Academic staff

AINLEY, Dr Kirsten
Assistant Professor

Email: k.a.ainley@lse.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7107 5118 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.7.07

Research interests:

International political theory; international ethics; politics of international law; humanitarian intervention; human rights.

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on leave MT and LT 2016-17

ALDEN, Professor J Chris
Professor of International Relations

Email: j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 7386 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.13

Research interests:

Foreign policy analysis; African interstate relations; south-south relations, post-conflict peace building.

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on leave 2016-17

BARKAWI, Dr Tarak
Deputy Head of Department (Research)

Email: t.k.barkawi@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 7526 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.07

Research interests:

War and Society; Postcolonial Thought; Empire and Imperialism; Globalization and World History; Historical Sociology.

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BAYLY, Dr Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow

Email: m.j.bayly@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7400 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.08

Research interests:

Contemporary International Relations theory; constructivism; history, empire, and IR; Afghanistan and South Asia; the disciplinary history of IR; expertise, knowledge, and foreign policy.

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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

BICCHI, Dr Federica
Associate Professor

Email: f.c.bicchi@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 7987 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.13

Research interests:

European foreign policy; EU relations with Mediterranean countries and the Middle East; the role of knowledge in policy-making within the EU.

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on leave MT 2016-17

BOCSE, Dr Alexandra-Maria
Fellow

Email: a.bocse@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 7705 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.08

Research interests:

tbc

Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

CALLAHAN, Professor William
Professor of International Relations

Email: w.callahan@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6973 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.07

Research interests:

Identity and security; culture and politics; post-structural IR theory; global politics of China; East Asian IR; Chinese nationalism; India-China relations; Chinese and East Asian IR theory.

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on leave MT 2016-17

CHWIEROTH, Professor Jeffrey
Professor of International Relations

Email: j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7209 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.11

Research interests:

International political economy of money and finance; International organisations, especially the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; Sovereign Wealth Funds; Hedge Funds; Economic norms and ideas; Cross-national policy diffusion; Emerging Markets.

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on buyout, 2016-17 and 2018-19 inclusive

COKER, Professor Christopher
Professor of International Relations

Email: c.coker@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7387 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.09

Research interests:

US foreign policy; Atlantic Alliance and UK defence policy in the 1990s; war and civil conflict.

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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students 

DALACOURA, Dr Katerina
Associate Professor

Email: k.dalacoura@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7398 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.11

Research interests:

Democracy and human rights in the Middle East with special emphasis on Egypt, Iran and Turkey; Western policy and the Middle East; political Islam; the international politics of culture and religion with particular reference to Islam.

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on leave MT and LT 2016-17

DILL, Dr Janina
Assistant Professor

Email: j.dill1@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7379 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.12

Research interests:

International Relations Theory, International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Just War Theory, the Changing Character of War, Air Warfare

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DODGE, Professor Toby
Professor of International Relations
also Head of Middle East Centre

Email: b.t.dodge@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6176 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.6.10

Research interests:

The post-colonial state in the international system; the politics of intervention and regime change;
counter-insurgency, civil war and political violence; Iraq and the International Relations of the Middle East.

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ECONOMIDES, Dr Spyros
Associate Professor
also in The European Institute

Email: s.economides@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7384 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: COW.2.07

Research interests:

European foreign policy; European security and defence; International politics of Southeastern Europe; ex-Yugoslavia.

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FALKNER, Dr Robert
Associate Professor (Reader)

Email: r.falkner@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6347 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.05

Research interests:

International political economy, especially global environmental politics; trade policy, global governance and global firms in world politics.

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GERGES, Professor Fawaz A
Professor of International Relations

Email: f.gerges@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7393 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.06

Research interests: 

Arab and Muslim politics in the 20th century; mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups; religion, oil and politics; American foreign policies towards the Muslim world; the international relations of the Middle East; the Arab-Israeli conflict; authoritarianism and democratic transition.

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on leave 2016-17

GRAY, Dr Julia
Assistant Professor

Email: j.c.gray@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6788 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.10

Research interests:

International political economy, international organizations, preferential trade agreements, sovereign debt, implementation of international agreements.

on leave 2016-17 

HAACKE, Dr Jurgen
Associate Professor
also Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre

Email: j.haacke@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7399 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.7.09

Research interests:

Security and international politics of Southeast Asia, ASEAN, East Asian regionalism, Burma/Myanmar; foreign policy analysis.

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HEARSON, Mr Martin
Fellow

Email: m.hearson@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7167 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: 95A.1.12

Research interests:

International tax, developing countries, global economic governance, foreign direct investment.

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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

HOFFMAN, Mr Mark
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)

Email: m.hoffman@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 5197 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: OLD.1.09

Research interests:

Contemporary international relations theory; conflict analysis; mediation in international and civil conflicts.

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HUGHES, Professor Chris
Professor of International Relations

Email:  c.r.hughes@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6157 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: 95A.1.15

Research interests:

Asia-Pacific international politics; Chinese foreign policy and international relations; Chinese nationalism; PRC-Taiwan relations.

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JACKSON-PREECE, Dr Jennifer
Associate Professor
also in The European Institute

Email: j.jackson-preece@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6109 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: COW.2.06

Research interests:

Nationalism; history; ethnic conflict; minority rights; irredentism; multiculturalism; Europe; North America; European states system; secession; European security.

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JERBI, Dr Scott
David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow (DINAM)

Email: s.jerbi@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7852 3768 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: SHF.3.02

KOENIG-ARCHIBUGI, Dr Mathias
Associate Professor (Reader)
also in the Government Department

Email: m.koenig-archibugi@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7193 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CON.4.08

Research interests:

International relations theory; European political integration; globalisation and global governance; international health governance; international labour standards.

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LANKINA, Dr Tomila
Associate Professor

Email: t.lankina@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5239 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.6.12

Research interests:

Russia and Eurasia domestic politics and foreign policy; the legacies of colonialism and empire; transnational influences on sub-national democracy and development; democratization; regionalism, federalism, sub-national governance.

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on leave MT and LT 2016-17

LAWSON, Dr George
Associate Professor

Email:  g.lawson@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6028 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.12

Research interests:

Revolutions; global modernity; historical sociology; history and IR; International Relations theory.

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on leave MT to 18.11.16 and LT 2017 

MANCHANDA, Dr Nivi
Fellow

Email: n.manchanda1@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7185 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.08

Research interests:

International political sociology, Feminist thought, Postcolonial theory, War and empire, Afghanistan, Iraq and the US.

Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

MEIERHENRICH, Dr Jens
Associate Professor

Email: j.meierhenrich@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7394 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.6.07

Research interests:

International courts and international organizations; foreign, comparative, and international law; genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes; transitional justice; politics of memory.

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MESEGUER, Dr Covadonga
Associate Professor

Email:  c.meseguer@lse.ac.uk 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7062 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: 95A.1.13 

Research interests:

International Political Economy, Political Economy of International Migration, Globalization and Development, Political Economy of Latin America.

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MILLAR, Dr Katharine
Assistant Professor

Email: k.m.millar@lse.ac.uk   
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6788 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.10

Research interests:

Gender and international politics; poststructural, queer, and feminist political thought; critical war and military studies; violence and political community; civil-military relations, particularly in liberal democracies.

MORRISON, Dr James
Assistant Professor

Email:  j.a.morrison@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7171 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: 95A.1.14

Research interests:

International political economy; ideas and intellectuals in foreign policy; international organisation; history of political and economic thought; British economic history; and early American history.

Personal Website

on leave MT 2016-17

NEUMANN, Professor Iver
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations

Email:  i.b.neumann@lse.ac.uk  
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 7958 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.6.06

Research interests:

International Relations theory, global governance, the historical sociology of the Eurasian steppe, diplomacy. 

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on leave 2016-17

ROSSDALE, Dr Chris
Fellow

Email: c.rossdale@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7185 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.08

Research interests:

Social movements and resistance; poststructural, feminist and queer international theory; critical security studies; war and militarism; anarchism.

Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

SEDELMEIER, Dr Ulrich
Associate Professor (Reader)

Email:  u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7166 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.06

Research interests:

Theories of international institutions; theoretical approaches to European integration; the EU's eastern enlargement; the impact of EU conditionality on candidate countries; EU foreign policy.

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SHARMA, Dr Serena
Fellow
(50% with Government Department)

Email: s.k.sharma1@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7805 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CON.3.16

Research interests:

The Responsibility to Protect, Humanitarian Intervention, Ethics of War

Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

SIDEL, Professor John
Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics
jointly in the Government Department

Email:  j.t.sidel@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 6032 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CON.4.02

Research interests:

Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and the Philippines; Islam in world politics; religious violence; local politics; transnational social movements.

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on leave 2016-17

SMITH, Professor Karen E
Professor of International Relations

Email:  k.e.smith@lse.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 6332 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.09

Research interests:

International relations of the European Union, EU foreign policy system, human rights and foreign policy, EU and European state ethical foreign policy, genocide.

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STRONG, Dr James
Fellow

Email:  j.strong1@lse.ac.uk  
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 6237 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.08

Research interests:

British foreign policy; British defence policy; political communication; the Iraq war; Foreign Policy Analysis

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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students

TRUBOWITZ, Professor Peter
Professor of International Relations
Head of Department
also Head of United States Research Centre

Email:  p.trubowitz@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6978 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.4.05

Research interests:

U.S. grand strategy and foreign policy; Sino-American relations; U.S. parties and elections; international security; comparative foreign policy; political geography.

Personal Website
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WILSON, Dr Peter
Associate Professor

Email: p.c.wilson@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7391 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.5.10

Research interests:

History of international thought; inter-war idealism; post-war American realism; the English school; sociology of international law.

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WOOLCOCK, Dr Stephen
Associate Professor

Email: s.b.woolcock@lse.ac.uk  
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7696 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: CLM.6.13

Research interests:

Regional trade and integration agreements; European trade policy; economic diplomacy; international trade and investment policy and the World Trade Organisation.

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ZHANG, Dr Shuxiu
Fellow

Email: s.zhang10@lse.ac.uk   
Tel:  +44 (0)20 7955 6887 (if no reply please email instead)
Room: 95A.1.12

Research interests:

Economic diplomacy, international trade and investment, climate change, economic negotiation processes, China, Asia-Pacific, South Pacific region.

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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students