The Vulnerable in International Society

Ian Clark was educated at the University of Glasgow and at the Australian National University. He taught at Cambridge University from 1984 until his move to Aberystwyth in 1998. He held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2002-4 and an ESRC Professorial Fellowship 2007-10. During 2012, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has published many books and his most recent project has been a multi-volume study of international legitimacy: Legitimacy in International Society (OUP 2005); International Legitimacy and World Society (OUP 2007); and Hegemony in International Society (OUP 2011). He is a co-author of Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (CUP 2012). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.