He is currently the recipient of a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to research on the politics and sociology of embedding universal norms under the title Empire of the International.
In 2006 his book Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International was published by Cornell University Press. It followed a year 'embedded' within the International Secretariat of Amnesty and won the Best Book in Human Rights from the American Political Science Association. He is also the author of American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State, published by Oxford University Press and of 'Saying "no" to Wal-Mart: Money and Morality in Professional Humanitarianism,' in Michael Barnett & Thomas G Weiss (eds) Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics (also Cornell).
From 2002-2004 he was a Fellow in Global Security and Cooperation of the Social Science Research Council (New York).
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