Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
He is not able to act as supervisor for new graduate students.
He was President of the British Academy (2009-13). He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics & Political Science (1997- ), of St Antony's College Oxford (2006- ), and of the University of Cumbria (2014- ). 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 is a Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011- ), and a Member of the American Philosophical Society (2013- ). He was a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (2002-8); member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003-15); and member, Board of Advisers of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, at the United States Military Academy, West Point, September 2016– .
He was born in Penrith, England, on 29 August 1940. His first degree was BA in Modern History at Oxford University (1962). His interests include mountaineering and cycling.
Research
Adam's 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 authoritarian regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. His ongoing research activities include work on books and articles related to the following two externally-funded research projects at Oxford University:
- Oxford University Programme on the Changing Character of War, January 2004. (Member of Steering Committee, 2003-9; Honorary Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board, 2017- .) Several publications listed below, including the edited book on The UN Security Council and War (2008), are products of this programme.
- Oxford University Research Project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics, January 2005-. (Chair, Organising Committee, January 2005- .) The jointly-edited books on Civil Resistance and Power Politics (2009), and on Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (2016), are the main products of this research project.
He is also working on a book on Liberal International Order.
