Politics and International Relations

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

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

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