Contributors 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, Univer- sity 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 Contributors 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 Depart- ment 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 Interna- tional 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 Univer- sity of Warwick. The focus of his work is on the organization of Islamic funda- mentalist 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, counterter- rorism 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 Contributors 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 inInternational 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 retire- ment 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 George- town 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 colum- nist 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 Representa- tive in Lebanon. He is a Member of the House of Lords. .