Academic staff at the Department of Politics and International Studies

Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict

International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human security; art, poetry, emotions as languages for global peace; political/social psychology; the global politics of power and resistance; global thought and comparative philosophies; Iran, East-West relations, West Asia and North Africa.

Comparative Politics, Historical Institutionalism, Foreign Policy Analysis, Politics and International Relations of the Middle East, State-Society Relations, Politics and History of Turkey, Iran and Brazil, Democratisation, Civil-Military Relations, Hybrid Regimes, Tutelary Democracies.

Contemporary political theory, particularly multiculturalism; comparative political thought, particularly political ideologies; modern Indian politics

International Relations Theory, Concept Analysis, Identity, Power, Security, Time, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, Sociology of the Discipline

Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.

Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia, Public Policy

Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies

Cultural politics; identity politics; spatial construction and cartographic representation; nationalism in Taiwan.

The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia

History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law

United States' Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Security, Political and Military History

Geopolitics of Eurasia, Labour migration regulatory regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan, China's Belt and Road Initiative and effects on Central Asia, Politics in Central Asia, Development strategies in the Russian Far East

International political economy; international political sociology; global trade (WTO; NGOs and trade policy); financial politics (particularly City of London); ideology (neoliberalism, the politics of managerialism).

Comparative Political Economy, Urbanism in the Global South, Politics of Science and Technology, Infrastructure, Corporations, Neoliberalism and Ethnography.

International Relations Theory; International Security; Multilateralism; Middle Powers; International Institutions in Asia; International Security and Politics of Southeast Asia; Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Political economy of institutions, Elite politics and development, Late industrialisation policies, Productivity growth, Regional economics, Local economic development, Developmentalist and post-development debates. Regional focus on Latin America with a special emphasis on Colombia.

African politics; the political economy of international development; democracy, participation and resistance.

African politics and international relations, popular conceptions of the state, architecture, images and politics in Africa, fieldwork methodologies.

Politics and history of the modern Arab world, particularly Lebanon, Palestine, and the mashriq; global and international history; revolution and counterrevolution; imperialism and colonialism; sectarianism, racism, and colonial social difference; the United States in the world.

Climate and energy policy and governance; climate and sustainable finance; economic analysis and evaluation of climate adaptation and resilience-building interventions; political economy of energy transitions; risk and policy analysis.

Political and social theory; history of political thought; history of capitalism; colonial studies; British imperial history

Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.

International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.

Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia

Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory

Professor Hagar Kotef is a Professor of Political Theory in the department of Politics and International Studies.

International Relations Theory; International Security; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Political Sociology; Global History; Postcolonialism; Hierarchy; Violence; Culture and Ideas.

Lecturer in International Politics of Africa and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

International security; peacebuilding; securitized development; civil wars; North-South relations.

capitalism, colonialism, race, Marxism, anticolonialism, outsourcing

Africa - Critical gender theory on sexuality, queer politics, security and violent extremism, gender in nation and state making, social movements.Qualitative research methods and feminist research methodology 

Avinash specialises in foreign and security policy analysis with regional focus on South Asia, Afghanistan, and Myanmar. 

Applied International Relations, weapons of mass destruction, diplomacy, globalisation and corporate accountability, globalisation and democracy, globalisation and energy, the role of international non-governmental organisations, the United Nations and the Nazis.

Expertise in republicanism, multiculturalism, comparative political thought, decolonising political theory and the history of political ideas.

Institutional Economics, Political Settlements, Political Economy, Growth and Governance, Anti-corruption, Late Development, Industrial Policy,

Dr Yanan Song is a Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD). Prior to joining SOAS she was a Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics at University of Exeter. She had her PhD degree in Politics at Durham University, and completed her MSc in International Public Policy at University College London (UCL).

Contemporary Political Theory, Liberalism, Civil Society, Biopower, Climate Crisis, Sexual and Reproductive Rights

International Organisation; International Politics of International and Transitional Justice; Religion, Human Rights and International Relations Theory; International Diplomacy and the Use of Force; International Diplomacy and Transitional States.

Nationalism; South Asian politics; modern Indian politics

International theory; inequalities and intersectionality; international (in)security and war; Islamophobia; cultural politics; socio-economic and political crises

Global Diplomatic Studies, International Defence & Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Politics of the Middle East, Turkish foreign policy, Religion & Global Affairs