Professor James Mayall FBA

Political Studies International Relations East Africa Somalia South Asia India South-East Asia Cambodia
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2001
Year of birth
1937
Year of death
2025
Subjects
Politics

Last post

Academic Advisor, Royal College of Defence Studies, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Past appointments

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge Academic Advisor, Royal College of Defence Studies, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

2008 - 2013

University of Cambridge Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations

1998 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Lecturer, Professor of International Relations

1966 - 1998

Publications

The Contemporary Commonwealth:An Assessment (ed.) 2010

The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the making of liberal states (ed. with Ricardo Soeres de Oliveira) 2011

Africa: the Cold War and after 1971

Nationalism and international society 1991

World politics: progress and its limits 2000

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Theories of the policy process, with special reference to the United Kingdom; behavioural interventions (nudges) seeking to involve citizens more in public policy; and randomized controlled trials

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Professor Miranda Fricker FBA

Epistemic injustice; their relation to certain political ideas; epistemic vices and virtues; social interpretation; moral relativism; moral emotions and attitudes

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Professor Joni Lovenduski FBA

The impacts of gender on politics: the political representation of women, the selection of candidates for elected office, the roles of women in political parties and comparative European equality policies.

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