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Inderjeet Parmar

Professor Inderjeet Parmar

Professor of International Politics

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of International Politics

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About

Overview

Professor Inderjeet Parmar read Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Political Sociology at the University of London. His doctorate, from the University of Manchester, was in the fields of political science and international relations. Prior to appointment at City, University of London in 2012, he taught at the University of Manchester (1991-2012), mainly in its Department of Government which, between 2006-09, he served as Head of Department. He is currently Associate Dean for Research, 2023-2026.

Other professional activities

Professor Inderjeet Parmar is past president, chair and vice chair of the British International Studies Association.

He was Visiting Professor at LSE (2019-2022) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford (2019-20)

2013 – 2014 he was Visiting Research Scholar at the Empires Research Community, Princeton University

He held visiting fellowships at Princeton and Oxford (1998, 1999, 2010).

He is co-editor of a book series, Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy.

He served as Principal Investigator and co-ordinator of the AHRC Research Network on the Presidency of Barack Obama. He is currently working with colleagues to establish the Trump Project: http://ucdclinton.ie/trump-project/

Professor Parmar was a member of the Working Group on Think Tanks of the Social Science Research Council, New York, 2007, and co-convenor of the BISA Working Group on US Foreign Policy, 2005-09.

Media work and appearances

Professor Parmar appears regularly on numerous TV and radio stations, including Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC, RT, TRT; TalkRadio, and Sputnik

He is a columnist for The Wire: https://thewire.in/author/iparmar/

Teaching

Undergraduate

- US Foreign Policy
- Theories of Global Politics
- Foreign Policy Analysis

Postgraduate

- US Foreign Policy

Research

Research Summary

Professor Inderjeet Parmar's research interests focus on the history, politics and sociology of Anglo-American foreign policy elites over the past 100 years, specifically embodied in organisations such as philanthropic foundations, think tanks, policy research institutes, university foreign affairs institutes, and state agencies.

His latest book, Foundations of the American Century: Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power was published in 2012 by Columbia University Press, and reissued in paperback in 2015. The Chinese language edition is due to be published by Peking University Press in late 2017.

He is currently working on a long-term research monograph critiquing the post-1945 liberal international order – Presidents and Prime Ministers at War: Race, Empire and Elitism in Anglo-American Wars from Korea to the Wars on Terror.

He has authored 3 books and edited or co-edited numerous books and journal special issues, and dozens of book chapters and articles.

Areas of PhD supervision and interests

Currently supervising theses on the American elite and the war on Iraq; on US-Latin American Military Elite Networks; and the Political Incorporation of Black America.

I am offering doctoral supervision in:

- All areas of US foreign and national security policy
- History and politics of the American foreign policy establishment
- British foreign policy
- Anglo-American relations
- Elites and foreign policy
- Intellectuals and foreign affairs

Research students

1stsupervisor

  • Stuart Hooper, Research Student

Publications

Publications by category

Books (10)

  • Parmar, I., Miller, L.B. and Ledwidge, M. (2014). Obama and the world new directions in US foreign policy.
  • Parmar, I., Miller, L.B. and Ledwidge, M. (2014). Introduction: Obama–promise, performance, prospects.
  • Parmar, I. (2013). Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-racial America. Ledwidge, M., Verney, K. and Parmar, I. (Eds.), Routledge. ISBN 9780415813938.
  • Parmar, I. (2012). Foundations of the American Century. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231146289.
  • Parmar, I. (2011). International Politics, American Power and Identities in the Age of Obama. London: Palgrave.
  • Parmar, I. and Cox, M. (Eds.), (2010). Soft Power and Us Foreign Policy. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415492034.
  • Parmar, I., Miller, L. and Ledwidge, M. (Eds.), (2009). New Directions in United States Foreign Policy. London, UK: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415777490.
  • Parmar, I., Miller, L.B. and Ledwidge, M. (2009). New directions in US foreign policy.
  • Parmar, I. (2004). Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403921031.
  • Parmar, I. (1995). Special Interests, the State and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1939-1945. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780714645698.

Chapters (22)

  • Parmar, I. and Nouri, B. (2026). Race and class in the Cold War: Chatham House and the Board of Race Relations. In Hill, C.J., Cox, M., Soper, C. and May, A. (Eds.), Chatham House: The First 100 Years (pp. 148-164). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198984962.
  • Turner, O., Nymalm, N. and Aslam, W. (2022). The Routledge Handbook of US Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific. Routledge.
  • Parmar, I. and Ledwidge, M. (2023). Anglo-American Power in the Wake of Brexit and America First. In Fahey, E. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations Routledge. ISBN 9781032255347.
  • Parmar, I. and Yin, S. (2021). American foundations, think tanks and the liberal international order. In Abelson, D.E., Mulroney, B., Hudson, S.K. and Rastrick, C.J. (Eds.), Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781789901832.
  • Parmar, I. (2017). Corporate Foundations and Ideology. The Corporation (pp. 434-447). Cambridge University Press.
  • In Dyvik, S.L., Selby, J. and Wilkinson, R. (Eds.), (2017). What's the Point of International Relations? In Routledge.
  • Parmar, I. (2014). Obama, wikileaks, and American power. Obama and the World: New Directions in US Foreign Policy (pp. 243-257). Routledge.
  • Parmar, I. (2013). Postscript: The 2012 Elections: President Obama’s Establishment. In Parmar, I., Ledwidge, M. and Verney, K. (Eds.), Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge.
  • Parmar, I. (2013). President obama’s establishment. Barack Obama and the Myth of A Post Racial America (pp. 184-188).
  • PARMAR, I. (2011). American hegemony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of Academic International Relations in the US. In Guilhot, N. (Ed.), The Invention of International Relations Theory (pp. 182-209). New York, USA: Columbia Press. ISBN 9780231152679.
  • PARMAR, I. (2010). Challenging Elite Anti-Americanism in the Cold War. In Parmar, I. and Cox, M. (Eds.), Soft Power and Us Foreign Policy London, UK: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415492034.
  • In Parmar, I., Miller, L.B. and Ledwidge, M. (Eds.), (2009). New Directions in US Foreign Policy. In Routledge.
  • PARMAR, I. (2009). Soul Brothers? Blair, Bush and the compact between liberal interventionism and conservative nationalism. In Scott, P.M., Baker, C.R. and Graham, E.L. (Eds.), Remoralizing Britain? (pp. 205-222). London, UK: Continuum Intl Pub Group. ISBN 9780826424655.
  • PARMAR, I. (2008). A Neo-Conservative US Foreign Policy Establishment? K. Christie, ed., National Identity and US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. In Kennet, C. (Ed.), United States Foreign Policy & National Identity in the 21st Century (pp. 37-49). London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415466134.
  • PARMAR, I. (2008). Combatting Anti-Americanism: American Foundations and Public Diplomacy During the Cold War and the War on Terror. In Higgott, R. and Malbašić, I. (Eds.), The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 9780415463911.
  • PARMAR, I. (2007). American Government Responses to Anti-Americanism. Anti-Americanism Today (pp. 239-262). Westport: Greenwood Press.
  • PARMAR, I. (2006). Anti-Americanism and the major foundations. In O'Connor, B. and Griffiths, M. (Eds.), The Rise Of Anti-Americanism Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415369060.
  • PARMAR, I. (2006). Conceptualising the American State-Private Network during the Cold War. In Wilford, H. (Ed.), The US Government, Citizen Groups And the Cold War London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415356084.
  • PARMAR, I. (2004). Institutes of international affairs. In Stone, D., Denham, A. and Garnett, M. (Eds.), Think Tank Traditions: Policy Analysis Across Nations Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719064791.
  • PARMAR, I. (2000). The Law and Order Policy of the Labour Government. In Coates, D. and Lawler, P. (Eds.), New Labour Into Power (pp. 207-220). Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719054624.
  • PARMAR, I. (1994). Chatham House, the Foreign Policy Process, and the Making of the Anglo-American. In Bosco, A. and Navari, C. (Eds.), Chatham House and British Foreign Policy 1919-1945 London, UK: Lothian Foundation Press. ISBN 9781872210025.
  • Parmar, I. and Nouri, B. How American Exceptionalism Works in the Global South. In Restad, H. (Ed.), American Exceptionalism and US Foreign Policy Georgetown University Press.

Internet publication

Journal articles (47)

Working paper