Professor Nicholas Rengger

Head of School of International Relations at University of St Andrews

Nicholas Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at St Andrews University. He has just stepped down as editor of the Review of International Studies (2006-2010), the leading UK Academic Journal of International Studies and has served on the executive of the British International Studies Association and the International Studies Association and on the Governing Council of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House. He teaches and publishes on many aspects of intellectual history, political philosophy, international relations and philosophical and political theology. His most recent book is Dealing in Darkness: The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations (forthcoming). He is currently working on a study of Individuality and Civility.