PhD students in the International Relations Department have received training in key disciplinary subjects at both LSE and leading research methods schools in the UK, Europe and North America. Our students have also gained extensive teaching experience and many will have completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCert) before finishing their studies.
For further questions about the research and skills of our PhD candidates entering the job market, please contact: Professor Toby Dodge, Doctoral Programme Director and Placement Officer: b.t.dodge@lse.ac.uk
Seebal Aboudounya
Research interests: International Organisations | IMO | Maritime | UN | Deliberation | Diplomacy
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Helena De Moraes Achcar
Research interests: South-South Cooperation | Discourse theory | BRICS | global health
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David Eichert
Research interests: International Law | International Criminal Tribunals | Sexual Violence | Constructivism | Feminist/Queer IR | Practice Theory | Crimes Against Humanity
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Kentaro Fujikawa
Research interests: self-determination | civil wars | conflict resolution | peacebuilding | referendums | state recognition | international security | politics of international law
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Elitsa Garnizova
Research interests: Trade policy | regulation | European Union | global governance | qualitative methods | discourse
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Alessandro Guasti
Research interests: International Political Economy | International Organizations | Private regulations | Labour rights | Labour abuses | Trade | Environment | Climate change | VAR | Quantitative | Panel Study
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Jonny Hall
Research interests: Counterterrorism | war | US foreign policy | public opinion | rhetoric | discourse
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Eleonore Heimsoeth
Research interests: EU foreign policy | European security and defence policy | Foreign Policy Analysis
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Marnie Howlett
Research interests: Nationalism | identity construction | Ukraine | post-Soviet societies | cartography | borders
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Helena Ivanov
Research interests: genocide | violence against civilians | propaganda | Yugoslav wars | dehumanisation | civil wars | conflict
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Joseph Leigh
Research interests: Power politics | Global history | International security | IR Theory | Historical sociology | US foreign policy | Empire
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Makena Micheni
Sub-Saharan terrorism/Political Violence | Ethnicity
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Olivia Nantermoz
International Criminal Law | Humanitarianism | Global Justice | Human Rights | Refugee Studies | International Theory | English School | International Political Sociology | Constructivism
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McKenzie Ratner
International Institutions | International Political Economy | Quantitative Methods | Gender & Politics | Politics of the European Union | Compliance and Conditionality
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Johanna Rodehau-Noack
International security | Conflict prevention | Knowledge production | Research ethics
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Adrian Rogstad
Research interests: Russia | stigma | IR theory | International Political Sociology
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Alireza Shams Lahijani
Research interests: Identity | Foreign Policy | Diplomacy | Historical International Relations | Iran | Middle East | Conceptual History | English School (International Relations)
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Till Spanke
Research interests: State building | Russian foreign policy | de facto states | democratisation | Abkhazia | South Ossetia | mixed methods | time series cross-sectional panel data | survival analysis
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Vuk Vuksanovic
Research interests: Serbia | Balkans | geopolitics and foreign policy of Russia and the West | Turkey | China | Iran
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Asad Zaidi
Research interests: 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
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