The Montague Burton Professorship of International Relations is a named chair at the

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and the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. Created by the endowment of Montague Burton in UK universities, the Oxford chair was established in 1930 and is associated with a Fellowship of

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, Oxford, while the chair at LSE was established in 1936.

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Oxford

* 1930–1944 Sir

Alfred Zimmern Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (26 January 1879–24 November 1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. A British policymaker during World War I and a prominent liberal thinker, Z ...

* 1944–1947 Sir

Llewellyn Woodward Sir Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, FBA (1890–1971) was a British historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and after the First World War became a lecturer in Modern History and fellow of All Souls C ...

* 1948–1971

Agnes Headlam-Morley Agnes Headlam-Morley (10 December 1902 – 21 February 1986) was a British historian and academic. From 1948 to 1971, she was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Upon her appointment in October 1948, ...

* 1972–1976

Alastair Buchan Alastair Buchan (born 16 October 1955) is a British neurologist and researcher in stroke medicine. His main research interest is how to make neuroprotection a reality in the clinic. From October 2008 until January 2017, he served as the Dean of ...

* 1977–1985

Hedley Bull Hedley Norman Bull (10 June 1932 – 18 May 1985) was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985. He was Montague ...

* 1986–2007

Sir Adam Roberts Sir Adam Roberts (born 29 August 1940) is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, a senior research fellow in Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations, and an emeritus fellow of Bal ...

* 2008–

Andrew Hurrell Andrew Hurrell, FBA was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He was previously a Faculty Fellow in International Relations at Nuffie ...

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at LSE

In 1919,

Ernest Cassel Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, (3 March 1852 – 21 September 1921) was a British merchant banker and capitalist. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17. Life and career Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Province ...

endowed a £500,000 educational fund which was in part used to establish the ''Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of International Relations'' at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. During Manning's tenure in 1936, the chair was re-endowed and renamed the ''Montague Burton Professorship of International Relations''. * 1924–1929

Philip Noel-Baker Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a ...

* 1930–1962 Charles Manning * 1962–1978 Geoffrey Goodwin * 1978–1988 Susan Strange * 1989–1990

R J Vincent Raymond John Vincent (February 28, 1943 – November 2, 1990), known as R J Vincent or John Vincent, was a scholar of the English school of international relations theory. He was a graduate of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the ...

* 1991–2004 Christopher J. Hill * 2005–2008

Fred Halliday Simon Frederick Peter Halliday (22 February 1946 – 26 April 2010) was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula. Biogra ...

* 2009–2011

Barry Buzan Barry Gordon Buzan, FBA, FAcSS (born 28 April 1946) is a British political scientist. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin ...

* 2012–2017 Iver B. Neumann

References

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Selected reading

* Alderson, Kai and

, ''

On International Society'' (2003). * Markwell, Don (1986), 'Sir

Revisited: Fifty Years On', ''Review of International Studies''. * Markwell, Donald, 'Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', 2004

* Miller, J.D.B. and R.J. Vincent (eds), ''Order and Violence:

and International Relations'' (1990). * Adam Roberts (scholar), Adam Roberts, 'Professing International Relations at Oxford', ''

Oxford Magazine ''The Oxford Magazine'' is a review magazine and newspaper published in Oxford, England.''The Oxford Magazi ...

'', Oxford, Noughth Week, Hilary Term 2008, pp. 10–12. * Vigezzi, Brunello, ''The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics'' (2005) Burton Professorships in international relations Burton Balliol College, Oxford London School of Economics Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Oxford

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at LSE

See also

References

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