Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He also serves as Chairman of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Committee on International Security Studies. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. Sagan has also served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This event was held in partnership with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict; the Changing Character of War Centre; the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, and Oxford Security Policy Initiative.

The event was moderated by Dapo Akande, Professor of Public International Law, Blavatnik School of Government.