Renee Jeffery is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. She is the author of The Persistence of Amnesties in World Politics (2014), Reason and Emotion in International Ethics (2014), Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2008) and Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006), and the editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (2008).