John MacMillan
Senior Lecturer
Politics and History
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- DPhil International Relations (Oxford)
- BA International Relations (Keele)
Personal Biography
Like many I did not develop an interest in the academic subject of International Relations until after I left school. The subject seemed to combine the more interesting parts of my A level subjects, Politics, Economics and Sociology and offered the prospect of better understanding what was happening in the wider world. Since then it is clear that the international or global dimension has become ever more significant. I joined Brunel (from Keele) in 2004 and established a suite of new MA programmes in International Relations.Research
Research Overview
My abiding area of interest is the paradox between liberal or democratic state pacificism on the one hand and the record of imperialism and violence on the other. I am interested in this both historically and in the present day, theoretically and empirically. Besides this I am presently working on the concept and practice of ‘intervention’ in world politics.
Current Projects
Completing a paper on critical materialism and the Democratic Peace
Co-editing a special issue of the Review of International Studies on intervention, entitled ‘The Will to Order: Intervention in the Modern World’
Writing a paper on the practice of intervention in relation to the ‘opening up’ of the world economy in the early nineteenth century
Recently Completed Projects
ESRC seminar series
Rethinking intervention
£17,922.70
October 2009 - January 2011
John MacMillan (PI)
PhD Supervision
Yu Wang (second supervisor)
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Globalisation and Governance
Postgraduate Programmes
Programme convenor
- MA International Relations
Module convenor
- Evolution of International Relations
- War in Politics: Democracy, War and Intervention
Administration
- Convener of PhD programme
- Convener of MA International Relations
External Activity
- Member of British International Studies Association
- Associate of Centre for Advanced International Theory (Sussex)
- External examiner for MSc International Relations, International Theory (LSE)
- Former Research Fellow at the Nobel Institute, Oslo
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Macmillan, J., 'Hollow Promises?' Critical materialism and the contradictions of the Democratic Peace, International Theory 4 (3) : 331- 366
(2012) Macmillan, J., Myths and lessons of liberal intervention: The British campaign for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil, Global Responsibility to Protect 4 (1) : 92- 117 Download publication
(2004) Macmillan, J., Liberalism and the democratic peace, Review of International Studies 30 (2) : 179- 200
(2003) Macmillan, J., Beyond the separate democratic peace, Journal of Peace Research 40 (2) : 233- 243
