Dr Rita Floyd

Dr Rita Floyd (PhD, 2007 Warwick) is Professor of International Security and Ethics at the University of Birmingham. 

Since September 2024 she is also Co-Editor-in-Chief International Affairs at Chatham House.

She was previously a Birmingham Fellow in Conflict and Security at UoB and before then British Academy Post-doctoral and ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow (both at The University of Warwick). 

She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on security theory, environmental security and ethics and security including:

“Uncontested terrain? Reflections on the perception of the military in climate security” in Contemporary Security Policy, September 2025 co-authored with Dr. Chad Michael Briggs.

The Duty to secure: From just to mandatory securitization (Cambridge University Press, February 2024)

The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Security and the Environment: Securitisation Theory and US Environmental Security Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

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