Professor of Political Studies; Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy

John McGarry is Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy in the Dept. of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada (from July 2002).   Before that, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo (1999-2002) and at the University of Western Ontario, King’s College (1989-99).

He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (1979), and of the University of Western Ontario (1987).

McGarry’s academic work is mainly concerned with the design of political institutions in divided political systems.  He is particularly interested in power-sharing institutions, and in federalism. His research interests include ethnic and national conflict, state responses to ethnic and national diversity, consociationalism, federalism, integrationalism, and the politics of Iraq and politics of Northern Ireland   He has co-authored, co-edited and edited twelve books on these subjects, including four with Oxford University Press (UK).  He has also authored and co-authored over 40 refereed articles and book chapters.

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Selected Publications:

• John McGarry and Michael Keating eds., European Integration and the Nationalities Question.  London: Routledge 2006.  
• Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih eds., The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq.  Philadelphia.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
• John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• John McGarry ed., Northern Ireland and the Divided World.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Michael Keating and John McGarry eds., Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.