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Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Heather M. Roff Perkins

Education:

PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
MA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
BA, University of Arizona


Profile:
 

Visiting Associate Professor of Security Studies at Josef Korbel School of International Studies (2012-2013); Research Associate for Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies at the United States Air Force Academy (2011-present); Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, (2011-2012); Instructor at United States Air Force Academy (2011); Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder (2007-2010).  Her publications include: Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect: A Provisional Duty (Routeledge Press, forthcoming 2013). “Response to Pattison: Whose Responsibility to Protect?,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2009.  Kantian Provisional Duties” Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik/Annual Review for Law and Ethics, Vol. 18  (2010). “A Provisional Duty to Intervene” Global Responsibility to Protect, Vol. 3 (2011). “What Ethical Complexities do Humanitarian Actors Face?” in Negotiating Relief: The Dialectics of Humanitarian Space, ed. Michele Acuto, (Hurst & Co./Columbia University Press,  2012).  “Killing in War: Responsibility, Liability and Lethal Autonomous Robots” in Not Just Wars Eds. Adam Henschke, Nick Evans and Fritz Allhoff (Routledge Press, forthcoming 2013).   She also has written op-ed pieces for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and blogs for the Huffington Post.

Research and Expertise: 

International Ethics/Global Ethics; Law and Ethics of Emerging Military Technologies; Just War Theory; International Humanitarian Law; Kant’s political and moral philosophy; Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine; ethics of lethal autonomous weapons; ethics of cyber warfare; Global justice and International Institutions; cosmopolitanism

Courses:

INTS 4700 – American Foreign Policy
INTS 4703 – Classics in Security and Strategy
INTS 4709 – Emerging Military Technologies: Policy, Law and Ethics

Visiting Associate Professor, Dr. H.M. Roff Perkins