
Professor Cécile Fabre
MA, DPhil, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2014
My current research spans three areas: (a) the moral and political philosophy of foreign policy, which includes the ethics of war, the ethics of force short of war, and the ethics of espionage; (b) some of the philosphical issues raised by the destruction and protection of cultural heritage, particularly heritage which is deemed (rightly or wrongly) to have universal value: (c) the political philosophy of democracy, particularly the ethics of voting, and the normative foundations of the executive branch of government.
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
- Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Oxford and Tutor and Fellow (CUF) in Philosophy, Lincoln College, Oxford (from 2010 to 2014)
- Chair of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh (from 2007 to 2010)
- Lecturer (till 2007) then Senior Lecturer (2005–7) in Political Theory, Department of Government, LSE (from 2000 to 2007)
- Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College (from 1998 to 2000)
- Lecturer in Political Theory, Worcester College, Oxford (from 1998 to 2000)
- Postgraduate at Universities of York and Oxford (from 1992 to 1997)
- Undergraduate at University of La Sorbonne (from 1989 to 1992)
- Cultural heritage
- Democratic theory
- Just war theory
- Use of force short of war in international relations
- Justice
- Rights
- Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Economic Statecraft (Harvard University Press, 2018)
- Spying through a glass darkly (Oxford University Press, 2022)
- (co-edited with Seth Lazar), The Morality of Defensive War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Cosmopolitan War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Justice in a Changing World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007).
- Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback ed. 2008).
- Social Rights Under the Constitution: Government and the Decent Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
- Fellow of the British Academy
- member of Oxford University’s Council
- OUP Delegate.
- DPhil supervision
- BPhil and MPhil supervision
- Graduate classes
- British Academy Mid-Career Research Fellowship (2013–2014).
- AHRC Research Leave (2004).
- ESRC doctoral studentship (1994-1997).
- Besse scholarship, Worcester College (1994-1997).