Biography

BA (Hons.) in Philosophy (Essex); MA in War Studies (King’s College, London); PhD in War Studies (King’s College, London).

I joined the IR Department in 2009, having previously taught at King’s College, London, the School of Oriental and African Studies and Birkbeck College, London. In addition to working as a university lecturer I’ve held research posts at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs), on the ESRC’s Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks program and at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

Role

Lecturer in International Relations

Community and Business

I have conducted research and analysis on security, resilience and crisis management issues for a number of public and private sector organisations.

Terrorism and political violence; contemporary foreign, security and defence policy; social and political theory of war; military thought and the philosophy of war; sociological approaches to security and resilience.

Doctoral supervision:

I am happy to consider strong doctoral proposals in any of these fields.

Autumn Term:

MA New Security Challenges (convenor and lecturerer).

BA Issues in International Security (lecturer).

Spring Term:

BA The Politics of Terror (convenor and lecturer).

Student Consultation

Office hours for Summer term 2013 are Wednesday 12.30-14.00.

Brighton, Shane (2013) War/truth: Foucault, Heraclitus and the dominion of force. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. ISSN 0955-7571 (In Press)

Barkawi, Tarak and Brighton, Shane (2011) Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique. International Political Sociology, 5 (2). pp. 126-143. ISSN 1749-5687

Barkawi, Tarak and Brighton, Shane (2011) Conclusion: Absent war studies? War, knowledge and critique. In: The changing character of war. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 524-542. ISBN 9780199596737

Brighton, Shane (2011) Three propositions on the phenomenology of war. International Political Sociology, 5 (1). pp. 101-105. ISSN 1749-5679

Brighton, Shane (2007) British Muslims, multiculturalism and UK foreign policy: 'integration' and 'cohesion' in and beyond the state. International Affairs, 83 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0020-5850

Brighton, Shane (2004) The embodiment of war: reflections on the tour of duty. Journal for Cultural Research, 8 (1). pp. 51-74. ISSN 1479-7585