Jason Ralph is Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds and Marie Curie International
Outgoing Fellow at the University of Queensland. He is Senior Research Associate at the Foreign Policy
Centre and Senior Fellow in the R2P Scholars Network at the Canadian Centre for Responsibility to Protect.
He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) on the ESRC funded seminar series "Responsibility to Protect and
Prosecute. Liberal Responsibilities in an age of shifting power balances". He is also PI and supervisor on
the White Rose ESRC DTC PhD network "Responsibility to Protect and Prosecute. Its Problems and
Alternatives".
His evidence on the ‘special relationship’ and the use of force was recently published by the British Foreign
Affairs Committee and he has also published “Mainstreaming R2P in UK Strategy. Improving the
Government’s response to the threat of mass atrocity” with the United Nations Association-UK. His books
include "America's War on Terror. The State of the 9/11 Exception from Bush to Obama" (OUP 2013) and
"Defending the Society of States. Why America Opposes the International Criminal Court and its Vision of
World Society (OUP 2007). You can follow him on Twitter @jasonralph4.