Neil MacFARLANE

 

Position: Associate Fellow; Head of Department, Department of Politics and International Relations; Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford University

Background:

Neil MacFarlane is Head of Department, Department of Politics and International Relations; Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford University.

A native of Montréal, he is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, where he held a Rhodes Scholarship. Prior to taking up his current position, he was associate professor of government and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Virginia and professor of political studies and director of the Centre for International Relations at Queen's University, Canada.

He has held research posts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Harvard University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of California (Berkeley).

He has written extensively on nationalism and national liberation, intervention, humanitarian action and its relationship to peacekeeping, the responses of states and international organizations to civil conflicts, and on Russian and American foreign and security policy. In 2002, he authored an Adelphi Paper for the International Institute for Strategic Studies on intervention in contemporary world politics. With Yuen Foong Khong, he recently completed a critical history of the concept of human security for the United Nations Intellectual History Project. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including World Politics, International Security, Survival, Security Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Affairs, Etudes Internationales, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Security Dialogue, The International Journal, and Development and Security.

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the British International Studies Associate, and is an associate of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (where, from 2001 to 2004, he directed the course on new issues in security).

In September 2005, he began a three year term as head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford.