Politics and International Relations
Institutions, Participation, Public Opinion, Parties and Comparative Politics
Dr Ben Clements
- The European Union and British Politics
- Public opinion of foreign policy issues in Britain
- Religion and Politics in Britain
Dr Stephen Hopkins
- Politics and History of Northern Ireland
- French and Italian Trade Unions
- Italian Politics
Dr Philip Lynch
- The Centre Right in Britain, particularly the Conservative Party and UKIP
- British Politics and European Integration, particularly Euroscepticism
Dr Alex Waddan
- US Social Policy
- US Party Politics
- The Clinton Presidency
- The George W Bush Presidency
- US Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War
Dr Richard Whitaker
- The European Parliament
- The Westminster Parliament
- Comparative Legislatures, particularly Committees and Parties in Legislatures
- Eurosceptic Political Parties
International Relations and Security Studies
Dr Bleddyn Bowen
- Space warfare, space policy, space security
- Strategic theory and military philosophy
- Modern warfare
- Seapower theory
- Contemporary maritime strategy
- Technology and war
Professor Mark Phythian
- Post-9/11 Security Issues
- Issues in Intelligence
- War and British Politics
- Origins of the 2003- War in Iraq
Dr Helen Dexter
- Political violence
- War and conflict
- Ethics and law in the context of war
- Narrative approaches to international politics
Professor Andrew Futter
- Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Deterrence, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation
- Contemporary US Foreign and Security Policy
- Strategic Studies
- Diplomatic History
Dr Tara McCormack
- Security (Theory and Practices), Sovereignty, Agency, and Intervention after the Cold War
- Changing Theorisation of War and Conflict in the Developing World
- The Yugoslav Break-Up and Wars
Dr Kelly Staples
- International Relations Theory (especially, but not limited to, International Political Theory)
- Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons
- Human Rights
Dr David Strachan-Morris
- Intelligence
- Counterinsurgency, low intensity conflict and military interventions
- The private security industry (private security companies and/or private military companies)
- International security
- Internal state security
Political Theory
Dr Laura Brace
- Political thinkers, especially Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Wollstonecraft
- The politics of slaveries past and present
- Feminist theory and practice
- Property, gender and self-ownership
Dr Stephen Cooke
- Contemporary political philosophy and normative ethics
- Political obligation
- Theories of rights, especially animal rights
- Ethics of protest and political violence
- Liberal theories of justice
Dr Kelly Staples
- International relations theory (especially, but not limited to, international political theory)
- Protection of refugees and stateless persons
- Human rights