Dr Donette Murray is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. A Fellow of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) and a former political advisor, she holds a doctorate from the University of Ulster and an LLM in International Law from the University of Maastricht. The author of four books on US foreign policy, she has also published in the Hague Yearbook of International Law on states' use of force in self-defence against non-state actors.