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 Tomila Lankina, Doctoral Programme Director and Placement Officer: t.lankina@lse.ac.uk
Nicola Degli Esposti
Research interests: International Politics of the Middle East | Nationalism | Political Economy
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Helena De Moraes Achcar
Research interests: South-South Cooperation | Discourse theory | BRICS | global health
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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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Kerry Goettlich
Research interests: Global modernity | historical sociology | empire | borders
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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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Sophie Haspeslagh
Research interests: Conflict and peace | transition of armed actors | third party mediation | negotiations | peace processes | critical terrorism
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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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Joseph Leigh
Research interests: Power politics | Global history | International security | IR Theory | Historical sociology | US foreign policy | Empire
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Kiran K Phull
Research interests: IR theory | Public opinion | Polling and survey research methods | knowledge production | MENA | data analysis
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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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