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Dr Andrew Dougall
MA (Hons) MPhil PhD
Teams and roles for Andrew Dougall
Lecturer in International Relations
Overview
I am a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University.
My research focuses on the politics of communication technology in global and historical perspective.
I am particularly interested in communication technology's relationship to international order, spanning the telegraph's role in the 19th-century world to the impacts of digital media on liberal order today. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach and often extends over a long time span, connecting contemporary debates about digital technologies to longer histories of political and international change.
My first book, Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World (Oxford University Press, 2024), was a study of media's role in the rise of Donald Trump in light of a similar nationalist ordering project in the 19th-century British imperial world. My current projects include work on generative AI and the liberal international order, modernity and the politics of international infrastructure building, and the history of data governance at the UNHCR.
Publication
2024
- Dougall, A. 2024. Mediatizing the nation, ordering the world: struggles for redemption in Britain and the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780198882114.001.0001)
2023
- Dougall, A. 2023. Shrinking planet, expanding imaginary: the imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain. International Relations 37 (1), pp.48-71. (10.1177/00471178211045620)
Articles
- Dougall, A. 2023. Shrinking planet, expanding imaginary: the imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain. International Relations 37 (1), pp.48-71. (10.1177/00471178211045620)
Books
- Dougall, A. 2024. Mediatizing the nation, ordering the world: struggles for redemption in Britain and the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780198882114.001.0001)
Teaching
I am currently the Head of Year 1 for Politics and International Relations.
In 2026/7, I teach on the following modules:
- Challenges in Contemporary Politics and International Relations (Year 1)
- Histories and Texts in International Relations (Year 1)
- Digital Technologies and Global Politics (Year 2)
- Issues in International Relations (PG)
- War, Peace, Crisis and Globalisation (PG)
Biography
I joined Cardiff's School of Law and Politics in April 2026.
I previously worked at the University of Oxford, where I was a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations (2024-26) and a Career Development Lecturer at Pembroke College (2025-26). From 2022 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies at the University of Queensland, Australia.
I completed my PhD in the School of Political Science and International Studies at UQ, supervised by Christian Reus-Smit and funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities doctoral scholarship. I hold an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge and an MA (Hons) in Politics and Economic & Social History from the University of Edinburgh.
Before and between academic studies, I worked as a regulatory consultant, political lobbyist, and assistant to a Member of the Scottish Parliament.