Dr Babatunde Obamamoye BSc, MSc, PhD

Babatunde Obamamoye

International Development Department
British Academy International Fellow

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University of Birmingham
International Development Department
School of Government
Muirhead Tower
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Babatunde Obamamoye is a British Academy International Fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham. He previously taught at the Obafemi Awolowo University and Australian National University. His research interests include peace interventions and local reception of international peace missions.

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PhD in International Relations, Australian National University, 2021

MSc in International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2017

BSc (Hons) in International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2010

Biography

Babatunde Obamamoye is a British Academy International Fellow at the International Development Department, School of Government, University of Birmingham. He previously taught international relations and/or peace(building) and conflict (resolution) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University and a BSc in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University. His research interests include peace interventions, peacebuilding, and local reception of international peace missions.

Babatunde’s research has received funding from the British Academy, the Australian Department of Education and Training, and Obafemi Awolowo University. His research has appeared in scholarly journals, including the Third World Quarterly, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, African Security, African Security Review, and International Journal of Conflict and Violence. He is currently a member of the editorial board for the Third World Quarterly. Babatunde’s current and past research projects involved field research in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia, and the United States.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • Understanding Peace and Conflict (ANU)
  • Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (ANU)
  • Introduction to International Society (OAU)

 

Postgraduate:

  • Issues and Concepts in IR (ANU)
  • Interventions and Statebuilding (ANU)
  • Key Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies (ANU)

  

Doctoral Supervision:

I am interested in supervising postgraduate research in international peacekeeping/peacebuilding interventions and (critical theory of) international relations.

Doctoral research

PhD title
PhD in International Relations, Australian National University, 2021

Research

  • International peace interventions
  • international peacekeeping/peacebuilding
  • local reception of international peace missions
  • IR and critical theory 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Obamamoye, BF 2023, 'Beyond neo-imperialist intentionality: explaining African agency in liberal peace interventions', Third World Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1380-1397. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2188186

Obamamoye, BF 2023, 'When Neo-Gramscians Engage the Postcolonial: Insights into Subaltern Consent and Dissent in the Re/Unmaking of Hegemonic Orders', Alternatives, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754231151467

Obamamoye, BF 2020, 'Trans-state security complexes and security governance in West Africa', African Security Review, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 152-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2020.1777175

Obamamoye, BF 2019, 'State weakness and regional security instability: Evidence from Africa’s Lake Chad Region', International Journal of Conflict and Violence , vol. 13. https://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.639

Obamamoye, BF 2018, 'Navigating the enigma of negotiating with a Jihadist terrorist group', African Security, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2018.1560973

Ako-Nai, RI & Obamamoye, BF 2018, 'The women's movement for gender quotas in Nigeria and Ghana', Modern Africa, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 61-84. https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v6i1.235

Obamamoye, BF 2017, 'Counter-terrorism, Multinational Joint Task Force and the missing components', African Identities, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 428-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2017.1319755

Chapter

Lemay-Hébert, N & Obamamoye, BF 2023, Transforming conception(s) of state fragility and new containment interventions. in D Carment & Y Samy (eds), Handbook of Fragile States. Elgar Handbooks in Political Science, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 39-52. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883475.00007

Comment/debate

Lemay-Hébert, N, Deprez, M, Kent, L, Obamamoye, B, Simangan, D & Wallis, J 2025, 'Time for peace?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 46-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2024.2443547

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