Kenneth Roth is the former executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing especially on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice, the major powers’ foreign policies, the work of the United Nations, and the global contest between democracy and autocracy. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other major publications. He spends his time between New York and Geneva.