- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1999
Ian Clark was educated at the University of Glasgow and the Australian National University. He joined the University of Queensland as Professor of International Relations in 2014. Previously, he taught at Cambridge University and was E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He has held visiting appointments at Chuo University, Tokyo; RSIS, NTU, Singapore; the Australian National University, Canberra; University of Melbourne; and ASERI, Milan. He has published many books in nuclear history, the ethics of war, and the combination of international history and international relations theory. This work has recently focussed on problems of international legitimacy. He has held prestigious awards, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and an ESRC Professorial Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.