I joined DPIR as an Associate Professor in April 2018. Prior to this, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, from October 2015.

Maya Tudors research investigates the origins of stable, democratic and effective states across the developing world, with a particular emphasis upon South Asia. Her recently published book, the Promise of Power (Cambridge University Press, 2013), was based upon her 2010 dissertation, which won the American Political Science Associations Gabriel Almond Prize for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics.

• Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, and Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies (from 1992 to 2001)
• Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Life Fellow, 1992) (from 1979 to 1992)
• Senior Lecturer in War Studies and International Affairs, RMA, Sandhurst (from 1978 to 1979)
• Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1978)
• Undergraduate (1968–71) then postgraduate (from 1972) , Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1968 to 1975)

After reading Modern Languages at Keble College Oxford, I joined the British Diplomatic Service. In the course of the next 38 years, I was posted to Lebanon to study Arabic and then to Paris as a Third Secretary. I was subsequently posted to Canberra where, after working as a First Secretary in the political section, I was transferred to the newly independent Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides) as Political Advisor during a civil war. I returned to Canberra to become Head of the Economic and Commercial Section and Agricultural Advisor.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar in my field of research, using methodologies as diverse as those of political science, legal analysis, international relations, and sociology to research and write on a range of topics, especially at the boundary of politics and law and of politics and ecology. I specialise in transnational public policy makers and their interactions with domestic institutions (viz., courts and parliaments) and supranational regimes, especially the Council of Europe and the EU.