International Relations and Security Theory research group
The research group provides a space for reflection on mainstream theories, as well as on new ways of theorising actors, identities, concepts, norms and types of power relations that shape global politics and security today.
The research group is focused on a broadly construed understanding of International Relations and Security theory. The group provides a space for reflection on mainstream theories, as well as on new ways of theorising actors, identities, concepts, norms and types of power relations that shape global politics and security today. The group holds regular meetings whereby members’ work-in-progress is showcased and debated. It also organises ad hoc events with external speakers on cutting edge theoretical debates in IR/S.
For further information about the research group contact:
- Dr Mwita Chacha, Email: m.chacha@bham.ac.uk
- Dr Marco Vieira, Email: m.a.vieira@bham.ac.uk
Activities
Activities
Reading group (occasional meetings on Wednesdays 1-2:30pm during term time).
Work presented by IRST members
Asaf Siniver: session on 9 February 2022. ‘From mediation to arbitration: Conflict resolution and territorial disputes’.
Patrick Porter: session on 24 November 2021. ‘Thucydides lives in Asia: The power transition trap is real’.
Robert Ralston: session on 10 November 2021. ‘Enemies Within: Declinism, Racism, and Xenophobia’.
George Kyris: session on 14 November 2018. Paper, ‘ Sovereignty, Conflict and the International Community’
Kevork Oskanian: session on 21 March 2018. Paper, ‘Mind the Gap: Securitisations between State and Society
Nicholas Wheeler: session on 9 March 2016. Chapter – ‘Individual and Collective identities of trust' - from his upcoming book Trusting Enemies.
Rita Floyd: session on the 18 May 2016. Introduction to her book manuscript ‘The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization’.
Marco Vieira: session on 16 November 2016. Paper submitted to Millennium, ‘Re-Imagining the Self of Ontological Security: The Case of Brazil’s Ambivalent Postcolonial Subjectivity’.
Adam Quinn: session on 8 March 2017. ISA Baltimore paper, ‘Killing norms softly: US targeted killing, secrecy and the assassination ban’.
For further information about the research group contact: Dr Marco Vieira, Email: m.a.vieira@bham.ac.uk
Social and Political Theory research group is part of the Department of Political Science and International Studies.