PhD completions
in the Department of International Relations
2026
Megan O'Mahony (March 2026)
"Hand in Hand, Remembering Together: Feminist Cosmopolitanisms in the Memorialisation and Museumification of Conflict-related Sexual Violence in the Second World War and the Holocaust"
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisor: Katharine Millar and Paul Kirby
Lukas Fiala (February 2026)
"Arms, Technology and Influence: Military-Industrial Mercantilism and the Rise of Global China in the Post-Cold War Period"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Professor Chris Alden
Mehdi Shakarchi (February 2026)
"Labour, Protest and the Tishreen Uprising: Popular Politics in Iraq after Saddam"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Professor John Sidel and Professor John Chalcraft
Jack Robert Mellish (January 2026)
"An English School Analysis of Colonialism, Decolonization and the Emergence of the Post-Colonial States on the Primary Institutions of International Society"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Dr Peter Wilson
Sophie Kaldor (January 2026)
"Predictions at War: An Inferential Approach to Decision-making in International Politics"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Professor Peter Trubowitz
Katherine Pye (December 2025)
"Subjectivity and ideology in international intervention: The meaning-making of EU staff in the Sahel"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Aisenour Bitsen (November 2025)
"Engineering of Global Monetary Orders: Gold’s Role Within the Bretton Woods System"
Thesis online
Supervisors: James Morrison, Peter Trubowitz
Felix Brender (October 2025)
"Casting the Security Net: A relational reading of how Chinese residents create, perform and experience security in Juba (South Sudan)"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Caroline Elak (September 2025)
"Rooting for Culture: A Study of the Agency of the Governed in International Organisations"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Karen E Smith
Eunjeong Park (August 2025)
"The politics of pledges: Peer pressure, domestic politics and climate ambition under the Paris Agreement"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Robert Falkner
Katharina Kuhn (July 2025)
"Why do governments commit to multilateral tax cooperation? Bureaucratic politics, international tax policy, and the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Robert Falkner
Wan Peng (March 2025)
"Towards the Optimal Authority Allocation in Global Governance: A Normative and Empirical Analysis"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Agnes Yu (March 2025)
"The International is Actionable: Protest as Agency and Linkage Between Domestic and International Politics"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Milli Lake, Philip Ayoub (UCL)
Chris Deacon (January 2025)
"Unending Past? Memory, Relational Identity and the 'History Problem' in Japan-South Korea Relations"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Professor William H Callahan
Anne Della Guardia (January 2025)
"Sleight of State: How Host Governments Influence International Humanitarian Response"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Milli Lake
Stephen Paduano (January 2025)
"How Domestic Economic Imbalances Shape Foreign Economic Policies: Understanding the Emergence and Mechanics of Chinese Overseas Lending, 1978-2017"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Asha Herten-Crabb (November 2024)
"Perpetual imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU trade negotiations"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Bruno Binetti (November 2024)
"The Political Economy of China-Backed Infrastructure in South America: A comparative analysis of agency"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Chris Alden, Stephen Woolcock
David Eichert (September 2024)
"(Re)Constructing an International Crime: Law, Gender, & Sexual Victimhood in the Rohingya Genocide"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Mark Hoffman, Johann Koehler, Laura Sjoberg
Shruti Balaji (September 2024)
"Paradoxes of Worldmaking: Examining Indian women’s historical international thought c.1920-50"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katharine Millar
Alice Engelhard (July 2024)
"Categorising movement: mobility and world order from the imperial to the international"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Jemima Ackah-Arthur (May 2024)
"The state, non-state actors, and populations: security responses to insurgent attacks in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Milli Lake
Lanabi La Lova (March 2024)
"What Do News Media in Putin’s Russia Reveal about the Regime’s Survival Strategy?"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tomila Lankina
Alexandros Zachariades (March 2024)
"Greek and Cypriot Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Small States and the limits of Neoclassical Realism"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Spyros Economides
Tarsis Daylan Sepulveda Coelho Brito (December 2023)
"Bordering humanness, securing whiteness: race, colonialism, and violence at the European borders"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Katharine M Millar, Mark Hoffman
Makena Micheni (October 2023)
"Fractured brotherhoods: ethnic identity in multi-ethnic violent political organising"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Milli Lake, Tomila Lankina
Samuel Dixon (July 2023)
"From Hegemonic Decline to the End of History: The Transformation of International Relations, c.1970-2000."
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisor: Peter Wilson
David Guo Xiong Han (July 2023)
"Rethinking Hedging: Examining Risk Management in Malaysia and the Philippines’ Foreign Policy Responses Towards China-US Rivalry in Southeast Asia"
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisor: Jürgen Haacke
Olivia Nantermoz (July 2023)
"Imagining International Justice: A History of the Penal Humanitarian Present "
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisors: Peter Wilson, Theresa Squatrito
Enrike Van Wingerden (July 2023)
"Catastrophic Comparisons: International Relations Through Elsewhere"
Thesis onlineSupervisors: George Lawson, John Sidel
Andy Hanlun Li (June 2023)
"Discovering China: knowledge production, colonial frontier, and the emergence of modern Chinese territory"
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisor: William A Callahan
Mia Certo (April 2023)
"Queering Civil-Military Relations: The Cultural Work of Recognition, Recovery, and Reproduction"
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Asad Zaidi (February 2023)
"Pakistani Worldmaking in International Politics - Empire, Decolonization and Cold War struggles 1950-1989"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Oksana Levkovych (February 2023)
"Liberals and Protectionism: Britain's International Trade Policy Between the Wars (1902-1939)"
Thesis online
Supervisors: James Morrison, Peter Trubowitz
Catherine Hirst (December 2022)
"Revolution, International Counterrevolution and World Order"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Tomila Lankina, George Lawson
Ricky Raymon (November 2022)
"The Making of Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum: Its Emergence and Implementation"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jürgen Haacke
Giovanni Angioni (September 2022)
"Essays on the political economy of preferences for redistribution and deservingness in the age of realignments and new cleavages"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tomila Lankina
Armando Marozzi (September 2022)
"Essays on the European Central Bank’s Communication"
Thesis online coming soon
Supervisors: Peter Trubowitz and James Morrison
McKenzie Ratner (July 2022)
"Why Over-Comply with International Law? Exceeding International Minimum Standards in Social, Labor, and Environmental Policy"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Johanna Rodehau-Noack (June 2022)
"A Culture of Prevention:' The Idea of Preventability and the Construction of War as a Governance Object"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Kirsten Ainley and Milli Lake
Helena Ivanov (May 2022)
"'Inside propaganda: Serbian media in the Yugoslav wars 1991-1995"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jens Meierhenrich
Irene Morlino (January 2022)
"Assessing the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid. The cases of Myanmar, Lebanon,Mozambique"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Seebal Aboudounya (December 2021)
"Deliberation in International Institutions: the case of the International Maritime Organization"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Marnie Howlett (December 2021)
"Nationalism in the Borderlands of a Borderland: A Critical, Cartographical, and (De)constructional Analysis of Contemporary Ukraine"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tomila Lankina
Jacklyn Majnemer (October 2021)
"Understanding reneging: Canada’s nuclear sharing commitments to NATO and NORAD during the Cold War"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Trubowitz
Vuk Vuksanovic (October 2021)
"Systemic pressures, party politics and foreign policy: Serbia between Russia and the West, 2008-2020"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Spyros Economides
Jonny Hall (September 2021)
"The normalisation of war. From the Korean War to the War on Terror"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Eleanore Heimsoeth (August 2021)
"The European External Action Service’s influence in European security and defence policy: understanding the role of its relational capital"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Spyros Economides, Federica Bicchi
Tyler Bonnet (July 2021)
"Russia and the rise of China: an analysis of Russian foreign policy towards China under Putin"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tomila Lankina
Frega Wenas Inkiriwang (June 2021)
"The interplay between grand strategy and defence diplomacy: examining Indonesia's post-new order period"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke
Sarah Bertrand (April 2021)
"Curating Knowledge: Geopolitical Expertise and the End of the Cold War in East Germany"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Kentaro Fujikawa (March 2021)
"Serving peace and democracy? The rationales and impact of post-conflict self-determination referendums in Eritrea, East Timor, and South Sudan"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Anissa Haddadi (February 2021)
"(Post) Colonial Egypt & its simulacra of liberation. A capture of revolutionary desire"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges
Emma Saint (January 2021)
"Empowering resistance? ‘Revisionist’ states and the underlying dynamics of international norm diffusion"
Thesis onlineSupervisors: Karen E Smith and Mark Hoffman
Alessandro Guasti (November 2020)
"The Systemic Effects of Labour Rights Promotion: A Spatial Interdependence Analysis of its Impact on Working Conditions and International Trade"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Nicola Degli Esposti (November 2020)
"Whose Kurdistan? Class Politics and Kurdish Nationalism in the Middle East, 1918-2018"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura
Pilar Elizalde (October 2020)
"Human rights promotion, contestation, and politicisation in international human rights institutions: A study of the Universal Periodic Review 2008-2016"
Thesis online
Supervisors: Ulrich Sedelmeier and Daniel Berliner
Alireza Shams Lahijani (August 2020)
"Iran's Idea of Europe: Representation, Recognition and International Society"
Thesis online soon
Supervisors: Iver B Neumann and Fawaz Gerges
Christopher Murray (July 2020)
"Anti-imperial world politics: race, class, and internationalism in the making of post-colonial order"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Till Spanke (May 2020)
"Nurturing dependence: the role of patron states in the state and Institution building processes of de facto states"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tomila Lankina
Marc Sinan Winrow (May 2020)
"Reconstituting sovereignty: the Young Turks’ efforts to secure external recognition and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, 1908 - 1923"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura
Joseph Leigh (April 2020)
"'The Emergence of Global Power Politics: Imperialism, Modernity, and American Expansion, 1870-1914"
Thesis online
Supervisor:George Lawson
Wafa Alsayed (February 2020)
"Foreign policy making in the small Gulf states: state formation processes, ideas and identities in Kuwait and Bahrain"
Thesis online
Supervisor: Toby Dodge
Adrian Rogstad (January 2020)
"Stigmatisation in international relations: Russia, the West and international society from the Cold War to Crimea"
Thesis online
Supervisors:George Lawson, Professor Iver B Neumann
Helena De Moraes Achcar (December 2019)
'The politics and anti-politics of south-south cooperation: the case of Brazil-Mozambique pro Savannah and antiretroviral factory'
Thesis online
Supervisors: Tomila Lankina, Francisco Panizza
Ilari Aula (September 2019)
'Consuming conflicts: consumer responsibility for armed conflicts in Nigeria and DR Congo'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kirsten Ainley
Kiran Phull (August 2019)
'Polling and the pursuit of Arab public opinion'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Federica Bicchi
Irena Kalhousova (August 2019)
'Our Jews, our Israel! Origins of the foreign policy of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary towards Israel'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Federica Bicchi
Ben Tze Ern Ho (August 2019)
Chinese exceptionalism: an interpretive framework to understanding China’s rise and relations with the world'
Thesis online soon
Supervisor: William A Callahan
Sophie Haspeslagh (April 2019)
'The effect of proscription on pre-negotiation: a comparative analysis of making peace with Colombia’s FARC before and after 9/11'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Liane Hartnett (April 2019)
'Love in a Time of Empire: An Engagement with the Political Thought of Tolstoy, Tagore and Camus'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Brown
Ilaria Carrozza (March 2019)
'Securing the way to power: China's rise and its normative peace and security agenda in Africa'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Gokhan Cifliki (March 2019)
'Learning Conflict Duration: Insights from Predictive Modelling'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Trubowitz
Kerry Goettlich (March 2019)
'From Frontiers to Borders: The Origins and Consequences of Linear Boundaries in International Politics'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi
Elitsa Garnizova (February 2019)
'The new political economy of trade: understanding the treatment of non-tariff measures in European Union trade policy'
Thesis online
LSE profile
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Ziyuan Wang (February 2019)
'The political logic of status competition among nations: cases from China, 1962-1979'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke
Sidharth Kaushal (December 2018)
'Reconceptualising strategic culture as a focal point: the impact of strategic culture on a state’s grand strategy 'Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Trubowitz
Andrea Dessi (December 2018)
'Normalising the Israel asset. The Regan administration and the second Cold War in the Middle East: leverage, blowback and the institutionalisation of the US-Israel ‘Special Relationship’
Thesis online
Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges
Jonathan Freeman (November 2018)
'Military assistance as a tool of 20th Century American grand strategy: the American experience in Korea and Vietnam after World War II '
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Ida Danewid (November 2018)
'Race, capital, and politics of solidarity: Radical Internationalism in the 21st Century'
Thesis online
Supervisors: Kirsten Ainley, Mark Hoffman
Marian Feist (September 2018)
'Learning in international negotiations: The strategic use of lessons in post-agreement climate finance politics'
Supervisor: Robert Falkner
Luka Bareis (September 2018)
'Interstate resource conflicts: international networks and the realpolitik of violent resource acquisitions'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Emmanuelle Blanc (August 2018)
'The EU in the quest for recognition: anchoring institutional identity through dialogue. The case of the EU-US dialogues'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Federica Bicchi
So Hyun Lee (May 2018)
'A Step Forward to East Asian Regionalism? Comparing Negotiation Methods of South Korea and Japan in their Free Trade Agreements with ASEAN'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Rachel George (May 2018)
'From contestation to convergence? A constructivist critique of the impact of UN human rights treaty ratification on interpretations of Islam in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura
Andrew Delatolla (February 2018)
'The State as a Standard of Civilization: Assembling the Modern State in Lebanon and Syria, 1800-1944'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura
David Schäfer (January 2018)
'Banking on ideas? The negotiations of the EU banking union'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Andreas Nohr (January 2018)
'Tyrants of Truth: A genealogy of hyper-real politics'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Iver Neumann
Gustav Meibauer (January 2018)
'"Doing something". Neoclassical realism US foreign policy and the no-fly zones, 1991-2016'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Toby Dodge
Aaron McKeil (January 2018)
'Searching for a World Polity: The World After Anarchy Question'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Wilson
Lu Jiang (December 2017)
'Beyond ODA: Chinese way of development cooperation with Africa the case of agriculture'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Carolina De Simone (November 2017)
'Italy and the Community of Sant'Egidio in the 1990s. 'Coopetition' in post-Cold War Italian foreign policy?'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Julia Himmrich (October 2017)
'Germany's recognition of Kosovo as an independent state in 2008'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Spyros Economides
John Hemmings (September 2017)
'Quasi-alliances, managing the rise of China, and domestic politics: the US-Japan-Australia trilateral 1991-2015'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Hughes
Bugra Susler (September 2017)
'Turkey's Foreign Policy Cooperation with the European Union during the Arab Spring, 2011-2013'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Jana Hoeffken (August 2017)
'Competition provisions in EU preferential trade agreements: consequences for domestic reform in developing countries'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Corina Lacatus (June 2017)
'The design of national human rights institutions: global patterns of institutional diffusion and strength'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Daniel Schade (June 2017)
'The European Union's Latin America policy: a study of foreign policy change and coordination'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Scott Hamilton (June 2017)
'Governing through the Climate: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Global Governmentality'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Iver Neumann
Minako Morita-Jaeger (May 2017)
'Services trade integration in East Asia and political-economy impediments in the domestic decision making: a case study of the Japan-ASEAN free trade agreements'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Neal Suleimanova (May 2017)
'Why keep protecting the few without external incentives? Compliance with minority rights norms after attaining IO membership in Latvia and Georgia'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Martin Hearson(April 2017)
'Bargaining away the tax base: the North-South politics of tax treaty diffusion'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jeffrey Chwieroth
Ningkang Heidi Wang (April 2017)
'Strategic concepts and interest grouping in China's environmental foreign relations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Hughes
Ioannis Papagaryfallou (February 2017)
'The history/theory dialectic in the thought of Herbert Butterfield, Martin Wight and E. H. Carr: a reconceptualisation of the English School of international relations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Wilson
Inez Freiin von Weitershausen (February 2017)
'Explaining variation in European crisis cooperation: the role of incentives, ideas and institutions during the 2011 uprisings in Libya'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Yuan Yao (February 2017)
'Constructing the ideal river: the 19th century origins of the first international organisations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Wilson
Maddalena Procopio (January 2017)
'Negotiating governance: Kenyan contestation, cooperation, passivity toward the Chinese'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Dimitrios Stroikos (January 2017)
'China, India in space and the orbit of international society: power, status, and order on the high frontier'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Hughes
David Brenner (December 2016)
'Insurgency as a social process: authority and armed groups in Myanmar's changing borderlands'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke
Jillian Terry (October 2016)
'Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kimberly Hutchings
Lukas Linsi (October 2016)
'How the beast became a beauty: the social construction of the meaning of inward foreign direct investments in advanced economies, 1960-2007'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jeffrey Chwieroth
Maria Fotou (September 2016)
'Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kimberly Hutchings
Magdalena Delgado (July 2016)
'A constructivist analysis of religion's role in foreign policy: the cases of Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia under the leaderships of Menachem Begin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Fahd bin Abdulaziz'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura
Borja Guijarro Usobiaga (June 2016)
'European sanctions reconsidered: regime type, strategic bargaining and the imposition of EU sanctions'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier
Per-Axel Frielingsdorf (May 2016)
'Machiavelli of peace: Dag Hammarskjold and the political role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: John Kent
Morten Andersen (May 2016)
'A genealogy of the balance of power'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Iver Neumann
Jie Yu (April 2016)
'Partnership or partnerships: an assessment of China-EU relations between 2001 and 2013 with case studies on their collaborations to climate change and renewable energy'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Hughes
Melissa Koluksuz (February 2016)
'A critical geopolitics of American imperialism and grand strategy (post 9-11): the role of language and ideology'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Toby Dodge
Benjamin Mueller (November 2015)
'The end of the cold war: complexity, causation and systemic change'
Thesis online
Supervisor: George Lawson
Johann Basedow (September 2015)
'The European Union's international investment policy: explaining intensifying Member State cooperation in international investment regulation'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Viviane Dittrich (September 2015)
'Present at the completion: creating legacies at the international criminal tribunals'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jens Meierhenrich
Curran Flynn (August 2015)
'Hans Morgenthau's 'Scientific Man Versus Power Politics' and 'Politics Among Nations': a comparative analysis'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Peter Wilson
Reik Kramer (August 2015)
'Network-centric peace: an application of network theory to violent conflicts'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Noële Crossley (July 2015)
'Humanitarian interventions: from Le Droit D'Ingerence to the Responsibility to Protect'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Deepak Nair (July 2015)
'Saving the states' face: an ethnography of the ASEAN secretariat and the diplomatic field in Jakarta'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke
Daniel Falkiner (June 2015)
'The erotics of empire: love, power and tragedy in Thucydides and Hans Morgenthau'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kimberly Hutchings
Monika Hellmeyer (June 2015)
'The impact of the Central and Eastern European EU member states on the EU's foreign policy, 2004 - 2013'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Curtis Ohlers (June 2015)
'Interstate warfare and the emergence of transnational insurgencies'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Laura Barber (May 2015)
'Chinese foreign policy in the 'going out' era: confronting challenges and 'adaptive learning' in the case of China-Sudan and South Sudan relations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
David Rajeev Sibal (March 2015)
'Varieties of capitalism and firm performance in emerging markets: an examination of the typological trajectories of India and Brazil'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Lauren Phillips
Emily Anderson (March 2015)
'States of extraction: Impacts of taxation on statebuilding in Angola and Mozambique, 1975-2013'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Julia Muravska (March 2015)
'The institutionalisation of the European defence equipment market'
Thesis online
Supervisors: Spyros Economides, Karen E Smith
Margit Ussar (March 2015)
'Ethics, aid and organisational characteristics: are multilateral aid organisations more likely to be driven by ethical considerations than their bilateral counterparts?'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kirsten Ainley
Damiano De Felice (February 2015)
'Diverging visions on human rights conditionality: a comparison between France and the United Kingdom'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Diego De Merich (February 2015)
'Empathy at the intersections of care: articulating a critical approach to the ethics of international development'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kimberly Hutchings
Hadi Makarem (February 2015)
'Actually existing neoliberalism: the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut in post-civil war Lebanon'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges
Rupert Brodersen (January 2015)
'Rage, rancour and revenge: existentalist motives in International Relations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Kasira Cheeppensook (December 2014)
'The development of the ASEAN charter: origins and norm codification'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke
Simone Datzberger (December 2014)
'Peacebuilding and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierre Leone, 2002-2013'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Mark Kersten (November 2014)
'Justice in conflict: The International Criminal Court in Libya and Northern Uganda'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Bradley Parks (June 2014)
'Brokering development policy change: the parallel pursuit of millenium challenge account resources and reform'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Jeffrey Chwieroth
Janel Smith (June 2014)
'Civil society, human security and the politics of peace-building in Victor's Peace Sri Lanka (2002-2012)'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman
Philip Schleifer (June 2014)
'Whose rules? The diffusion and variation of private participatory governance'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Robert Falkner
Andrew Bowen (May 2014)
'Syrian-American relations 1973-1977: a study of security cooperation in regional conflicts'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges
Christine Cote (May 2014)
'A chilling effect: the impact of international investment agreements on national policy autonomy in the areas of health, safety and the environment'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Jens Lamprecht (May 2014)
'Bargaining power in multilateral trade negotiations: Canada and Japan in the Uruguay Round and Doha Development Agenda'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Steve Woolcock
Carolina Boniatti Pavese (April 2014)
'Level-linkage in European Union - Brazil relations: an analysis of cooperation on climate change, trade and human rights'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Karen E Smith
Jacob Parakilas (April 2014)
'The Mexican Drug War: an examination into the nature of narcotics-linked violence in Mexico 2006-2012'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Bjoern Dueben (March 2014)
'China-Russia relations after the Cold War: the process of institution-building and its impact on the evolution of bilateral cooperation'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Hughes
Robyn Klingler-Vidra (March 2014)
'All politics is local: sources of variance in the diffusion of venture capital policies'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Robert Falkner
Rajneesh Verma (February 2014)
'The tiger and the dragon: a neoclassical realist perspective of India and China in the oil industry in West Africa'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Chris Alden
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen (January 2014)
'Beyond the soldier and the state: the theoretical framework of elite civil-military relations'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Christopher Coker
Nick Srnicek (January 2014)
'Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics'
Thesis online
Supervisor: Kim Hutchings