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Dr Norrie MacQueen

Contact Details

Email: n.j.d.macqueen@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384591

Dr Norrie MacQueen has been at Dundee since January 1996 when he arrived from several years at the University of Sunderland. Before that he had taught and researched in Universities in Australia and the South Pacific. Going further back still, he worked in Mozambique for some time as well as in various universities and colleges in Britain.

Currently he contribute to a wide range of the department's teaching, from first year undergraduate modules to postgraduate seminars and doctoral supervision. His teaching lies in the general areas of International Relations and the politics of the Global South.

His research in recent years has been focused on two areas: the politics of international peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention and the international relations of the Portuguese-speaking world, in particular “Lusophone” Africa.

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules

Research

Dr MacQueen's current research is concerned with the theory and practice of peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention, especially in the context of the United Nations. In particular, he is concerned with the motivations that lead states to contribute forces to peace operations. He also has an interest in the different security relationships which develop between African countries and the European states (Britain, France and Portugal) of which they were formerly colonies and how these have developed since the time of independence.

Publications

Books

The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and The Dissolution of Empire (1997).

A Descolonização da África Portuguesa (1998).

The United Nations since 1945: Peacekeeping and the Cold War (1999).

United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 (2002).

Community and the State in Lusophone Africa, ed. with Malyn Newitt and Patrick Chabal (2003).

European Security after Iraq, ed. with Trine Flockhart (2005).

Peacekeeping and the International System (2006).

Colonialism (2007).

The United Nations: A Beginner’s Guide (2010).

Selected articles/chapters

"Butcher meets Grocer" : Marcello Caetano’s London visit of 1973 and the end of Portugal’s Estado Novo', Cold War History (2010).

'Judging peacekeeping outcomes: three perspectives on UN operations', The Yearbook of International Peace Operations (2008).

'Britain, the United Nations and Guinea-Bissau's proclamation of independence, 1973-74: Being nice to the Portuguese?' Journal of Cold War Studies 8:4 (2006), 29-56

'As guerras coloniais' in A Transição Falhada: O Marcelismo e o Fim do Estado Novo, ed. by Fernando Rosas (Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 2004), pp. 263-300.

'A community of illusions? Portugal, the CPLP and peacemaking in Guiné-Bissau, 1998-99' International Peacekeeping, 10:2 (2003), 1-26

'Re-defining the "African vocation": Portugal's post-colonial identity crisis' Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 11:2 (2003), 181-99

Suggested Areas for Postgraduate Supervision