Biography
Dr Tristen Naylor is an expert in international summits and diplomacy. His work focuses on the G7 and G20. His most recent book, Social Closure and International Society, develops a theory to improve IR’s accounts of hierarchy, stratification, and status-seeking while analysing the history of summits since the 19th century. Dr Naylor’s current project examines the roles of ritual and performance in the reproduction of international order.
He has served as the Deputy Director of the G20 Research Group in London. He was a Fellow in International Relations at the LSE where he received the LSE's 2019 Excellence in Education Award. Before that, he was the Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford, where, in 2016, he was named 'Most Acclaimed Lecturer' in the Social Sciences. Dr Naylor has also held posts as the Lecturer in Politics at Christ Church, Oxford, and as a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po, Paris.
Prior to his academic career, Dr Naylor served as a Policy Analyst and Advisor to the Government of Canada. In 2008 he was awarded the Canadian Public Service Award of Excellence by the Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet in recognition of his work. In his final post, he served as an Officer at the Canadian High Commission in London.
Publications
2021: Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order
International Relations, 004711782110103252021
2020: All That’s Lost: The Hollowing of Summit Diplomacy in a Socially Distanced World
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15 (4), 583-598
South African Journal of International Affairs 26 (4), 703-707
2019: The G20 and the English School
The G20 and International Relations Theory
2011: Deconstructing Development: the use of power and pity in the international development discourse
International Studies Quarterly 55 (1), 177-197