International Relations

Areas of Supervision

 

Soft Security and the War on Terrorism

This research area looks at non-military aspects of security such as international crime, drug-trafficking and counter-terrorism. Wyn Rees has research and written in these fields. He invites applications for the following Ph.D. topics:

• State Cooperation Against International Crime, Terrorism and Drug Trafficking (Wyn Rees)

[Find out more about Soft Security and the War on Terrorism]

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Security Studies

The end of the Cold War has not made the world a safer place and security studies continue to constitute an essential area in political science. Applications are invited for the following Ph.D. projects:

• Military intervention, military presence and peace-building (Catherine Gegout)
• Transatlantic Security Relations (Wyn Rees)
• The place of ‘Neutrality’ in contemporary international politics (Neville Wylie)
• Neutrality as a regional phenomenon (Neville Wylie)
• Western policies towards prisoner of war (POW) interrogation, detention and exploitation in the wars in East Asia,  South East Asia and the South West Pacific, from the 1940s until the 1970s (Neville Wylie)
• Democratic peace theory (Matthew Rendall)
• War and peace in 19th-century Europe (Matthew Rendall)
• Stable peace and security communities (Matthew Rendall)
• Trajectories of ‘State Failure’ and World Order (Adam Morton)
• Insurgencies and counter-insurgencies (Rod Thornton)
• Russian military (Rod Thornton)
• Military transformation (Rod Thornton)
• The British Army (Rod Thornton)
• War in Iraq and Afghanistan (Rod Thornton)
• Russian defence and security policy (Bettina Renz)
• The role of airpower in modern warfare (Bettina Renz)

[Find out more about Security Studies]

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Human Rights Studies

Human rights issues have remained on the top of the international politics agenda due to continuing violent conflicts across the world. The School of Politics and International Relations invites applications for the following Ph.D. projects:

• Politics of trauma/therapeutic justice (Vanessa Pupavac)
• Language rights in conflict (Vanessa Pupavac)
• Children’s rights (Vanessa Pupavac)
• Humanitarianism (Vanessa Pupavac)

[Find out more about Human Rights Studies]

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US Foreign Policy / Anglo-American Relations

With Alex Danchev and Neville Wylie, two leading scholars on US foreign policy work in the School of Politics and International Relations. They invite applications for the following Ph.D. projects.

• The Special Relationship (Alex Danchev)
• U.S. attitudes towards International Humanitarian Law (Neville Wylie)

[Find out more about US Foreign Policy / Anglo-American Relations]

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