Speakers

Nicholas J. Wheeler is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (UoB). He is a non-resident Senior Fellow at BASIC where he works on BASIC’s Nuclear Responsibilities Programme with special reference to India-Pakistan nuclear relations. He moved to Birmingham in 2012 having spent just under two decades at Aberystwyth University. He was appointed as Director of the newly created Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security which he directed until 2019. ICCS was a co-partner with BASIC in the creation of the Nuclear Responsibilities Programme. His research areas are International Relations and Strategic/Security Studies. Within that, he has specialised on the security dilemma, trust-building, international society, nuclear strategy and proliferation, and humanitarian intervention. His publications include (with Ken Booth) The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); and Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict (Oxford University Press 2018). His new book co-authored with Marcus Holmes (William and Mary) is provisionally entitled Atomic Bonds: Interpersonal Relationships in International Crises and will be submitted to Oxford University Press (it is under contract) in April 2025. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and has had an entry in Who’s Who since 2011.