Peter Schröder is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London. He was awarded an M.A. (1995) and PhD (1999) from Philipps University Marburg, Germany before he joined UCL in 2001. He was visiting professor at universities in Seoul, Rome, and Paris and held numerous senior research fellowships, among others at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at University of Erfurt, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University Budapest and the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He has published widely on the history of political thought.

• Peter Schröder: Contexts and Concepts of Pufendorf's Political and Legal International Thought - An Introduction I 1: Nathaniel Boyd: Pufendorf on Confessional Strife and Interstate Relations 2: Ben Holland: De Systematibus Civitatum: Pufendorf on Confederations and Composite Kingdoms 3: Mark Somos, Ioannis Evrigenis: Rhetorical Strategy and Legal Force in Pufendorf's State of Nature 4: Laetitia Ramelet: Pufendorf's Contract Theory of the State and the Distinction Between Citizens and Foreigners 5: Theo Christov: Pufendorf on European Conquest and Non-European Peoples 6: Johan Olsthoorn: "Infinite Right": Proportionality and Liability in Early Modern Ethics of War and Self-Defence II 7: Thomas Behme: Pufendorf's Idea of Natural Equality 8: Peter Schröder: Sovereignty and Interstate Relations 9: Eva Odzuck: Sex and Gender in Pufendorf's International Political Thought: Protecting the Body Politic with Body Politics and with a (Gendered) Politics of Self-Esteem 10: Kari Saastamoinen: Pufendorf on Slavery 11: Heikki Haara: Pufendorf's Revaluation of Hobbes's Friend-Enemy Distinction and Law of War 12: Ere Nokkala: The Reception of Pufendorf's "International Thought" in Eighteenth-Century Germany 13: Camilla Boisen: Pufendorf's Enduring Legacy for International Law