Mervyn Frost
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Mervyn Frost FKC (born 1947) is a South African and British political scientist.
Frost was born and brought up in Johannesburg, he studied at Highlands North Boys High School, the Stellenbosch University (BA, MA, DPhil) and as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford (BPhil).
Career
Initially Frost taught at the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University and was then appointed to the Chair of Political Science at the University of Natal (South Africa). In 1996 he moved to England where he was appointed Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent in Canterbury.
In 2003 he moved to London to his present position as Professor of International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. From 2007 to 2013 he was Head of the Department of War Studies, KCL (DWS).[1]
He is a past President of the South African Association of Political Studies and former editor of Politikon and currently serves on the editorial board of several journals including Review of International Studies; South African Journal of International Affairs; Politics and Ethics Review; Journal of International Political Theory; International Political Sociology, Politics and Governance; The Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, Defence Strategic Communications.
Frost was on the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association (ISA) and until 2008 Chairman of the International Ethics Section of the ISA.[2] He was appointed a Fellow of King's College London in 2018.[3]
