Dr Patrick Kimunguyi

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Patrick is a Fellow in European and International Politics at the European Institute.

He has taught in areas of international political economy and development, international security, European integration, and Europe’s relations with the global south. He has previously been a lecturer at the European and EU Centre at Monash University in Australia, where he taught courses on the EU and the World, the Jean Monnet module EU and the Developing World, International Peace and Security Studies, International Trade and Diplomacy, and Statecraft. He also aught Global Politics at the University of Melbourne.

Patrick’s research focuses on various aspects of the EU’s external relations including external perceptions of the EU as well as the EU’s relations with the global South on topics like security, trade, development cooperation, migration, race, and decolonisation. He has been a research officer on the project ‘The Colour of Borders: how race shapes mobility (in)to Europe at the European Institute. He has also contributed to other research projects, including the Australian Research Council Linkage project on Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in the Australian Context at Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Centre. He also participated in the European Commission-funded transnational research project on the Perceptions and Visibility of the EU in East and South Africa, as well as the Asia-Pacific regions, based at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Earlier, he worked as a Project Officer in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement at Monash University, Australia.

Patrick holds a PhD in Political Science and MA in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also has a PGCE in Education from La Trobe University, Australia, LLM in International Law from Oxford Brookes University, and MSc in Higher Education from the University of Oxford.

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EU’s External relations including EU’s relations with the global South on topics such as security, trade, development cooperation, migration, race, decolonisation, International migration and refugee law, International Humanitarian law.

Kimunguyi P., (2011), ‘Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in East Africa’ at the ARC Linkage Project Conference Understanding Terrorism from an Australian Perspective: radicalisation, de-radicalisation and counter-radicalisation, Monash University, 8 November, 2010

Kimunguyi P., (2007), ‘EU-Africa Relations: Between Development Cooperation and Conflict Prevention,’ refereed Paper presented at the Australasian Political Studies AssociationAnnual Conference, Monash University, Australia (24-26 September)

Kimunguyi P., (2006), ‘Regional Integration in Africa: Prospects and Challenges for the European Union,’ refereed paper to be presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conferenceat the University of Newcastle, (25 – 27 September

Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘The European Union and Developing Countries: The Challenges of Trade Liberalisation in the Cotonou Process’, refereed paper presented at

The 3^rdConference of European Union and Asia Pacific Association of European Studies

, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (8-10 December)

Kimunguyi P. (2015) - Discussant, "Polish-African economic and political relations after 1989" Speaker: Dr Andrzej Polus (University of Wrocław). St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

Kimunguyi P. (2012), Al-Qaeda Networks in Africa, GTReC ARC Linkage Project on Radicalisation Conference 2012, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Australia and Indonesia: 10 years after Bali, Melbourne, Australia.

Kimunguyi P. (2012), "The European Union: An Actor in Peace and Security in Africa at the 1^stAnnual International Interdisciplinary Conference, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi, Kenya 26^th-30^thJune 2012

Kimunguyi P. (2011), ‘The origins, evolution and challenge of Al Shabaab,’ at the ARC Linkage Project Conference, Lessons from 9/11 Reflections on the evolution of Counter Terrorism policy, practice and analysis in the decade since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Monash University Law Chambers, 1-2 September

Kimunguyi, P., (2010) ‘The European Union: An Actor in Peace and Security in Africa,’ Paper Presented at the Leadership Forum, Finding Peace in the Nuer region of South Sudan through Dialogue, Monash University, Friday 1 October

Kimunguyi P., (2008), ‘Development Co-operation, Crisis Management Vs EU Visibility in Africa,’ Paper presented at the Building a Common Future: Africa and Australia, the 31^stAnnual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific(26-28 November 2008)

Kimunguyi P., (2008), ‘Images of the EU as a Developmental actor in Kenya,’ Paper presented at The Europe in the Changing World: Challenges, Priorities and Research Collaboration Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, (25-27 September)

Kimunguyi P., (2007), ‘The Security-Development Nexus in EU-ACP Relations,’ paper presented at the Monash 'New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds?' conference organized by the Monash European and EU Centre Melbourne, Australia (12-14 April)

Kimunguyi P., (2006), ‘Changing Paradigms or Symbolic Rhetoric? Perspectives on the European Union’s Development policy,’ Conference Paper presented at 29^thAnnual Conference of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific at Macquarie University, Sydney (20-22 September)

Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘Changing Interests in EU Development Co-operation: the Impact of EU Membership and Advancing Integration’, Paper presented at CERC International Conference,Melbourne University (1-2 December)

Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘From Uniqueness to Uniformity: The ACP in the European Union’s Network of Regional Relationships’, paper presented at the 28^thConference of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific,University of New England, Australia (25-28 November).

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