SEMINAR: Obama, the US, and the Future International Order

Ian Clark is the E.H. Carr Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A major contributor to the academic study of international relations, he was previously at Cambridge University for many years and, before that, the University of Western Australia, where he spent the first decade of his career. His books include International Legitimacy and World Society (2007), Legitimacy in International Society (2005), The Post-Cold War Order: The Spoils of Peace (2001), Globalization and International Relations Theory (1999), Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century (1997), Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship: Britain’s Deterrent and America, 1957-1962 (1994), all published by Oxford University Press, and The Hierarchy of States: Reform and Resistance in the International Order (1989), published by Cambridge University Press. He currently possesses an Economic and Social Research Council Professorial Fellowship to continue his research project on Legitimacy and Hegemony in Contemporary International Society.