Prof Ian Bellany

Career: asst princ FCO 1965-68, res fell ANU 1968-70; Lancaster Univ: lectr in politics 1970-74, sr lectr 1974-79, prof of politics 1979-2006, dir of the Centre for the Study of Arms Control and Int Security 1979-90, emeritus prof 2006-; founding ed Arms Control; external examiner in: Int Rels LSE 1985-88 and 1999-2002, Int Studies Univ of Birmingham 1989-92, Int Rels Univ of Aberdeen 1996-99; First Prize Trench Gascoigne Essay 2002, Leverhulme res fell 2003-04

Books and Publications: Australia in the Nuclear Age (1972), Anti-Ballistic Missile Defence in the 1980s (ed 1983), The Verification of Arms Control Agreements (ed 1983), The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (ed 1985), New Conventional Weapons and Western Defence (ed 1987), A Basis for Arms Control (1991), Reviewing Britain's Defence (1994), The Environment in World Politics (1997), Curbing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (2005), Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (ed, 2007)