Place of birth: Bushey, Hertfordshire

Parentage: son of Michael Chandler and Eva Chandler

Family: married Bonnie Chandler 1996; two children, Harvey b. 2002 and Oliver b. 2004

Education: BA, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Manchester; MA, History of Ideas University of Northumbria; LLB, University of Northumbria; PhD, Leeds Metropolitan University

Career: David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (see url below) and a regular media commentator. His research focus is on new forms of international intervention and regulation, particularly those projected in the therapeutic language of ethical foreign policy, the rule of law, human security, human rights, empowerment, democratization and state capacity-building. Professor Chandler is coordinator of the Westminster International Relations Forum.

Publications include: several monographs, including Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton 1999, 2000, From Kosovo to Kabul (and Beyond): Human Rights and International Intervention 2002, 2006, Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations 2004, Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building 2006; as editor or co-editor: Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics 2002, Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (with Gideon Baker) 2005, Peace Without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia 2006, Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Paradoxes and Possibilities (with Volker Heins) 2007; also chapter contributions to around 30 edited collections and approximately 40 articles in academic journals (see url below for full details)

Contact details: Address: Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster 32–38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7911-5000 (ext. 7605); Tel: +44 (0)7765 253073 (mobile); Fax: +44 (0)20 7911-5164; Email: d.chandler@wmin.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.davidchandler.org/ (home); Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17502977.asp/ .