Professor Louise Fawcett

Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. She works on comparative regionalism and the international relations of the Global South, particularly the Middle East.

Publications include Iran and the Cold War (2009); Regionalism in World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell, 1995); The Third World Beyond the Cold War (2000, with Yezid Sayigh); Regionalism and Governance in the Americas (2005, with Monica Serrano); Interregionalism and the European Union (2015, with Mario Telò and Frederik Ponjaert); International Relations of the Middle East, (6th edn 2023).

Professor Fawcett is on the editorial board of International Affairs and the Academic Advisory Board of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). 

In 2020 she was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Belgique) as Associate Member. In 2025 she joined the Tokyo-based United Nations University Council.