Members
The Practice of International History in the 21st Century Network aims to bring together anyone interested in the nature and contemporary practice of international history. If you would like to become a member, please email arts-pih21@glasgow.ac.uk with your name, affiliation and a brief note of your research interests.
Steering Committee
Simon Ball (Network Co-Investigator)
Chair of International History & Politics at the University of Leeds. He leads a team of international historians with a wide range of expertise in the history of international relations and security. Simon’s own work has concentrated on five interrelated themes: the international history of the Cold War; the international history of the Second World War; the legacy of the First World War; Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in international politics; and war, security & intelligence in the twentieth century. He is the editor of War in History and sits on the editorial boards of Intelligence & National Security and Diplomacy & Statecraft.
Professor of International History at Jesus College, Oxford. She has published widely on the history of international relations and economic crises. Patricia’s new research project, supported by Tim Sanderson and the Calleva Foundation, uses the history of international and regional organizations to explore changing conceptions of security in the Twentieth Century.
Peter Jackson (Network Principal Investigator)
Chair in Global Security at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on intelligence, security and foreign policy issues from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Peter is co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, the world’s leading academic journal in the field of intelligence and security studies.
Patrick Salmon
Chief historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and visiting Professor of History at the University of Newcastle.
Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a leading specialist on colonial and post-colonial history. Martin is currently working on the causes and consequences of the collapse of French and British colonial empires in Africa and Asia. He is especially interested in patterns of decolonization and the incidence or avoidance of colonial conflict after 1918.
Participants
Charlotte Alston (Northumberland)
A historian of Russian relations (both international and transnational) with the West
Laurence Badel (University of Paris)
An expert on economic diplomacy
Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
Research interests span the fields of international history, IR and imperial history
Thomas Bottelier (KCL)
A doctoral researcher whose work runs the gamut from international history to IR, including military, institutional, imperial and global perspectives
Campbell Craig (Cardiff)
Work crosses the frontiers of IR and history
Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth)
A leading proponent of ‘culturalist’ approaches
Gaynor Johnson (Kent)
A leading scholar of cultures of diplomacy
George Lawson (LSE)
Expert on the relationship between IR and history
Jack S. Levy (Rutgers University)
A leading IR theorist who has written extensively historical and political science approaches
Piers Ludlow (LSE)
Expert in the history of European integration
Joe Maiolo (KCL)
Inter-disciplinary expert in the role of arms races
Mark Mazower (Columbia University)
An historian of empire and internationalism in the twentieth century
Rana Mitter (Oxford)
An expert in transnational social movements and cultural history
Andrew Preston (Cambridge)
A specialist in the role of religion in US policy-making
Jessica Reinisch (UCL)
Leading scholar of the transnational movement for public health
David Reynolds (Cambridge)
Leading international historian, also on executive committee for ‘History and Policy’
J Simon Rofe (SOAS, University of London)
Leading Scholar of International and Transnational histories of Post-War Planning, Diplomatic Practice, Sport and Diplomacy, and 21st Pedagogies
Hamish Scott (Glasgow)
One of the world’s leading historians of early modern international relations
Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
A specialist on the cultural turn, gender and internationalism
Timothy Stoneman (Georgia Tech Lorraine)
A cultural historian of technology, working on the history of global religious broadcasting
Odd Arne Westad (Harvard)
A leading historian of the role of ideas in the ‘Global Cold War’
Andrew Williams (St Andrews)
Inter-disciplinary specialist on world order and co-editor of the International History Review