Personal Info

E-mail: neil.macfarlane(at)politics.ox.ac.uk

Web Link: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk

Special responsibilities: Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Academic Background:
AB, Dartmouth College; MA, MPhil, DPhil, Oxford; Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia; Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Virginia; Professor, Queen’s University.

Teaching Interests:
Graduate:
• International relations theory
• Security studies
• Diplomatic history

Research Interests:
• International relations of the former Soviet Union
• International security
• International organizations

Selected Publications:

S. Neil MacFarlane, Intervention in Contemporary World Politics, Adelphi Paper No. 350 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2002).

S. Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong, The UN and Human Security: A Critical History, 2006

S. Neil MacFarlane, ‘Is Russia an Emerging Power?’, International Affairs (January 2006)

S. Neil MacFarlane, Chapter in Sadako Ogata and Asahiko Hanzawa (eds.), Guroubalu Govanansu no Rekishiteki Henyo; Kokuren to Kokusai Seijishi [Global Governance in Historical Perspectives; The United Nations and International History], 2007