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The IR Department is home to globally-recognised experts who contribute to discipline shaping debates. Our faculty can be grouped into three main areas: Asia-Pacific politics; Global histories and theories; and Peace and conflict studies.

Asia-Pacific politics

  • Professor Bina D’Costa
  • Associate Professor Mathew Davies
  • Dr Benjamin Day
  • Dr David Envall
  • Dr Sarah Logan
  • Dr Beverley Loke
  • Dr Deepak Nair
  • Dr Lauren Richardson
  • Dr Maria Tanyag
  • Dr Benjamin Zala

Global histories and theories

  • Dr Kirsten Ainley
  • Associate Professor Luke Glanville
  • Professor George Lawson
  • Dr Beverley Loke
  • Dr Joseph MacKay
  • Dr Deepak Nair
  • Professor Cian O’Driscoll
  • Dr Maria Tanyag
  • Professor Wes Widmaier
  • Dr Benjamin Zala

Peace and conflict studies

  • Dr Kirsten Ainley
  • Professor Bina D’Costa
  • Professor Cian O’Driscoll
  • Associate Professor Luke Glanville
  • Associate Professor Cecilia Jacob
  • Dr Nicolas Lemay-Hebert
  • Dr Sarah Logan
  • Dr Eglantine Staunton
  • Dr Maria Tanyag

Diplomacy

  • Dr Benjamin Day
  • Dr David Envall
  • Associate Professor Cecilia Jacob
  • Dr Sarah Logan
  • Dr Beverley Loke
  • Dr Deepak Nair
  • Dr Lauren Richardson
  • Dr Eglantine Staunton
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9780197676332
This book examines everyday inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the failure to address them in crisis settings from a feminist international relations (IR) perspectiv
Sepúlveda on the Spanish Invasion of the Americas: Defending Empire, Debating Las Casas
Translation of the dispute between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, peaking in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51
Hold Your Friends Close Sarah Logan
Drawing on policy documents and elite interviews with policymakers, Dr Logan provides a global overview of counterradicalisation measures and in-depth historical case studies of this in the US and UK.
The Counterinsurgent Imagination A New Intellectual History
This book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms.
On Revolution
A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future.
Sharing Responsibility Luke Glanville
Associate Professor Luke Glanville shows that the history of the shared responsibility to protect is marked by courageous efforts, as well as troubling ties to Western imperialism, evasion, and abuse.
France, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
Eglantine Staunton's innovative theoretical framework offers a valuable tool for understanding the interplay between domestic and international norms.
Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding
The Handbook covers wide array of themes such as democracy promotion, transitional justice and humanitarianism, as well as the involvement of drones and cyber technology in conflicts.