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Professor Peter Sutch is a Professor of Politics at Cardiff University in the School of Law and Politics. Specializing in Political and International Theory, he earned his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Wales. He joined Cardiff University in 1998 after previous teaching positions at Swansea University and the Open University. In 2013, he was appointed Professor of Political and International Theory. Currently, he serves as Acting Co-Head of School and Head of Politics and International Relations. Sutch is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistsS) and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).

His research explores international justice, particularly questions relating to international law, normative and moral dimensions of politics and law, the relationship between ethics and international politics, contemporary political theory, the history of political thought, multiculturalism, questions of justification in moral theory, the nature of evil in contemporary political theory, just war theory, global law, and distributive justice in the global commons. Among his key publications are the books Ethics, Justice and International Relations: Constructing an International Community (Routledge, 2006); Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights (Routledge, 2003, with B.A. Haddock); Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity (Routledge, 2006, edited with B.A. Haddock and P. Roberts); Evil in Contemporary Political Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2011, edited with B.A. Haddock and P. Roberts); The Politics of International Law and International Justice (Edinburgh University Press, 2013, with E. Egede); An Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit (Edinburgh University Press, 2004, second edition 2012, with P. Roberts); International Relations: The Basics (Routledge, 2007, with J. Elias); and The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, edited with H. Williams et al.). Selected articles include 'Neo-Kantian Cosmopolitanism and International Law: Modest Practicality?' (Kantian Review, 2019); 'Outer Space and Neo-Colonial Injustice: Distributive Justice and the Continuous Scramble for Dominium' (International Journal of Social Economics, 2019, with P. Roberts); 'Freedom, Power and the Global Economic Order' (Good Society, 2018); 'Human Rights and the Use of Force: Assertive Liberalism and Just War' (European Journal of Political Theory, 2012); and 'International Justice and the Reform of Global Governance: A Reconsideration of Michael Walzer's International Political Theory' (Review of International Studies, 2009). He teaches modules such as Introduction to Political Thought, Justice, Legitimacy and International Law, Ethics and International Relations, and Just War and Humanitarian Intervention, and supervises PhD students on topics including global law, ethics, and international political theory.