Scott Watson is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His primary areas of research are international relations theory, international security, global governance of migration, governance of humanitarian assistance and disaster response, and the rise of anti-globalist conspiracy theories. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (2006) and is the author of International Order and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge, 2020) and The Securitisation of Humanitarian Migration (Routledge, 2009). He has published articles in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, International Migration, Nations and Nationalism, and International Relations, among others.