Dr. Mervyn Frost

Biography

Professor Mervyn Frost is a Political Scientist working in the field of International Relations. His research focuses on the ethical dimensions of international politics, particularly the difficult ethical problems that international actors face, such as refugee flows, climate change, global economic interdependence, and conflict in the cyber domain. He has been a significant figure in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, where he joined in 2003 and served as Head of the Department from 2007 to 2013. Before that, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent from 1996 to 2003 and held the Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa from 1986 to 1996. His work has contributed to the development of an ethically informed understanding of international affairs known as “constitutive theory” and he has co-authored the recent development of this theory with Dr. Silviya Lechner, referred to as Practice Theory. He currently supervises five doctoral students in the broad field of ethics in international relations and is known for his public engagements, including public lectures and media commentary on ethical questions in international affairs.

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