Life After DPIR - Dr Robert Jackson
Alumni 1962, Pembroke College
Summary
Dr Robert Jackson, a Canadian, is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Government at the University of Redlands in California. He is a Senior Associate at St Antony’s College and Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford.
He also holds the positions of Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Life Member/Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and Centre of International Studies University of Cambridge, England. He has recently been appointed as an associate Fellow in International Security at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London.
As a DPhil student at Pembroke College his sponsor was Pembroke Master R. B. McCallum (creator of the term psephology), his moral tutor Zbigniew Peczynski and his supervisor Sir David Butler. He wrote his thesis on British political parties.
After receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford, he taught courses in Canadian, comparative and International Relations at Carleton and McGill Universities for 35 years. He continues to teach international relations and advanced seminars on Security and Crises at both Redlands and Carleton Universities.
Dr Jackson has served as a Senior Policy Advisor to two former Canadian Prime Ministers, a Deputy Prime Minister, worked in the Privy Council Office (Cabinet Office) and has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as well as many other government agencies.
Professor Jackson is the author and co-author of 36 books (including issues) and some 50 articles in the fields of comparative, Canadian, and international politics. His latest book is Temptations of Power: the United States in Global Politics Since 9/11. Cambridge University Press will publish his newest book on international politics, Global Politics in the 21st Century, this year.
He is currently working on several projects: US and Europe in Afghanistan (where he serves on the Centre for Afghanistan Peace Studies); North American Security Policy (funded by ACSUS); Executive-Legislative Relations in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom; NATO and Peacekeeping. He is undertaking a major study of the complexities of Global Politics and the Changing Nature of Security, especially the importance of Children and Armed Conflict.
