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:
Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations and an Official Fellow of Linacre College. His principal research interests are concerned with international organisations and conflict management, with a particular focus on peacekeeping and 'post-conflict' peace- and state-building. He is the author and editor of several books, among them Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (Oxford University Press, 1996); A New Trusteeship?
