Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict
Professor Fiona B. Adamson International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements
Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam 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.
Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East Dr Karabekir Akkoyunlu 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.
Professor Rochana Bajpai Contemporary political theory, particularly multiculturalism; comparative political thought, particularly political ideologies; modern Indian politics
Dr Felix Berenskoetter International Relations Theory, Concept Analysis, Identity, Power, Security, Time, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, Sociology of the Discipline
Dr Carlo Bonura Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.
Admissions Tutor: MSc Politics of Asia Dr Michael Buehler Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia
Professor Stephen Chan, OBE Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Bi-Yu Chang Cultural politics; identity politics; spatial construction and cartographic representation; nationalism in Taiwan.
Professor of Asian and Military History Professor Michael W. Charney The history of Buddhist societies in South and Southeast Asia and of culture, technology, and warfare in colonial Africa and Asia
Professor Phil Clark History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law
Dr Bhavna Davé 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
Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce 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).
Dr Sarah El-Kazaz Comparative Political Economy, Urbanism in the Global South, Politics of Science and Technology, Infrastructure, Corporations, Neoliberalism and Ethnography.
Professor in Comparative Politics (with special reference to Taiwan) Professor Dafydd Fell Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization
Dr Tobias Franz 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.
Dr Alastair Fraser African politics; the political economy of international development; democracy, participation and resistance.
Professor Julia Gallagher African politics and international relations, popular conceptions of the state, architecture, images and politics in Africa, fieldwork methodologies.
Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East Dr Nathaniel George 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.
Dr Harald Heubaum 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.
Senior Lecturer of Political Theory and Political Economy Dr Ulas Ince Global political economy; intellectual history of capitalism; history of political economy; history of imperial and international thought; Marxism; critical social theory; postcolonial theory
Professor Salwa Ismail Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Admissions Tutor: MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice Dr Vino Kanapathipillai International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies Dr Tat Yan Kong Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory
Professor Hagar Kotef Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
Dr Mark Laffey International Relations Theory; International Security; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Political Sociology; Global History; Postcolonialism; Hierarchy; Violence; Culture and Ideas.
Dr Sutha Nadarajah International security; peacebuilding; securitized development; civil wars; North-South relations.
Professor of Politics Professor Matthew J Nelson Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Thought, South Asia, Islam, non-elite politics, democracy.
Admissions Tutor: MSc International Politics Dr Kerem Nisancioglu Capitalism; the State; Race and Racism; Outsourcing; Marxism
Reader in Political Sociology Dr Awino Okech 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
Dr Avinash Paliwal Avinash specialises in foreign and security policy analysis with regional focus on South Asia, Afghanistan, and Myanmar.
Professor Dan Plesch 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.
Dr Manjeet Ramgotra Expertise in republicanism, multiculturalism, comparative political thought, decolonising political theory and the history of political ideas.
Reader in Political Theory Dr Rahul Rao International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queertheory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia
Dr Pallavi Roy Pallavi is a Senior lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS.
Admissions Tutor: BA Politics/International Relations Dr Meera Sabaratnam International theory; postcolonial approaches; race and racism; intervention, statebuilding and development; global history; southern Africa
Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy Dr Yanan Song 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).
Professor Julia C Strauss State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri 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.
Lecturer in International Relations Dr Ben Whitham International theory; inequalities and intersectionality; international (in)security and war; Islamophobia; cultural politics; socio-economic and political crises
Lecturer in International Politics of Africa and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Dr Daniel Mulugeta Lecturer in International Politics of Africa and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Graduate Teaching Assistant Tanvi Kanchan Gender theory, queer theory, feminist theory and methodologies, media studies, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, political economy studies, digital cultures, AI, internet governance and policy.
Professor Stephen Hopgood International politics of human rights; humanitarianism and international justice; and theories of the state
Visiting Scholar Jiao Nie Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of International Relations, Yunnan University China
Dr Enze Han International Relations of East Asia, Chinese Politics, Ethnic Politics, Nationalism, Southeast Asia
Research Associate Dr Ayesha Omar Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, School of Humanities and Social SciencesUniversity of the Witwaterstrand
Dr Tom Young Southern Africa: international politics; South African domestic politics; political theory
Department of Politics and International Studies The Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London.
Department of Politics and International Studies BA Politics BA Politics at SOAS University of London
Department of Politics and International Studies International Relations of Africa International Relations of Africa module
