Professor J. Chris Alden
Professor of International Relations
Director of LSE IDEAS
Room: Floor 9, Pankhurst House (PAN.9)
+44 (0)20 7955 7386
j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Foreign Policy Analysis, China and Africa, South African foreign policy, post-conflict reconstruction
Professor Alden is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
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Professor Tarak Barkawi
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.03
t.k.barkawi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: war studies, imperialism, interdisciplinary approaches
On leave academic year 2022/23.
Professor Barkawi is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2023/24.
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Dr Martin Bayly
Assistant Professor, International Relations Theory
Room: CBG.9.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5143
m.j.bayly@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Historical International Relations, Historical Sociology, Constructivism
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Personal website
Dr Bayly is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Federica Bicchi
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7987
f.c.bicchi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: European foreign policy, European External Action Service, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Euro-Mediterranean relations, The “practice turn” in International Relations
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Lucinda Cadzow
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
+44 (0)20 7955 7387
l.cadzow@lse.ac.uk
Profile coming soon
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor William Callahan
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.05
+44 (0)20 7955 6973
w.callahan@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global politics of China, Visual international politics, documentary filmmaking, IR theory
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Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
Professor of International Relations, also Head of Department
Room: CBG.10.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7209
j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: international political economy of money and finance
Profile
Personal website
Professor Chwieroth is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Thomas Da Costa Vieira
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7526
t.da-costa-vieira@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Political economy of state, climate policy and alternatives to capitalism
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Katerina Dalacoura
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.14
+44 (0)20 7955 7398
k.dalacoura@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Islamism, Turkey, Middle East international relations, civilization in IR
On leave academic year 2022/23
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Professor Toby Dodge
Deputy Head of Department (PhD and Research)
also Director of the Kuwait Programme in the Middle East Centre
Room: CBG.9.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6176
b.t.dodge@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Iraq, Middle East, state formation, international relations, regime change
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Dr Spyros Economides
Associate Professor
also in The European Institute
Room: CBG.5.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7384
s.economides@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: European foreign, security and defence policies, Western Balkans, Greece
Profile
On leave academic year 2022/23.
Dr Economides is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Professor Robert Falkner
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.8.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6347
r.falkner@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, Political Economy, Global Firms
Profile
Personal website
Twitter
On leave Michaelmas Term 2022 and Lent Term 2023.
Professor Falkner is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Joanna Flavell
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 7185
j.flavell@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Expert in feminist analyses of, and approaches to, global climate change politics. Specific expertise in the Women and Gender Constituency of UN Climate Change and environmental movements.
Profile
On leave Michaelmas Term 2022.
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Elisa Gambino
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 6887
e.gambino@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: China and Africa, International Politics of China, State-Owned Enterprises, Internationalisation of Chinese companies, Belt and Road Initiative, African Political Economy, International Political Economy of Kenya, Transport Corridors, Infrastructure
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Fawaz A. Gerges
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7393
f.gerges@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Relations Middle East, Domestic Politics Middle East States
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Dr Anna Getmansky
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.8.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5265
a.getmansky@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Conflict, terrorism, refugees
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Personal website
Dr Getmansky is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Sinja Graf
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.06
+44 (0)20 7107 5067
s.graf@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Theory, International Politlcal Thought, International (Criminal) Law and Imperialism, Violence and Global Order
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Dr Caroline Green
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
c.green@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Women’s rights, United Nations, colonialism, decolonisation, development
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Jürgen Haacke
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.01
+44 (0)20 7955 7399
j.haacke@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International politics and security of Southeast Asia including great power relations, ASEAN regionalism and regional order, politics and foreign policy of Burma/Myanmar, foreign policy analysis
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Mr Mark Hoffman
Professorial Lecturer
Room: OLD.1.09
+44 (0)20 7107 5197
m.hoffman@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Contemporary international relations theory, conflict analysis, mediation in international and civil conflicts.
Dr Kira Huju
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.08
+44 (0)20 7955 6807
k.huju@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: India, global order, liberal internationalism, Europe in the world
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Milli Lake
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)
Room: CBG.8.08
+44 (0)20 7955 7379
m.lake@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Civil wars, political violence, security, state-building, rule of law
Profile
Personal website
Dr Lake is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Professor Tomila Lankina
Professor in International Relations
Room: CBG.10.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5239
t.lankina@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Democratization, Popular Protest, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe
Profile
Personal website
Professor Lankina is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Andy Hanlun Li
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7955 6237
h.li44@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Knowledge production, political geography, environment
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Jens Meierhenrich
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.01
+44 (0)20 7955 7394
j.meierhenrich@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Rule of law, transitional justice, international criminal law, authoritarianism, genocide
Profile
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Dr Irene Morlino
LSE Fellow
Room: CGB.10.07
+44 (0)20 7955 7062
i.morlino@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise:
EU humanitarian aid, EU-UN relations, EU security and defence; International Organisations (IOs)
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr James Morrison
Associate Professor
Programme Director, MSc IPE / IPE Research
Room: CBG.9.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7171
j.a.morrison@lse.ac.uk
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
Dr Morrison is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5189
n.naqvi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Economic development, role of the state, finance, industrial policy, globalisation
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Dr Victoria Paniagua
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.14
v.paniagua@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: political economy, development, redistribution, inequality, interest group politics, state-building
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Dr Paniagua is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Fabian Pape
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.03
+44 (0)20 7107 5066
f.pape@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Critical macrofinance, central banking, global finance, green transition
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr McKenzie Ratner
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0) 7955 7167
m.m.ratner@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Institutions, International Political Economy, Quantitative Methods, Gender & Politics, Politics of the European Union, Compliance and Conditionality
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Sophie Rosenberg
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7107 5362
s.t.rosenberg@lse.ac.uk
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Ulrich Sedelmeier
Associate Professor (Reader)
Programme Director, Sciences-Po-LSE Double Degree in Affaires Internationales and IR/IPE
Room: CBG.10.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7166
u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International institutions, European Union, compliance, conditionality
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Professor John Sidel
Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics jointly in the Government Department
Programme Director, MSc International Relations
Room: CBG.3.35
+44 (0)20 7955 6032
j.t.sidel@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Southeast Asia, Islam in World Politics, Transnational Social Movements, Political Economy of Transport Infrastructure
Profile
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Professor Karen E. Smith
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.14
+44 (0)20 7955 6332
k.e.smith@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights, genocide, Brexit
Profile
Personal website
On leave academic year 2022/23.
Professor Smith is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Marta Soprana
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
+44 (0)20 7955 7705
m.soprana@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: IPE, trade policy, global governance, digital trade, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Theresa Squatrito
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.08
+44 (0)20 7106 1213
t.j.squatrito@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International organisations and law, international courts, global governance, civil society and NGOs, human rights
Profile
On leave Lent Term 2023.
Dr Dimitrios Stroikos
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.07
+44 (0)20 7107 5264
d.stroikos@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: global politics of outer space activities, space policy and space security, China, India and Global Order, international relations of the Indo-Pacific, technology and International Relations
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Luca Tardelli
Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Departmental Tutor
Programme Director, BSc IR
Room: CBG.10.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5706
l.tardelli@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International security, Military intervention, US foreign policy, Realism
Profile
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Dr Peter Wilson
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.10.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7391
p.c.wilson@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: IR theory, history of international thought, inter-war IR
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Asad Zaidi
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.8.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7696
a.a.zaidi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: War, Empire, Global Power Politics, Anti-imperialism, Postcolonial Thought, Historical Sociology, Decolonisation, Race and World Politics, History and politics of the Middle East and South Asia
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
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David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow (DINAM)
DINAM Fellowship
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Jodie Bispham (until November 2022)
Communications and Events Assistant
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ir.comms@lse.ac.uk
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Department Affairs Co-ordinator
Ask me about: Finances, HR and Recruitment, Departmental Policy and Processes, Facilities Management (incl Meeting room bookings)
Room: CBG.10.09
+44 (0)20 7955 6525
Andrew Sherwood
Department Manager
Ask me about: Strategy and development of the department, planning and management of departmental resources (human, financial and accommodation), inter-departmental communication, the PSS team and its development, quality assurance, compliance, legal issues and critical incidents.
Room: CBG.10.06
+44 (0)20 7852 3769 (ext: 3769)
a.sherwood@lse.ac.uk
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Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu
Visiting Senior Fellow
g.ibadoghlu@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: The political effects of natural resources in Caspian Sea Basin regions and the correlation between corruption and authoritarianism, rentier's state, and challenges for the transition into democracy.
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Hassan Damluji
Visiting Senior Fellow
Profile coming soon
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Helena Ivanov
Visiting Fellow
h.ivanov@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: The role of propaganda in justifying mass violence, genocide, violence against civilians, propaganda, Yugoslav wars
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués
Visiting Fellow
e.johansson-nogues@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: European foreign and security policy, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, state-society relations, UN politics
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Casey Kearney
Visiting Fellow
c.kearney1@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International political economy with a focus on management of capital inflows and the politics of balance of payments adjustments. Trade, MNCs and MNC financing decisions
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Not available to supervise PhD students
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