Rosemary Foot is Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations, an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, a Research Associate at the Oxford China Centre, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research interests cover Asia-Pacific security relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, China and regional and world order, and China-US relations.  Author or editor of some 15 books, her latest book (co-authored with Prof Zhang Xueying) is entitled Bounded Ambition: China as a Multilateral Actor in World Politics (Cambridge Element in Indo-Pacific Security, Cambridge University Press, 2026).