Hinni Aarainsalo
- Email: 260961@soas.ac.uk
Department of Politics and International Studies
Research Students in the Politics Department
Syed Sajid Abbas
Historical analysis of the British East India Company and its relation to capitalism and imperialism
- Email: 666042@soas.ac.uk
Gabrielle Bayle
National self-perception and international aid conditionality: A case study of Ethiopia
- Email: 275396@soas.ac.uk
Leda Betti
Making Cars, Remaking People: the Italian State and the Rescaling of Class Relations in the Fiat-Chrysler Case
- Email: 131342@soas.ac.uk
Mehdi Beyad
A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran
- Email: mehdi_beyad@soas.ac.uk
Taylor Kenzie Borowetz
"Building postcolonial narratives of emancipation: Envisioning “struggle” as a constructive process"
- Email: 676614@soas.ac.uk
Nick Branson
Extraversion strategies and aid negotiations: How African hybrid regimes manage donor demands
- Email: 219968@soas.ac.uk
Luisa Calvete Portela Barbosa
The Imaginary of Dominance: The Subjective Legacy of One Party Dominance
- Email: 632583@soas.ac.uk
Johann Chacko
Denominational Diversity and Religious Populism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Email: 576441@soas.ac.uk
Adélie Chevée
Intellectual Labour in Times of Change: Understanding the Politics of Critique in the Syrian Revolutionary Press (2011-2017) working title
- Email: Adelie_Chevee@soas.ac.uk
Catherine Craven
Locating Politics in the Global: A Practice-Based Analysis of Tamil Diaspora Engagement
- Email: cc94@soas.ac.uk
Guy Robert Eyre
Understanding everyday North Africans' ideas about halal and haram lifestyles: an ethnographic study of grassroots Muslim educational and Quranic reading circles (tajwid) in Algeria and Morocco.
- Email: 538825@soas.ac.uk
Sena Galazzi Lian
Saving' Myanmar One Day at a Time: the Everyday Lives of NGO Workers in Yangon (Working title)
- Email: Sena_Galazzi@soas.ac.uk
Maia Holtermann Entwistle
“Petro-Culture: Cultural Infrastructure and Liberal Power in the Arab Gulf States”
- Email: 496402@soas.ac.uk
Ching-Yu Huang
An In-Depth Study in Taiwan's Gender Mainstreaming in the Legislative Politics
- Email: 633317@soas.ac.uk
Ella Jeffreys
A Cultural History of Violence Among the Fante Asafo Companies
- Email: ej13@soas.ac.uk
Jack Joy
The Spectacle of Resistance: Repertoires of Power in the Discourse of Hizbullah [working title]
- Email: jj13@soas.ac.uk
Paul Kaletsch
The Recent Aftermath of "Unsuccessful" Contemporary East Asian Urban Student Protests?
- Email: 634248@soas.ac.uk
Anna E. Kensicki
Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Mediated, Experiential and Imaginary Constructs
- Email: 645179@soas.ac.uk
Sirada Khemanitthathai
Emigration State in Transition: Myanmar and the utilisation of emigration as a foreign policy instrument
- Email: 644246@soas.ac.uk
Dwi Kiswanto
Centre-Periphery Relations: Politics and Informalities in Indonesia's Intergovernmental Budget Allocation
Arkmore Kori
Parliamentary Committees, Democracy and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe
- Email: 221818@soas.ac.uk
Leon Nelson Kunz
Thesis title: Deliberative Democracy in Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Email: ln7@soas.ac.uk
Tommy Chung Yin Kwan
Fail to Re-connect: The Alienated Relationship Between Democratic Progressive Party and the Sunflower Movement
- Email: cy_kwan@soas.ac.uk
Hangwei Li
Media Politics In A Globalised World:The transformation of Chinese media in Africa
- Email: hangwei_li@soas.ac.uk
Pia Ljungman
Making Money: Remodelling Europe The causes and consequences of the European sovereign debt crisis narrative
- Email: 270731@soas.ac.uk
Heba Negm
- Email: 244138@soas.ac.uk
Ibrahim Nyei
Decentralisation reforms and the implications for power and authority relations in a centralised unitary state. A study of decentralisation reforms in Liberia
- Email: ibrahim_nyei@soas.ac.uk
Thanos Petouris
Revolutionary Politics in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia under British Colonial Rule (1937–67)
- Email: 144949@soas.ac.uk
Noemí Pérez Vásquez
Breaking the silence: women’s access to transitional justice
- Email: np41@soas.ac.uk
Salman Rafi
Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of De-centralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study
- Email: 666993@soas.ac.uk
Joshua Rigg
The Engaging Politics of Refusal: Transition and Resistance in Tunisia since the Arab Uprisings
- Email: jr56@soas.ac.uk
Elke Selter
The International Politics of Heritage and their Impact on Conflict Transformation (working title)
- Email: e_selter@soas.ac.uk
Mohammad Ali Shabani
Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq
- Email: 216746@soas.ac.uk
Nattaporn Sittipat
Power Bases, Military Regimes, and Thai Foreign Policy-Making
- Email: 633401@soas.ac.uk
Daniel Thumpston
Legitimacy in Chinese Foreign Policy
- Email: 335139@soas.ac.uk
Michael Edward Walsh
Overseas Military Bases
- Email: michael_walsh@soas.ac.uk
Shenghua Zhang
Populism, Representational Crisis, and Party Organisational Development in Thailand: The Persistence of Pro-Thaksin Parties since 2001
- Email: shenghua_zhang@soas.ac.uk
Hang Zhou
Bring African Bureaucracies back in: Negotiations and Implementation of Chinese Development Engagement in Uganda
- Email: hang_zhou@soas.ac.uk
Hang Zhou
The politics of transformation: everyday negotiations in Uganda's roads sector
- Email: 644942@soas.ac.uk
Further information about the Department's PhD programme can be found here.
Recently awarded PhD theses
2018
- Seyed Alavi Iran's Relations with Palestine: Roots and Development (Dr A Adib-Moghaddam)
- Sameen Ali Staffing The State: The Politicisation of Bureaucratic Appointments in Pakistan (Dr M Nelson)
- Inioluwa Dele-Adedeji The Mobilisation of the Boko Haram Sect (Dr P Clark)
- Hugh Lamarque Insulating the Borderlands: Policing and State Reach in Rwanda (Dr P Clark)
- Tahani Mustafa Transforming Security Landscapes: Security Sector Reform in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Dr A Adib-Moghaddam)
- Kathryn Nash From State Security to Human Security: The Evolution of Norms at the Regional Level in Africa (Dr L Vinjamuri)
- Dominique Oliver Transforming Lebanon (Prof C Tripp)
- Maria Rashid Affect as a Technology of Rule: Service, Sacrifice and the Pakistani Military (Dr L Khalili)
- Lynne Wanyeki African solutions for African problems' or a 'liberal peace': the African Union (AU) and Kenya (Prof S Chan)
2017
- Sasan Aghlani-Asl The Nuclear Policies of Iran: Islam and Strategic Thinking in the Islamic Republic (Dr A Adib-Moghaddam)
- Richard Akum Informal Ordering, Authority and Control: Borderland Dynamics and Postwar Statebuilding in Liberia (Prof S Chan)
- Athanasius Barkindo History, Memory and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: The Transformation of Boko Haram (Dr P Clark)
- Emma Birikorang Emerging Regional Security Threats in West Africa: Implications for Regional Security (Dr P Clark)
- Noga Glucksam Transitional Justice and Collective Identity: Contesting Concepts of Justice in Liberia and Uganda (Dr P Clark)
- Hae Won Jeong Rethinking State Autonomy in Rentier State Theory (RST): A Case study of Kuwait (Dr A Adib-Moghaddam)
- Salam Kamel The Constitution as Unfinished Business: The Making and Un-Making of Power Relations in Iraq, 2003-2010 (Prof C Tripp)
- Lili Liu Environmental Activism and Political Intermediation: Local Flexibility in Managing Protests in China (Dr J Strauss)
- Charles Marques Rebel Diplomacy as "Rebelcraft": Libya 2011 (Prof S Chan)
- Goktug Sonmez The Interplay between International and Domestic Factors in Turkey's Grand Strategy-Making: Activism, Disappointment, and Readjustment (Dr F Adamson)
2016
- Indre Balciate A borderless village: mobility and belonging in Phlong Karen transborder lives between Hpa-an area, Myanmar, and Greater Bangkok, Thailand (Prof L Khalili)
- Catherine Huser 'We don't know if we have a right to live': The Impact of Global Protection Norms in the Micro Spaces of Armed Conflict (Prof S Hopgood)
- Amir Khnifess Israel and the Druze Political Action: Between Politics of Loyalty and Politics of Violence (Prof C Tripp)
- Priya Kumar Diaspora 2.0: Mapping Sikh, Tamil and Palestinian Online Identity Politics (Dr F Adamson)
- Merve Kutuk Locating Muslim Women: Consumption, Activism and Contention in Turkey (Prof S Ismail)
- Marwa Mamdouh Mohamed Ali Salem The Feeble Giant: Analysing Egypt's Africa Policies (Dr T Young)
- Najia Mukhtar Approaching Religious Difference Differently: Counter-Dominant Agents in Contemporary Pakistan (Dr M Nelson)
- Anna Rader Verification and Legibility in Somaliland's Identity Architecture (Prof L Khalili)
- Benjamin Schuetze US and European Democracy Promotion in Jordan: The Reinforcement of Authoritarianism (Prof C Tripp)
- Gerasimos Tsourapas Trading People, Consolidating Power - Emigration & Authoritarianism in Modern Egypt (Prof L Khalili)
- Andrea Valente Explaining Energy Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Examples from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (Prof L Saez)