Department of Politics and International Relations
At the heart of current political thinking, research and debate.
Research
We're shaping global debates and breaking new ground to address the world's most pressing challenges.
At the forefront of the discipline, our research sparks action and influences policymaking.
To study politics and international relations is to ask fundamental questions about the nature of the world - about war and peace, wealth and power, order and justice. At York, you'll have the opportunity to learn about these and other themes in a variety of different contexts, guided by our world-class researchers and teachers.
Professor Tony Heron, Head of Department of Politics and International Relations
News
Gyda Sindre has written a paper which discusses the prospects for political integration of armed groups in the context of contemporary dynamics of armed conflict.
Professor Indrajit Roy has co-edited a Special Collection titled "Multiplexity 2.0: Power and plurality in a post-liberal world" just published in the prestigious Chatham House journal International Affairs. In addition to co-authoring the introduction to the collection, he has also contributed an article titled "Assering Southern agency: The moralistic realism of multiplexity" to the collection.
A newly published report “Civil War Paths: A Research Programme on Civil War as a Social Process” detailing key findings of the Civil War Paths project funded by the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship “Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach” is now available to read.
Edited by José Gutiérrez Danton and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, Criminality, Political Power and Conflict, discusses historically grounded processes by which politics and criminality has been built as separated spheres of human activity through conflict and state-building.
Events
Colloquium on grounded normative theory: work, community, contestation. Hosted by the York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy
This workshop coincides with the 15th anniversary of the death of Ugandan gay activist David Kato, who was a fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, and in whose honour David Kato college at York is named.