James Cockayne
Associate
cockayne@ipinst.org
Mr. James Cockayne joined IPI as an Associate in March 2006. He co-manages the multi-million dollar Coping with Crisis research and policy-development program, and runs projects on Understanding Compliance with Security Council Resolutions (with Christoph Mikulaschek); multilateral responses to organized crime; and the regulation of international private security.
His research focuses on the use of international regulatory tools to mediate the interface between public and private organized violence. He has written extensively on the UN Security Council; Iraq; international peace operations; organized crime; Islam and humanitarian law; war crimes trials; and other aspects of the global regulation of violence.
Before joining IPI, James served as Director of the Transnational Crime and Extradition Units in the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where he was responsible for overseeing Australian international criminal law policy and practice, and received an official commendation for his work on Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also worked on war crimes trials at the ICTR and in Sierra Leone, and in private legal practice in Sydney and Paris.
James is also Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice. He was a 2005 Mellon Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action, and has degrees from New York University (LL.M. International Legal Studies) and the University of Sydney (LL.B. Hons I, B.A. Hons I, University Medal). He is a qualified attorney and has contributed regularly to broadcasts and the press in the US, UK and Australia.
James has also worked to develop a comprehensive database of researchers working on international private security. To access the Database of Researchers on International Private Security click here.
Some of James’ publications are available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=652307 .
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- “After Blackwatergate: how humanitarians can help professionalize the global security industry”, 6(3) Human Security Bulletin (2008)
- “IPI Releases Database of Researchers on International Private Security”
- “The Special Tribunal for Lebanon – A Cripple from Birth?”, (Journal of International Criminal Justice 2007).
- “Blackwatergate: Changing the Piper’s Tune”, Op-Ed (New York, October 22, 2007).
- “Transnational Organized Crime: Multilateral Responses to a Rising Threat”, Coping with Crisis Working Paper (IPI: New York, March 2007).
- “The global reorganization of legitimate violence: military entrepreneurs and the private face of international humanitarian law”, International Review of the Red Cross, vol.88, no. 863, March 2007, pp. 1-32.
- “Make or buy? Principal-agent theory and the regulation of private military companies”, in Simon Chesterman/Chia Lehnardt (eds.), From Mercenaries to Markets: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
- “Relations with the Security Council”, with David Malone in Simon Chesterman, ed., Secretary or General? The UN Secretary-General in World Politics (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007).
- “Iraq, 1990-1991 and 2002-2003”, With David Malone in Adam Roberts, ed., The Security Council and War (OUP: forthcoming 2007).
- Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory Study (IPI: New York, March 2006).
- “Hybrids or mongrels? Internationalized war crimes tribunals as unsuccessful degradation ceremonies”, 4 Journal of Human Rights 1-19 (2005).
- “Islam and International Humanitarian Law: From a ‘Clash’ to a ‘Conversation’ of Civilizations”, Int’l Rev. Red Cross, no. 847, September 2002, pp. 597-626.