BOOKS
Bower, Adam. 2017. Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law and Changing Social Standards in World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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ARTICLES
Bower, Adam and Jeffrey S. Lantis. 2024. “Contesting the Heavens: US Antipreneurship and the Regulation of Space Weapons.” European Journal of International Security 9 (1): 1-22.
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Bower, Adam. 2020. “Entrapping Gulliver: The United States and the Antipersonnel Mine Ban.” Security Studies 29 (1): 128-161.
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Bower, Adam. 2019. “Contesting the International Criminal Court: Bashir, Kenyatta, and the Status of the Non-Impunity Norm in World Politics.” Journal of Global Security Studies 4 (1): 88–104.
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Bower, Adam. 2015. “Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law, Nested Social Structures, and the Ban on Antipersonnel Mines.” International Studies Review 17 (3): 347–73.
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Bower, Adam. 2015. “Arguing with Law: Strategic Legal Argumentation, US Diplomacy, and Debates over the International Criminal Court.” Review of International Studies 41 (2): 337–60.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Bower, Adam. 2023. “Orbital Uncertainty and the Governance of Outer Space Activities.” In Uncertainty in Global Politics, edited by Anastasia Shesterinina and Miriam Matejova, 191-211. London: Routledge.
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Bower, Adam. “Global Constitutionalism and Outer Space Governance.” In Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, second edition, edited by Anthony Lang Jr. and Antje Wiener, 529-541. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Bower, Adam. 2023. “The International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Internationalised Fight Against Impunity.” In Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order: Perspectives from Legal and Political Science, edited by Heike Krieger and Andrea Liese, 173-190. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bower, Adam. 2020. “Negotiating Responsibility in Conventional Weapons Disarmament.” In The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, edited by Antje Vetterlein and Hannes Hansen-Magnusson, 55-73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bower, Adam. 2016. “Networking for the Ban: Network Structure, Social Power, and the Movement to Ban Antipersonnel Mines.” In The New Power Politics: Networks and Transnational Security Governance, edited by Deborah Avant and Oliver Westerwinter, 169-195. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bower, Adam, and Richard Price. 2013. “Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban.” In Justice, Sustainability, and Security: Global Ethics for the 21st Century, edited by Eric A. Heinze, 131–69. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
ACADEMIC FORUMS
William Vlcek and Adam Bower. 2021. “Teaching International Relations at the University of St Andrews.” Forum on Pedagogy: The Introductory Course in International Relations: Regional Variations. International Studies Perspectives 22 (2): 140-144.
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REPORTS
Bower, Adam. 2023. “Commercial Space Systems and Foreign Armed Conflicts: Challenges and Ways Forward.” SCGA Insight. Scottish Council on Global Affairs. October. https://scga.scot/2024/03/11/scga-insight-commercial-space-systems-and-foreign-armed-conflicts/.
OTHER WRITING
Egel, Naomi and Adam Bower. “Undermining Norms? How the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Has Endured in US Policy.” Just Security. 14 July 2021. https://www.justsecurity.org/77412/undermining-norms-how-the-antipersonnel-mine-ban-has-endured-in-us-policy/.
Bower, Adam and Ryder McKeown. “The Indian ASAT Test and Space Security.” The Transatlantic Puzzle. 23 May 2019. https://transatlanticpuzzle.com/2019/05/23/the-indian-asat-test-and-space-security.