Professor Rosemary Foot FBA

International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance

Elected 1996

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1996
Sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Website: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/rosemary-foot
https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-rosemary-foot/

Research interests broadly cover the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights diplomacy, and Asian regional institutions, as well as the impact of China’s resurgence on global and regional order. Current research projects include a study of China’s multilateral diplomacy, especially in relation to the United Nations and Beijing’s ability to effect a change in UN norms and policies, as well as a study of China’s place in the construction of global order since 1945.

Current post

University of Oxford Emeritus Professor, Department of Political and International Relations

St Antony’s College Emeritus Fellow

University of Oxford’s China Centre Research Associate

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of International Relations

1997 - 2014

St Antony's College, University of Oxford Professor and John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia

1990 - 2014

School for Global Studies, University of Sussex Lecturer in International Relations

1978 - 1990

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Publications

China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image

Rosemary Foot - Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia

Edited by Saadia Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press

China Across the Divide: the Domestic and Global in Politics and Society

Edited by Rosemary Foot - Published in 2013 by Oxford University Press

China, the United States and Global Order

Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press

Does China Matter? A Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerald Segal

Edited By Barry Buzan, Rosemary Foot - Published in 2004 by Routledge

Order and Justice in International Relations

Edited by Rosemary Foot, John Gaddis, and Andrew Hurrell - Published in 2003 by Oxford University Press

US Hegemony and International Organizations

Edited by Rosemary Foot, S. Neil MacFarlane, and Michael Mastanduno - Published in 2003 by Oxford University Press

Rights Beyond Borders: the Global Community and the Struggle Over Human Rights in China

Rosemary Foot - Published in 2000 by Oxford University Press

The Practice of Power: US Relations with China since 1949

Rosemary Foot - Published in 1995 by Oxford University Press

A Substitute for Victory: the Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks

Rosemary Foot - Published in 1990 by Cornell University Press

The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean conflict, 1950-1953

Rosemary Foot - Published in 1985 by Cornell University Press

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