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Departmental Graduate Tutor
Associate Professor in International Relations
As graduate tutor, I oversee the academic and pastoral care of our PhD students.
My academic expertise is focused on questions of sovereignty, international order, military intervention and liberal international conflict management. I also have research interests in critical social theory and International Relations theory.
I completed my doctorate in War Studies at King’s College London; my thesis examined developing countries' personnel contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operations across 1997 to 2007. In 2008 I was appointed to provide reports on Western Balkan politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and I was appointed a fellow of the High Education Academy in 2014.
I have undertaken a variety of roles in the wider academic community. Across 2006–2010 I was one of the founding editors of the Routledge 'Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding' and across 2014–2020 I served as Editor in Chief of the Routledge journal 'International Peacekeeping'. In 2018 I helped establish the ‘Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding’ working group of the British International Studies Association. I have appeared frequently in broadcast and print media and I am one of the co-hosts of the @bungacast podcast and tweets @thephilippics.