Department of International Relations

Current PhD projects

Candidate

Thesis Title

 

Supervisors

Akgul, Pinar

Russia and USA's energy politics in the Wider Black Sea Region

 

Dr. Stefanie Ortmann

Dr. Francis McGowan (Politics)

A’Zami, Darius

Most unequal equals: the prospects for the (re) emergence of a Tanzanian development state and the role of China

Dr. Kevin Gray

Dr. Dinah Rajak

Appleton, Sam

Attacking poverty, or attacking the poor? Liberal governance and the World Bank

Dr. Andreas Antoniades

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Balli, Alper

Reorientation of Turkey: foreign policy and the transnationalisation of the ‘Anatolian Tigers’

Prof. Kees van der Pijl

Dr. Fabio Petito

Bentley, Tom

The empire retracts: a comparative analysis of post-colonial apologies since the end of the Cold War

Mr. Zdenek Kavan

Prof. Stefan Elbe

Cemgil, Can

Totalisation as combination in capitalism: US strategy of liberalisation since World World II.

Dr. Benno Teschke

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Cooper, Luke

Why did China enter on the path of market reform? Using 'uneven and combined development' to move beyond an internal/external account of the historic process

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Dr. Kamran Matin

Da Rosa, William

The role of human rights in legitimizing international politics

Prof. Beate Jahn

Dr. Zdenek Kavan

Dooley, Neil

Beyond immaturity and victimisation: the European periphery and Eurozone crisis

Dr. Kevin Gray

Dr. Fabio Petito

Dutta, Sahil

Capital gains: shareholder value and the rise of finance

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Dr. Earl Gammon

Eken, Mehmet Evren

Governmentality of geopolitics and affective grand strategies: social logistics of war making ability and the imaginary field of war/truth.

Prof. Cynthia Weber

Dr. Shane Brighton

Fishwick, Adam

Industrialisation and the working class: the contested trajectories of ISI in Argentina and Chile

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Dr. Ben Selwyn

Green, Jasper

East Asian regionalism and transnational social relations: the case of China and Taiwan

Dr. Kevin Gray

Dr. Ben Selwyn

Guo, Kai

The state and the changing class structure in capitalist China

Dr. Kevin Gray

Dr. Ben Selwyn

Hilberg, Eva

The biopolitical dimension of intellectual property rights in genetic resources

Prof. Stefan Elbe

Dr. Louiza Odysseos

Hughes, Matthieu

The ‘peculiarities’ of universal banking: German finance and state-formation

Dr. Benno Teschke

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Huma, Zill-e

China’s foreign policy towards Central Asian region: A study through the lens of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Dr. Kevin Gray

Dr. Fabio Petito

Igarashi, Motomichi

Genealogies of trusteeship: comparison of peace-building with colonialism

Prof. Beate Jahn

Dr. Jan Selby

Laastad Dyvik, Synne

Women and the question of liberation in military operations, counter-insurgency and reconstruction: the case of Afghanistan

Dr. Louiza Odysseos

Dr. Anna Stavrianakis

Lagna, Andrea

The emergence of a finance-led regime in the Italian model of capitalism

Dr. Benno Teschke

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Lane, Richard

The economic climate: The promiscuous history of pollution emissions trading

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Prof. Peter Newell

Liu, Calvin Xin

Uneven and combined development and China's modern revolution in world history: the nexus between Sinology and IR theory

Dr. Kamran Matin

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Long, Christopher

AIDS, security, governmentality: the role of PEPFAR and U.S. foreign security policy 2003-2013

Prof. Stefan Elbe

Dr. David Reubi

Martin, Thomas

'A Failure to 'Prevent'? Security, community and the management of radical difference in the UK Post-9/11

Dr. Shane Brighton

Prof. Stefan Elbe

Moody, George

Whither European International Relations?

Dr. Anna Stavrianakis

 

Navarro Garcia, Abraham

Security policy towards Influenza A (H1N1) in China, central government and Guangdong approaches

Prof. Stefan Elbe

Dr. David Reubi

Nisancioglu, Kerem

Turkey’s Ottoman legacy

Dr. Kamran Matin

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Pal, Maia

The politics of extraterritoriality: a historical sociology of public international law

Prof. Beate Jahn

Dr. Benno Teschke

Pirez, Nuno

An elaboration of AJP Taylor's contribution towards international relations theory

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Dr. Benno Teschke

Rivera-Quinones, Miguel

Alternative politics and hegemony in the era of globalisation: neo-liberalism, popular revolt and normalisation in the case of Argentina

 

Dr. Ben Selwyn

Dr. Samuel Knafo

Ruettershoff, Tobias

Expert knowledge production in US military campaigns  (1898-2008): The cases of the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq

Dr. Sergio Catignani

Dr. Patricia Owens

Safi, Mariam

Building Peace in Afghanistan: A critical analysis of the Liberal Peace Interventionist Approach

Prof. Beate Jahn

Dr. Jan Selby

Saunders, David

Propaganda and new media in the Israel/Palestine conflict

Dr. Jan Selby

Dr. Wilma De Jong (Media Studies)

Turgeon, Nancy

Eurocentrism in IR and historical sociology: China in the context of the 'rise of the West'.

Dr. Benno Teschke

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Tuyloglu, Dursun Yavuz

Investigating the modularity of the modern territorial state: uneven and combined transformation of Ottoman and Persian empires

Dr. Kamran Matin

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Watson, Dan

The creation of new states in the horn of africa: statebuilding, insurgency and government

Dr. Jan Selby

Dr. Anna Stavrianakis

Weiss, Oliver

Trade, growth and development in CMEA

Dr. Stefanie Ortmann

Dr. Benno Teschke

Whittaker, Nicholas

Geopolitics Britannia: British geopolitical thought from empire to Blair

Dr. Stefanie Ortmann

Dr. Fabio Petito

Wyn-Jones, Steffan

The US military-industrial complex and the early cold war years

Prof. Justin Rosenberg

Dr. Benno Teschke