| Post: | Lecturer in International Relations |
| Other posts: | Lecturer in International Relations (Development Studies - CDE) |
| Lecturer in International Relations (Global School) | |
| Associate (Jvrc) | |
| Location: | Arts B B379 |
| Email: | A.Stavrianakis@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7835 |
| UK: | (01273) 877835 |
| International: | +44 1273 877835 |
Biography
BA Politics and German, Bristol University. MScEcon Security Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. PhD Politics, Bristol University.
Anna joined the department in September 2006 from the University of Bristol, where she wrote her PhD. Her research interests include NGO activity and debates around global civil society, the arms trade and military globalisation, North-South relations and critical approaches to the study of security. Anna is currently working on a book manuscript, Taking Aim at the Arms Trade. NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order, to be published by Zed Books.
Role
Lecturer in International RelationsResearch
Global civil society; NGO activity
The arms trade; military globalisation
Critical approaches to the study of security; imperial hierarchies in world politics
Academic activism; the role of academics in social change
View selected publications at: http://eprints.sussex.ac.uk/view/people/Stavrianakis,_Anna.html
Teaching
The Local and the Global: World Politics in Brighton (1st year)
Issues in International Relations (1st year)
Issues in International Security (2nd year)
NGOs in World Politics (3rd year)
The Politics of Global Civil Society (MA option)
I welcome expressions of interest in/applications for DPhil supervision on: critical analysis of NGO activity in world politics and/or global civil society; war and violence in North-South context, military globalisation and/or the arms trade; critical approaches to security.
Current DPhil supervision:
Jason Cooley (with Kees van der Pijl). Jason is working on "The Fourth International Revolution and the Evolution of Transnational Revolutionary Organizations."
George Moody (with Kees van der Pijl). George is working on a political economy of International Relations as a discipline.
Selected publications
2009
In Arms’ Way: Arms Company and Military Involvement in Education in the UK in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Volume 8 pp. 505-520
2008
Licensed to Kill: The United Kingdom’s arms export licensing process in The Economics of Peace and Security Journal Volume 3 pp. 32-39
The Facade Of Arms Control: How the UK’s export licensing system facilitates the arms trade in Campaign Against Arms Trade Goodwin Paper #6
2006
Call to Arms: The University as a Site of Militarised Capitalism and a Site of Struggle in Millennium Volume 35 pp. 139-154
2005
(Big) Business As Usual: Sustainable Development, NGOs, and UK Arms Export Policy in Conflict, Security and Development Volume 5 pp. 45-67