Brent J. Steele is the Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. He is the author of Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics: The Scars of Violence (Routledge, 2013); Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2010); and Ontological Security in International Relations: Self-Identity and the IR State (Routledge, 2008). He is also the co-editor of three books, most recently Reflexivity and International Relations (Routledge, forthcoming 2015), and has published articles in a number of international studies journals. He is currently researching restraint in global politics.