Peter Calvocoressi is a figure of distinction in the field of International relations. A former reader in International Relations at the Univeristy of Sussex, he is the author of numerous books including,
Independent Africa and the World, Fall Out: World War II and the Shaping of Postwar Europe, and Resilient Europe: A Study of the Years 1870-2000. During the war he worked in British Intelligence at Bletchley Park and from 1946-47 attended the Nuremberg Trials.