About the Authors

Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He worked previously for King’s College London at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Among his eleven books, Alex is author of Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (Polity, 2009); Just Wars: From Cicero to Iraq (Polity, 2007); and Kosovo and International Society (Palgrave, 2002); editor of International Society and its Critics (Oxford University Press, 2004); and co-editor of Peace Operations and Global Order (Routledge, 2005).

He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect and Associate Editor of the Journal of Military Ethics. He currently serves on the advisory board of several journals including British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Ethics and International Affairs and International Affairs.

His online profile at the University of Queensland is here.

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Security Policy Studies MA program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, USA. He worked previously at the universities of Aberystwyth, Birmingham and Warwick in the UK.

He is author of British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005); editor of Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2008); and co-editor of Africa in International Politics (Routledge, 2004); Peace Operations and Global Order (Routledge, 2005); The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006); and The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur (Routledge, 2010).
He currently serves on the editorial board of two academic journals: African Affairs and Global Responsibility to Protect.

His online profile at the Elliott School is here.