The IR Department is home to globally-recognised experts who contribute to discipline shaping debates. Our faculty can be grouped into three main areas: Asia-Pacific politics; Global histories and theories; and Peace and conflict studies.
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Asia-Pacific politics
- Professor Bina D’Costa
- Associate Professor Mathew Davies
- Dr Benjamin Day
- Dr David Envall
- Dr Sarah Logan
- Dr Beverley Loke
- Dr Deepak Nair
- Dr Lauren Richardson
- Dr Maria Tanyag
Global histories and theories
- Dr Kirsten Ainley
- Associate Professor Luke Glanville
- Professor George Lawson
- Dr Beverley Loke
- Dr Joseph MacKay
- Dr Deepak Nair
- Professor Cian O’Driscoll
- Dr Maria Tanyag
- Professor Wes Widmaier
Peace and conflict studies
- Dr Kirsten Ainley
- Professor Bina D’Costa
- Professor Cian O’Driscoll
- Associate Professor Luke Glanville
- Associate Professor Cecilia Jacob
- Dr Nicolas Lemay-Hebert
- Dr Sarah Logan
- Dr Eglantine Staunton
- Dr Maria Tanyag
Diplomacy
- Dr Benjamin Day
- Dr David Envall
- Associate Professor Cecilia Jacob
- Dr Sarah Logan
- Dr Beverley Loke
- Dr Deepak Nair
- Dr Lauren Richardson
- Dr Eglantine Staunton
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Dr Cecilia Jacob traces the transformation of international accountability for mass atrocities, drawing on fieldwork and case studies to theorise a new global human protection order.
Young scholar-practitioners examine youth-led peacebuilding across Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, linked to the UN's Youth, Peace and Security agenda.
Professor Kirsten Ainley examines the resurgence of hybrid international courts across conflicts worldwide, analysing what makes them succeed or fail in delivering justice and resilience.
This book presents 20 essays on unconventional thinkers on war ethics, from ancient Greece to today, challenging standard divides between just war theory, realism, and pacifism.
This book examines everyday inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the failure to address them in crisis settings from a feminist international relations (IR) perspectiv
Dr Luke Glanville examines how states should prioritise competing global responsibilities, analysing principles like urgency, culpability, and disadvantage to guide effective, targeted assistance.
Translation of the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, peaking in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51
Drawing on policy documents and elite interviews with policymakers, Dr Logan provides a global overview of counterradicalisation measures and in-depth historical case studies of this in the US and UK.