Andrea Ruggeri is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford.

Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

He is not able to act as supervisor for new graduate students.

I teach European Politics and Society at the University of Oxford. My main research interests are in the field of European Integration and Disintegration, Political Geography, Comparative Politics and Democracy, Political Ideologies (especially liberalism), Media and Communication.

Research

My research interests include:

Democracy and Democratic Theory, Political thought and ideologies, Institutions and organisations, Media, public sphere and public life, Democracy and Democratisation, History, Power

After writing my doctorate in 1991 on Soviet political and economic institutions (published as Industrial Power and the Soviet State by Oxford University Press in 1993 - Ed A. Hewett Prizewinner), I have spent the last 20 years studying post-Communist politics and society via mass surveys conducted repeatedly in 13 post-Communist countries.

Rosemary Foot is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations. She is also an associate of the China Centre, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College. Previously she was Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia at St Antony's College, Oxford University from 1990-2014. She was Senior Tutor, 2003-2005, and Acting Warden of the College from December 2011 to September 2012.

Research

Research interests

Political Theory, Government, Groups, Identities and Social Movements, Political thought and ideologies, History, Ideology, Institutions and organisations, Liberalism, Nationalism, Public Sphere, Republicanism, Socialism, States

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. She arrived in Oxford from the University of Toronto in 2015.

In 2021, Prof Bejan was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics, which celebrates early career researchers who have already achieved international recognition and have exceptional future promise. 

Dr Harry Verhoeven is an Associate Member of the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford and the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN). He is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. He is the author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan. The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (Cambridge University Press) and Why Comrades Go To War.