Event Date: November 20, 2009 - 3:00 pm
Location: FSS 4006, Pavillon des Sciences Sociales. 120, University Pvt.
A talk by Adam Roberts, Oxford University.
Co-sponsor: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations. He was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University from 1986 to 2007. His main research interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. His most recent book, co-edited with Timothy Garton Ash, is Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).