering, and Finding Indigenous Peoples in International Relations,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Indigenous Diplomacies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 11-27.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2009. “Indigenous Diplomacies as Indigenous Diplomacies,” in J. Marshall Beier, ed., Indigenous Diplomacies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-10.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2006. “Disarming Politics: Arms, Agency, and the (Post)Politics of Disarmament Advocacy,” in Colleen Bell and Tina Managhan, eds., Exceptional Measures for Exceptional Times: The State of Security Post 9/11. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, 207-228.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2005. “Articles of Faith: International Relations and ‘Missionary’ Scholarship,” in Gareth Griffiths and Jamie S. Scott, eds, Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 203-219.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2004. “‘Emailed Applications are Preferred’: Ethical Practices in Mine Action and the Idea of Global Civil Society,” reprinted in Kristian Berg Harpviken, ed., The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 19-32.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2003. “From the Altar to the Lectern: Two Discourses of Salvation,” in Kyle Grayson and Cristina Masters, eds., Theory in Practice: Critical Reflections on Global Policy. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, 253-271.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2002. “Beyond Hegemonic State(ment)s of Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Non-State Possibilities in International Relations,” in Geeta Chowdhry and Sheila Nair, eds., Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class. London: Routledge, 82-114.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 1999. “Of Cupboards and Shelves: Imperialism, Objectification and the Fixing of Parameters on Native North Americans in Popular Culture,” in James N. Brown and Patricia M. Sant, eds., Indigeneity: Construction and Re/Presentation. Commack: Nova Science Publishers, 36-57.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Ann Denholm Crosby. 1998. “Harnessing Change for Continuity: The Play of Political and Economic Forces Behind the Ottawa Process,” reprinted in Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert Lawson, and Brian Tomlin, eds., To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 269-291.

Others

  • Rebecca Collins-Nelsen, J. Marshall Beier and Sandeep Raha. 2021. “Bullying, racism, and being ‘different’: Why some families are opting for remote learning regardless of COVID-19.” The Conversation (16 September).
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2018. “Review of Robyn Linde, The Globalization of Childhood: The International Diffusion of Norms and Law Against the Child Death Penalty.” Perspectives on Politics 16(2): 581-582. doi: 10.1017/S1537592718000166.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2016. “Review of Cecilia Jacob, Child Security in Asia: The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar.” Global Responsibility to Protect 8(4): 451-453. doi: 10.1163/1875984X-00804008.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2007. “Review of M.I. Franklin, Postcolonial Politics, the Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 9(1): 122-123. doi: 10.1080/14616740601066507.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2005. “Review of Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner, The Globalization of Human Rights.” International Journal 60(2): 597-599. doi: 10.1177/002070200506000232.
  • J. Marshall Beier. 2002. Ann Denholm Crosby, James Fergusson, Frank Harvey, and Douglas Ross, “Roundtable: Missile Defence in a Post-September 11th Context.” Canadian Foreign Policy9(2): 111-130. doi: 10.1080/11926422.2002.9673285.
  • Samantha Arnold and J. Marshall Beier, eds. 2000. (Dis)Placing Security: Critical Re-evaluations of the Boundaries of Security Studies. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Steven Mataija, eds. 1998. Arms Control and the Rule of Law: A Framework for Peace and Security in Outer Space. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Steven Mataija, eds. 1997. Cyberspace and Outer Space: Transitional Challenges for Multilateral Verification in the 21st Century. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Steven Mataija, eds. 1996. Verification, Compliance and Confidence-Building: The Global and Regional Interface. Toronto: Centre for International and Strategic Studies.
  • J. Marshall Beier and Steven Mataija, eds. 1995. Proliferation in All Its Aspects Post-1995: The Verification Challenge and Response. Toronto: Centre for International and Strategic Studies.
  • Steven Mataija and J. Marshall Beier, eds. 1992. Multilateral Verification and the Post-Gulf Environment: Learning from the UNSCOM Experience. Toronto: Centre for International and Strategic Studies.

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