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Adam Roberts – Short Cv and Selected Publications ADAM ROBERTS – SHORT CV AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1. TITLE AND CURRENT POSITION Professor Sir Adam Roberts, KCMG, FBA is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University; Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Oxford University; and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 2. PERSONAL Born 29 August 1940, Penrith, Cumbria, England. British nationality. Full name: Edward Adam Roberts. Father: Michael Roberts, poet, writer and teacher, born 6 December 1902, died 13 December 1948. Mother: Janet Adam Smith, writer and editor, born 9 December 1905, died 11 September 1999. Married Prinkie (Frances Primrose Dunn), teacher and textile artist, born 20 June 1941, in 1966. We have two grown-up children: Hannah, born 1970, freelance election consultant; and Bayard, born 1972, Senior Lecturer in Health Systems and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Hobbies/sports: rock-climbing, general mountaineering, running, cycling. Home address: 48 Thorncliffe Road, Oxford OX2 7BB, United Kingdom. University address: Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ. Email: [email protected]. 3. EDUCATION, DEGREES, AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS Westminster School, London, 1953–8. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1959–62, Open Scholar. Stanhope Historical Essay Prize, University of Oxford, 1961, for a study on seventeenth- century Scotland entitled ‘The Scottish Covenanters’. Passed examinations for degree of B.A. (Oxford) in Modern History, 1962. Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), 1990. President of the British Academy, 2009–2013. Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1997. Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), 2002, ‘for services to the study and practice of international relations’. Honorary Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 2006. Honorary degree (Doctor of Social Science, Honoris Causa), King’s College London, 2010. Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., 2011. Foreign Honorary Member, The Science Academy of Turkey (Bilim Akademisi), Istanbul, 2012. Honorary degree (Doctor of Laws), Aberdeen University, 2012. Honorary degree (Doctor of International Politics), Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 2012. Guest Professorship, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2012. Member, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2013. Honorary Professor, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, in the School of International Relations, St Andrews University, 2013–16. Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2013. Adam Roberts 2 Curriculum Vitae 4. CAREER In 1959–61 did all the research in the UK (at the Public Record Office, Somerset House etc.) for John E. Parsons for his study of the North American Boundary Commission, West on the 49th Parallel: Red River to the Rockies 1872–1876, Morrow, New York, 1963. Assistant Editor, Peace News, London, 1962–5. Noel Buxton Student in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1965–8. (Started work, under the supervision of Philip Windsor, which led to the book Nations in Arms.) Lecturer in International Relations, LSE, 1968–81. Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College, 1981–6. Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College, 1986–2007. Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, January 2008– . 5. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS A. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS (editor and part-author) The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression, Faber, London, 1967. (A paperback edition, with a revised and updated introduction, was published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1969, under the title Civilian Resistance as a National Defence.) (with Philip Windsor) Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance, Chatto & Windus for the Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1969. (author) Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence, Chatto & Windus for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1976. (A second edition, revised and enlarged, with a foreword by McGeorge Bundy, published by Macmillan for IISS, 1986.) (edited with Richard Guelff) Documents on the Laws of War, Oxford University Press, 1982. (Second edition, revised, 1989; third edition, revised, 2000.) (joint author) Terrorism and International Order, Routledge & Kegan Paul for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1986. (edited with Benedict Kingsbury) United Nations, Divided World: The UN’s Roles in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1988. (Second edition, completely revised and updated, and with four new chapters, 1993. A Chinese translation of this edition, further revised and updated, was published in Beijing in 2010.) (edited with Hedley Bull and Benedict Kingsbury) Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1990. (Paperback edition, 1992.) Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (Einstein Institution Monograph Series no. 4), The Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, Mass., [1991]. (author) Humanitarian Action in War: Aid, Protection and Impartiality in a Policy Vacuum (Adelphi Paper no. 305 of International Institute for Strategic Studies, London), Oxford University Press, December 1996. Adam Roberts 3 Curriculum Vitae (edited with Vaughan Lowe, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum) The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, Oxford University Press, 2008. (Paperback edition, 2009.) (with Dominik Zaum) Selective Security: War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945 (Adelphi Paper no. 395 of International Institute for Strategic Studies, London), Routledge, Abingdon, July 2008. (edited with Timothy Garton Ash) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non- violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2009. (Paperback edition, 2011, with a new foreword on the Arab Spring.) (editor and part-author), Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order, I.B.Tauris, London, 2012. (An Indian edition was published in 2013 by Viva Books, New Delhi.) B. REPORTS AND EVIDENCE TO GOVERNMENTAL AND INTERNATIONAL BODIES (partial list) Totalförsvar och civilmotstånd (Total Defence and Civil Resistance: Problems of Sweden’s Security Policy), Centralförbundet Folk och Försvar, Stockholm, 1972. [This report was commissioned by the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOA), a governmental body.] Civilmotståndets teknik (The Technique of Civil Resistance), Centralförbundet Folk och Försvar, Stockholm, 1976. [This report was also commissioned by FOA.] Ockupation, motstånd och folkrätt (Occupation, Resistance and Law: International Law on Military Occupations and on Resistance), Centralförbundet Folk och Försvar, Stockholm, 1981. [This report was also commissioned by FOA.] (with Boel Joergensen and Frank Newman) Academic Freedom Under Israeli Military Occupation: Report of WUS/ICJ Mission of Enquiry into Higher Education in the West Bank and Gaza, World University Service (UK) and International Commission of Jurists, London and Geneva, 1984. ‘Problems Facing the United Nations in the Field of International Security’, memorandum [6 January 1993] to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, published in its report, The Expanding Role of the United Nations and its Implications for United Kingdom Policy, vol. II, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, HMSO, London, [July] 1993. (HC 235-II.) Proposals for UN Standing Forces: History, Tasks and Obstacles, 1995. Paper prepared at request of Netherlands Government for project in 1995 to investigate the possibilities of a United Nations Rapid Deployment Brigade. Also submitted at request of the Canadian Government for its project in 1995 on ‘Improving the UN’s Rapid Reaction Capability’. Presented at major conferences in The Hague and at Montebello organized by the two governments in March and April 1995 respectively. [For published version of this paper see below, Section 5C, Chapters in Books.] The Laws of War: Problems of Implementation in Contemporary Conflicts, 1995. A study based on a collaborative research project co-ordinated by Prof. Horst Fischer of the Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV) of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, conducted for the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) and the European Commission. Evidence presented 18 January 2000 to House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into Kosovo. See House of Commons, Foreign Affairs Committee, Fourth Report: Kosovo, 2 vols., Stationery Office, London, May 2000 (HC 28 I and II). References to this evidence are in vol. I, Report and Proceedings of the Committee. Minutes of that evidence are in vol. II, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices. Adam Roberts 4 Curriculum Vitae Intervention: Suggestions for Moving the Debate Forward, paper for International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, round-table meeting, London, 3 February 2001. (The Commission’s report, The Responsibility to Protect, was published in December 2001.) ‘Application of Laws of War’, memorandum (4 December 2001) for the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against
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