Richard Caplan

Richard Caplan is professor of international relations in the department of politics and International relations at the University of Oxford. He has been editor of World Policy Journal, a specialist advisor to the select committee on foreign affairs in the UK's House of Commons, a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and New York director of IWPR. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations and to various governments, and as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States. He has been a visiting professor at the European University Institute (EUI), SciencesPo, Princeton University, and the University of Konstanz. He is the author and editor of several books, including Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (Oxford University Press), Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia (Cambridge University Press),International Governance of War-torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press), Exit Strategies and State Building (Oxford University Press), and The Measure of Peace (forthcoming).