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.
