William Clapton is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UNSW Sydney. His research interests include risk and hierarchy in international relations; the foreign and defence policies of Australia, India and the United States; and the intersections between popular culture and world politics. He is the author of Risk and Hierarchy in International Society: Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold War Era, recently published with Palgrave Macmillan, and has published articles on risk and hierarchy in International Politics, International Relations and Australian Journal of International Affairs.