Dan Plesch is direc­tor of the Cen­tre for Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies and Diplo­ma­cy at SOAS Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don and a human rights activist. He is the author of Amer­i­ca Hitler and the UN co-edi­tor of Wartime Ori­gins and Future of the Unit­ed Nations and has writ­ten and broad­cast exten­sive­ly on prob­lems of inter­na­tion­al peace and security.