Seebal Aboudounya
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.8.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6978
s.m.aboudounya@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Organisations, IMO, Maritime, UN, Deliberation, Diplomacy
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Professor J. Chris Alden
Professor of International Relations
Director of LSE IDEAS
Room: Floor 9, Pankhurst House (PAN)
+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
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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 Michaelmas Term 2021
Professor Barkawi is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
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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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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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Dr Emmanuelle Blanc
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
e.blanc1@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU foreign policy, diplomacy, transatlantic relations, EU-Israel relations, emotions in IR, recognition theory
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
On leave until January 2022
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
Programme Director, MSc IPE / IPE Research
Room: CBG.10.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7209
j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: international political economy of money and finance
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Dr Ben Cormier
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.07
+44 (0)20 7107 5066
b.v.cormier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: IPE, development, finance, debt management, international organizations
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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 2021/22
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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 Pilar Elizalde
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.9.08
p.elizalde@lse.ac.uk
Key Expertise: human rights, foreign policy, international institutions, norm contestation
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
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.
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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
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Not available to supervise 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 Sinja Graf
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.06
s.graf@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Theory, International (Criminal) Law and Imperialism, violence and global order
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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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Dr Jonny Hall
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7955 6237
j.hall5@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Counterterrorism, war, US foreign policy, public opinion, rhetoric
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Not available to supervise PhD students
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 Ellen Holtmaat
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.8.10
+44 (0)20 7955 7171
e.a.holtmaat@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Global governance, sustainability standards, environmental politics
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Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Milli Lake
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)
Room: CBG.8.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7379
m.lake@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Civil wars, political violence, security, state-building, rule of law
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Dr Ranjit Lall
Assistant Professor
Room: CBG.8.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5264
r.lall@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International political economy, international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, empirical methods
On leave Michaelmas and Lent Terms 2021/22
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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
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Professor Lankina is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2022/23.
Dr Hjalte Lokdam
LSE Fellow
Room: CBG.10.07
+44 (0)20 7107 5069
h.c.lokdam@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International Political Economy, history and theory of money, European integration, European Central Bank, independent institutions, political economy of climate change, emergency politics, history of political and economic ideas
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Jacklyn Majnemer
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7955 6807
j.majnemer@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Nuclear Weapons; Nuclear Sharing; Alliance Politics; NATO; NORAD; Reneging
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Irene Morlino
International Relations Department (IRD) Fellow
Room: CGB.8.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7062
i.morlino@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU humanitarian aid, International Organisations (IOs), EU, UN, EU-UN relations, human rights
Profile
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr James Morrison
Assistant Professor
Programme Director, Sciences-Po-LSE Double Degree in Affaires Internationales and IR/IPE
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.
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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 Ulrich Sedelmeier
Associate Professor (Reader)
Room: CBG.10.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7166
u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International institutions, European Union, compliance, conditionality
On leave Michaelmas and Lent Terms 2021/22
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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
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Professor Karen E. Smith
Professor of International Relations, also Head of Department
Room: CBG.10.04
+44 (0)20 7955 6332
k.e.smith@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights, genocide, Brexit
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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
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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
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Not available to supervise 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
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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
Jenny Davies
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
j.davies5@lse.ac.uk
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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
Senior Visiting 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
Dr Cindy May
Visiting Fellow
c.l.may@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: United States Foreign Policy, Middle East, Terrorism, Security Studies
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Emma Saint
Visiting Fellow
e.k.saint@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International norms, international treaties, revisionism, deviance, discourse, knowledge (re)production
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Frega Wenas Inkiriwang
Visiting Fellow
f.wenas-inkiriwang@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: Defence, Diplomacy, Security, Military, Strategic Studies, South-East Asia
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Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Stephen Woolcock
Associate Professor
s.b.woolcock@lse.ac.uk
Key expertise: International trade and investment; World Trade Organisation
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