He studied modern history at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College), 1959–62, winning the Stanhope essay prize, 1961.
Noel Buxton Student in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1965–8.
Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1968–81.
With interests in civil resistance, international law, the United Nations, strategic studies, and the history (and theories) of international relations, his publications include works on the United Nations and on Hugo Grotius jointly edited with Professor Benedict Kingsbury.
[2] He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics & Political Science, of St Antony's College, Oxford, and of Cumbria University.