Catherine Gegout
Lecturer in International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Expertise Summary
Catherine Gegout's major research interests are in international relations theories, ethics and European politics, with expertise in European foreign and security policies. More recently, her attention has focused upon European intervention in Africa. Please see: https://sites.google.com/site/catherinegegout/
Catherine Gegout is the principle investigator of the CoReach project on Europe and China: Addressing New International Security and Development Challenges in Africa. Please see: sites.google.com/site/euchinaafrica/. She is also co-responsible for the project Armed Groups and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa, funded by the British Academy. Please see: https://sites.google.com/site/africapeacebuilding/
Her book European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions and the American Hegemon was published by University of Toronto Press in 2010.
Teaching Summary
Teaching
Europe and the Developing World (MA) Power and International Order (2nd year BA) Intervention in Africa (3rd year BA)
Areas of supervision
European Union: Foreign Policy, Defence Integration, Security (CFSP & ESDP); EU Trade, Aid & Development Policies; EU-NATO-UN Relations; EU-US Economic & Political Relations; EU & Africa; European International Politics; Theories of European Integration, European Union Politics
International Relations: Theories, International organisations (United Nations, International Criminal Court) & Regional organisations (OSCE, Council of Europe, African Union, ECOWAS)
Intervention: Ethics and Politics of Intervention
Security Studies
Foreign Policy: Foreign Policy Analysis, French, British, Italian & German Foreign Policy
Students supervised
Inanc Kamburoglu, Turkey's Foreign Policy and Power Politics, registered full-time since September 2009
Efsun Kizmaz, The Impact of Europeanisation on Turkey's Defence Policy, registered full-time since September 2009
Joanna Magier, Climate change and Security in Kenya, registered full-time since January 2010
Deekana Tipchanta, External Interventions in Resource Industries, registered full-time since September 2007
Research Summary
Catherine Gegout's major research interests are in international relations theories, ethics and European politics, with expertise in European foreign and security policies. More recently, her… read more
Recent Publications
GEGOUT, C., 2012. Explaining European military intervention in Africa: a neoclassical realist perspective. In: TOJE, A. and KUNZ, B., eds., Neoclassical realism in European politics: bringing power back in Manchester University Press. 138-160
GEGOUT, C., 2010. European foreign and security policyy: states, power, institutions, and American hegemony University of Toronto Press.
Current Research
Catherine Gegout's major research interests are in international relations theories, ethics and European politics, with expertise in European foreign and security policies. More recently, her attention has focused upon European intervention in Africa. Please see: https://sites.google.com/site/catherinegegout/
Research Topics:
EU Foreign Policy and Decision-Making Process: Intergovernmentalism and Realism EU Military Intervention in Africa: Post-colonialism, Ethnocentrism and Racism Ethics of Intervention and Realism
Research Projects:
Catherine Gegout is the principle investigator of the CoReach project on Europe and China: Addressing New International Security and Development Challenges in Africa. This project is conducted jointly with CASS in China and IEP Bordeaux in France. The EU-CHINA+AFRICA project analyses how China and the European Union address new international security and development challenges in Africa. Please see: https://sites.google.com/site/euchinaafrica/
Catherine Gegout is also co-responsible for the project Armed Groups and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa. This project is in collaboration with Devon Curtis, University of Cambridge, Paul Omach, University of Makerere, Uganda, and Mpho Molomo, University of Botswana. Please see: https://sites.google.com/site/africapeacebuilding/
Books:
European Intervention in Africa: Prestige, Complacency, Racism, currently being written European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions and the American Hegemon, University of Toronto Press, April 2010