Montague Burton Professor of International Relations

Not to be confused with Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations.

The Montague Burton Professorship of International Relations is a named chair at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and a former chair at the University of Edinburgh. Created by the endowment of Montague Burton in UK universities,[1] the Oxford chair was established in 1930 and is associated with a Fellowship of Balliol College, Oxford, while the chair at LSE was established in 1936.

Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Oxford

• 1930–1944 Sir Alfred Zimmern
• 1944–1947 Sir Llewellyn Woodward
• 1948–1971 Agnes Headlam-Morley[2]
• 1972–1976 Alastair Buchan[3][4]
• 1977–1985 Hedley Bull[5]
• 1986–2007 Sir Adam Roberts[6]
• 2008–2021 Andrew Hurrell[7]
• 2022- Neta Crawford[8]

Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at LSE

In 1919, Ernest Cassel 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.[9] 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[10]
• 1930–1962 Charles Manning[11]
• 1962–1978 Geoffrey Goodwin[12]
• 1978–1988 Susan Strange
• 1989–1990 R J Vincent[13]
• 1991–2004 Christopher J. Hill
• 2005–2008 Fred Halliday
• 2009–2011 Barry Buzan
• 2012–2017 Iver B. Neumann[14]

Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Edinburgh

• 1948–1951 James Leslie Brierly[15]
• 1951–1957 Carlile Aylmer Macartney[16]
• 1958–1961 Elizabeth Wiskemann[17]
• 1961–1967 Peter Ritchie Calder, Lord Ritchie-Calder[18][19]

References

1. For a short history of the Oxford chair, see Adam Roberts, 'Professing International Relations at Oxford', Oxford Magazine, Oxford, Noughth Week, Hilary Term 2008, pp. 10-12.
2. Adam Roberts, ‘Headlam-Morley, Agnes (1902–1986)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004.
3. Michael Howard, ‘Buchan, Alastair Francis (1918–1976)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004.
4. "Balliol College News". March 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
5. "Remembering Hedley". Retrieved 4 April 2009.
6. "Professor Sir Adam Roberts KCMG FBA". The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
7. "Professor Andrew Hurrell MA MPhil DPhil". The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
8. "New Montague Burton Professor of International Relations". Balliol College. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
9. Pat Thane, ‘Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (1852–1921)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2008 accessed 5 May 2009
10. David Howell, ‘Baker, Philip John Noel-, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008 accessed 5 May 2009
11. Alan James, ‘Manning, Charles Anthony Woodward (1894–1978)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 May 2009
12. Lyon, Peter (9 May 1995). "OBITUARY: Professor Geoffrey Goodwin". The Independent. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
13. Griffiths, Martin (1999). Fifty key thinkers in international relations. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16228-9.
14. "The Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at LSE and its Occupants: A Brief History". LSE Department of International Relations. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
15. "Brierly, James Leslie (1881–1955), international lawyer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32069. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
16. Péter, László (June 1980). "Carlile Aylmer Macartney, 1895-1978". Slavic Review. 39 (2): 362–363. doi:10.1017/S003767790009776X. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
17. Field, Geoffrey (2022). Elizabeth Wiskemann: Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–206. ISBN 9780191966927. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
18. "Ritchie-Calder Dead; British Science Writer". New York Times. 3 February 1982. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
19. "Peter Ritchie Calder – propaganda director". Propaganda – A Weapon of War. National Library of Scotland. 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2023.

Selected reading

• Alderson, Kai and Andrew Hurrell, Hedley Bull On International Society (2003).
• Markwell, Don (1986), 'Sir Alfred Zimmern Revisited: Fifty Years On', Review of International Studies.
• Markwell, Donald, 'Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. [1]
• Miller, J.D.B. and R.J. Vincent (eds), Order and Violence: Hedley Bull and International Relations (1990).
• Adam Roberts, 'Professing International Relations at Oxford', Oxford Magazine, Oxford, Noughth Week, Hilary Term 2008, pp. 10–12.
• Vigezzi, Brunello, The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics (2005)