Post: Head of Department, Lester B Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow, St Anne’s College

Appointed: 1996

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Introduction:

Professor MacFarlane is a specialist on the regional dynamics of the former Soviet Union, with particular reference to that region's southern tier. He is also interested in the impact of international organisations in the management and resolution of civil conflicts and also in the political and economic transitions of former communist states.

After a career in the United States and in Canada, he moved to Oxford in 1996 as the first Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations. 

He held a visiting appointment at the College of Europe (Bruges) in 2007-2008, where he taught a course on the contemporary security agenda. He is an international fellow at Tbilisi State University in Georgia, and has a strong interest in higher education reform in the former Soviet Union. Reflecting his interest in mid-career training for military officers and diplomats, he is also a faculty associate at the Geneva Centre for Security. In the summer of 2008, he is S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological Unioversity (Singapore).

 

Research Activities and Interests:

International Organizations and Security, Human Security, The Soviet Union/CIS in International Relations

 

Research News

• Aug 2008, Neil MacFarlane appointed S. Rajaratnam Visiting Professor, Read more


• Sep 2007, Neil MacFarlane appointed visiting professor in International Relations at the College of Europe , Read more


• Aug 2007, Professor Neil MacFarlane appointed to ESRC Research Grants Board, Read more

Teaching Responsibilities:

As Head of Department, Professor MacFarlane has been relieved of teaching responsibilities from 2005 to 2010. He continues to supervise doctoral students and will be contributing to core seminars for the IR M.Phil. in 2008-2009.

Previous Posts Held:

Assistant and associate professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, The University of Virginia

Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada  

Media Expertise:

Russian foreign and security policy

Central Asian and Caucasian affairs

International organization and conflict

 

Publications:

"Intervention in Contemporary World Politics", Adelphi Paper 350, IISS, 2002.

(with Rosemary Foot and Michael Mastanduno) US Hegemony and International Organization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

"The United States and Regionalism in Central Asia", International Affairs, 80(3), 2004, pp. 447-462.

"Is Russia an Emerging Power?' International Affairs, 82(1), 2006, pp. 41-58.

(with Yuen Foong Khong) Human Security and the UN: A critical History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).