Dr. Kirsten Ainley
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.06
020 7107 5118
k.a.ainley@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International political theory, international ethics, human rights
On leave until end 2020
Profile
Professor J. Chris Alden
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.04
020 7955 7386
j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Foreign policy analysis, China and Africa, South African foreign policy
Profile
Professor Tarak Barkawi
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.03
020 7955 7526
t.k.barkawi@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: war studies, imperialism, interdisciplinary approaches
On leave Michaelmas Term 2020/21
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Martin Bayly
Assistant Professor, International Relations Theory
Room: CBG.8.07
020 7107 5143
m.j.bayly@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Historical International Relations, Historical Sociology, Constructivism
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Federica Bicchi
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.11
020 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
Profile
Dr. Alexandra-Maria Bocse
Fellow
a.bocse@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 7705
Room: CBG.8.10
Research interests: International and regional governance, the European Union and Eastern Europe, international energy and environmental politics, energy security and emerging security challenges.
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor William Callahan
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.9.05
020 7955 6973
w.callahan@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global politics of China, Visual international politics
On leave 2020/21
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Ben Cormier
Fellow
Room: CBG.9.07
020 7107 5066
b.v.cormier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: IPE, development, finance, debt management, international organizations
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr. Katerina Dalacoura
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.14
020 7955 7398
k.dalacoura@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Islamism, Turkey, Middle East international relations, civilization in IR
Profile
Pilar Elizalde
Fellow
Room: CBG.9.08
p.elizalde@lse.ac.uk
Key Expertise: international politics of human rights, international institutions, norm contestation, network analysis
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr. Benjamin Faude
Fellow (50% with Government Department)
Room: CBG.3.08
020 7955 7805
b.faude@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Institutions, Global Governance, International Theory
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Fawaz A. Gerges
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.10.03
020 7955 7393
f.gerges@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Relations Middle East, Domestic Politics Middle East States
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Jurgen Haacke
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.9.01
020 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
Profile
Dr. Yuna Han
Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
020 7955 7185
y.c.han@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Politics of international law, International Criminal Justice
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Mr. Mark Hoffman
Professorial Lecturer
Room: OLD.1.09
020 7107 5197
m.hoffman@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Contemporary international relations theory; conflict analysis; mediation in international and civil conflicts.
Dr. Ellen Holtmaat
Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
020 7955 6237
e.a.holtmaat@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global governance, sustainability standards, environmental politics
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Chris Hughes
Professor of International Relations
Room: CBG.8.04
020 7955 6157
c.r.hughes@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: China, Japan, Taiwan, China and the global south, nationalism
Profile
Dr. Ranjit Lall
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.01
020 7107 5264
r.lall@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International political economy, international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, empirical methods
Personal website
Profile
Professor Tomila Lankina
Deputy Head of Department (PhD and Research)
Room: CBG.10.13
020 7107 5239
t.lankina@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Democratization, Popular Protest, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe
On leave 2020-21
Project website
Profile
Dr. Cindy May
Fellow
Room: CBG.10.08
020 7955 6887
c.l.may@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: United States Foreign Policy, Middle East, Terrorism
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr. Gustav Meibauer
Fellow
Room: CBG.10.07
020 7107 5069
g.m.meibauer@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: US foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, coercive diplomacy
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr. James Morrison
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.06
020 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. Tristen Naylor
Fellow
Room: CBG.10.07
020 7107 5068
t.naylor@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Summits, Diplomacy, G7, G20, UN
Profile
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr. Ulrich Sedelmeier
Associate Professor (Reader)
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)
Room: CBG.10.02
020 7955 7166
u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International institutions, European Union, compliance, conditionality
Profile
Professor Karen E. Smith
Professor of International Relations, also Head of Department
Room: CBG.10.04
020 7955 6332
k.e.smith@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights, genocide, Brexit
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Theresa Squatrito
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.08
020 7106 1213
t.j.squatrito@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International organisations and law, international courts, global governance, civil society and NGOs, human rights, global governance
Profile
Dr. Luca Tardelli
Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Departmental Tutor
Room: CBG.10.05
020 7107 5706
l.tardelli@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International security, Military intervention, US foreign policy, Realism
Personal website
Profile
Dr. Peter Wilson
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.10.11
020 7955 7391
p.c.wilson@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Relations Theory, Inter-war Period International Relations
Profile
Dr. Stephen Woolcock
Associate Professor
Room: CBG.8.09
020 7955 7696
s.b.woolcock@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International trade and investment; World Trade Organisation
Profile
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Room: CBG.10.09
+44 (0)20 7955 6525
j.davies5@lse.ac.uk
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Room: CBG.10.06
+44 (0) 20 7852 3769 (ext: 3769)
a.sherwood@lse.ac.uk
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2019/20
- Reza Arabsheibani
- Nicholas Bayne
- Chris Brown
- John Hughes
- Jodie Kearne
- Arthur Kilgore
- Alvaro Mendez
- Henry Radice
- Dave Rampton
- Amrita Sen
- Etel Solingen
(visiting Susan Strange Professor)
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- Shuxiu Zhang
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