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Robert Jackson
Department of International Relations
and Political Science
154 Bay State Road
Room 303
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-0191
(617) 358-9290 fax
rjackson@bu.edu |
Professor of International Relations and Political Science. (BA and MA, University of British Columbia; PhD, University
of California at Berkeley).
Specialization: International Ethics, International Law, Post-Colonial Africa.
Professor Jackson specializes in international ethics, international
law, and the history of international thought. He has been a Visiting
Fellow at Jesus College (Oxford University), The London School of
Economics, the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), and the
University of California at Berkeley. He has lectured at universities
in North America, Europe and Africa and has served on university
and government consultancies in Britain, Canada and Denmark. He
also serves on the editorial boards of Political Studies, International
Relations, European Journal of International Relations, and Humanistic
Perspectives on International Relations. He has won major Canada
Council and Killam Foundation of Canada research prizes and fellowships.
Professor Jackson is an author or editor of ten books, including Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations (2005)
The Global Covenant (2000), Sovereignty at the Millennium (1999),
Quasi-States (1990), and Personal Rule in Black Africa (1982). He
has co-authored a widely adopted textbook: Introduction to International
Relations: Theories and Approaches (2nd ed 2003). He has published
in leading international journals, including World Politics, International
Organization, Political Studies, Review of International Studies,
Millennium, and Diplomacy & Statecraft.
Professor Jackson teaches the following courses:
Making Sense of
the World: The Conceptual Foundations of International Relations
(IR 360/PO 372)
Ethics and International
Relations (IR 574)
International State Systems (IR
712)
International
Relations for Practitioners (IR 717)
Approaches to the Study of International Relations (PO 771)
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