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 teaching for thirty-four years at St Antony’s College, Archie Brown became Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s from 1 October 2005. He continues to undertake an active programme of research and writing.
Political Theory, Refugees and Migration, Rights, Justice, and Equality, Democratic theory, Democracy and Democratisation, Ethics of war, Industrial Relations, History, Ideology, International ethics and global justice, Methods, Refugees and migration, Representation, Republicanism, Violence security and conflict, Statebuilding
Iain was born in Edinburgh and went to school there. He came to England for the first time as a student at Oxford where he obtained his MA, MPhil and DPhil. He was a college tutor in an undergraduate college for 13 years, during which the college scaled the heights of PPE. He has worked at the Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Warwick, and Oxford, and has held visiting professorships at Washington & Lee, Stanford, Yale, and the Australian National University.
I am a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College.
For details about my research or teaching, see my webpage.
My research interests include: