Post: Professor of Politics, Warden of New College

Appointed: 1969

College: New College

Office Details: New College

Phone No: (01865) 279555 -  Contact electronically

Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ajryan

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Research Activities and Interests:

 

The history of political theory; contemporary political philosophy; the politics of education; American political theory

Teaching Responsibilities:

 

M.Phil: Philosophy of the Social Sciences; History of Political Theory; Political Theory

 

PPE: Theory of Politics; Marxism; Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Previous Posts Held:

 

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Keele, 1963-6

Lecturer in Government, University of Essex, 1966-9

Lecturer then Reader in Politics, University of Oxford, 1969-88

Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1988-96

Media Expertise:

 

Higher education in the UK and US, including funding and finance; human rights and human rights legislation; ethical issues in public policy, eg in the field of GM crops, and bioethics more generally.

Publications:

 

See http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ajryan/mycv

"Does the Death Penalty Violate Human Rights?" Cleveland State Law Review, vol 49, no 1, 2002, pp 1-15

 'Problems and Methods in Political Science: Rational Explanation and Its Limits' in Ian Shapiro, ed., Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics, CUP, NY 2004., pp 186-200

'Liberal Imperialism,' in Robert Fatton Jr and R.K, Ramazani, eds, The Future of Liberal Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 31-48