Academic Staff

Selected Research Publications

• 2020 (forthcoming); ‘Decent and Indecent Exposures: Naked Veterans and Militarized (Counter-)Violences after War.’
• 2020; ‘Protection of Child Soldiers: Assistance Tradeoffs within the Child Rights Regime,’ in Neil Howard and Samuel Okyere (eds) Are We Really Saving the Children? International Child Protection in the 21^st Century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2013; Ex-combatants and the Post-conflict State: Challenges of Reintegration, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (Rethinking Political Violence Series).
• 2013; ‘Integration or Separation? The Stigmatisation of Ex-combatants after War,’ Review of International Studies, 39(2) 385-414.

Research Interests

• Ex-combatant disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
• Veterans’ politics and post-war welfare policy
• Youth livelihood, social movements, and political participation
• Resistance and protest movements after war
• Documentary filmmaking and peace research
• Qualitative research methods, field research, and ethics in vulnerable settings

Selected Research Publications

• Forthcoming, “The Global Comparative Study of Gangs: A Conceptual Framework,” In E. Erez & P. Ibarra (Eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2020; “Criminal Violence in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 55(2): 397-406. Co-authored with Juan Albarracín.
• 2017; “Criminal Politics: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Organized Crime, Politics, and Violence.” Perspectives on Politics 15(4): 967-987.
• 2016; “Crime and plural orders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” Current Sociology 65(3): 448-465. Co-authored with Enrique Desmond Arias.
• 2018; “Life in a War Zone: Putting the military in control of Rio de Janeiro’s policing threatens Brazilian democracy,” US News & World Report. Published online February 23.
• 2016; “Mobilization in the Wake of Rio’s Olympics,” Mobilizing Ideas. Published online August 28.
• 2014; “With Brazil in Spotlight, Rio’s Favela Pacification Program at a Crossroads,” World Politics Review. Published online June 9. 
• 2014; “Rio de Janeiro’s BOPE and Police Pacification: Fear and Intimidation in Complexo da Maré,” Anthropoliteia. Published online June 6.
• 2013; “The Rio Protests: Who, What, Why and Will They Matter?” The Monkey Cage. Published online June 28.

Research Interests

• The intersection of criminal and political violence
• The origins and evolution of organized criminal groups
• Criminal governance
• Police militarization in Brazil/Latin America
• Ethnography and the ethics of fieldwork
• Visual arts and community change

Selected Research Publications

• 2019; Contraria sunt complementa: global entanglement and the constitution of difference. Fierke, K. M., Mar 2019, International Studies Review. 21, 1, p. 146-169 23 p.
• 2019; Global conversations: relationality, embodiment and power in the move towards a Global IR. Fierke, K. M. & Jabri, V., 12 Jul 2019, Global Constitutionalism. First View, 30 p.
• 2018; Language, entanglement and the new Silk Roads. Fierke, K. M. & Antonio-Alfonso, F., 1 Sep 2018, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. 3, 3, p. 194-206 20 p.
• 2017; Consciousness at the interface: Wendt, Eastern wisdom and the ethics of intra-action. Fierke, K. M., 2017, Critical Review. 29, 2, p. 141-169
• 2017; Introduction: Independence, global entanglement and the co-production of sovereignty. Fierke, K. M., 18 Jul 2017, Global Constitutionalism. 6, 2, p. 167-183 17 p.

Research Interests

• The role of emotion and trauma in international politics
• The relationship between memory and violence
• The political self-sacrifice

Selected Publications

• Saferworld, “The Caucasus: Armed and Divided – Small Arms and Light Weapons proliferation and humanitarian consequences in the Caucasus”, Report Conclusion, “An opportunity for progress,” April 2003.
• Saferworld, “Tackling small arms and light weapons proliferation in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia: the view from Government,” October 2003.
• Scotsman, “Westminster trouble over Scots and EU polls,” 7 February 2013.
• Herald, “Prime Minister has not made the case for war, bombing could pro-long the conflict,” 29 November 2015.
• Herald, “The EU has an impact on us all,” 7 February 2016.
• The National, “Russia is big – it’s what a Common EU Foreign Policy was built for,” 31 May 2016.
• The iPaper, “Scotland will do all it can to stay in the EU,” 24 June 2016.
• The European Parliament Magazine, “Scotland seeks a Life Raft in Brexit’s stormy seas,” 17 February 2017.
• The European Parliament Magazine, “Can Scotland act as a bridge between the UK and EU?” 21 March 2017.
• The Times, “Let’s celebrate the 60^th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome,” 21 March 2017.
• The National, “Scotland’s MPs can work together to ensure our place in the Single Market,” 7 August 2017. 
• The Observer, “MPs need to take a new approach over Brexit – an argument for consensus in politics,” 10 September 2017.
• The Times, “If Northern Ireland can have a Special status then so can Scotland,” 7 December 2017.
• The National, “As we mark St Andrews day let’s unlock Scotland’s foreign policy potential,” 2 December 2018.
• Hansard, Stephen Gethins’ Debate on Scotland’s Foreign Policy Footprint, 3 December 2018.
• The National, “An Independent Scotland will be a Bridge to Europe for what is left of the UK,” 2 June 2019.
• The House Magazine, “UK Arms export guidelines are not working,” 24 June 2019.
• The Sunday Post, “All the promises of the Brexiteers have turned to dust,” 8 September 2019.
• Scotsman, “Here’s how you can say no to Boris and yes to Europe,” 16 July 2019.
• The House Magazine, “We must bring British children trapped in Syrian camps home before it is too late,” 28 October 2019.
• The National, “How Scotland can honour the legacy of heroic nurses like Louisa Jordan,” 21 April 2020.
• The National, “Why is Scotland not using its clout on the Global Stage?” 28 April 2020.

Research Interests

• Scotland’s foreign policy footprint and its role in conflict resolution
• The role of devolution in peacebuilding
• Political decision making processes in foreign policy

Selected Research Publications

• 2020; Krystalli Roxani, “When humans become data.” Companion on Field Research in Peace and Conflict Studies, edited by Roger Mac Ginty, Birte Vogel, and Roddy Brett. Palgrave MacMillan (forthcoming)
• 2020; Krystalli, Roxani. “The politics of noticing.” Reflections on the Sydney Symposium on Gender, (In)Security, and Temporalities of Violence.
• 2020; Krystalli, Roxani and Cynthia Enloe. “Doing Feminism.” International Feminist Journal of Politics
• 2019; Krystalli, Roxani. “Narrating violence: Feminist dilemmas and approaches.” The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Violence, edited by Laura J. Shepherd. Edwin Edgar Publishing
• 2019; Krystalli, Roxani. A review of Rethinking Silence, Voice, and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains, edited by Jane Parpart and Swati Parashar. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019
• 2018; Krystalli, Roxani, Allyson Hawkins, Kim Wilson. “‘I followed the flood’: A gender analysis of the moral and financial economies of forced migration.” Disasters 42 (2018): S17-S39

Research Interests

• Feminist approaches to peacebuilding
• Field research methods and ethics
• Hierarchies of victimhood 
• The politics of nature and place in the study of violence
• Critical humanitarianism

Selected Research Publications

• 2020; Empire, emotion, exchange: (dis)orienting encounters of/with post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy. Mills, L., 22 Jun 2020, Cultural Studies
• 2020; Openings. Mills, L. & Cole, L., 17 Jan 2020, Contemporary Voices: The St Andrews Journal of International Relations. p. 1 2 p.
• 2018; Feminist labour at the ISA: White manels, the politics of citation and mundane productions of disciplinary sexism and racism. Mills, L., Åhäll, L., Cook, S., Guerrina, R., Haastrup, T., Masters, C., Särmä, S. & Wright, K. A. M., 26 Jun 2018, The Disorder of Things.
• 2017; Making a meal of it: Food, conflict and politics in the Travel Channel’s Breaking Borders. Mills, L., 2017, (In preparation).
• 2017; Spectacle, sport and subjectivity: aesthetic (dis)embodiment and the Invictus Games. Mills, L. J., 2017, (In preparation).

Research Interests

• Social and political theory
• Critical security studies
• International political sociology
• Cultural studies
• Cultural and public diplomacy

Selected Research Publications

• Edited volume, 2019; co-edited with Cedric de Coning, United Nations peace operations in a changing global order. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2019; with Kari M. Osland, ‘The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: Implementation and perception of The EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo’. European Security, online first https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2019.1649658
  
• 2017; with Francesco Strazzari, ‘Securitisation of research: Fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali’. Third World Quarterly, 38(7), 1531–50.
• 2016; with Francesco Strazzari, ‘Securitisation of research: fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali’. Third World Quarterly, published online 21 December 2016, 
• 2016; ‘Legitimnost in relevantnost: Prihodnost mirovnih operacij Organizacije Združenih Narodov’. Teorija in praksa, 53 (3), 676–693. (Legitimacy and relevance: The future of the United Nations peace operations).

Research Interests

• Global governance and international organisations
• Peace operations and peacebuilding
• The politics of international law
• IR theory (critical and constructivist approaches, international political sociology)

Selected Research Publications

• 2019; Solidarity at the margins: Arendt, refugees, and the inclusive politics of world-making. Saunders, N. E. G. & Hayden, P., 1 Mar 2019, Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution. Hiruta, K. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 171-199 (Philosophers in Depth).
• 2018; Beyond asylum claims: refugee protest, responsibility, and Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Saunders, N. E. G., 2018, The International Journal of Human Rights. 22, 7, p. 847-868
• 2017; International political theory and the refugee problem. Saunders, N., 24 Nov 2017, London: Routledge. 192 p. (Routledge research on the global politics of migration)
• 2017; The Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016: rallying around which flag? Donnelly, F. & Saunders, N. E. G., 10 Mar 2017, Open Democracy.

Research Interests

• Issues of forced migration, human rights, and citizenship
• Conceptualisations of, and questions about, political responsibility, social justice, political subjectivity, and ‘decolonising’ political theory

Selected Research Publications

• 2021; Mulubale, Sanny and Shwaikh, Malaka, “Unequal to the Task of Transitional Justice: The Fractured Justice System of the International Criminal Court”, Social and Legal Studies (forthcoming in late 2021)
• 2020; Shwaikh, Malaka and Gould, Rebecca, Prison Hunger Strikes as Civil Resistance: A Global Perspective on Political Resistance in Prisons, Monograph, International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict (forthcoming in December 2020).
• 2020; Shwaikh, Malaka and Gould, Rebecca Ruth, “The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom: Intertwined Stories from the Frontlines of UK-Based Palestine Activism”, Biograph An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Hawaii  University Press, (forthcoming in May 2020)
• 2018; Shwaikh, Malaka, “The Dynamics of Prison-Based Hunger Strikes”, Jerusalem Quarterly, pp. 78-90.
• 2016; Shwaikh, Malaka and Martijn, Van Gils, “Fighting without Weapons: Palestinian Documentary Films and Acts of Resistance”, Asian Affairs, 47.3, pp. 443-464.
• 2016; Shwaikh, Malaka, “The Role of International Law in World Politics”, Cambridge International Law Journal, online en€try

Research Interests

• The politics and international relations of the ‘Middle East’
• Peacebuilding from decolonial, critical theoretical and feminist perspectives
• Prison hunger strikes: necropolitics and necroresistance
• Critical approach(es) to (civil) resistance
• Academic freedom

Selected Research Publications

• 2019; “Home” in peace and conflict studies: a site of resistance and of reform. Watson, A., 6 May 2019, In: Peace and Conflict Studies Journal. 26, 1, 3.
• 2019; Truth, Healing, and Transformation in the Settler Colonial State: The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Watson, A. M. S. & Collins, B., 2019, (Submitted) In: The International Journal of Human Rights.
• 2018; The Impetus for Peace Studies to Make a Collaborative Turn: Towards Community Collaborative Research. Watson, A. M. S. & Collins, B., 8 Jan 2018, Ethnographic Peace Research: Approaches and Tensions. Millar, G. (ed.). Macmillan Publishers (incl. Palgrave, Picador), p. 89-114 4
• 2017; Ethiopia. Watson, A. M. S., Collins, B. & Ochalla, N., 2017, The Indigenous World. IWGIA
• 2016; Children and Peace. Watson, A. M. S. & Collins, B., 2016, The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 206-219

Research Interests

• Peace studies
• Postcolonial theory
• Transnational social movements
• Climate change politics
• Crimes of multinational and state entities
• Critiques of the liberal peace and ‘the local’ rights of Indigenous peoples in North America and East Africa
• Restorative and reconciliation processes

Selected Research Publications

• 2016; Conflict and Development (with Roger Mac Ginty) London, Routledge, 2^nd
• 2006; Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished, London, Routledge.
• France, Britain and the United States in the 20^th Century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan: Vol.1 (1900-1940), 2014; Vol.2 (1940-1961), 2020; Vol.3 (1961-1970), forthcoming.

Research Interests

• The historical antecedents of conflict and wars
• Different policy options in the aftermaths of conflicts and wars
• Alternatives to British and American understandings of the ‘international’, especially francophone