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I am a Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester.I am currently working on two projects. The first (with Luke Glanville at ANU) considers the ethics of global prioritisation. Although states have global responsibilities across several issue areas, they also have significant budgetary and resource limitations in what they can do to tackle all the various ongoing and potential crises worldwide. Tackling one crisis, and fulfilling one set of responsibilities, typically raises opportunity costs for other crises and for fulfilling global responsibilities elsewhere. In the face of budgetary and resource limitations, states have to decide which global responsibilities they will focus on. If states cannot fulfill all their global responsibilities, such as to tackle mass atrocities, global poverty, disease, and climate change, which should they prioritise? Our book, Prioritizating Global Responsibilities (forthcoming in May 2024 with Oxford University Press), aims to answer this question. The second considers how global responsibilities may shift in a post-liberal international order. It considers, for instance, changes to the responsibility to protect and the principles of just war theory, in light of a much more challenging international environment. From Jan-Nov 2023, I held a Mid-Career Fellowship from the British Academy to work on this project.More generally, my work focuses on ethical issues in global security. I have particular research expertise on humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect (R2P), Just War Theory, private security, and the alternatives to war (e.g. sanctions).I have written four books (all with Oxford University Press) and over 40 journal articles since 2007, including in British Journal of Political Science, Ethics & International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Review of International Studies.I joined Manchester in 2009 and was promoted to full professor in 2014. I have served as the Director of Research and the Politics REF coordinator for the 2021 REF, where we climbed to 8th (from 19th). I currently serve on the University Senate. I also serve on the Governing Council of the ISA and co-convene the International Political Theory section of the ECPR. From 2025, I will edit the Journal of Global Security Studies (with Ulrich Petersohn).