- Tudor, M., Thomas, O.D. and Pennell, C. (2024). Reckoning with Responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British Military Failings during a Moment of Imperial Transformation, 1916–19. Modern British History, 35(3), pp. 294–315. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwae040.
- Tudor, M. (2024). Book Review: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum. War in History, 31(3), pp. 299–301. doi:10.1177/09683445241259542f.
- Tudor, M. (2024). Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order
, by Lou Pingeot, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, xi + 292pp., £83.00 (hardback, also available as ebook), ISBN 9780198886617. International Peacekeeping pp. 1–3. doi:10.1080/13533312.2024.2348478. - Tudor, M. (2024). The Remnants of Race Science: unesco and Economic Development in the Global South, written by Sebastián Gil-Riaño. Diplomatica, 6(1), pp. 159–162. doi:10.1163/25891774-bja10119.
- Thomas, O.D., Tudor, M. and Pennell, C. (2024). Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. doi:10.1177/13691481231221473.
- Stellmach, D., Pinaud, M., Tudor, M. and Fast, L. (2023). Problematising Medical Data in Humanitarian Response. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 5(2), pp. 3–12. doi:10.7227/jha.105.
- Tudor, M. (2023). Building states: the United Nations, development, and decolonization, 1945–1965. International Affairs, 99(5), pp. 2154–2155. doi:10.1093/ia/iiad217.
- Tudor, M. (2022). Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua’s Re-colonisation, 1962–3. Journal of Contemporary History, 57(2), pp. 293–316. doi:10.1177/0022009421997894.
- Tudor, M. (2021). Reputation on the (green) line: revisiting the ‘Plaza moment’ in United Nations peacekeeping practice, 1964–1966. Journal of Global History, 16(2), pp. 227–245. doi:10.1017/s1740022821000048.
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About
Overview
Dr Margot Tudor's work examines the colonial continuities of historical international interventions, specialising in UN peacekeeping missions. Her first book, Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. It focuses on the first four armed UN peacekeeping missions and examines the international officials' influence on post-colonial state formation. The book reveals the colonial continuities of post-war international security practices and identifies the racialised practices of mid-level personnel in the field.
She is currently working on the following projects: 1) an edited volume on military humanitarianism in historical practice; 2) a second book project on the first UN peacekeeping mission (UNEF) and military masculinities; 3) a project on the history of attacks on aid workers.
Her twitter is: @margottudor
https://margottudor.wordpress.com/
Research Background
In 2020, Margot finished her ESRC-funded thesis, 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: UN Peacekeeping Missions and the Formation of the Post-Colonial International Order, 1956-1971' at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, based at the University of Manchester. Her PhD was a history of United Nations peacekeeping missions during the height of decolonisation (1956-1971). It highlighted the colonial continuities and lineages of peacekeeping practices in the field by taking a comparative approach to the first four armed UN missions: UNEF (Sinai and Gaza), ONUC (Congo), UNTEA (West Papua), and UNFICYP (Cyprus). During her time at the University of Manchester, she won the Faculty of Humanities Award for Distinguished Achievement.
In June 2021, her PhD thesis was awarded the BISA Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize 2021. In November, it was announced as runner up for the British International History Group (BIHG) Michael Dockrill Thesis Prize 2021.
Margot's article 'Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peaceekepers on the Frontline of West Papua's Re-colonisation, 1962-3' won the ISA HIST Section's Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations 2022 and was shortlisted for the RHS' Alexander Prize 2022.
Warnings from the Archive
From January 2021-2023, she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Leverhulme-funded project, 'Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East', working alongside Dr Owen Thomas (Pol) and Professor Catriona Pennell (Hist). The team examined two official public inquiries, one hundred years apart, into British military intervention in Iraq: the Mesopotamia Commission (1917) into the failures of Britain’s military effort during the First World War in Mesopotamia, and the Iraq ‘Chilcot’ Inquiry (2016) into Britain’s role in the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Our project was linked to the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict.
Teaching Experience
Margot is an Associate Fellow of the HEA. She has taught BA/MA level courses at the University of Manchester the LSE and supervised PGR students at the University of Exeter.
Interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:
- United Nations
- Peacekeeping
- International military interventions
- Peace
- Colonial history
- Decolonisation and anticolonial activism
- Race and racism in international order
- Liberal Internationalism
Employment
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter, Jan 2021 – Mar 2023
- Guest Teacher, LSE, Sep – Dec 2020
- Research Assistant, University of Manchester, Aug – Dec 2020
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester, Sep 2018 – Jan 2021
Publications
Publications by category
Book
- Tudor, M. (2023). Blue Helmet Bureaucrats United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-00-926492-1.
Chapters (2)
- Tudor, M. (2024). Humanitarianism and the global Cold War, 1945-1991. Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality (pp. 35–48). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-80220-654-8.
- Tudor, M. (2022). “Now the UN Has Its First Colony”: Technical Assistance and Informal Trusteeship during the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Congo, 1960. In Heise, J., Ketzmerick, M. and Lüdert, J. (Eds.), The United Nations Trusteeship System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-202802-6.
Journal articles (9)
Other (4)
- Tudor, M. (2023). Jens Steffek, 2021. International Organization as Technocratic Utopia.
- Tudor, M. (2023). Colonial internationalism and the governmentality of empire, 1893–1982
Colonial internationalism and the governmentality of empire, 1893–1982
, by Florian Wagner, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xii + 421 pp., £90 (hbk), ISBN 9781316512838. - Tudor, M. (2022). Organizing the 20th-century world: international organizations and the emergence of the international public administration, 1920–1960s.
- Tudor, M. Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire. By Brian Drohan.