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 as professor of international politics at City University London (in 2012, http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/international-politics/news-and-media) he was professor of government at the University of Manchester, teaching there for 21 years, mainly in its Department of Government (now Politics) which, between 2006-09, he served as Head of Politics.
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 (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14628-9/foundations-of-the-american-century/reviews).
During 2013-14, Professor Parmar is Visiting Research Scholar at the Empires Research Community, Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, USA, working on a long-term project, Presidents and Premiers at War: Race, elitism and empire in Anglo-American wars from Korea to the War on Terror (https://www.princeton.edu/piirs/research-communities/piirs-empires-research-co/).
He served as Chair and President of the British International Studies Association, 2011-13.
He (with John Dumbrell) founded and chaired the BISA Working Group on US Foreign Policy, 2006-09.
He is co-editor of a book series, Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy which, to date has published 25 volumes (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSUSFP/).
He is also the chair of the (formerly AHRC) Research Network on the Presidency of Barack Obama which has several partners including Warwick, LSE, Oxford, Edge Hill, Canterbury Christchurch, Manchester, Leiden, the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, and key affiliates at among others Sussex, UEA, Goldsmiths, Harvard, Tufts, and Columbia. Strong links are also being built with RUSI, the FCO, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Institute of the Americas at UCL.
Professor Parmar was a member of the Working Group on Think Tanks, Social Science Research Council, New York, 2007.
Media work and appearances
Professor Parmar has appeared several times on Al Jazeera's Inside Story, and on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, as well as numerous local and national radio stations. He publishes a regular blog on American Power (USBlog, at http://ij-poli-blog.blogspot.com/).
Major Recent Publications
Foundations of the American Century: Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012; paperback published July 2014).
I. Parmar, L.B. Miller and M. Ledwidge, eds., Obama and the World: New Directions in US Foreign Policy, second edition (London: Routledge; 2014)
K. Rietzler and I. Parmar, eds., American Philanthropy, Hegemony and War, Special issue of Global Society (January 2014)
Mark Ledwidge, K. Verney and Parmar, Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-racial America (New York: Routledge, 2013).
2014 Inderjeet Parmar, “President Obama’s Establishment,” in Ledwidge, Verney and Parmar, eds., Barack Obama and the Myth of Post-Racial America (New York: Routledge)
2014 Inderjeet Parmar, “Wikileaks and American power,” in Parmar, Ledwidge and Miller, eds., New Directions in US Foreign Policy (London: Routledge)
2013 “The Knowledge Politics of Democratic Peace Theory,” International Politics 50, 2
2012 “US Presidential Election 2012: Post-truth Politics,” Political Insight, August . 2012 'Foundation Networks and American Hegemony' European Journal of American Studies, 1. 2012 doi: 10.4000/ejas.9476
Forthcoming:
2015 Parmar, “Corporate Foundations and Ideological Hegemony,” in A. Spicer, ed., The Modern Corporation (Cambridge University Press)
2015/16 Parmar, deGraaf, Apeldoorn and Ledwidge, eds., Elites and American Power, special issue of International Politics.
Follow Professor Inderjeet Parmer on Twitter, and Visit His Blog
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 (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14628-9/foundations-of-the-american-century/reviews).
During 2013-14, Professor Parmar is Visiting Research Scholar at the Empires Research Community, Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, USA, working on a long-term project, Presidents and Premiers at War: Race, elitism and empire in Anglo-American wars from Korea to the War on Terror (https://www.princeton.edu/piirs/research-communities/piirs-empires-research-co/).
He served as Chair and President of the British International Studies Association, 2011-13.
He (with John Dumbrell) founded and chaired the BISA Working Group on US Foreign Policy, 2006-09.
He is co-editor of a book series, Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy which, to date has published 25 volumes (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSUSFP/).
He is also the chair of the (formerly AHRC) Research Network on the Presidency of Barack Obama which has several partners including Warwick, LSE, Oxford, Edge Hill, Canterbury Christchurch, Manchester, Leiden, the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, and key affiliates at among others Sussex, UEA, Goldsmiths, Harvard, Tufts, and Columbia. Strong links are also being built with RUSI, the FCO, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Institute of the Americas at UCL.
Professor Parmar was a member of the Working Group on Think Tanks, Social Science Research Council, New York, 2007.
Media work and appearances
Professor Parmar has appeared several times on Al Jazeera's Inside Story, and on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, as well as numerous local and national radio stations. He publishes a regular blog on American Power (USBlog, at http://ij-poli-blog.blogspot.com/).
Major Recent Publications
Foundations of the American Century: Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012; paperback published July 2014).
I. Parmar, L.B. Miller and M. Ledwidge, eds., Obama and the World: New Directions in US Foreign Policy, second edition (London: Routledge; 2014)
K. Rietzler and I. Parmar, eds., American Philanthropy, Hegemony and War, Special issue of Global Society (January 2014)
Mark Ledwidge, K. Verney and Parmar, Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-racial America (New York: Routledge, 2013).
2014 Inderjeet Parmar, “President Obama’s Establishment,” in Ledwidge, Verney and Parmar, eds., Barack Obama and the Myth of Post-Racial America (New York: Routledge)
2014 Inderjeet Parmar, “Wikileaks and American power,” in Parmar, Ledwidge and Miller, eds., New Directions in US Foreign Policy (London: Routledge)
2013 “The Knowledge Politics of Democratic Peace Theory,” International Politics 50, 2
2012 “US Presidential Election 2012: Post-truth Politics,” Political Insight, August . 2012 'Foundation Networks and American Hegemony' European Journal of American Studies, 1. 2012 doi: 10.4000/ejas.9476
Forthcoming:
2015 Parmar, “Corporate Foundations and Ideological Hegemony,” in A. Spicer, ed., The Modern Corporation (Cambridge University Press)
2015/16 Parmar, deGraaf, Apeldoorn and Ledwidge, eds., Elites and American Power, special issue of International Politics.
Follow Professor Inderjeet Parmer on Twitter, and Visit His Blog