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Adam Roberts (scholar)

February 16, 2024

Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA (born 29 August 1940[1]) is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, a senior research fellow in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations, and an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Background edit

Roberts was born in Penrith, Cumbria, the son of the poet and teacher Michael Roberts and the writer and editor Janet Adam Smith. He went to Westminster School, London, 1953–8. He studied modern history at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College), 1959–62, winning the Stanhope essay prize, 1961.

Career edit

Assistant Editor, Peace News, London, 1962–5. Noel Buxton Student in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1965–8. Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1968–81. Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations at University of Oxford, 1981–6. Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, 1986–2007.

With interests in civil resistance, international law, the United Nations, strategic studies, and the history (and theories) of international relations, his publications include works on the United Nations and on Hugo Grotius jointly edited with Professor Benedict Kingsbury. Roberts was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences) in 1990, serving as its President (2009–13).[2] He served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2002–08); on the Council for Science and Technology (2010–13); and on the United Kingdom Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003–15).

In 2002, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the study and practice of international relations.[2] He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics & Political Science, of St Antony's College, Oxford, and of Cumbria University. He has a Guest Professorship at Nankai University, Tianjin, China (2012); and is honorary professor, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrew's University (2013- ). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by King's College London (2010); Aberdeen University (2012); Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (2012), and Bath University (2014). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2011; and a Member, American Philosophical Society, 2013. His interests include mountaineering and cycling.

He has published articles in numerous journals, including American Journal of International Law, British Yearbook of International Law, International Affairs, International Security, Review of International Studies, Survival and The Times Literary Supplement. His publications include:

Recent articles and book chapters edit

  • 'Pandemics and Politics', Survival, London, vol. 62, no. 5, October–November 2020, pp. 7–40. Available at [1].
  • 'Foundational Myths in the Laws of War: The 1863 Lieber Code, and the 1864 Geneva Convention', Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 20, no. 1, July 2019, pp. 158–96. ISSN 1444-8602. Available at [2].
  • 'The Use of Force: A System of Selective Security', in Sebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone and Bruno Stagno Ugarte (eds.), The UN Security Council in the 21st Century, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, Colorado, 2016, pp. 349–71. ISBN 978-1-62637-258-0 (hardback); 978-1-62637-259-7 (paperback).
  • 'Terrorism Research: Past, Present and Future', Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 38, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 62–74. Print edition ISSN 1057-610X. Online ISSN 1521-0731. Available at [3].
  • 'The Long Peace Getting Longer', Survival, London, vol. 54, no. 1, February–March 2012, pp. 175–83. Print edition ISSN 0039-6338. Online ISSN 1468-2699. Available at [4]. (Review essay on Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature.)
  • 'Simon Frederick Peter Halliday, 1946–2010', Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 172: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows no. X, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 143–69. ISBN 978-0-19-726490-4. ISSN 0068-1202. Available at [5].
  • 'The Civilian in Modern War', in Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (eds.), The Changing Character of War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 357–80. ISBN 978-0-19-959673-7 (hardback).
  • 'The Civilian in Modern War', Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, vol. 12, 2009, T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2010, pp. 13–51. ISBN 978-90-6704-335-9; ISSN 1389-1359.
  • 'Lives and Statistics: Are 90% of War Victims Civilians?’, Survival, London, vol. 52, no. 3, June–July 2010, pp. 115–35. Print edition ISSN 0039-6338. Online ISSN 1468-2699. Available at [6].
  • 'Detainees: Misfits in Peace and War', in Sibylle Scheipers (ed.), Prisoners in War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, pp. 263–80. ISBN 978-0-19-957757-6.
  • 'An "Incredibly Swift Transition": Reflections on the End of the Cold War', in Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol. III, Endings, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 513–34. ISBN 978-0-521-83721-7.
  • 'The Equal Application of the Laws of War: A Principle under Pressure', International Review of the Red Cross, Cambridge, vol. 90, no. 872, December 2008, pp. 931–62. ISSN 1816-3831. EISSN 1607-5889. Available at [7].
  • 'Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan', Survival, London, vol. 51, no. 1, February–March 2009, pp. 29–60. Print edition ISSN 0039-6338. Online ISSN 1468-2699.
  • 'Torture and Incompetence in the "War on Terror"’, Survival, London, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2007. (Review article.) Print edition ISSN 0039-6338. Online ISSN 1468-2699. Available at [8].
  • 'Transformative Military Occupation: Applying the Laws of War and Human Rights', American Journal of International Law, Washington DC, vol. 100, no. 3, July 2006. ISSN 0002-9300. Available at [9].
  • 'The Laws of War in the War on Terror', in Fred L. Borch and Paul S. Wilson (eds.), International Law and the War on Terror (US Naval War College, International Law Studies, vol. 79), Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 2003. Available at [10].

Books edit

  • (with Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy and Timothy Garton Ash) (eds.). Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters, Oxford University Press, Oxford, January 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-874902-8. US edition. Article arising from the book in The Guardian, London, 15 January 2016. Discussion of the book with Professor Rashid Khalidi at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, 10 February 2016, on Ustream.TV.
  • Kadirgamar, Lakshman (15 September 2012). Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order, I.B. Tauris, London, 2012. ISBN 9781848853072. ISBN 978 1 84885 307 2 (hardback). On Google.
  • (with Benedict Kingsbury) (eds.) 全球治理：分列世界中的联合国 (Global Governance: United Nations in a Divided World), trans. Zhicheng Wu and colleagues at Nankai University, Central Compilation & Translation Press, Beijing, 2010. ISBN 978-7-5117-0220-3. (A specially adapted version of United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1993, and incorporating a new introduction by the editors, revised/new appendices, and Foreword by Professor Wang Jisi of Peking University.)
  • (with Timothy Garton Ash) (ed.). Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2009. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-955201-6 (hardback); ISBN 978-0-19-969145-6 (paperback, 2011, with new Foreword on the Arab Spring). US edition. On Google.
  • (with Vaughan Lowe, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum), ed. (6 June 2010). The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199583300. ISBN 978-0-19-953343-5 (hardback); ISBN 978-0-19-958330-0 (paperback). US edition. On Google.
  • (with Richard Guelff) (ed.). Documents on the Laws of War, 3rd edn., Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-876389-1 (hardback); ISBN 0-19-876390-5 (paperback). US edition.
  • (with Benedict Kingsbury) (ed.). United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-19-827926-6 (paperback). US edition.
  • Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions 1 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Cambridge, Mass.: Albert Einstein Institution, 1991. ISBN 1-880813-04-1. Available at.
  • (with Hedley Bull and Benedict Kingsbury) (ed.). Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-19-825569-1 (hardback); ISBN 0-19-827771-7 (paperback). US edition. Oxford Scholarship Online. On Google.
  • (with Lawrence Freedman; et al. Terrorism and International Order, Routledge & Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1986. ISBN 0-7102-1141-4.
  • Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence, 2nd edn., Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1986.ISBN 0-333-39306-6 (hardback); ISBN 0-333-37307-3 (paperback). On Google.
  • (with Philip Windsor). Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance, Chatto & Windus for Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1969. ISBN 0-7011-1498-3 (paperback).
  • (ed.) The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression, Faber, London, 1967. (Also published as Civilian Resistance as a National Defense, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, US, 1968; and, with a new Introduction on 'Czechoslovakia and Civilian Defence', as Civilian Resistance as a National Defence, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, UK, and Baltimore, US, 1969. ISBN 0-14-021080-6.)

See also edit

Lectures edit

  • The Equal Application of the Laws of War: A Principle Under Pressure in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
  • Reinventing the Wheel: The cost of neglecting international history the 2010 Gresham Special Lecture delivered in the Guildhall, City of London.

References edit

  1. ^ "Adam Roberts - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2010.

External links edit

February 16, 2024
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Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA born 29 August 1940 1 is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford a senior research fellow in Oxford University s Department of Politics and International Relations and an emeritus fellow of Balliol College Oxford Contents 1 Background 2 Career 3 Recent articles and book chapters 4 Books 5 See also 6 Lectures 7 References 8 External linksBackground editRoberts was born in Penrith Cumbria the son of the poet and teacher Michael Roberts and the writer and editor Janet Adam Smith He went to Westminster School London 1953 8 He studied modern history at the University of Oxford Magdalen College 1959 62 winning the Stanhope essay prize 1961 Career editAssistant Editor Peace News London 1962 5 Noel Buxton Student in International Relations London School of Economics and Political Science LSE 1965 8 Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science 1968 81 Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations at University of Oxford 1981 6 Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University 1986 2007 With interests in civil resistance international law the United Nations strategic studies and the history and theories of international relations his publications include works on the United Nations and on Hugo Grotius jointly edited with Professor Benedict Kingsbury Roberts was elected a Fellow of the British Academy the UK s national academy for the humanities and social sciences in 1990 serving as its President 2009 13 2 He served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies 2002 08 on the Council for Science and Technology 2010 13 and on the United Kingdom Defence Academy Advisory Board 2003 15 In 2002 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the study and practice of international relations 2 He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics amp Political Science of St Antony s College Oxford and of Cumbria University He has a Guest Professorship at Nankai University Tianjin China 2012 and is honorary professor Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrew s University 2013 He has been awarded honorary doctorates by King s College London 2010 Aberdeen University 2012 Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo 2012 and Bath University 2014 He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and a Member American Philosophical Society 2013 His interests include mountaineering and cycling He has published articles in numerous journals including American Journal of International Law British Yearbook of International Law International Affairs International Security Review of International Studies Survival and The Times Literary Supplement His publications include Recent articles and book chapters edit Pandemics and Politics Survival London vol 62 no 5 October November 2020 pp 7 40 Available at 1 Foundational Myths in the Laws of War The 1863 Lieber Code and the 1864 Geneva Convention Melbourne Journal of International Law vol 20 no 1 July 2019 pp 158 96 ISSN 1444 8602 Available at 2 The Use of Force A System of Selective Security in Sebastian von Einsiedel David M Malone and Bruno Stagno Ugarte eds The UN Security Council in the 21st Century Lynne Rienner Boulder Colorado 2016 pp 349 71 ISBN 978 1 62637 258 0 hardback 978 1 62637 259 7 paperback Terrorism Research Past Present and Future Studies in Conflict amp Terrorism vol 38 no 1 January 2015 pp 62 74 Print edition ISSN 1057 610X Online ISSN 1521 0731 Available at 3 The Long Peace Getting Longer Survival London vol 54 no 1 February March 2012 pp 175 83 Print edition ISSN 0039 6338 Online ISSN 1468 2699 Available at 4 Review essay on Steven Pinker The Better Angels of our Nature Simon Frederick Peter Halliday 1946 2010 Proceedings of the British Academy vol 172 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows no X Oxford University Press Oxford 2011 pp 143 69 ISBN 978 0 19 726490 4 ISSN 0068 1202 Available at 5 The Civilian in Modern War in Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers eds The Changing Character of War Oxford University Press Oxford 2011 pp 357 80 ISBN 978 0 19 959673 7 hardback The Civilian in Modern War Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law vol 12 2009 T M C Asser Press The Hague 2010 pp 13 51 ISBN 978 90 6704 335 9 ISSN 1389 1359 Lives and Statistics Are 90 of War Victims Civilians Survival London vol 52 no 3 June July 2010 pp 115 35 Print edition ISSN 0039 6338 Online ISSN 1468 2699 Available at 6 Detainees Misfits in Peace and War in Sibylle Scheipers ed Prisoners in War Oxford University Press Oxford 2010 pp 263 80 ISBN 978 0 19 957757 6 An Incredibly Swift Transition Reflections on the End of the Cold War in Melvyn P Leffler and Odd Arne Westad eds The Cambridge History of the Cold War vol III Endings Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2010 pp 513 34 ISBN 978 0 521 83721 7 The Equal Application of the Laws of War A Principle under Pressure International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge vol 90 no 872 December 2008 pp 931 62 ISSN 1816 3831 EISSN 1607 5889 Available at 7 Doctrine and Reality in Afghanistan Survival London vol 51 no 1 February March 2009 pp 29 60 Print edition ISSN 0039 6338 Online ISSN 1468 2699 Torture and Incompetence in the War on Terror Survival London vol 49 no 1 Spring 2007 Review article Print edition ISSN 0039 6338 Online ISSN 1468 2699 Available at 8 Transformative Military Occupation Applying the Laws of War and Human Rights American Journal of International Law Washington DC vol 100 no 3 July 2006 ISSN 0002 9300 Available at 9 The Laws of War in the War on Terror in Fred L Borch and Paul S Wilson eds International Law and the War on Terror US Naval War College International Law Studies vol 79 Naval War College Newport Rhode Island 2003 Available at 10 Books edit with Michael J Willis Rory McCarthy and Timothy Garton Ash eds Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring Triumphs and Disasters Oxford University Press Oxford January 2016 ISBN 978 0 19 874902 8 US edition Article arising from the book in The Guardian London 15 January 2016 Discussion of the book with Professor Rashid Khalidi at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs New York 10 February 2016 on Ustream TV Kadirgamar Lakshman 15 September 2012 Democracy Sovereignty and Terror Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order I B Tauris London 2012 ISBN 9781848853072 ISBN 978 1 84885 307 2 hardback On Google with Benedict Kingsbury eds 全球治理 分列世界中的联合国 Global Governance United Nations in a Divided World trans Zhicheng Wu and colleagues at Nankai University Central Compilation amp Translation Press Beijing 2010 ISBN 978 7 5117 0220 3 A specially adapted version of United Nations Divided World The UN s Roles in International Relations Oxford University Press 2nd edition 1993 and incorporating a new introduction by the editors revised new appendices and Foreword by Professor Wang Jisi of Peking University with Timothy Garton Ash ed Civil Resistance and Power Politics The Experience of Non violent Action from Gandhi to the Present Oxford University Press 2009 Archived from the original on 8 December 2011 Retrieved 14 November 2010 ISBN 978 0 19 955201 6 hardback ISBN 978 0 19 969145 6 paperback 2011 with new Foreword on the Arab Spring US edition On Google with Vaughan Lowe Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum ed 6 June 2010 The United Nations Security Council and War The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 Oxford University Press 2008 Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199583300 ISBN 978 0 19 953343 5 hardback ISBN 978 0 19 958330 0 paperback US edition On Google with Richard Guelff ed Documents on the Laws of War 3rd edn Oxford University Press 2000 ISBN 0 19 876389 1 hardback ISBN 0 19 876390 5 paperback US edition with Benedict Kingsbury ed United Nations Divided World The UN s Roles in International Relations 2nd edn Oxford University Press 1993 ISBN 978 0 19 827926 6 paperback US edition Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions Archived 1 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Cambridge Mass Albert Einstein Institution 1991 ISBN 1 880813 04 1 Available at 11 with Hedley Bull and Benedict Kingsbury ed Hugo Grotius and International Relations Oxford University Press 1990 ISBN 0 19 825569 1 hardback ISBN 0 19 827771 7 paperback US edition Oxford Scholarship Online On Google with Lawrence Freedman et al Terrorism and International Order Routledge amp Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs London 1986 ISBN 0 7102 1141 4 Nations in Arms The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence 2nd edn Macmillan Basingstoke 1986 ISBN 0 333 39306 6 hardback ISBN 0 333 37307 3 paperback On Google with Philip Windsor Czechoslovakia 1968 Reform Repression and Resistance Chatto amp Windus for Institute for Strategic Studies London 1969 ISBN 0 7011 1498 3 paperback ed The Strategy of Civilian Defence Non violent Resistance to Aggression Faber London 1967 Also published as Civilian Resistance as a National Defense Stackpole Books Harrisburg US 1968 and with a new Introduction on Czechoslovakia and Civilian Defence as Civilian Resistance as a National Defence Penguin Books Harmondsworth UK and Baltimore US 1969 ISBN 0 14 021080 6 See also editCivilian based defenseLectures editThe Equal Application of the Laws of War A Principle Under Pressure in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law Reinventing the Wheel The cost of neglecting international history the 2010 Gresham Special Lecture delivered in the Guildhall City of London References edit Adam Roberts Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Retrieved 30 June 2009 a b News Archived from the original on 15 March 2012 Retrieved 27 October 2010 External links editOxford University Department of Politics amp International Relations http www politics ox ac uk associates adam roberts html Archived 18 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine Oxford University Programme on Civil Resistance and Power Politics https www politics ox ac uk research projects civil resistance and power politics domestic and international dimensions html Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adam Roberts scholar amp oldid 1172459085, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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