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kirsten ainley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International
Relations and the Director of the Centre for International Studies at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the history and
development of international criminal law, international political theory, human
rights and humanitarian intervention. She has published on war crimes trials,
transitional justice, the International Criminal Court, individual and collective
responsibility for atrocity and the notion of evil in international relations. She is
the co-author, with Chris Brown, of Understanding International Relations (2009) and
the co-editor, with Rebekka Friedman and Chris Mahony, of Evaluating transitional
justice: accountability and peacebuilding in post-conflict Sierra Leone (2015).
david m. anderson is Professor of African History at the University of Warwick.
His research focuses on the history and politics of state violence, security and
conflict in Africa with particular reference to eastern Africa and the Horn. He is
an expert on Kenyan history and politics, particularly on the Mau Mau rebellion;
research into the latter was published in a 2005 monograph, Histories of the hanged,
and informed a High Court case in 2012 brought against the UK government by
Mau Mau veterans. He is currently involved in a range of research and writing
projects including on African resistance and collaboration during the colonial era,
state violence in eastern Africa, the social and economic history of Lower Omo
Valley, Ethiopia, the Cold War in Africa and the ICC cases in Kenya.
mark beeson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Western
Australia. Previously he taught at Murdoch University, Griffith University, University of Queensland, University of York and University of Birmingham, where he
was also head of department. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Politics, and the
founding editor of Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific. His research is centered on the
politics, economics and security of the broadly conceived Asia–Pacific region.
dina esfandiary is a MacArthur Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security
Studies at King’s College London. Prior to this, she was a Research Associate who
joined the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London in 2009. Her research focuses on
security, relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East, including
Iran and Syria’s WMD programmes. She has published widely, including in the
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Atlantic, the National Interest, Arms Control Today, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Al
Monitor, Survival, Le Temps, the Australian and the Diplomat.
jonathan fisher is a Lecturer in the International Development Department at
the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on the place of Africa in the
international system and how regional and international relationships are managed
and mediated by African states and leaders. He is particularly interested in eastern
Africa and security. Between 2010 and 2012 he was involved in a donor-funded
study of the 2011 Ugandan elections and in 2013–2014 was an Honorary Research
Fellow in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Africa Directorate. He is
currently writing a book on networks of conflict and cooperation among eastern
Africa’s ‘post-liberation’ states.
denise garcia is the Sadeleer Research Faculty Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the International Affairs Program at Northeastern
University in Boston. She is the author of Small arms and security new emerging
international norms (2006) and Disarmament diplomacy and human security: norms,
regimes, and moral progress in international relations (2011). Her articles have appeared
in Foreign Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Global Policy Journal, International Relations,
International Studies Perspectives, the African Security Review, and elsewhere. Prior
to joining the faculty of Northeastern University in 2006 (tenured in 2012), she
held a three-year appointment at Harvard, and lived for several years in Geneva.
She is a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations, the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, the Arms Control Association, the
Global South Unit for Mediation and the British American Security Information
Council.
lewis herrington is a final year ESRC-funded Doctoral Researcher at the University of Warwick. The focus of his work is on the organization of Islamic fundamentalist Muslims and the role they play as incubators of extremist terrorism. In
addition to studying court archives and transcripts regarding various high profile
UK terrorism trials, he has interviewed former home secretaries, counterterrorism officers and retired jihadists concerning the new wave of Islamic terrorism
that began in the UK in 2003. Previously, he has spent time in the West Bank
interviewing members of Hamas for an MA dissertation on the social construction
of suicide terrorism. In 2013, he featured in the BBC documentary ‘My brother
the terrorist’ and has recently featured in news segments on Russia Today. fujian li is a research fellow of the Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign
Affairs University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Western Australia.
His research interests include China’s regional policy and Sino-Australian relations.
Among his recent publications is China’s regional relations: evolving foreign policy
dynamics (co-authored with Mark Beeson, 2014).
julien nocetti is a Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations
(IFRI) in Paris. His research currently focuses on the interactions between Russia’s
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foreign policy and global internet governance. His research interests also include
Russian ‘internet politics’, and the intersection between the internet governance
regime and international relations. He recently guest edited a special issue of the
quarterly journal Politique étrangère on ‘post-Snowden internet governance’ (79: 4,
Winter 2014–2015), and before that one on ‘cyber power’ (77: 2, Summer 2012).
He regularly participates in international forums and publishes opinion columns
in Russian and international media on the above-mentioned issues.
tim oliver is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International
Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but writes in International
Affairs in a personal capacity. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for
Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies, Washington DC. He has worked in the House
of Lords, the European Parliament, the German Institute for International and
Security Affairs (SWP), RAND Corporation, and taught at University College
London and London School of Economics. His recent publications include
‘Europe without Britain: assessing the impact on the European Union of a British
withdrawal’ (SWP, 2013) and, with Almut Möller, ‘Britain outside Europe? What
would a “Brexit” mean for the EU and other states around the world?’ (DGAP,
2014).
john c. g. röhl taught at the University of Sussex from 1964 until his retirement in 1999, serving as Dean of the School of European Studies from 1982 to
1985. He has also taught at a number of German universities and was elected to
fellowships at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the Woodrow Wilson Center
in Washington DC, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University
and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He has written several
books on imperial Germany and the origins of the First World War, including
the Wolfson History Prize-winning Kaiser and his court (1996) and a three-volume
biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1998, 2004 and 2013), which was awarded the
Einhard Prize for Biography in 2013.
ariane tabatabai is a Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an associate in the Belfer Center’s International Security
Program and Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University. She is a PhD
candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and a columnist for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Previously, she was a Stanton Nuclear
Security Fellow in the Belfer Center and a non-resident Research Associate with
the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute
of International Studies.
michael c. williams is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and a
former UN Under Secretary General. His last posting was as Special Representative in Lebanon. He is a Member of the House of Lords.