Dr Anna Stavrianakis

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. Her research interests include the arms trade, militarism, and global civil society. She is the author of Taking Aim at the Arms Trade. NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order, published by Zed Books (June 2010), and co-editor with Jan Selby of Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory, published by Routledge (August 2012). She has published on the international arms trade and arms control, NGO activism and global civil society, and academic activism, in Conflict Security and Development; Contemporary Security Policy; Journal of International Relations and Development; and Millennium. 

Role

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Community and Business

Anna has worked alongside NGOs and activists such as Campaign Against Arms Trade, Saferworld, and Smash EDO, on issues of military production and trade, and arms control. 

The arms trade; militarism; militarisation

War and violence in international politics

Global civil society; NGO activity

Academic activism; the role of academics in social change

View selected publications at: http://eprints.sussex.ac.uk/view/people/Stavrianakis,_Anna.html

The Local and the Global: IR in Practice (1st year)

NGOs in World Politics (3rd year)

I welcome expressions of interest in/applications for DPhil supervision on: the international arms trade, military globalisation, militarism; NGO activism on international security issues; war and violence.

Current DPhil supervision:

George Moody (with Kees van der Pijl). George is working on a political economy of International Relations as a discipline.

Synne Laastad Dyvik (with Louiza Odysseos). Synne is working on "Women and the Question of Liberation in Military Operations, Counter-insurgency and Reconstruction."

Dan Watson (with Jan Selby). Dan is working on "The Creation of New States in the Horn of Africa: Statebuilding, Insurgency and Government".

Student Consultation

Wednesday, 9-11am. Arts B379.

Stavrianakis, Anna (2012) Missing the target: NGOs, global civil society and the arms trade. Journal of International Relations and Development, 15. pp. 224-249. ISSN 1408-6980

Stavrianakis, Anna and Selby, Jan, eds. (2012) Militarism and international relations: political economy, security, theory. Cass Military Studies . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415614917

Stavrianakis, Anna and Selby, Jan (2012) Militarism and international relations in the 21st century. In: Militarism and international relations: political economy, security and theory, Theory. Cass military studies . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415614917

Stavrianakis, Anna and Selby, Jan (2012) Militarism and international relations in the twenty-first century. In: Militarism and international relations: political economy, security, theory, edited by Anna Stavrianakis and Jan Selby. Routledge, London, pp. 3-18. ISBN 9780415614917

Stavrianakis, Anna and Selby, Jan (2012) War becomes academic: human terrain, virtuous war and contemporary militarism. An interview with James Der Derian. In: Militarism and international relations: political economy, security, theory, edited by Anna Stavrianakis and Jan Selby. Routledge, London, pp. 59-73. ISBN 9780415614917

Shaw, Martin (2012) Twenty-first century militarism: a historical-sociological framework. In: Militarism and international relations: political economy, security, theory. Cass Military Studies . Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415614917

Stavrianakis, Anna (2011) Small arms control and the reproduction of imperial relations. Contemporary Security Policy, 32 (1). pp. 193-214. ISSN 1352-3260

Stavrianakis, Anna (2010) Taking aim at the arms trade. NGOs, global civil society and the world military order. Zed Books, London and New York. ISBN 9781848132696

Stavrianakis, Anna (2009) In arms' way: arms company and military involvement in education in the UK. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 8 (3). pp. 505-520. ISSN 1492-9732

Kurki, Milja, Stavrianakis, Anna, Klabbers, Jan, Eschle, Catherine, Maiguascha, Bice and Grovogui, Siba N (2009) Roundtable: The Limits of Bridge-Building. International Relations, 23 (1). ISSN 0047-1178

Stavrianakis, Anna and Kurki, Milja (2009) Introduction. International Relations, 23 (1). pp. 117-118. ISSN 00471178

Stavrianakis, Anna (2008) The facade of arms control: how the UK's export licensing system facilitates the arms trade.

Stavrianakis, Anna (2008) Licensed to kill: The United Kingdom's arms export licensing process. Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 3 (1). pp. 32-39. ISSN 1749-852X

Stavrianakis, Anna (2006) Call to arms: the university as a site of militarised capitalism and a site of struggle. Millennium, 35 (1). pp. 139-154. ISSN 0305-8298

Stavrianakis, Anna (2005) Analysis: (Big) business as usual: sustainable development, NGOs and UK arms export policy. Conflict, Security and Development, 5 (1). pp. 45-67. ISSN 1467-8802