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Asha Herten-Crabb (November 2024)
"Perpetual imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU trade negotiations"

Supervisor: Steve Woolcock

Bruno Binetti (November 2024)
"The Political Economy of China-Backed Infrastructure in South America: A comparative analysis of agency"

Supervisors: Chris Alden, Stephen Woolcock

David Eichert (September 2024)
"(Re)Constructing an International Crime: Law, Gender, & Sexual Victimhood in the Rohingya Genocide"

Supervisors: Mark Hoffman, Johann Koehler, Laura Sjoberg

Shruti Balaji (September 2024)
"Paradoxes of Worldmaking: Examining Indian women’s historical international thought c.1920-50"

Supervisor: Katharine Millar

Alice Engelhard (July 2024)
"Categorising movement: mobility and world order from the imperial to the international"

Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi

Jemima Ackah-Arthur (May 2024)
"The state, non-state actors, and populations: security responses to insurgent attacks in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Supervisor: Milli Lake

Lanabi La Lova (March 2024)
"What Do News Media in Putin’s Russia Reveal about the Regime’s Survival Strategy?"

Supervisor: Tomila Lankina

Alexandros Zachariades (March 2024)
"Greek and Cypriot Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Small States and the limits of Neoclassical Realism"

Supervisor: Spyros Economides

Tarsis Daylan Sepulveda Coelho Brito (December 2023)
"Bordering humanness, securing whiteness: race, colonialism, and violence at the European borders"

Supervisors: Katharine M Millar, Mark Hoffman

Makena Micheni (October 2023)
"Fractured brotherhoods: ethnic identity in multi-ethnic violent political organising"

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"

Supervisors: , 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"

Supervisor: Tarak Barkawi

Oksana Levkovych (February 2023)
"Liberals and Protectionism: Britain's International Trade Policy Between the Wars (1902-1939)"

Supervisors: James Morrison, Peter Trubowitz

Catherine Hirst (December 2022)
"Revolution, International Counterrevolution and World Order"

Supervisors: Tomila Lankina, George Lawson       

Ricky Raymon (November 2022)
"The Making of Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum: Its Emergence and Implementation"

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"

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"

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"

Supervisors:  and Milli Lake

Helena Ivanov (May 2022)
"'Inside propaganda: Serbian media in the Yugoslav wars 1991-1995"

Supervisor: Jens Meierhenrich

Irene Morlino (January 2022)
"Assessing the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid. The cases of Myanmar, Lebanon,Mozambique"

Supervisor: Karen E Smith

Seebal Aboudounya (December 2021)
"Deliberation in International Institutions: the case of the International Maritime Organization"

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"

Supervisor: Tomila Lankina

Jacklyn Majnemer (October 2021)
"Understanding reneging: Canada’s nuclear sharing commitments to NATO and NORAD during the Cold War"

Supervisor: Peter Trubowitz

Vuk Vuksanovic (October 2021)
"Systemic pressures, party politics and foreign policy: Serbia between Russia and the West, 2008-2020"

Supervisor: Spyros Economides

Jonny Hall (September 2021)
"The normalisation of war. From the Korean War to the War on Terror"

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"

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"

Supervisor: Tomila Lankina

Frega Wenas Inkiriwang (June 2021)
"The interplay between grand strategy and defence diplomacy: examining Indonesia's post-new order period"

Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke

Sarah Bertrand (April 2021)
"Curating Knowledge: Geopolitical Expertise and the End of the Cold War in East Germany"

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"

Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Anissa Haddadi (February 2021)
"(Post) Colonial Egypt & its simulacra of liberation. A capture of revolutionary desire"

Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges

Emma Saint (January 2021)
"Empowering resistance? ‘Revisionist’ states and the underlying dynamics of international norm diffusion"

Supervisors: 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"

Supervisor: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

Nicola Degli Esposti (November 2020)
"Whose Kurdistan? Class Politics and Kurdish Nationalism in the Middle East, 1918-2018"

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"

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"

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"

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" 

Supervisor:  Katerina Dalacoura

Joseph Leigh (April 2020)
"'The Emergence of Global Power Politics: Imperialism, Modernity, and American Expansion, 1870-1914"

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"

Supervisor: Toby Dodge

Adrian Rogstad (January 2020)
"Stigmatisation in international relations: Russia, the West and international society from the Cold War to Crimea"

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'

Supervisors: ,   

Ilari Aula (September 2019)
'Consuming conflicts: consumer responsibility for armed conflicts in Nigeria and DR Congo'

Supervisor: Kirsten Ainley

Kiran Phull (August 2019)
'Polling and the pursuit of Arab public opinion'
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'
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'
Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Liane Hartnett (April 2019)
'Love in a Time of Empire: An Engagement with the Political Thought of Tolstoy, Tagore and Camus'

Supervisor: Chris Brown

Ilaria Carrozza (March 2019)
'Securing the way to power: China's rise and its normative peace and security agenda in Africa'

Supervisor: Chris Alden

Gokhan Cifliki (March 2019)
'Learning Conflict Duration: Insights from Predictive Modelling'

Supervisor: Peter Trubowitz

Kerry Goettlich (March 2019)
'From Frontiers to Borders: The Origins and Consequences of Linear Boundaries in International Politics'

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'
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Supervisor: Steve Woolcock

Ziyuan Wang (February 2019)
'The political logic of status competition among nations: cases from China, 1962-1979'

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 ' 

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’

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 '

Supervisor: Christopher Coker

Ida Danewid (November 2018) 
'Race, capital, and politics of solidarity: Radical Internationalism in the 21st Century'

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'

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'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura

Andrew Delatolla (February 2018)
'The State as a Standard of Civilization: Assembling the Modern State in Lebanon and Syria, 1800-1944'

Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura

David Schäfer (January 2018)
'Banking on ideas? The negotiations of the EU banking union'

Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier

Andreas Nohr (January 2018)
'Tyrants of Truth: A genealogy of hyper-real politics'

Supervisor: Iver Neumann

Gustav Meibauer (January 2018)
'"Doing something". Neoclassical realism US foreign policy and the no-fly zones, 1991-2016'

Supervisor: Toby Dodge

Aaron McKeil (January 2018)
'Searching for a World Polity: The World After Anarchy Question'

Supervisor: Peter Wilson

Lu Jiang (December 2017)
'Beyond ODA: Chinese way of development cooperation with Africa the case of agriculture'

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?'

Supervisor: Chris Alden

Julia Himmrich (October 2017)
'Germany's recognition of Kosovo as an independent state in 2008'

Supervisor: Spyros Economides

John Hemmings (September 2017)
'Quasi-alliances, managing the rise of China, and domestic politics: the US-Japan-Australia trilateral 1991-2015'

Supervisor: Chris Hughes

Bugra Susler (September 2017)
'Turkey's Foreign Policy Cooperation with the European Union during the Arab Spring, 2011-2013'

Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier

Jana Hoeffken (August 2017)
'Competition provisions in EU preferential trade agreements: consequences for domestic reform in developing countries'

Supervisor: Steve Woolcock

Corina Lacatus (June 2017)
'The design of national human rights institutions: global patterns of institutional diffusion and strength'

Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier

Daniel Schade (June 2017)
'The European Union's Latin America policy: a study of foreign policy change and coordination'

Supervisor: Karen E Smith

Scott Hamilton (June 2017)
'Governing through the Climate: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Global Governmentality'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier

Martin Hearson (April 2017) 91桃色 Profile
'Bargaining away the tax base: the North-South politics of tax treaty diffusion'

Supervisor: Jeffrey Chwieroth

Ningkang Heidi Wang (April 2017)
'Strategic concepts and interest grouping in China's environmental foreign relations'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Ulrich Sedelmeier

Yuan Yao (February 2017)
'Constructing the ideal river: the 19th century origins of the first international organisations'

Supervisor: Peter Wilson

Maddalena Procopio (January 2017)
'Negotiating governance: Kenyan contestation, cooperation, passivity toward the Chinese'

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'

Supervisor: Chris Hughes

David Brenner (December 2016)
'Insurgency as a social process: authority and armed groups in Myanmar's changing borderlands'

Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke

Jillian Terry (October 2016)
'Towards a feminist ethics of war: rethinking moral justifications for contemporary warfare'

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'

Supervisor: Jeffrey Chwieroth

Maria Fotou (September 2016)
'Ethics of hospitality: envisaging the stranger in the contemporary world'

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'

Supervisor: Katerina Dalacoura

Borja Guijarro Usobiaga (June 2016)
'European sanctions reconsidered: regime type, strategic bargaining and the imposition of EU sanctions'

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'

Supervisor: John Kent

Morten Andersen (May 2016)
'A genealogy of the balance of power'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Toby Dodge

Benjamin Mueller (November 2015)
'The end of the cold war: complexity, causation and systemic change'

Supervisor: George Lawson

Johann Basedow (September 2015)
'The European Union's international investment policy: explaining intensifying Member State cooperation in international investment regulation'

Supervisor: Steve Woolcock

Viviane Dittrich (September 2015)
'Present at the completion: creating legacies at the international criminal tribunals'

Supervisor: Jens Meierhenrich

Curran Flynn (August 2015)
'Hans Morgenthau's 'Scientific Man Versus Power Politics' and 'Politics Among Nations': a comparative analysis'

Supervisor: Peter Wilson

Reik Kramer (August 2015)
'Network-centric peace: an application of network theory to violent conflicts'

Supervisor: Christopher Coker

Noële Crossley (July 2015)
'Humanitarian interventions: from Le Droit D'Ingerence to the Responsibility to Protect'

Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Deepak Nair (July 2015)
'Saving the states' face: an ethnography of the ASEAN secretariat and the diplomatic field in Jakarta'

Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke

Daniel Falkiner (June 2015)
'The erotics of empire: love, power and tragedy in Thucydides and Hans Morgenthau'

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'

Supervisor: Karen E Smith

Curtis Ohlers (June 2015)
'Interstate warfare and the emergence of transnational insurgencies'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Lauren Phillips

Emily Anderson (March 2015)
'States of extraction: Impacts of taxation on statebuilding in Angola and Mozambique, 1975-2013'

Supervisor: Chris Alden

Julia Muravska (March 2015)
'The institutionalisation of the European defence equipment market'

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?'

Supervisor: Kirsten Ainley

Damiano De Felice (February 2015)
'Diverging visions on human rights conditionality: a comparison between France and the United Kingdom'

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'

Supervisor: Kimberly Hutchings

Hadi Makarem (February 2015)
'Actually existing neoliberalism: the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut in post-civil war Lebanon'

Supervisor: Fawaz Gerges

Rupert Brodersen (January 2015)
'Rage, rancour and revenge: existentalist motives in International Relations'

Supervisor: Christopher Coker

Kasira Cheeppensook (December 2014)
'The development of the ASEAN charter: origins and norm codification'

Supervisor: Jurgen Haacke

Simone Datzberger (December 2014)
'Peacebuilding and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierre Leone, 2002-2013'

Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Mark Kersten (November 2014)
'Justice in conflict: The International Criminal Court in Libya and Northern Uganda'

Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Bradley Parks (June 2014)
'Brokering development policy change: the parallel pursuit of millenium challenge account resources and reform'

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)'

Supervisor: Mark Hoffman

Philip Schleifer (June 2014)
'Whose rules? The diffusion and variation of private participatory governance'

Supervisor: Robert Falkner

Andrew Bowen (May 2014)
'Syrian-American relations 1973-1977: a study of security cooperation in regional conflicts'

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'

Supervisor: Steve Woolcock

Jens Lamprecht (May 2014)
'Bargaining power in multilateral trade negotiations: Canada and Japan in the Uruguay Round and Doha Development Agenda'

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'

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'

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'

Supervisor: Chris Hughes

Robyn Klingler-Vidra (March 2014)
'All politics is local: sources of variance in the diffusion of venture capital policies'

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'

Supervisor: Chris Alden

Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen (January 2014)
'Beyond the soldier and the state: the theoretical framework of elite civil-military relations'

Supervisor: Christopher Coker

Nick Srnicek (January 2014)
'Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics'

Supervisor: Kim Hutchings