Chris Brown is Professor of International Relations and Vice-Chair of the Academic Board at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  He is the author of numerous articles in international political theory and of Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (2002), International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches (1992), editor of Political Restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives (1994) and co-editor (with Terry Nardin and N.J. Rengger) of International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Greeks to the First World War (2002). His textbook Understanding International Relations (2009) is now in its 4th edition and has been translated into Arabic, Turkish and Chinese. A collection of his essays, Practical Judgement in International Political Theory: Selected Essays will appear in 2010. 

A graduate of LSE, before returning to the School in 1999 he taught at the University of Kent from 1970 - 1994, and was Professor of Politics at the University of Southampton from 1994 - 1998.  He is a former Chair of the British International Studies Association.