Neil MacFarlane

AB MA MPhil DPhil

AFFILIATION

International Relations Network

College

St Anne's College

Students

neil.macfarlane@politics.ox.ac.uk

phone

+44(0)1865 274891

Office address

27 Banbury Road

Professor MacFarlane is a specialist on Russian foreign policy and the regional dynamics of the former Soviet Union, with particular reference to that regions 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. From 2005 to 2010 he was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations. From 2008 to 2010 he was Deputy Head of the Social Sciences Division at Oxford. He is currently a member of the Council of the University and serves on numerous University committees.

Beyond Oxford, he was a Faculty Associate of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy from 2004 to 2010. He held a visiting appointment at the College of Europe (Bruges) in 2007-2008, where he taught a course on the contemporary security agenda. In the summer of 2008, he was S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He was a a visiting professor at the Centre for Social Sciences (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) from 2010 to 2013, and has a strong interest in higher education reform in the former Soviet Union.

He is an associate research fellow in the Russia-Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, and he chairs the board of the Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Professor of Politics, and Director of the Centre for International Relations, Queen's University, Canada. Assistant and Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, The University of Virginia, USA.

Research

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

Media

Russian foreign and security policy
Central Asian and Caucasian affairs
International organization and conflict

Teaching

Professor MacFarlane lectures for undergraduate papers in international relations. He also participates in the teaching of the core paper in the MPhil in international relations, as well as delivering an optional paper on the USSR and Russia in World Politics. He continues to supervise doctoral students. He is co-convenor of the International Relations Colloquium.

Publications

Journal Articles

2018

Basit, S., Torjesen, S. and MacFarlane, S. (2018) “China in Pakistan and the wider region: A cautious but effective leader?”, Contemporary South Asia, 27(1), pp. 15–26.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2018.1557109

2016

MacFarlane, S. (2016) “Kto Vinovat? Why is there a crisis in Russia’s relations with the West?”, Contemporary Politics, 22(3), pp. 342–358.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2016.1201315

2015

MacFarlane, S. (2015) “Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder Edited by Nick Megoran and Sevara Sharapova”, Journal of Islamic Studies, 26(2), pp. 238–241.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etu087

2010

Khelashvili, G. and MacFarlane, S. (2010) “The evolution of US policy towards the Southern Caucasus”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, 7(26), pp. 105–124.

2006

MACFARLANE, S. (2006) “The ‘R’ in BRICs: is Russia an emerging power?”, International Affairs, 82(1), pp. 41–57.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2006.00514.x

2005

MacFarlane, S. and Torjesen, S. (2005) “’A wash with weapons’?: The case of small arms in Kyrgyzstan”, Central Asian Survey, 24(1), pp. 5–19.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930500049968

2004

Macfarlane, S. (2004) “A Useful Concept that Risks Losing Its Political Salience”, Security Dialogue, 35(3), pp. 368–369.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/096701060403500325

MacFarlane, S., Thielking, C. and Weiss, T. (2004) “The responsibility to protect: is anyone interested in humanitarian intervention?”, Third World Quarterly, 25(5), pp. 977–992.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/0143659042000232063

Macfarlane, S. (2004) “The United States and Regionalism in Central Asia”, International Affairs, 80(3), pp. 447–461.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00392.x

Macfarlane, S. (2004) “The United States and regionalism in Central Asia”, International Affairs, 80(3).

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00392.x

2002

Welsh, J., Thielking, C. and MacFarlane, S. (2002) “The Responsibility to Protect: Assessing the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty”, International Journal Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 57(4), pp. 489 – 489.

Available at https://doi.org/10.2307/40203689

2001

MacFARLANE, S. (2001) “NATO in Russia’s Relations with the West”, Security Dialogue, 32(3), pp. 281–296.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010601032003002

2000

MacFarlane, S. and Weiss, T. (2000) “Political interest and humanitarian action”, Security Studies, 10(1), pp. 112–142.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09636410008429422

Books

2013

MacFarlane, S. (2013) Intervention in Contemporary World Politics. Taylor & Francis.

Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315000688

2006

MacFarlane, S. and Khong, Y. (2006) Human security and the UN: A critical history, pp. 1–341.

Chapters

2020

MACFARLANE, S. (2020) “Russian Policy Towards Georgia”, in Networks Mentors, as Agents of Change?. University of Toronto Press.

2018

MACFARLANE, S. (2018) “Contested Regional Leadership: Russia and Eurasia”, in Regional Powers and Contested Leadership. Springer.

2004

MacFarlane, S. (2004) “Charter values and the response to terrorism”, in Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11, pp. 27–52.

2003

MacFarlane, S. (2003) “Russian policy in the CIS under putin”, in Russia Between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century, pp. 125–131.

Available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203499276

MacFarlane, S. (2003) “Russian Perspectives on Order and Justice”, in Order and Justice in International Relations. Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 176–206.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/0199251207.003.0008

Conference Papers

2011

Macfarlane, S. (2011) “The Evolution of US Policy towards the Southern Caucasus”, in NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY THREATS AND REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS, pp. 107–124.

Available at https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-684-3-107