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Robert Jackson

Picture of Robert Jackson 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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