James Mayall
Biographic Data
| ID | 960264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mayall |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayall |
| SIGNATURE | MAYALL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Empires of the Mind: International Society and the Search for a New Order
This book examines three major attempts since World War I to reform international order and challenge empire, hierarchy, and real politik. It covers the League of Nations' promotion of democracy and self-determination, the United Nations' addition of economic governance, and post-1991 democratization efforts. The work investigates why these reforms failed and explores the persistent hold of imperial concepts over human imagination and also includ…
Introduction: Empires of the Mind
Some Reflections on Brexit and its Aftermath
In the period before the Malta Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November 2015 I wrote an opinion piece in this journal arguing that it was in both Britain’s interest and that of the Comm
The Commonwealth, the EU and the British General Election
International Society, State Sovereignty, and National Self-Determination
The idea of an international society of sovereign states predates the era of nationalism and the elevation of the principle of the self-determination of people to its present status as an inalienable human right (Articles 1.2 and 55 of the UN Charter). The nationalization of the sovereignty principle immediately raised the question, however, of which groups could legitimately claim the right to self-determination and state recognition? Neither in…
Sri Lanka—A Wicked Problem for the Commonwealth
Non-Western International Relations Theory
This is an important book, which is long overdue. As the centre of gravity in world politics moves, slowly but inexorably, from West to East, we will all need to know how world affairs are understood and interpreted in both the new power centers and, just as importantly, in countries that have no pretensions to great power status themselves, but must coexist in the neighborhood of the new giants. At least we all need to know about it on the plaus…
Dominique Jacquin-Berdal: 27 January 1966 - 24 January 2006
Dominique Jacquin‐Berdal Memorial Lecture: Nationalism and self‐determination in Africa
Travels with the editor: A personal tribute to Peter Lyon
Peter Lyon was uniquely qualified to become editor of The Round Table. His work on neutralism showed an acute appreciation of the realities of international relations. He was familiar with the politics of many Commonwealth countries. Few people can have travelled as widely as he has. The author has accompanied him on many travels, especially to CHOGMs. These travels have rarely lacked excitement, both for political and for personal reasons
Nationalism and imperialism
The twentieth century witnessed the birth of the first global order the world has known. Few would dispute that the forces of imperialism and nationalism have played a major part in bringing this world into existence. The role played by political ideas about these concepts is more contentious, if only because there has seldom been agreement about what they mean, let alone their practical importance. It is the purpose of this chapter to suggest so…
International human rights in the 21st century: Protecting the rights of groups
Part 1 I From Individual to Group Rights Chapter 2 Stating the Problem of Group Rights Chapter 3 In Defense of the Universal Declaration Model Part 4 II The Case for Group Rights Chapter 5 Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism Chapter 6 Indigenous Rights Chapter 7 Protecting the Human Rights of Women Part 8 III The Role of International Society Chapter 9 Human Rights in Weak, Divided, and Threatened States Chapter 10 Enforcing Human Rights Chapter …
Tragedy, Progress and the International Order: A Response to Frost
This response describes the circumstances that led Professor Mervyn Frost to write his article on tragedy in international relations. In examining his argument, it identifies several points of agreement but two points of disagreement. The first is over the evidence for the evolution of a global human rights culture; the second over the weight to be attached to the impediments to progress represented by the external world. These points are illustr…
Democracy and International Society
In this edited version of the seventh John Vincent Memorial Lecture given at the University of Keele on 7 May 1999, James Mayall discusses the contested nature of international relations, the question of the democratization of international society, and the reasons for democracy's prominence in contemporary international relations. He asks how the impact of democracy and democratization on international society over the past ten years could be me…
Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Self-Determination
Globalization and international relations
John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997Charlotte Bretherton and Geoffrey Ponton (eds.), Global Politics: An Introduction, Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1996Chris Brown, Understanding International Relations, London, Macmillan, 1997Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the 20th Century, Oxford Universit…
Democratizing the Commonwealth
Despite having been regarded by many as increasingly anachronistic, the Commonwealth continues to be seen as valuable both by its existing members and by those who wish to join it. Given the historical circumstances of its beginning and the informal nature of its operations, it is both necessary and difficult to establish criteria for admitting new members. This article examines how the Commonwealth can manage its enduring appeal, and the prospec…
The New Interventionism: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, and Somalia
The Fallacies of Hope: The Post-Colonial Record of the Commonwealth Third World
Introduction - the hopes and the fallacies, J.Mayall and A.Payne the first great post-colonial state - India's tryst with destiny, P.Lyon paradise lost - the fall of Sri Lanka, A.Gupta politics in Ghana, R.Rathbone fragments of democracy - aspects of class and politics in Nigeria, S.Nolutshungu constancy, change and accommodation - the distinct tradition of the Commonwealth Carribean, P.Sutton escape from the fortress colony - the politics of eco…
Ethnicity is not Enough: Reflections on Protracted Secessionism in the Third World
Nationalism and international security after the Cold War
Ethnicity is not Enough: Reflections on Protracted Secessionism in the Third World1
Non-intervention, self-determination and the 'new world order
Has the Kurdish crisis changed the rules of the game on non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states? No, writes James Mayall. The Western allies were forced to intervene to protect the Kurds because Western media attention to their plight threatened the political dividends they had secured from the Gulf War. But though the New World Order rhetoric promising new support for human rights is without substance, the Kurdish situation …
Nationalism and International Society
What is meant by international society? On what principles is the notion of international society based? How has the notion of nationalism influenced its evolution? In this book James Mayall addresses these questions and sheds important new light upon the issues of nation and international society by bringing together subjects which have hitherto been examined separately. Mayall locates his study within a theoretical discussion of the relationshi…
Britain and the Third World
On relationships it is hard to improve on Tolstoy. When nothing iswrong there is little or nothing to say. Few relationships in international affairs, however, are trouble-free and certainly not those between Britain and the countries of Asia and Africa, many of which were once British colonies. Like unhappy families, they offer endless opportunities for therapeutic analysis. The root of the trouble almost always lies in the rival perceptions of …
Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Self-Determination
Globalization and international relations
John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997Charlotte Bretherton and Geoffrey Ponton (eds.), Global Politics: An Introduction, Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1996Chris Brown, Understanding International Relations, London, Macmillan, 1997Ian Clark, Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the 20th Century, Oxford Universit…
The Malawi-Tanzania Boundary Dispute
Since Malawi became independent on 6 July 1964 diplomatic relations with her eastern neighbour, Tanzania, have been almost permanently strained. Differences between the two states have focused on three sets of issues: contrasting attitudes and policies towards the white minority régimes to the South, President Banda's suspicion that Tanzania was aiding and abetting the attempts by certain prominent Malawi exiles to subvert his régime,1and a dispu…
Non-intervention, self-determination and the 'new world order
Has the Kurdish crisis changed the rules of the game on non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states? No, writes James Mayall. The Western allies were forced to intervene to protect the Kurds because Western media attention to their plight threatened the political dividends they had secured from the Gulf War. But though the New World Order rhetoric promising new support for human rights is without substance, the Kurdish situation …
The sanctions problem in international economic relations: Reflections in the Light of Recent Experience
Journal Article The sanctions problem in international economic relations: reflections in the light of recent experience Get access James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Autumn 1984, Pages 631–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620046 Published: 01 October 1984
Non-Western International Relations Theory
This is an important book, which is long overdue. As the centre of gravity in world politics moves, slowly but inexorably, from West to East, we will all need to know how world affairs are understood and interpreted in both the new power centers and, just as importantly, in countries that have no pretensions to great power status themselves, but must coexist in the neighborhood of the new giants. At least we all need to know about it on the plaus…
Tragedy, Progress and the International Order: A Response to Frost
This response describes the circumstances that led Professor Mervyn Frost to write his article on tragedy in international relations. In examining his argument, it identifies several points of agreement but two points of disagreement. The first is over the evidence for the evolution of a global human rights culture; the second over the weight to be attached to the impediments to progress represented by the external world. These points are illustr…
Democracy and International Society
In this edited version of the seventh John Vincent Memorial Lecture given at the University of Keele on 7 May 1999, James Mayall discusses the contested nature of international relations, the question of the democratization of international society, and the reasons for democracy's prominence in contemporary international relations. He asks how the impact of democracy and democratization on international society over the past ten years could be me…
Dominique Jacquin‐Berdal Memorial Lecture: Nationalism and self‐determination in Africa
Democratizing the Commonwealth
Despite having been regarded by many as increasingly anachronistic, the Commonwealth continues to be seen as valuable both by its existing members and by those who wish to join it. Given the historical circumstances of its beginning and the informal nature of its operations, it is both necessary and difficult to establish criteria for admitting new members. This article examines how the Commonwealth can manage its enduring appeal, and the prospec…
Politics in the Organization of African Unity
Journal Article Politics in the Organization of African Unity Get access Politics in the Organization of African Unity, by Michael Wolfers. Methuen & Co, London, 1976. 228pp. 1 map, bibliography, index. £4.25; paperback £2.50. JAMES MAYALL JAMES MAYALL London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 112–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfor…
Oil and Nigerian Foreign Policy
Journal Article OIL AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY Get access JAMES MAYALL JAMES MAYALL James Mayall is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 300, July 1976, Pages 317–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096736 Published: 01 July 1976
The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong
Journal Article The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong Get access The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong. By William I. Zartman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1971. 243 pp. Index. (Prepared under the auspices of the Center for International Studies…
The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba
Journal Article The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba Get access The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba. By Dugald Stermer. Introduction by Susan Sontag. London: Pall Mall. 1970. 132 pp. Index. £2.10. James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 479–480, https://doi.org/10.2307/2614037 Published: 01 April 1971
The New Interventionism: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, and Somalia
Nationalism and international security after the Cold War
Ethnicity is not Enough: Reflections on Protracted Secessionism in the Third World1
And the Liberal Theory of International Society
Contemporaries who witnessed the fall of the Bastille did not doubt that an event of shocking significance had occurred. On 19 July 1789 the Ambassador of Saxony reported that so important and extraordinary a revolution ‘cannot fail to bring about a considerable change in the political system of France’. The Portuguese Ambassador wrote that if he had not witnessed it himself ‘he would not dare to describe it, for fear the truth should be consider…
African Boundary Problems
Contents: 1. Preface -- 2. Boundaries and the law in Africa / Anthony Allott -- 3. The study of boundaries and boundary disputes / Sven Tägil -- 4. The economics of the boundaries in west, central and east Africa / Knud Erik Svendsen -- 5. The organization of African Unity and the African boundaries / Samuel Chime -- 6. The foreign and military politics of African boundary problems / I. William Zartman -- 7. The sources of status quo and irredent…
Organizing African Unity, Resolving Conflict in Africa: The Fermeda Workshop, Africa for the Africans, The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État and Notes from Africa
Journal Article Organizing African Unity, Resolving Conflict in Africa: The Fermeda Workshop, Africa for the Africans, The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État and Notes from Africa Get access Organizing African Unity. By Jon Woronoff. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press. 1970. 703 pp. Bibliog. Index. $15.Resolving Conflict in Africa: The Fermeda Workshop. Ed. by Leonard W. Doob. New Haven, London: Yale University Press.…
The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba
Journal Article The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba Get access The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba. By Dugald Stermer. Introduction by Susan Sontag. London: Pall Mall. 1970. 132 pp. Index. £2.10. James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 479–480, https://doi.org/10.2307/2614037 Published: 01 April 1971
Africa in Eclipse and Power and Society in Africa
Journal Article Africa in Eclipse and Power and Society in Africa Get access Africa in Eclipse. By Leonard Barnes. London: Gollancz. 1971. 352 pp. Index. £3.Power and Society in Africa. By Jacques Maquet. Trans. by Jeannette Kupfermann. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1971. 254 pp. Bibliog. Index. (World University Library.) £1.75. James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affa…
The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong
Journal Article The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong Get access The Politics of Trade Negotiations between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confront the Strong. By William I. Zartman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1971. 243 pp. Index. (Prepared under the auspices of the Center for International Studies…
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Journal Article Nationalism in Asia and Africa Get access Nationalism in Asia and Africa. Ed. with an introduction by Elie Kedourie. New York, Cleveland: World Publishing. 1970. 573 pp. Index. (A NAL Book.) $10. James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 1972, Pages 85–87, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613637 Published: 01 January 1972
Some Reflections on Professor Bauer's Case Against Aid
The Malawi-Tanzania Boundary Dispute
Since Malawi became independent on 6 July 1964 diplomatic relations with her eastern neighbour, Tanzania, have been almost permanently strained. Differences between the two states have focused on three sets of issues: contrasting attitudes and policies towards the white minority régimes to the South, President Banda's suspicion that Tanzania was aiding and abetting the attempts by certain prominent Malawi exiles to subvert his régime,1and a dispu…
The Implications for Africa of the Enlarged EEC
The Afro-Asian Movement: Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World and Nonalignment: Theory and Current Policy
Journal Article The Afro-Asian Movement: Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World and Nonalignment: Theory and Current Policy Get access The Afro-Asian Movement: Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World. By David Kimche. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press; Chichester: Wiley. 1973. 296 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. (The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. The Monograph Series.) £6⋅50.Nonalignment:…
Land-locked Countries of Africa
Land-locked Countries of Africa Get access Land-locked Countries of Africa. Edited by Zdenek Červanka. Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1973. 369 pp. Map. James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616967 Published: 01 January 1975
Oil and Nigerian Foreign Policy
Journal Article OIL AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY Get access JAMES MAYALL JAMES MAYALL James Mayall is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 300, July 1976, Pages 317–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096736 Published: 01 July 1976
The Political Dimensions of the UNCTAD Integrated Commodity Scheme
Politics in the Organization of African Unity
Journal Article Politics in the Organization of African Unity Get access Politics in the Organization of African Unity, by Michael Wolfers. Methuen & Co, London, 1976. 228pp. 1 map, bibliography, index. £4.25; paperback £2.50. JAMES MAYALL JAMES MAYALL London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 302, January 1977, Pages 112–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfor…
Threats to democracy: Reflections on the first Indo‐British exchange
Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition 1953–1969
Journal Article Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition 1953–1969 Survey of Commonwealth Affairs: Problems of Expansion and Attrition 1953–1969. By J. D. B. Miller. London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1974. 550 pp. £11.00. James Mayall James Mayall 1London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Vol…
The European Alternatives International Commodity Policy: EEC Policies and Options
HOW IS THE EEC TO REACT TO THE UNCTAD DEMAND FOR AN INTEGRATED commodity programme? In this paper we attempt to sketch the background to this question and to identify some of the major options available to the Community. At the outset, however, one point deserves emphasis: over the past fifty years there have been many attempts to manage international commodity trade. Their success or failure has invariably depended more on political than purely …
Africa in the International System: The Great Powers in Search of a Perspective
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE AFRICAN CONTINENT HAS ALWAYS occupied an ambiguous and in the last analysis unhealthy place in the Western mind. To some its vast empty spaces have promised the riches of a new El Dorado together with the piratical thrills associated with their plunder, to others the challenge of a last frontier along which to stake out and defend their interests; while for many Africa was either the dark continent, a corrupt and corruptin…
Harmonization of African Foreign Policies, 1955–1975: The Political Economy of African Diplomacy and The Nigerian Military and Foreign Policy 1975–1979: Processes, Principles, Performance and Contradi…
Journal Article Harmonization of African Foreign Policies, 1955–1975: The Political Economy of African Diplomacy and The Nigerian Military and Foreign Policy 1975–1979: Processes, Principles, Performance and Contradictions Get access Harmonization of African Foreign Policies, 1955–1975: The Political Economy of African Diplomacy. By G. Aforka Nweke. Boston Mass.: African Studies Center, Boston University. 1980. 285 pp.(African Research Studies, N…
Reflections on the ‘new’ economic nationalism
What is the student of politics to make of the revival of protectionism and the new mood of economic nationalism of which it is widely held to be a symptom? It is reasonably clear why nationalism raises problems for economists: for orthodox Marxists it entrenches false consciousness and delays the final crisis of capitalism; for liberals it frustrates the optimal allocation of resources by substituting group sentiment for the rational pursuit of …
The sanctions problem in international economic relations: Reflections in the Light of Recent Experience
Journal Article The sanctions problem in international economic relations: reflections in the light of recent experience Get access James Mayall James Mayall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Autumn 1984, Pages 631–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620046 Published: 01 October 1984
Nationalism and the International Order
Post-colonial Africa: A Diplomatic Malaise
The legacy of the 1884 Berlin conference remains with us today. Indeed, when one looks at the political, social and economic development of the African continent 25 years after the major effort in decolonisation, it is difficult to be particularly optimistic. The grounds for pessimism are depressingly familiar: approximately half of the world’s refugees wander homeless across the continent, Africa contains many of the poorest countries in the wor…
And the Liberal Theory of International Society
Contemporaries who witnessed the fall of the Bastille did not doubt that an event of shocking significance had occurred. On 19 July 1789 the Ambassador of Saxony reported that so important and extraordinary a revolution ‘cannot fail to bring about a considerable change in the political system of France’. The Portuguese Ambassador wrote that if he had not witnessed it himself ‘he would not dare to describe it, for fear the truth should be consider…
Nationalism and International Society
What is meant by international society? On what principles is the notion of international society based? How has the notion of nationalism influenced its evolution? In this book James Mayall addresses these questions and sheds important new light upon the issues of nation and international society by bringing together subjects which have hitherto been examined separately. Mayall locates his study within a theoretical discussion of the relationshi…
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