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Louise Fawcett

BA, MPhil, DPhil

Professor of International Relations, DPIR
Fellow, St Catherine's College
A Director of the Oxford Martin School ‘Changing Global Orders’ programme
Senior Researcher
MPhil Course Director
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Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. She works on comparative regionalism and the international relations of developing countries, particularly the Middle East.

Publications include Iran and the Cold War (2009); Regionalism in World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell, 1995); The Third World Beyond the Cold War (2000, with Yezid Sayigh); Regionalism and Governance in the Americas (2005, with Monica Serrano); Interregionalism and the European Union (2015, with Mario Telò and Frederik Ponjaert); International Relations of the Middle East, (6th edn 2023).

Professor Fawcett is on the editorial board of International Affairs, the International Advisory Board of the UN University Centre for Regional Integration Studies, and the Academic Advisory Board of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She is a director of the Oxford Martin Programme ‘Changing Global Order’.

In 2020 she was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Belgique) as Associate Member.

Professional Activities

Editorial Board, International Affairs

International Advisory Board: UN University Centre for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)

International Advisory Board, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Member of Council, Wycombe Abbey School

Member of Governing Body and Chair of Education Committee, St Edward's School

Professional Responsibilities

Fellow, St Catherine's College

Teaching

I contribute to the teaching of the MPhil and DPhil programmes in International Relations and have supervised many student theses on a variety of International Relations, International History and Middle East-based subjects. I occasionally contributed to undergraduate teaching and lectures in International Relations.

Louise Fawcett

Publications

Journal Articles

2023

Fawcett, L. (2023) “The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture”, International Affairs, 99(2), pp. 567–585.

2022

Fawcett, L. and Jagtiani, S. (2022) “Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran”, International Politics, 61(1), pp. 215–238.
Fawcett, L. and Payne, A. (2022) “Stuck on a hostile path? US policy towards Iran since the revolution”, Contemporary Politics, 29(1), pp. 1–21.

2021

Fawcett, L. (2021) “Middle East and COVID-19: Time for collective action”, Globalisation and Health, 17(1).

2018

Fawcett, L. (2018) “Virtual issue: The Middle East in International Affairs”, International Affairs, 98(3), pp. e20 - e30.
Fawcett, L. (2018) “Nuevos actores regionales y el cambiante equilibrio de poder en Oriente Medio (New regional actors and the changing balance of power in the Middle East)”, Revista AWRAQ, 15, pp. 7–20.

2017

Fawcett, L. (2017) “MENA and the EU: contrasting approaches to region, power and order in a shared neighbourhood”, Contemporary Politics, 24(1), pp. 65–80.
Fawcett, L. (2017) “States and sovereignty in the Middle East: myths and realities”, International Affairs, 93(4), pp. 789–807.
Fawcett, L. (2017) “The Middle East in the International System. Improving Understand and breaking down the International Relations/Area Studies Divide”, Durham Middle East Papers, 78.

2015

Fawcett, L. (2015) “Iran and the regionalisation of insecurity”, International Politics [Preprint].

2013

FAWCETT, L. (2013) “The Iraq War ten years on: assessing the fallout”, International Affairs, 89(2), pp. 325–343.

2012

Fawcett, L. (2012) “Between West and non-West: Latin American Contributions to International Thought”, International History Review, 34, p. 1.

2010

Fawcett, L. and Gandois, H. (2010) “Regionalism in Africa and the Middle East: Implications for EU Studies”, European Integration, 32(6), pp. 617–636.

2008

Fawcett, L. (2008) “Neither Traditional nor Modern: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States”, Journal of Modern European History, 6(1), pp. 116–136.

Books

2019

FAWCETT, L. (2019) International Relations of the Middle East fifth edition 2019. Edited by L. FAWCETT. Oxford University Press.

2016

Telò, M., Fawcett, L. and Ponjaert, F. (2016) Interregionalism and the European Union A Post-Revisionist Approach to Europe’s Place in a Changing World. Routledge.
Fawcett, L. (2016) International Relations of the Middle East. Oxford University Press.

Chapters

2020

FAWCETT, L. (2020) “Regionalism in the Middle East and North Africa”, in R. Hinnebusch and Y. Ghani (eds.) The Routledge Handbook to the Middle East and North African State and States System. Routledge, pp. 297–311.

2018

FAWCETT, L. (2018) “Regional organisations”, in P. Williams and M. McDonald (eds.) Security Studies: An Introduction. Routledge.

2017

FAWCETT, L. (2017) “From the Great War to the Second World War”, in R. Devetak, J. George, and S. Percy (eds.) An Introduction to International Relations. Cambridge University Press.

2016

Fawcett, L. (2016) “Regions and regionalism”, in M. Beeson and N. Bisley (eds.) Issues in 21st Century World Politics. Red Globe Press, pp. 97–112.
Fawcett, L. (2016) “Region building debates in a global context”, in D. Levine and D. Nagar (eds.) Region-Building in Africa: Political and Economic Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 21–36.

2015

FAWCETT, L. (2015) “Regionalism by emulation. Considerations across time and space”, in M. Telo, F. Ponjaert, and L. FAWCETT (eds.) Interregionalism and the European Union. Ashgate.
FAWCETT, L. (2015) “Drivers of regional integration: Historical and comparative perspectives”, in Drivers of Integration and Regionalism in Europe and Asia Comparative perspectives. Routledge.
FAWCETT, L. (2015) “Regionalism: From concept to contemporary practice”, in M. Aznar and M. Footer (eds.) Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law IV. Bloomsbury, Hart Publishing.

2011

Fawcett, L. (2011) “The Middle East after Empire: Sovereignty and Institutions”, in S. Cummings and R. Hinnebusch (eds.) Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 157–177.
Fawcett, L. (2011) “Regional leadership? Understanding Power and transformation in the Middle East”, in N. Godehardt and D. Nabers (eds.) Regional Powers and Regional Orders. Routledge, pp. 155–172.
Fawcett, L. (no date) “Early internationalists: Bello, Calvo and Álvarez and beyond”, in A. Chehtman, S. Puig, and A. Huneeus (eds.) Latin American International Law. Oxford University Press.

Co-investigated research