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List of Recently Completed PhD Theses
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Postgraduate Research Students and their Areas of Expertise
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The International Relations Department has a large research student body, comprising approximately 120 students. This is a list of only those research students who have chosen to have their details on the website. If you have any additions or amendments to this page please contact Alison Carter on a.s.carter@lse.ac.uk|
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MANUEL ALMEIDA
Email: m.o.almeida@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: From Godless Barbarians to Failed States: A History of the Problem of Disorder
Areas of Expertise: 'Failed states', sociological approaches to IR, international institutions, development, state-building, terrorism, Middle East.
ADEL ALTORAIFI
Email: a.altoraifi@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Role of State Identity in Foreign Policy Decision-Making. The Rise and Demise of Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement, 1997-2009
EMILY ANDERSON
Email: e.j.anderson@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Thesis title: Insecurity, Insurgencies, and Statist Process: The Developmental Impact of Armed Conflict in Angola and Mozambique, 1975-2012.
EDMUND ARGHAND
Email: e.arghand@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: On the genealogy of states.
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LAURA BARBER
Email: l.k.barber@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Chinese Foreign Policy in the 'Going Out' Era: Confronting Challenges and 'Adaptive Learning' in the Case of China-Sudan Relations
JOHANN R BASEDOW
Email: j.r.basedow@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the European Union's economic regime vis-à-vis Russia.
HANNA BENNETT
Email: h,k.naatanen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Europeanisation through the European Neighbourhood Policy - A Study of the EU's impact on its Eastern Neighbours.
GREGORIO BETTIZA
Email: g.bettiza@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Desecularizing foreign policy: The Impact of the Christian Right on American foreign policy
Areas of Expertise: Religion in IR, Identity Politics, US Foreign Policy, Middle East, Constructivism, International Political Economy, Political Economy of Conflicts
ANNIE BIRD
Email: a.bird@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Transitional justice and US Foreign Policy.
SIMONE BOHNENBERGER-RICH
Email: s.bohnenberger@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Chinese Foreign Policy towards Central Asia: A return to the Qing Dynasty?
Areas of Expertise: Chinese trade, finance and investment in Kazakhstan; economic dependency and hierarchy; energy security
MICHAEL JOHN BLOOMFIELD
Email: m.j.bloomfield@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Power, profit and principles: Explaining variation in business responses to NGO pressure and the implications for global governance.
CAROLINA BONIATTI PAVESE
Email: c.boniatti-pavese@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Bilateralism and multilateralism in the European Union-Brazil relations: The challenges and opportunities of multilevel cooperation
ANDREW BOWEN
Email: a.bowen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: US-Syrian Relations: A Critical Assessment
RUPERT BRODERSEN
Email: r.brodersen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Rage, Rancor and Revenge - An Existentialist approach to IR
NATALI BULAMACIOGLU
Email: n.bulamacioglu@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Constructivist Examination of the Different Levels of Change in Depositor Behaviour During Banking Crises: An Analysis on the Developed Market Economies During the Second Era of Globalisation
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RICHARD CAMPANARO
Email: r.d.campanaro@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Social Animals: An Ecological Analysis of Units, Processes, and Structure in Arctic International Society
DANIEL CAPPARELLI
Email: d.capparelli@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Political Economy of Trade in Services
KASIRA CHEEPPENSOOK
Email: k.cheeppensook@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Development of the ASEAN Charter
YOUNG-BONG CHO
Email: y.cho@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The diffusion of Basel II and international regulatory convergence
JAMES CHUI
[Interrupting 2010/11]
Email: j.w.chui@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Sub-state Actors in International Society: The Evolution of Hong Kong's International Identity as a Free Trade Entity, 1945 to 2004
Areas of Expertise: China, including Hong Kong; International political economy, including trade; Reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, and SARS.
CHIH-TUNG WILLIAM CHUNG
Email: c.chung@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Evolution of Taiwan's Security Strategy - From Chiang Kai-skek to Chen Shui-bian
Areas of Expertise: Taiwan, China and U.S. security policy; East Asian politics; Security and Strategic Studies; War Studies.
CHRISTINE COTE
Email: c.cote@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Chilling Effect? The impact of international investment agreements on domestic social policy flexibility
NOËLE CROSSLEY
Email: n.k.crossley@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: From Le Droit d'Ingérence to the Responsibility to Protect
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KLAUS DALGAARD
Email: k.g.dalgaard@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Energy Security and Regional Integration in South America.
SIMONE DATZBERGER
Email: s.datzberger@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: On the concept, notion and role of civil society in peacebuilding processes (Case Study: Sierra Leone)
DAMIANO DE FELICE
Email: d.de-felice1@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Why do governments come to promote human rights?
DIEGO DE MERICH
Email: d.de-merich@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: At the Intersections of Care: Defining a Critical Social Justice Approach to International Foreign Aid and Development
CAROLINA DE SIMONE
Email: c.de-simone1@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Italian foreign policy after the Cold War (tbc)
Areas of Expertise: Non-state actors and foreign policy, Italian foreign policy
FILIPPO DIONIGI
Email: f.dionigi1@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: International Norms and Changing Conceptions of Community: The Case of Hizbullah
VIVIANE DITTRICH
Email: v.dittrich@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The legacies of international criminal tribunals
KATHRIN DOMBROWSKI
Email: k.dombrowski@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: To what extent, and in what ways, does engagement with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) enhance the input legitimacy of decisions taken by International Organisations (IOs).
BJOERN DUEBEN
Email: b.a.dueben@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Russian-Chinese Relations 1996-2008: Processes of Institutionalisation and the Evolution of Bilateral Cooperation
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ALEXANDER EDWARDS
Email: a.edwards@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of American 'Dual Containment' Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1991-2001
GEORGIOS EVANGELOPOULOS
Email: g.evangelopoulos@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The agent-structure debate in International Relations Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis
Areas of Expertise: Greek Foreign Policy, European Foreign Policy, International Political Theory (especially Thucydides, Machiavelli, E.H. Carr and the English School).
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DANIEL FALKINER
Email: d.t.falkiner@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Nietzsche, Tragedy and International Relations
KATHRYN FISHER
Email: k.m.fisher@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: From Late 20th Century Troubles to 21st Century International Terrorism: Identity, Securitization, and British counterterrorism law from 1968-2012
CURRAN FLYNN
Email: c.m.flynn@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Classical realism and modern statecraft
ANNETTE FOERSTER
Email: a.foerster@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Decent Peace, Stability and Justice in the International Realm - John Rawls's International Theory Applied
MARIA FOTOU
Email: m.fotou@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Xenos: Versions of the stranger. Ethics and Politics of Hospitality
REBEKKA FRIEDMAN
Email: r.c.friedman@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Impact of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Post-Conflict Transitions
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IACOVOS GEORGIOU
Email: i.georgiou@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: External Constraints on Foreign Policy Formulation: The Impact of the EEC/EU and the NATO on Greek-Turkish Relations. Greek Foreign-Policy Making from SIMSIK to Imia 1987-1996.
FAISAL GHULAM
Email: f.ghulam@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Negotiating Accession to the WTO.
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MONIKA HELLMEYER
Email: m.hellmeyer@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The impact of the Central and Eastern EU member states on EU's foreign policy.
REBECCA HOMKES
Email: r.l.homkes@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Evaluating the contribution of Public-private partnerships to global governance: Metrics of evaluation for multilateral partnerships.
JOSEPH HOOVER
Email: j.hoover@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Reconstructing Human Rights: a pragmatic and pluralist inquiry in global ethics
Areas of Expertise: Human Rights, International and Global Ethics, International Political Theory
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MARTA INIGUEZ DE HEREDIA
Email: m.iniguez-de-heredia@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Contending projects of social change: resistance and statebuilding strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1997-2011)
MUSTAFA IZZUDDIN
Email: m.izzuddin1@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: From Cautious Rapprochement to Matured Partnership: A Neoclassical Realist Study of Malaysia's China Policy (1974-2009)
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NICO JASPERS
Email: n.jaspers@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Regulatory Policies for Nanotechnologies: How to Reduce Barriers to Convergence Between the US and Europe
ANDREW JILLIONS
Email: a.d.jillions@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: From faith in rules to the Rule of Law: International Obligation in International Society
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OUTI KERANEN
Email: o.e.keranen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Contesting the State: International Intervention and Local Contestation in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina
MARK KERSTEN
Email: m.s.kersten@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court's Investigations and Indictments on Peace Processes in northern Uganda and Libya
PAUL KIRBY
Email: p.kirby@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Social Logics of Atrocity: Instrumentality, Unreason and Mythology in the Study of Wartime Sexual Violence, with Particular Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo
ROBYN KLINGLER
Email: r.klingler@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Political Economy of Venture Capital Policy: the role of embeddedness
REIK CHRISTIAN KRAMER
Email: r.c.kramer@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: to follow
MONIKA KRUESMANN
Email: m.h.kruesmann@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Legitimacy Beyond Legality: Sovereignty in Post-Colonial Developing States.
MAIKO KUROKI
Email: m.kuroki@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The resurgence of nationalism and Japan's contemporary foreign policy.
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FREDERICK LAKER
Email: f.a.laker@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Fragile States, Selfish Samaritans, and the Great Geopolitical Game: The Origins, Evolution, Impact & Subterfuge of the Global Internal Displacement Regime
JENS LAMPRECHT
Email: j.p.lamprecht@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: What factors account for the reduced bargaining power of Japan in the Doha round compared to its bargaining power in the Uruguay round? To what extent are these factors different from those accounting for Canada's reduced bargaining power in the Doha round compared to the Uruguay round?
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HADI MAKAREM
Email: h.makarem@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Centrality of Lebanon in Middle East Peace
DIONYSIS MARKAKIS
Email: d.markakis@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: The Pursuit of Hegemony?
ARTHUR MINSAT
Email: a.j.minsat@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: EU Foreign Policy towards Pariah States: Policy Change and Policy Paralysis
KAI MONHEIM
Email: k.monheim@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Key process and context parameters that contribute to determine the outcome of multilateral negotiations
MINAKO MORITA-JAEGER
Email: m.morita-jaeger@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Political Economy of Services Trade integration in E. Asia: What can be learnt from the Experiences of the EU Internal Market for Services
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DEEPAK NAIR
Email: d.nair@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: International co-operation in Southeast and East Asia
MARTIN NIEMETZ
Email: m.d.niemetz@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: UN Reform: Creating a Deliberative System for Global Peace and Security
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FRANCESCO OBINO
Email: f.obino@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Moral global actors: Understanding international non-governmental organisations through the idea of responsibility
ELIZABETH O'CASEY
Email: e.o'casey@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Theory of Need in International Ethics: Freedom; Agency; and Obligation
CURTIS OHLERS
Email: c.a.ohlers@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: International insurgent networks: Unconventional warfare and interstate conflict
ROBERTO ORSI
Email: r.orsi@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Rethinking normative models of world order: Jürgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt
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VASSILLIOS PAIPAIS
Email: v.paipais@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Self and Other in International Relations: Assimilation, Incommensurability and the (Im)possibility of Communication.
OSCAR PALMA
Email: o.j.palma@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The networked dynamics of narcotics as a challenge to counterinsurgency against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
IOANNIS PAPAGARYFALLOU
Email: i.papagaryfallou@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The English Realists: Buttersfield, Wight, Carr: A Study of the Use of History and Theory
JACOB PARAKILAS
Email: j.c.parakilas@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The New Drug War: Is the character of the current violence in Mexico a function of the nature of the drugs trade, or is it a manifestation of other trends in conflict?
BRADLEY PARKS
Email: b.c.parks@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Understanding the Conditions under which External Incentives for Reform are Most Effective: The case of the Millennium Challenge Account
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/PARKSB|
SILVIA PEPINO
Email: s.m.pepino@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Sovereign risk and financial crisis
ALEXANDROS PETERSEN
Email: a.p.petersen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: East-West Energy and Transport Development as a Facilitator of Western Integration in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey
GIA SON PHAM
Email: g.s.pham@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The impact of the WTO accession process on Vietnamese economic reform: a political economy approach.
BARBARA PLANK
Email: b.i.plank@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Revisiting Inter-War International Theory: an Examination of the work of Goldsworthy L. Dickinson.
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JON RAHBEK-CLEMMENSEN
Email: j.rahbek-clemmensen@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Habermasian Approach to Civil-Military Relations
ANTONIO RAIMUNDO
Email: a.j.raimundo(at)lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Europeanisation of National Foreign Policy: Portuguese Policy towards Angola and Mozambique (1974-2010).
Areas of Expertise: International Relations theory, Foreign policy analysis, European integration theory, Europeanisation, EU foreign policy, Europe-Africa relations, Portuguese foreign policy.
JEAN RENOUF
Email: j.s.renouf@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Should the United Nations and non-governmental organisations use private military companies?
Areas of Expertise: Iraq, humanitarian organisations, private security companies in armed conflict areas.
ROBERTO ROCCU
Email: r.roccu@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis title: Promoting Neoliberal Authoritarianism? The EU Promotion of Economic Reforms in the Arab Mediterranean
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MEERA SABARATNAM
Email: m.sabaratnam@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Statebuilding, power and legitimacy in Mozambique: insights from post-colonial theory
PHILIP SCHLEIFER
Email: p.schleifer@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Private Regulation in the Global Economy
ELKE SCHWARZ
Email: e.schwarz@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Life Politics and Violence: Re-thinking Violence as Politics
EFRAT SHAOULIAN-SOPHER
[interrupting MT and LT 2010/11]
Email: e.shaoulian-sopher@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Israeli-Iranian Relations: A Covert Alliance pre- the Iranian Revolution.
CHIEN-YI SHIH
Email: c.shih3@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Uyghur Nationalism and Xinjiang in China-Central Asian Relations
RARJEEV SIBAL
Email: d.r.sibal@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Emerging Market Variation: Multinational Corporate Creditworthiness in Brazil and India
JANEL SMITH
Email: j.e.smith@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Grass-roots' Human Security: Bringing the Local Civil Society Dimension into Peace-building in Southern Sudan
NICK SRNICEK
Email: n.srnicek@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Network Theory of World Politics
COLIN STEINBACH
Email: c.j.steinbach@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: National Identity and ESDP: Role Conceptions of the EU as a Security Actor in France, Germany and Britain.
JAMES STRONG
Email: j.strong1@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The influence of British Public Opinion over the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
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LUCA TARDELLI
Email: l.tardelli@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Fighting for Others? Elites and the Politics of Military Intervention in Domestic Conflicts
EE LOONG TOH
Email: e.l.toh@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A Meaningful Imaginary? Assessing the co-evolution of the ASEAN Political-Security Community and national grand strategies
TSERING TOPGYAL
Email: t.topgyal@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Security: The Insecurity Dilemma in the Sino-Tibetan Conflict.
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CAROLINE VARIN
Email: c.l.varin@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Power and Security: The role of private military companies in small states
YANIV VOLLER
Email: y.voller@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq: A Case Study of De Facto Statehood, the Pursuit of Legitimacy and Standards of Civiliization.
BENEDETTA VOLTOLINI
Email: b.voltolini@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: The impact of non-state actors on EU foreign policy-making: The case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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SARAH JANE WILLIAMS
[Interrupting MT2010/11]
Email: s.j.williams@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: A constructivist strategy for designing peace processes.
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JIE YU
Email: j.yu7@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Greener cooperation: A critical examination of European FP towards China -- A case study on China & the EU collaboration on tackling climate change
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SHUXIU ZHANG
Email: s.zhang10@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: China, International Regimes, and Modelling Economic Diplomacy
YIXIAO ZHENG
Email: y.zheng3@lse.ac.uk|
Thesis Title: Navigating between Rising Power and Vulnerability: China's Paradox and Its Policy towards Australia
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