Professor James Mayall (in memoriam)

His long-standing attachment to, and great affection for, Sidney spanned more than twenty years, during which generations of undergraduates benefited from his personal warmth and his wisdom on politics and international relations. He will be greatly missed.

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After a period as a National Service Officer in West Africa and six years in the British Civil Service, including a period in the British High Commission in New Delhi, James Mayall taught International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1966 and 1998. From 1991-94 he was Convenor of the Department of International Relations. In June 1997, he was appointed as the first Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations in the University of Cambridge. He became Director of the Centre of International Studies in January 1999, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001. Between  2007-13 he was academic advisor to the Royal College of Defenc e Studies in London.

During his career, James Mayall has written and published widely on the international relations of African states, North-South relations, international theory and the impact of nationalism on international relations. His Nationalism and International Society (Cambridge University Press,1990) won the Political Studies Association's prize for the best monograph of the year. Over the past decade his research and writing has concentrated on the resurgence of ethnic, national, and religious conflicts since the end of the Cold War and the international reaction to them. In 1996 he edited and contributed to The New Interventionism 1991-1994: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia and Somalia (Cambridge University Press), and in 2000 published World Politics: Progress and its Limits (Polity Press). His latest book, co-edited with Krishnan Srinivasan and Sanjay Pulipaka, is Values and Foreign Policy, Investigating Ideals and Interests (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).