SOAS University of London

Department of Politics and International Studies

Fiona Adamson

BA (Stanford), MA, PhD(Columbia)
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Overview

Fiona Adamson
Department of Politics and International Studies

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Member

Centre for Ottoman Studies

Member

Name:
Dr Fiona Adamson
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+44 (0)20 7898 4683
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SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
212
On Sabbatical:
Terms 1 & 2 2016/17
Internal Supervisors

Biography

Fiona Adamson is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations. Her research interests are in International Relations theory, transnational identity politics, international peace and security, and migration and diaspora. She has written on the sources of foreign policy decision-making in Turkish politics, as well as on Kurdish politics, political Islam, and Cyprus. She is particularly interested in understanding alternative geographies and imaginaries of the Global, including non-territorial and trans-local politics. She is also interested in the role of religion in world politics. Her published work has appeared in International Security, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Perspectives, Political Science Quarterly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, as well as in a number of edited volumes.

Fiona is a co-convenor (along with Eiko Thielemann of the LSE and Claire Dwyer of UCL) of the London Migration Research Group (LMRG). She also serves on the Governing Council of the International Security Studies Section of the ISA. Prior to joining SOAS, she was Director of the Programme in International Public Policy at University College London (UCL). Dr Adamson holds a BA from Stanford University and an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. She has held research fellowships at Harvard and Stanford Universities, as well as at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Teaching

PhD Students supervised
  • Behar Sadriu, Broadcasting ‘Soft Power’: Rhetoric and Networks as tools of Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
  • Catherine Craven, Exploring changes in the international community's representation and engagement of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war (working title)
  • Goktug Sonmez, The Interplay between International and Domestic Factors in Turkey’s Grand Strategy-Making: Interest-Driven Behaviour vs. Value-Driven Ambitions
  • Mathilde Zederman, The Tunisian Diasporic Political Space in France (1960s - present) (working title)
  • Michael A. Innes, Analogies at Risk: Afghanistan, Iraq, and US Foreign Policy, 2001-2011
  • Priya Kumar, “Wireless Platforms and Borderless Grievance: An Analysis of Transnational Diaspora Linkages and Mobilization Outcomes” (Preliminary title)

Research

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Publications

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Edited Books or Journal Volumes

Adamson, Fiona and Triadafilopoulos, Triadafilos and Zolberg, Aristide, eds. (2011) The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe and the United States. Special Issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 37 No. 6. Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

Adamson, Fiona (2013) 'Mechanisms of Diaspora Mobilization and the Transnationalization of Civil War.' In: Transnational Dynamics of Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-88.

Adamson, Fiona (2012) 'Constructing the Diaspora: Diaspora Identity Politics and Transnational Social Movements.' In: Politics from Afar: Transnational Diasporas and Networks. New York: Columbia University Press.

Adamson, Fiona and Sriram, Chandra (2010) 'Perspectives on International Law in International Relations.' In: Cali, Basak, (ed.), International Law for International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 25-45.

Adamson, Fiona (2006) 'International Terrorism, Non-State Actors and Transnational Political Mobilization: A Perspective from International Relations.' In: Biersteker, Thomas and Spiro, Peter and Raffo, Veronica and Sriram, Chandra, (eds.), International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, pp. 79-92.

Adamson, Fiona (2006) 'International Migration in a Globalizing World: Assessing Impacts on National Security.' In: Kirshner, Jonathan, (ed.), Globalization and National Security. New York: Routledge, pp. 35-73.

Adamson, Fiona (2004) 'Displacement, Diaspora Mobilization, and Transnational Cycles of Political Violence.' In: Tirman, John, (ed.), Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After September 11th. New York: New Press, pp. 45-58.

Adamson, Fiona (2002) 'Mobilizing for the Transformation of Home: Politicized Identities and Transnational Practices.' In: Al-Ali, Nadje and Koser, Khalid, (eds.), New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home. London: Routledge, pp. 155-168.

Adamson, Fiona (2002) 'International Democracy Assistance in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan: Building Civil Society From the Outside?' In: Mendelson, Sarah E. and Glenn, John K., (eds.), The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 177-206.

Adamson, Fiona (2002) 'Democratization in Turkey, European Union Enlargement and the Regional Dynamics of the Cyprus Conflict: Past Lessons and Future Prospects.' In: Diez, Thomas, (ed.), Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union: The EU and the Cyprus Conflict. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 163-180.

Journal Articles

Adamson, Fiona (2016) 'The Growing Importance of Diaspora Politics.' Current History, 115 (784). pp. 291-297.

Adamson , Fiona B. (2016) 'Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism.' Journal of Global Security Studies, 1 (1). pp. 19-35.

Adamson, Fiona (2011) 'The Limits of the Liberal State: Migration, Identity and Belonging in Europe.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (6). pp. 843-859.

Adamson, Fiona (2011) 'Engaging or Contesting the Liberal State? 'Muslim' as a Politicised Identity Category in Europe.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (6). pp. 899-916.

Adamson, Fiona and Demetriou, M. (2007) 'Remapping the Boundaries of "State" and "National Identity": Incorporating Diasporas into IR Theorizing.' European Journal of International Relations, 13 (4). pp. 489-526.

Adamson, Fiona (2006) 'Crossing Borders: International Migration and National Security.' International Security, 31 (1). pp. 165-199.

Adamson, Fiona (2005) 'Global Liberalism Versus Political Islam: Competing Ideological Frameworks in International Politics.' International Studies Review, 7 (4). pp. 547-569.

Adamson, Fiona (2005) 'Globalization, Transnational Political Mobilization, and Networks of Violence.' Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 18 (1). pp. 35-53.

Adamson, Fiona (2001) 'Democratization and the Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Turkey in the 1974 Cyprus Crisis.' Political Science Quarterly, 116 (2). pp. 277-303.

Other

Adamson, Fiona (2015) 'Blurring the Lines: Diaspora Politics and Globalized Constituencies.' WPR: World Politics Review [Online] .

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