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Dr Martin J Bayly
Project title: Imagining New Worlds: Empire and Knowledge in the Learned Societies of Colonia India, 1873-1955
Martin J Bayly is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Relations Department at LSE, where he has taught International Relations since 2014. Having joined the Department as an LSE Fellow his latest research project, funded by the British Academy, will be hosted by the Centre for International Studies for the duration of 2016-2019.
His research interests concern empire and International Relations in South Asia, with a particular emphasis on knowledge and expertise as a product of the colonial encounter. His first book, Taming the Imperial Imagination, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016, provides a new history of Anglo-Afghan relations in the nineteenth century showing how the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through the use of colonial knowledge. Beginning with the disorganised exploits of nineteenth century explorers and ending with the cold strategic logic of the militarised ‘scientific frontier’, the book shows how this evolving body of knowledge informed policy choices and cast Afghanistan in a separate legal and normative universe.
His latest research proposes a global, intellectual, and institutional history of modern South Asian international thought as a product European and non-European dialogues of knowledge in the learned societies of colonial India. Concentrating on the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the United Services Institution, and the Indian Council on World Affairs, the research will examine these institutions as sites of a global encounter between mobile elites from both regions. The project seeks to offer new avenues for the study of international thought in the non-west, and to give new insights into the origins of International Relations as a global project of colonial modernity.
Prior to joining LSE Martin taught at King’s College London, where he also completed his PhD in International Relations. He holds an MPhil in International Relations from St Antony’s College, Oxford University, and a BA with First Class Honours in Politics from the University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne.
Contact: m.j.bayly@lse.ac.uk
Website: https://lse.academia.edu/MartinBayly
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/martinjbayly/
Professor Linda Hantrais
Project title: International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-Based Policy
Linda Hantrais is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University, a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a member of its Council and Chair of its International Advisory Group.
Her research interests span international comparative research theory, methodology, management and practice, with particular reference to public policy and institutional structures in the European Union, and the relationship between socio-demographic trends and social policy. Her book-length publications on these topics include: Family Policy Matters: responding to family change in Europe (Policy Press, 2004); Social Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 3rd edn, 2007); and International Comparative Research: theory, methods and practice (Palgrave, 2009, available as an e-book together with a web companion, 2012).
Building on this work, Linda acted as a Consultant for an ESRC RDI-funded International Social Research Training Programme, hosted by the CIS, which resulted in a sustainable online (ReStore) databank. As Chair of the Academy’s International Advisory Group, in 2013-14 she convened a series of seminars on ‘Social Science Evidence and the Policy Process: International Insights’.
In July–August 2014, Linda acted as local convener on behalf of the AcSS for a World Social Science Fellows Seminar hosted by the CIS entitled ‘Global Social Governance: Developing International Social Science Research and Impacting the Policy Process’, under the auspices of the International Social Science Council.
Together with Ashley Thomas Lenihan and Susanne MacGregor in 2015, she guest-edited a themed issue of the Academy's journal, Contemporary Social Science, on International and Interdisciplinary Insights into Evidence and Policy, which was subsequently published in 2016 in the Routledge series on Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences.
In July 2016, with Ashley Lenihan, Linda published a CIS Working Paper on 'The Implications of the EU Referendum for UK Social Science: Post-referendum Options for UK Social Scientists'.
In conjunction with the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and also with Ashley Lenihan, from October 2016, she is convening a new series of seminars and publications on 'International and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-Based Policy', covering topics such as: E-society; Pathways to sustainability in a changing environment; Oublic health: alcohol, tobacco and drug addiction; Ageing and innovation; and Policy, family obligations and socio-demographic change. They will also be organising different forms of international social research training provision for researchers in the government, private and NGO sectors.
Contact: L.Hantrais@lse.ac.uk
Dr Arno Hold
Project title: Appropriate levels of IP protection and enforcement in least-developed countries; Exploring the interface between intellectual property rights and trade in services; The impact of FTA investment chapters on MNEs’ decisions to invest in developing countries.
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Arno Hold received his Ph.D. in International Affairs and Political Economics from the University of St. Gallen. He is a graduate of the World Trade Institute’s MILE programme (Master of International Law and Economics) and holds a master degree in Political Science from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Bologna. From 2013-2015, he lead a postdoctoral research project in the framework of the National Centre of Competence in Trade Regulation (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) that focussed on the role of innovation and competition in international trade governance.
Dr Hold was a visiting scholar at the School of Economics and Finance of the University of Hong Kong. During his stay in Asia, he co-founded the WTI/CUHK Hong Kong Summer Programme on International Intellectual Property and acted for three years as its Programme Director.
Dr Hold regularly works as an international consultant and has obtained several expert mandates to provide trade-related policy advice, capacity-building programmes and technical assistance projects in a variety of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. His professional career includes positions as a Coordinator for International Cooperation and Project Director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, as a Project Officer at a think tank in Geneva and as a Business Development Consultant in Singapore. Furthermore, Dr Hold was a Research Assistant at the Institute for International Law of the University of Zurich and completed internships at the UN Headquarters in New York and at the Strategic Leadership Training Unit of the Swiss Federal Chancellery.
He has lectured at the South-Western University of Finance & Economics in Chengdu, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Transatlantic IP Summer Academy of Bocconi University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.
Areas of expertise include; Law and economics of international trade; Economic development; Innovation and intellectual property, trade in services, international investment, competition, global value chains; Planning, management and evaluation of complex international multi-stakeholder projects.
Contact: a.hold@lse.ac.uk
Website: LSE Experts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/arno-hold/2/b91/145
Dr Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués
Project title: Locating the Arab states in Global Governance: is the Arab stance on human rights and the principle of non-interference changing in the post-2011 Arab uprising context?
Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués is a Research Associate at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and is a member of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy, both Spain.
Prior to joining IBEI she was a visiting researcher at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden. Her research interests centers on the EU’s foreign policy and the EU’s relations with Eastern Europe and the Arab world, international security, multilateralism and regionalism.
Her publications have appeared in Security Dialogue, International Affairs, Mediterranean Politics and elsewhere.
Contact: ejohanssonnogues@ibei.org
Dr Flavia Jurje
Project title: Regulatory Powers in the International Migration Regime: A Social Network Approach
Flavia Jurje is a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Lucerne and World Trade Institute in Bern, with over a decade of experience in several international institutions, EU bodies, think tanks, governmental organisations and research centres. She has been conducting and leading research on EU politics and external affairs, as well as global trade regulations and labour mobility. As a visiting fellow at LSE, Centre for International Studies, supported by a Swiss National Science Foundation Mobility Grant, she works on a research project that assesses the trade-migration/temporary mobility of service providers nexus at the multilateral, plurilateral, and bilateral level across emerging markets (i.e. Brazil, India, China, Mexico) and regional integration units (e.g. Mercosur, Asean, Ecowas, Caricom, NAFTA, SADC). Flavia has published in major journals in this field, including a book on Europeanization in New Member States (Routledge, 2013). She holds a PhD in European Politics from ETH Zurich.
Contact: F.Jurje@lse.ac.uk
Dr Ashley Thomas Lenihan
Project title: Institutionalising Evidence-Based Policy: International Insights’;‘Economic Power and Sovereign Wealth Funds’
Ashley Thomas Lenihan is a Fellow with the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics, and a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Law, Science, & Global Security at Georgetown University. Her research is focused on the political economy of international security, international law, and the relationship between social science research and the policy-making process. Recent publications include ‘Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Acquisition of Power’ (New Political Economy, 2013) and her book manuscript, on government intervention into cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in industries related to national security, is now under peer review. Ashley is currently using the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s Transaction Database (SWFTD) to further explore the role of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in economic power. Building on her report ‘Lessons from Abroad: International Approaches to Promoting Evidence-Based Social Policy’ (Alliance for Useful Evidence, 2013), Ashley is also researching the institutionalisation of evidence-based policy making in foreign countries. In addition, she has been working with Dr. Linda Hantrais on the International Advisory Group (IAG) of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) Seminar Series, entitled ‘Social Science Evidence and the Policy Process: International Insights’. Summaries and professional briefings of the series are available on the AcSS website. Finally, she is working on a project examining the evolution of rape as war crime under international law. Ashley was previously a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (where she served as the Director of the Legatum Prosperity Index), and began her career as an investment banking analyst (focused on Aerospace and Defence M&A) with Credit Suisse First Boston in London. She received her Ph.D. in Government, and her B.S. in Foreign Service, from Georgetown University.
Contact: A.Lenihan@lse.ac.uk
Website: https://lse.academia.edu/AshleyThomasLenihan
Dr Yulia Netesova
Project title: Russian Protesting Movement in 2011-2012: the Story of the Interaction Between the Movement and the Russian State
Yulia Netesova holds a PhD in political science from Moscow State Institute of International Affairs, Russia. Her dissertation - written under the supervision of Evgeny Primakov - analyzed the correlation between the development of the doctrine of jihad in the Muslim world and the activities of the radical segment of the Muslim communities in Europe. Right now Yulia is completing the book manuscript based on her PhD research that will be published by the Russian publishing house “Ladomir”. Besides this, Yulia works as a journalist for various Russian independent media where she covers foreign affairs.
At CIS LSE Yulia is pursuing a research project that analyses the first phases of the Russian protest movement in 2011-2012 through qualitative (field interviews with the representatives of both sides) and quantitative methods (protest event analysis).
Contact: y.netesova@lse.ac.uk
Dr David Rampton
Project title: Power, Identity and Conflict in Sri Lanka
David Rampton received his MSc and PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS. Between 2012 and 2015, he was an LSE Fellow in Global Politics based in the Departments of Government and International Relations, where he taught the Masters courses, Politics of Globalisation and Conflict and Peacebuilding, (which he still convenes). Between 2004 and 2012 he was a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS where he taught courses on international relations, diplomacy, nationalism studies and migration at CISD and in the Politics and Development Studies departments. He has engaged in high impact policy work on conflict, security, governance, migration and rights issues with aid and advocacy agencies including UNHCR, The World Bank, UK Government (DfID/FCO), The Asia Foundation, International Crisis Group and the Berghof Foundation.
Dr Rampton's main teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of conflict, security and identity politics engaged from a critical studies perspective, with a regional focus on South Asia. Within this broad framework, he is specifically interested in understanding nationalism as a diffuse phenomenon co-constituted through the interface of global power, particularly liberal order, with local forms of social order and political mobilization. David is currently completing a book entitled, Power, Identity and Conflict in Sri Lanka due for publication by Rowman and Littlefield International in 2016, which focuses on the historical development of hegemonic Sinhala Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. His research has been published in edited volumes and high-ranking journals including Review of International Studies and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Contact: D.L.Rampton@lse.ac.uk
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Rampton
Dr Michael Sander
Project title: Private Multinational Companies in the Creation and Evolution of International and World Order
Michael Sander holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Trier, Germany. His thesis analysed the transnational political-economic networks in German-Russian energy relations between 2002 and 2007. The Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation supported his thesis with a Graduate Scholarship. Subsequently, Michael worked at different research institutions in Brussels and Germany, including the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Trier. He published among others in Energy Policy, Internationale Politik and Oil, Gas & Energy Law. Michael acted as reviewer for the Research Council of Norway and the Research Foundation – Flanders.
Michael’s research focuses on the political economy of energy relations, the role of multinational companies in transnational governance structures, Russian foreign policy and international revisionism. During his Visiting Fellowship, he will analyse how multinational oil companies influence the creation and reform of transnational and international institutions. This project builds upon earlier work conducted at and financially supported by the Center for International Studies. In a second project, Michael will analyse the revisionist turn in Russian foreign policy using the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias.
Contact: m.sander@lse.ac.uk
Professor Giorgio Shani
Project title: Religion, Migration and Human Security: A Post-Secular Perspective?
Giorgio Shani is Professor of Politics and International Relations at International Christian University (ICU) in Japan and is currently serving as President of the Asia-Pacific Region of the International Studies Association (ISA).
A graduate of the LSE, Giorgio's main research interests focus on religion, security and ‘post-western’ international political theory, with particularl reference to South Asia and Japan. His first book, Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2008) explores the reasons for the rise and fall of Sikh nationalism in the Punjab and the Diaspora. He argues that the failure of the movement to bring about a Sikh state, Khalistan, should not be interpreted as resulting from the weakness of Sikh nationalism but points to the transformation of national identity under conditions of globalization.
In his most recent book, Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014), he attempts to reconceptualise Human Security along post-secular lines by arguing that, if Human Security is to contest the hegemony of the national security paradigm and potentially become a new global ethic, it needs to be more inclusive of religious and cultural difference.
Giorgio has also published widely in internationally refereed journals including influential articles on ‘post-western’ International Relations Theory which appeared in International Studies Review (2008) and The Cambridge Review of International Studies (2007). He also is a series co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics published by Rowman and Littlefield International.
At the CIS, Giorgio will be working on a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) funded research project on Religion, Migration and Human Security which will seek to assess the potential for the institutionalization of a ‘post-secular’ approach to the protection and integration of migrants and its implications for theories of international relations.
Contact: gshani@icu.ac.jp
Website: https://icu.academia.edu/GiorgioShani
Professor Lutfey Siddiqi
Project title: Reshaping trade and capital flows within the Global South
Lutfey Siddiqi is Visiting Professor-in-Practice at the Centre for International Studies at LSE. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore, having been a founding member of the faculty at its Risk Management Institute. Until May 2016, he was a Managing Director and member of the executive committee of FX, Rates & Credit (FRC) at UBS Investment bank with global responsibility for emerging markets. He was also a member of the Group Sustainability Council, the cross-divisional panel of opinion leaders and the investment bank innovation board.
Lutfey is a member of the Global Agenda Council (Financing & Capital) at the World Economic Forum, LSE Court of Governors & LSE Investment committee, Bretton Woods Committee, Advisory board of the Systemic Risk Centre and Academy for the $1 Million Global Teacher Prize.
Honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012, he was invited to speak on the official program at Davos consecutively between 2013 and 2016.
A CFA charter-holder and former board member of CFA Singapore, Lutfey obtained his First Class BSc. (hon) in Econometrics from the University of York, MSc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics and the International Baccalaureate diploma from UWC Atlantic College. In addition, he has completed senior leadership training at Harvard, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and IMD.
Lutfey is an active commentator on international media and multi-stakeholder fora on topics including macro investing, emerging markets (with a focus on Asia), risk management, capital and currency markets, financial regulation & policy, bank management, business-model transformations, impact investing, constructive conflict and diversity.
A British-Bangladeshi who went to school in Abu Dhabi, Namibia and Wales, Lutfey now lives in London with his Singaporean wife Deborah and their two sons, Aaryan and Ishaan.
Contact: L.Y.Siddiqi@lse.ac.uk
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LutfeyS/; www.linkedin.com/in/lutfeys; @Lutfeys
Dr Immi Tallgren
Project title: Histories of International Criminal Law: Between Historiography, Horror, and Heroism in Law’s Times and Spaces
Immi Tallgren, LL.D., University of Helsinki, is a research fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, and chercheuse associée, Séminaire interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques, Saint Louis University, Brussels.
Her research interests reach from public international law to history and sociology of international law, law & film, legal anthropology. The interdisciplinary research project she is conducting at CIS features both a critical analysis of the ways in which the past of the ‘discipline’ of international criminal law (ICL) is accounted for, and a reflection on the functions or interests that such histories serve in the construction of salience and legitimacy of ICL. Tallgren is an active participant in various international collaborative projects and networks, including Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law; the Intellectual History of International Law: Working group on International Law and Religion; and the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) at the Law and Society Association - International Law and Politics. She has published widely in the areas of international law, international criminal law and the history of international law.
Prior to returning to academia in 2011, Tallgren worked for 12 years for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Legal Unit of the European Police Cooperation Organisation, the European Space Agency Legal Department in Paris, and the European Space Agency Brussels Office for Cooperation with the EU Institutions.
Contact: i.tallgren@lse.ac.uk; immi.tallgren@helsinki.fi
Dr Maximilian Terhalle
Project title: Today's World Began in the 1970s: Theorising Benchmark Dates for a 'Decentered' Global Order
Maximilian Terhalle is currently Reader of International Politics at the University of Winchester. Before joining Winchester in September 2015, he taught and conducted research at Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Oxford Universities between 2007 and 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he worked at the Universities of Potsdam, Berlin, Jena and Hagen (Germany). At the latter, he served as the Acting Chair of International Politics in 2015. Maximilian received his DPhil from the University of Bonn (Germany) and two Master degrees from the Universities of London and Bonn. He obtained his Habilitation (Privatdozentur) from Potsdam University in 2016.
Since 2009, he has published ten peer-reviewed journal articles (e.g. in Security Studies,Review of International Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Climate Policy), three peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes, and two peer-reviewed edited Special Issues.
He has received a fully funded mid-career research fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (three years) and a pre-doctoral fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (one year). Moreover, he has published a dozen articles, partly with a policy focus (e.g. in Survival, Middle East Policy) and has written commentaries, among others, for the Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
Currently, he is working on two journal articles, one on the meaning of the 1970s for today’s international relations and its implications for IR theory, the other on the re-emergence of spheres of influence in world politics.
Contact: Maximilian.Terhalle@winchester.ac.uk
Website: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/history/peopleprofiles/Pages/dr-maximilian-terhalle.aspx
Professor Marie Thorsten
Project title: Soft and Hard Power Ascendance in Post-Pacifist Japan
Marie Thorsten is Professor in the Faculty of Global Communications at Doshisha University, in Kyoto, Japan. She teaches in fields of cultural/media studies and international relations, and has contributed publications on topics such as US-Japan relations, war memory, globalisation, education, popular culture and documentary media, in journals including Asia-Pacific Journal, International Journal of Cultural Research and International Political Sociology.
Her book, Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations (Routledge 2012) situated global fascination with the “superior” image of Japan (in the 1970s and 1980s) across the transition from lingering World War II enmity to post-cold war techno-political policies and discourses of global neoliberalism. Another co-authored project she is undertaking (with CJ Suzuki of CUNY-Baruch College) addresses the popularity of graphic novels as representing a kind of global media phenomenon that does not conform to the expectation in Japan and other countries that comics are automatically a form of national “soft power.”
At the CIS, Marie will study the simultaneous ascendance of soft and hard power (“Cool Japan” and “normalising” Japan, respectively) in post-pacifist Japan, and the impact that ascendance has on attitudes toward democracy. Her forthcoming essay on this topic, “Soft-Hard Power Convergence and Democracy in Abe’s Japan,” appears in Gill Steel, ed., Power in Contemporary Japan (Palgrave, 2016).
Contact: thorsten@eastwestcommunity.org
Website: https://doshisha.academia.edu/MarieThorsten
Professor Faruk Yalvaç
Project title: Historical Sociology of the Seas: The role of the seas in the development of capitalism and in Turkish Foreign Policy
Faruk Yalvaç is Professor of International Relations in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of theMiddle East Technical University in Ankara. He graduated from Talas American School (Junior High) and Tarsus American College (Senior High). He received his BA from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. He holds an Msc and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science where we was the Noel Buxton Scholar. He also holds an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where he was on a Fulbright Scholarship. The title of his unpublished PhD thesis is Sociological Aspects of Interstate Relations: System, Structure and Class. His main academic interests are international relations theory, Marxism, critical realism, historical sociology, political theory and theoretical analysis of Turkish foreign policy.
Contact: fyalvac@metu.edu.tr