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.
Ashley Cox has recently completed his PhD viva at the University of Leicester studying the Wilsonian influences on conflicts in American history.
Energy and climate policy in the EU, US and emerging economies, particularly in South East Asia; climate finance; global and regional energy markets; low-carbon energy technologies; urban resource governance; global public policy
Ewan is a former serving officer in the Royal Air Force with a highly varied experience but with a long term background in policing and security. He has worked extensively in Africa most recently in South Sudan, and maintains a practical interest in peace keeping and conflict resolution. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory
International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
Security, South Asia, International Law, Political and Legal Philosophy
International Relations theory, international security; global public policy; North-South relations; civil wars; peace processes; peacebuilding; securitized development; politics of the ‘War on Terror’, international financial regulation.
Dr J Simon Rofe is the inaugural director of CISD's Global Diplomacy Masters distance learning programme. Prior to joining SOAS he was Distance Learning Director at the University of Leicester managing a suite of four International Relations Programmes.
Pallavi is a lecturer in International Economics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS.
Paul Stott received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2015 for the research “British Jihadism: The Detail and the Denial”, having earlier obtained an MSc (Distinction) in Terrorism Studies at the University of East London. His research areas centre on terrorism, international security, Islamism, the political fringe and conspiracy theory.
His book on British Jihadism will be published by Routledge in 2018.
Prof Thomas G. Weiss joined the Centre in 2012 as Research Professor working with Dr Plesch on their project looking at the implications of the alliance of United Nations during WW2 and prior to the UN Charter for Twenty First Century policy.
Richard Kareem Al-Qaq holds a PhD in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Between 2002 and 2007, Dr. Al-Qaq taught post-graduate International Politics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy
John Ashton is an independent commentator and adviser on the politics of climate change. He is also well known for the role he has played in climate diplomacy.
Martin Butcher is a policy advisor on arms and conflict for Oxfam.
David Fisk is holder of the Laing O’Rourke Chair in Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College. He previously held the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair at Imperial College London in Engineering for Sustainable Development. At Imperial he is Director of the Laing O’Rourke Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation and is a co-director of the BP Urban Energy Systems Program. He is a Past President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and serves as a Non-Executive Member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.
Isabel Hilton is a London based writer and broadcaster. She is founder and editor of chinadialogue, an independent, non-profit organization based in London, Beijing and San Francisco.
Currently, Zidane holds the position of Senior Consultant within the ICRC Unit in charge of the contacts with the religious leaders in Africa.
His research interests are: Islamism, Sufism and Evangelism in Africa; The nature of modern Islamic States.
Paul Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, as well as being a Research Associate in the Disarmament and Globalisation Program at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
Currently, Peter is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame (London Law Centre), and joint General Editor of the Law Reports of the Commonwealth, (Butterworths LexisNexis) the 100th volume of which was published in 2009. He is Vice-President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Journal and a member of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
Jonathan R. Beloff is a current PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies and is performing his research on Rwandan foreign policy titled, ʺThe Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy from Genocide to Globalisation”. He has been travelling to Rwanda since 2008 conducting research on Rwandan political, economic and social development. He has previously worked as a researcher and editor for the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) in Rwanda
Rachel is a barrister who has worked in private practice at Cloisters chambers in London for ten years specialising in employment, discrimination, equality and human rights law. Rachel has held research roles at Monash University (Melbourne) on their "Human Rights Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations" project and in a pro bono capacity for Amnesty International Business and Human Rights team. Before being called the Bar, Rachel worked for corporate social responsibility body the International Business Leaders Forum.
Social theory of international relations, international law, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction.
Regional focus: West Africa, great lake area
Climate change and energy law, sustainable development, ecosystems law and governance (forests, land, water), smart energy technologies, cryptocurrencies and transnational environmental law.
Dr. Percival specialises in the interface between law, society and corporations within the framework of the global political economy, with a focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). She completed her PhD research in international investment protection law at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis employs a multidisciplinary approach, including critical and post-colonial theory, political economy and legal analysis, to unpack the PRC ‘harmonious world’ paradigm. The thesis examines this paradigm through the lens of the global and China’s own bilateral investment treaties program, considering the way it both challenges as well as reinforces the global neoliberal order.
Ashley Cox has recently completed his PhD viva at the University of Leicester studying the Wilsonian influences on conflicts in American history.
International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
Energy and climate policy in the EU, US and emerging economies, particularly in South East Asia; climate finance; global and regional energy markets; low-carbon energy technologies; urban resource governance; global public policy
International security, multinational enterprises, international public policy, international political economy, global governance.
Ewan is a former serving officer in the Royal Air Force with a highly varied experience but with a long term background in policing and security. He has worked extensively in Africa most recently in South Sudan, and maintains a practical interest in peace keeping and conflict resolution. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
Climate change and energy law, sustainable development, ecosystems law and governance (forests, land, water), smart energy technologies, cryptocurrencies and transnational environmental law.
Heads a global trade and strategy consulting practice. Research Associate and Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, Research Associate, Institute for Global Dialogue (Pretoria, South Africa). His principal areas of research are contemporary diplomacy (including trade, public and sports-diplomacy), international trade politics, and foreign economic policy making. Publications include Trade Diplomacy Transformed: Why Trade Matters for Global Prosperity (1st edn. Palgrave Macmillan 2015, 2nd edn. Lulu Press, 2016), The World Economic Forum: A Multi-stakeholder approach to global governance (Routledge, 2006), Contemporary Diplomacy (Polity Press, 2010).
Young people’s experiences of and means of coping with violence in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Paul Stott received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2015 for the research “British Jihadism: The Detail and the Denial”, having earlier obtained an MSc (Distinction) in Terrorism Studies at the University of East London. His research areas centre on terrorism, international security, Islamism, the political fringe and conspiracy theory.
His book on British Jihadism will be published by Routledge in 2018.
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.
