Robert Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he works closely with the Centre for Strategic Studies. He gained his PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at King's College London, UK and his MA as a Freyberg Scholar to the Australian National University. His previous writing includes Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age (Frank Cass, 2004) and Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is an Honorary Professor with the New Zealand Defence Force Command and Staff College and Adjunct Professor with the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.