Research Student	Provisional Thesis Title	Supervisor
Ranji Alaaldin	Shia Identity in Iraq	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Sara Al-Qaiwani	The History of Women's Rights in the Middle East from 1880 to 1980: Rebellion, State Co-optation and Female Martyrdom	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Sarah Ashraf	Analysis of the Relationship between the Armed Forces (Military) and Radical Islamists in Pakistan and Egypt	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Alicia Altorfer-Ong	Independence, Dependence and Third World Solidarity: Sino-Tanzanian Relations from 1964-1975	Dr Joanna Lewis\|
Augestad Knudsen, Rita	Contemporary conceptualisations of the right to self-determination, and implications of international state building in Kosovo	Dr Kristina Spohr Readman\|
Dayna Barnes	The Development of Policy for the US Occupation of Japan, 1937-1945	Dr Antony Best\|
Basha i Novosejt, Aurelie	Vietnam Withdrawal Plans in the Kennedy and Nixon administrations	Dr Steven Casey\|
Goetz Bechtolsheimer	The United States' Intervention in the Congo and the Rise of Mobutu from 1964 to 1967	Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Gary Blank	British Foreign Policy and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)	Dr Joanna Lewis\|
Audrey Bonnery	The BBC and Franco-British Relations, 1938-1944	Dr Heather Jones\|
Chris Brennan	Saving the Dual Monarchy: Too little, too late? The Domestic Policies of Emperor Karl	Dr Alan Sked\|
Néstor Cerda	Spanish military doctrine since 1898 and its impact on the conduct of the Spanish Civil War	Professor Paul Preston\|
Maria Chen	Wine, Identity, and Changing Political Relationships in France and the European Community: 1967-1980	Dr N. Piers Ludlow\|
Zhong Chen	Diplomatic Relations between the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of China in the 1980s: Conditions and Consequences	Dr Kristina Spohr Readman\|
Marie Julie Chenard	The EC's China Policy, 1975-1980	Dr N. Piers Ludlow\| & Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Lyong Choi	Utilizing National Security for Building Political Power: Inter-Korean Political History between 1968 and 1979	Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
John Collins	Anglo-American relations and post-war international drug diplomacy: A "special relationship"?	Professor Nigel Ashton\|
Paul Coyer	Sino - American Strategic Cooperation, 1971-1976	Dr Steven Casey\|
Jonathan Cummings	National Image, Public Diplomacy and International Legitamacy: The Israeli Ministry of Information, 1966-1975	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Vladimir Dobrenko	Institutions of Peace for the Cold War: The History of the Soviet Committee for the Defence of Peace and its Affiliated Institutions, 1949-1991	Professor Arne Westad\|
Mohammed Ghettas	U.S.-North Africa Policy under the Nixon-Ford Presidencies 1969 to 1976	Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Bryan Gibson	The Balancing Act: American Foreign Policy and the Kurdish-Iraqi Civil War, 1961-1975	Professor Nigel Ashton\|
Jonas Gjersø	Benevolent Imperialism? Abolition and Legitimate Trade as Principal Elements of British Policy in East Africa 1856-1902	Dr Joanna Lewis\|
Giovanni Graglia	Arrested totalitarianism in Piedmont	Dr N. Piers Ludlow\| & Dr Heather Jones\|
Benedict Greening	Conservative Politics in the British Caribbean during the period of de-colonialisation, 1950-1980	Dr Joanna Lewis\|
Aviva Guttmann	Transnational Terrorism and International Diplomacy – Extreme Leftist Terrorist Networks of France, Germany and Italy and Their Government Reactions 1968- 1986.	Dr K Spohr Readman\|
Daniel Hardegger	PhD Candidates in the Humanities in the late 19th/early 20th century in Berlin, London and at the Columbia University, New York	Dr Alan Sked\|
Michael Hemmersdorfer	Competing for the Kaiser's ear. The struggle for control over Germany's England policy, 1898-1914.	Dr Alan Sked\|
Paul Horsler\|	There can be no doubt he united the country	Professor David Stevenson\|
Asim Hussain	Impact and development of MMA within NWFP and Balouchistan	Dr Kirsten Schulze\| / Dr T C. Sherman\|
Leslie James	'Revolutionary as Historian': The Life and Work of George Padmore	Dr Alan Sked\|
Vishnu Juwono	The Politics of Institutional Reform in Indonesia: Comparative Study between President Soeharto Era (1965 – 1998) and Post-Soeharto Era (1998 – 2014	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Serkan Kececi	The Grand (Imperial) Strategy of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia against Its Southern Rivals (1820-1833)	Professor Dominic Lieven\|
Scott Keefer	The Birth of Modern Arms Control: International Law and Security in the Early Twentieth Century	Professor David Stevenson\|
Adam Kravitz	Truman and Franco: A Study on the Relations between Spain and the U.S. following WWII	Professor Paul Preston\|
Andrea Mason	Britain and the Establishment of Communism in Poland, 1943-1948	Professor Anita Prazmowska\|
Corina Mavrodin	Romanian foreign policy, 1956-1969	Professor Arne Westad\|
Paul Moody	The Lion Had Wings: The Invention of British Cinema, 1885-1939	Dr Alan Sked\|
Mahon Murphy	German Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in the Extra-European Theatre of the First World War	Professor David Stevenson\|
Sacha Nauta	Making the case for (and against) war: The US debate over Vietnam civilian casualties 1965-68	Dr Steven Casey\|
Mark O'Connor	Imperial Justice at the Sunset of Empire: A Study of the Evolving Role and Ideology of the British Colonial Legal Service 1933 - 1966	Dr Joanna Lewis\|
Abdurahim Ozer	Challenges to the Survival of Empires: The Ottoman Empire in the 1860s and the Cretan Insurrection	Professor Dominic Lieven\|
Chris Parkes	The Welles of Loneliness: Sumner Welles, the State Department, and the Politics of the New Deal	Dr Steven Casey\|
Nabila Ramdani	British and American Foreign Policy: The Case of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Aaron Rietkerk	Anglo-American-UN relations in the Middle East from 1956-1960	Professor Nigel Ashton\|
Laura Ryseck	Nation-building and National Identity in Multi-ethnic States: A Comparative Study of the Cases of Lebanon and Eritrea, 1941-1991'	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Serem Ruben	The Spanish Civil War in Andalucia: Repression (1936-39)	Professor Paul Preston\|
Harry Sheldon	Defence Strategy under Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990	Professor Alan Sked\|
Charles Sorrie	Censorship in France, 1917-18	Professor David Stevenson\|
Daniel Strieff	The Limits of Candour: Jimmy Carter, the Arab-Israeli dispute and the domestic constraints on an open foreign policy.	Dr Steven Casey\| & Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Yu Suzuki	Exploring the Origins of Alliance: Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy in Late Nineteenth Century.	Dr Antony Best\|
Stefan Sveinsson	"Rekindling" the Special Relationship, Carter, Callaghan and Trident	Professor Nigel Ashton\|
Amal Tarhuni	Britain, the United States and the Radicalisation of Qaddafi's Libya 1969-1986	Dr Kirsten Schulze\| & Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Natalia Telepneva	Soviet relations with national-liberation movements, 1961-76	Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Tobias Thiel	Rebellion against Empire: A Comparative History of Violent Movements in the Middle East	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Amal Tarhuni	Britain, the United States and the Radicalisation of Qaddafi's Libya 1969-1986	Professor Odd Arne Westad\|
Weston Ullrich	American Foreign Policy and de-Stalinisation, 1953-56	Dr Steven Casey\|
Pinar Ure	At the Intersection of Science and Politics: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914)	Professor Dominic Lieven\|
Corrin Varady	Islaminsisation of Sunni Muslims in Lebanon: The Evolution of fundamentalism in a sectarian context	Dr Kirsten Schulze\|
Margit Wunsch	Continuum of Destruction': An analysis of the treatment of the Genocides in German media in the cases of Bosnia and Kosovo	Professor Mia Rodriguez-Salgado\|
Takahiro Yamamoto	The Creation of international borders around Japan, 1861-1875	Dr Antony Best\|

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