![]() | Director and Reader Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London |
Areas of Expertise
Civil Society, Development of International Law, Diplomacy, Disarmament,
Region of Focus
Europe, North America
Background
Dr Dan Plesch holds a BA in History from Nottingham, studied public policy at Bristol and took his PhD in political science at Keele. From 1986 to 2001 he founded and led the British American Security Information Council in Washington DC, and then became the Senior Research Fellow at Whitehall’s Royal United Services Institute. He has held academic posts at the universities of Bradford, Keele and London. He has worked extensively in the media for the BBC and CNN and written commentary for a wide variety of print media. He was the independent advisor to the UK government on the introductions of the Freedom of Information Act. His research and public intellectual roles include disarmament, NATO, the arms trade, the wartime origins and future of the UN, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He has also published and developed teaching on energy and climate policy and corporate responsibility.
Recent Publications
A full research profile can be found at https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/
Books include:
Human Rights After Hitler, Georgetown UP, 2017.
Wartime Origins and the Future UN, with Professor Thomas G. Weiss.Routledge 2015
America, Hitler and the UN, I.B. Tauris, 2011.
The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace, Politico’s 2004.