Professor Sir Adam Roberts FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1990
- Subjects
- Politics
Summary
Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was President of the British Academy, 2009-2013. Born in Penrith in 1940, he went to Westminster School and Magdalen College Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics, 1968-1981. He moved to Oxford University, first as Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations, 1981-1986, then as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, 1986-2007. He has given expert advice to parliamentary committees, governments and non-governmental bodies in the UK and overseas. In 2002 he was awarded a knighthood for services to the study and practice of international relations. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organisations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against authoritarian regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. He has published articles in numerous journals, including American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, International Affairs, International Review of the Red Cross, International Security, and Survival.
Current post
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow,
Past appointments
Balliol College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College
2008 -
University of Oxford Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
1986 - 2007
University of Oxford Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations
1981 - 1986
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Lecturer in International Relations
1968 - 1981
Publications
Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters
Ed. Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press
Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order 2012
Ed. Adam Roberts - Published in 2012 by I.B.Tauris
The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 2008
Ed. Adam Roberts, Vaughan Lowe, Jennifer Welsh, - Published in 2010 by Oxford University Press
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Ed. Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press
Documents on the Laws of War
Ed. Adam Roberts, Richard Guelff - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press
United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations
Ed. Adam Roberts, Benedict Kingsbury - Published in 1994 by Oxford University Press
Hugo Grotius and International Relations
Ed. Hedley Bull, Benedict Kingsbury, Adam Roberts - Published in 1992 by Oxford University Press
Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence
Adam Roberts - Published in 1986 by Palgrave Macmillan
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Professor Richard Whatmore FBA
The history of political thought and political economy from the 17th century to the present, with focus on small states and free states, empire and commerce; the historiography of intellectual history
