The Montague Burton Professorship of International Relations is a named chair at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and the

London School of Economics and Political Science The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

. Created by the endowment of

Montague Burton Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885 – 21 September 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Early life Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas provi ...

in UK universities, the Oxford chair was established in 1930 and is associated with a Fellowship of

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

, Oxford, while the chair at LSE was established in 1936.

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Oxford

* 1930–1944 Sir

Alfred Zimmern Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (26 January 1879–24 November 1957) was an English classical scholar, historian, and political scientist writing on international relations. A British policymaker during World War I and a prominent liberal thinker, Z ...

* 1944–1947 Sir Llewellyn Woodward * 1948–1971 Agnes Headlam-Morley * 1972–1976

Alastair Buchan Alastair Buchan (born 16 October 1955) is a British neurologist and researcher in stroke medicine. His main research interest is how to make neuroprotection a reality in the clinic. From October 2008 until January 2017, he served as the Dean of ...

* 1977–1985

Hedley Bull Hedley Norman Bull (10 June 1932 – 18 May 1985) was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985. He was Montague ...

* 1986–2007 Sir Adam Roberts * 2008–

Andrew Hurrell Andrew Hurrell, FBA was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He was previously a Faculty Fellow in International Relations at Nuffie ...

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at LSE

In 1919,

Ernest Cassel Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, (3 March 1852 – 21 September 1921) was a British merchant banker and capitalist. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17. Life and career Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Province ...

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 The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degr ...

. 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 * 1930–1962 Charles Manning * 1962–1978 Geoffrey Goodwin * 1978–1988

Susan Strange Susan Strange (9 June 1923 – 25 October 1998) was a British scholar who was "almost single-handedly responsible for creating international political economy." Notable publications include ''Sterling and British Policy'' (1971), ''Casino ...

* 1989–1990 R J Vincent * 1991–2004 Christopher J. Hill * 2005–2008 Fred Halliday * 2009–2011

Barry Buzan Barry Gordon Buzan, FBA, FAcSS (born 28 April 1946) is a British political scientist. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin ...

* 2012–2017 Iver B. Neumann

References

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Selected reading

* Alderson, Kai and

, ''

On International Society'' (2003). * Markwell, Don (1986), 'Sir

Revisited: Fifty Years On', ''Review of International Studies''. * Markwell, Donald, 'Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', 2004

* Miller, J.D.B. and R.J. Vincent (eds), ''Order and Violence:

and International Relations'' (1990). * Adam Roberts (scholar), 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) Burton Professorships in international relations Burton Balliol College, Oxford London School of Economics Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at Oxford

List of Montague Burton Professors of International Relations at LSE

See also

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