Research News
from the Department of International Relations
Autumn Term 2026
Also you can check out the LSE Research Online page for the department for the latest submissions.
- IRD Fellow Emanuele Errichiello's paper, “The Mediterranean Vacuum and the Re-Ordering of Euro-Mediterranean Relations,” won the ISA’s Best Graduate Paper Award (IPS Section).
- Professor Karen Smith and Marta Kozielska were highly commended in the Outstanding Engagement category at the LSE Impact Prize 2026 for their project, "Strengthening the Representation of Women in Diplomacy."
- Professor Milli Lake, our Visiting Fellow Dr Irene Morlino, and PhD alumna Anne Della Guardia's have co-authored a research article, "The Information Paradox: Aid, Social Protection, and the Social Contract in Areas of Conflict and State Fragility" published in Comparative Politics.
- Dr Rohan Mukherjee has published a journal article, “The Global South, Liberal Order, and Illiberal Transnationalism,” in Global Governance.
- Dr Rohan Mukherjee has co-authored an article "Coming to Terms With Middle-Power Populism" in Foreign Policy.
- Dr Rohan Mukherjee also edited a collection of essays titled “The Populist Turn in Middle Power Diplomacy,” for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- PhD candidate Partha Moman has co-authored an article titled "Somalia-Ethiopia ties in a precarious Horn."
- Dr Martin Bayly has published a new research article in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs titled "What’s historical about historical IR? narrativity, the philosophy of history and world order studies."
- Professor Ulrich Sedelmeier has a new co-authored research article, "Flexible firewalls: selective cooperation and strategic demarcation between centre-right and far-right parties in the EU" published in the Journal of European Public Policy.