Mervyn Frost

Mervyn Frost is Head of the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. A former Rhodes Scholar, he read Politics at Oxford University and held lectureships at the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University before being appointed to the Chair of Politics and Head of Department at the University of Natal in Durban.

He has been President of the South African Political Studies Association and editor of its journal Politikon. He has served on boards of the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association (ISA) and was Chairman of the Association’s International Ethics Section for several years. Specialized in the field of ethics in international relations, he is currently on the editing boards of several journals, including International Political Sociology; Journal of International Political Theory; and South African Journal of International Affairs. His latest book, Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations, was published in 2009.