Cees Heere is a Lecturer in the History of International Relations at the Department of History and Art History. He specialises in the history of European imperial expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the role of empire in international order. Before joining the Department, he obtained his PhD at the London School of Economics and worked at Leiden University. His first book, Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914, came out with Oxford University Press in 2019. He is currently working on a transimperial history of the Dutch colonial project in Indonesia.