Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations and Graduate Director in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He is a Fulbright Scholar and an Honorary Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (2020-21), where he has taught and conducted research on the impact of Francoism on right-wing authoritarian politics. In 2020, he was appointed Country Expert of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG)assessment team in South Sudan. The assessment report was presented to the U.S. State Department and Congress. Since arriving to USF in 2005, he has published numerous books. Among the most recent are South Sudan's Fateful Struggle: Building Peace in a State of War (Oxford University Press, 2022), Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First Century Warfare (SUNY Press, 2020), Handbook of Critical International Relations (ed) (Edward Elgar, 2020), Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2019), The Challenge of Governance in South Sudan (eds.) (Routledge, 2019), International Relations: The Key Concepts (Routledge, 2014), Critical Theory of International Politics (Routledge, 2010), and Governance, Order, and the International Criminal Court (ed.)(Oxford University Press, 2009). He has also published research articles in International Affairs, Global Governance, Political Studies, Globalizations, Politics, Millennium, International Studies Review, and International Studies Perspectives, contributed several commissioned articles to volumes on international law and international relations theory. and written op-ed essays for Foreign Affairs, African Arguments, openDemocracy, Journal of International Affairs, the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. In addition, he is currently the Editor of the SUNY book series, "Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare" and serves on the editorial board of four academic journals and on the global advisory board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.