Dr Jaremey McMullin – Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies; Coordinator, MLitt/MPhil Peacebuilding and Mediation; Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Selected Research Publications Research Interests
Dr Nicholas Barnes – Lecturer in International Relations
Selected Research Publications Research Interests
Prof Karin M. Fierke – Professor of International Relations
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
Stephen Gethins – Professor of Practice in International Relations
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 60th 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
Dr Roxani Krystalli – Lecturer in International Relations
Selected Research Publications Research Interests
Dr Laura Mills – Associate Lecturer in International Relations
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
Dr Mateja Peter – Lecturer in International Relations
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)
Dr Natasha Saunders – Lecturer in International Relations
Selected Research Publications Research Interests
Dr Malaka Shwaikh – Associate Lecturer in Peace & Conflict Studies
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
Prof Ali Watson – Professor of International Relations
Selected Research Publications Research Interests
Prof Andrew J. Williams – Professor in International Relations
Selected Research Publications
- 2016; Conflict and Development (with Roger Mac Ginty) London, Routledge, 2nd
- 2006; Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished, London, Routledge.
- France, Britain and the United States in the 20th 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