Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
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
Professor of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies
Admissions Tutor: MSC Politics of the Middle East
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.
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.
History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law
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
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Director of Doctoral Studies
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).
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Comparative Political Economy, Urbanism in the Global South, Politics of Science and Technology, Infrastructure, Corporations, Neoliberalism and Ethnography.
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.
Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East
PhD Admissions Tutor
Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies
Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory
Professor in Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
International Relations Theory; International Security; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Political Sociology; Global History; Postcolonialism; Hierarchy; Violence; Culture and Ideas.
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
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.
International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queer theory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia
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.
PGT Admissions Tutor - MA International Studies and Diplomacy
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).
State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America
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.
International theory; inequalities and intersectionality; international (in)security and war; Islamophobia; cultural politics; socio-economic and political crises
Christopher Boyle received his PhD from the University of Sussex in International Politics. He has wide experience teaching international studies at undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently, he teaches modules in international law, politics, and economics, as well as supervising MSc students. He has published works in Millennium Journal of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and the Journal of Historical Sociology.
Dr Hisham Sabbagh’s research focuses on International Mediation, Foreign Policy Analysis, the Politics and Security of the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Middle East.
