School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies
Research into Politics and International Relations
Our widely published and cited researchers contribute to the multi-disciplinary centre CEISR. This centre provides a lively and challenging academic environment which has been rated 100 per cent world-leading or internationally excellent. We ensure that the research undertaken in this vein is fed back to undergraduate and postgraduate students by including reference to it in study programmes, and welcome applications for MA and PhD study into a range of topics.
Funding
We have, in recent years, secured funding for research into politics and international relations from institutions including:
- AHRC
- The British Academy
- ESRC
- European Science Foundation
- European Union
- NATO
- Norwegian Research Council
- The Nuffield Foundation
Research interests
Our areas of research interest include:
- Britain and Counter-Terrorism
- Britain-US Relations
- British and European Defence Policy
- Civil Society and the EU
- Democratisation and Transition in Eastern Europe
- Ethnic Conflict: Management and Resolution
- EU Internal and External Economic Policies
- EU Structures, Politics and Processes
- Europe and the Black Sea
- Europe and the Middle East
- Europe's Neighbourhood Policy
- European Foreign and Security Policy
- European Union: Contemporary History and Politics
- Europeanisation
- Globalisation and the European Social Model
- Globalisation and Models of National Political Economy
- Globalisation in Historical Perspective
- Human Rights in Europe
- International Institutions and Conflict Management
- International Organisations and Transnational Governance Past and Present
- Middle Eastern Politics
- Nationalism and National Identity in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- Policymaking in the EU
- Political Parties in Europe
- Politics in Northern Ireland
- Politics of the Middle East
- Role of the Military in Third World Political Systems
- Russian and Soviet Twentieth Century History
- Russian-EU Relations
- Russian Foreign Policy
- Russian Politics
- Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict Societies
- Societal Actors and Interest Representation in Europe
- Strategic and Security Studies
- Transnational Europe
- US Foreign Policy