Adam Roberts (scholar)

For other people with this name, see Adam Roberts.

Sir Adam Roberts, KCMG, FBA (b. 29 August 1940 in Penrith, England) is President of the British Academy (2009 - ), the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and an emeritus fellow at Balliol College. He is the son of the poet and teacher Michael Roberts and the writer and editor Janet Adam Smith.

An expert on non-violent resistance, international law, the United Nations, and strategic studies, his publications include works on the United Nations and Hugo Grotius jointly edited with Professor Benedict Kingsbury.

He was Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 1968 to 1981; Alastair Buchan Reader in International Relations at Oxford University from 1981 to 1986; and Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University from 1986 to 2007.

Roberts was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. He served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2002-08). He is a member of the United Kingdom Defence Academy Advisory Board(2003 - ).

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. His interests include mountaineering and cycling.

He has published articles in numerous journals, including American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, International Affairs, International Security, Review of International Studies, and Survival. His publications include:

Recent articles

• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.

Books

• (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 and revised/new appendices.)

• (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. ISBN 978-0-19-955201-6 (hardback).

• (with Vaughan Lowe, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum) (ed.). The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945, Oxford University Press, 2008. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help) ISBN 978-0-19-953343-5 (hardback); ISBN 978-0-19-958330-0 (paperback).

• (with Richard Guelff) (ed.). Documents on the Laws of War, 3rd edn., Oxford University Press, 2000. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help) ISBN 0-19-876389-1 (hardback); ISBN 0-19-876390-5 (paperback).

• (with Benedict Kingsbury) (ed.). United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press, 1993.. ISBN 9780198279266.

• (with Hedley Bull and Benedict Kingsbury) (ed.). Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1990. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help) ISBN 0-19-825569-1 (hardback); ISBN 0-19-827771-7 (paperback).

• (with Lawrence Freedman), Terrorism and International Order, Routledge & Kegan Paul for Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1986; et al. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) 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).

• (with Philip Windsor), Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance, Chatto & Windus for Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1969. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link). SBN 7011 1498 3.

• Ed. The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression, Faber, London, 1967.

External links

• British Academy: http://www.britac.ac.uk/about/president.cfm

• Oxford University Programme on the Changing Character of War: http://ccw.modhist.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/roberts.asp

• Oxford University Programme on Civil Resistance and Power Politics: http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/civ_res.asp.

• Image