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• The Politics of Identity
• British colonialism in Africa
• Post-colonial African Politics

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• Nationalism
• Gender
• Foreign policy

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• Political philosophy
• Contemporary political theory

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• History of political thought
• Contemporary political theory
• Intellectual history

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• Environmental politics and policy
• British party politics

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• Dynamics of intra-state conflicts
• Strategies for conflict resolution
• Unrecognised states

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• Feminist conflict and peace studies
• Sexual and gender-based violence
• Affect, queer, and decolonial studies
• Displacement and migration
• Art and social mobilisation
• Participatory and arts-based methodologies

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• International political economy
• International organisations
• Economic governance

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• Sustainable development and environment politics
• Energy Policy
• East European Politics

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• Conflict
• China's global influence
• Public opinion and International Security
• Foreign Policy Processes

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• NGOs and (global) civil society
• Migration and Race
• (Post-)Colonialism
• Gender and Sexuality
• International Development
• Conflict
• Brokerage

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• Marxism
• Critical Theory
• Radical Humanism(s)

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• International political economy
• International organisations
• European and Asian regionalism

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• Conflict resolution
• Post-war recovery
• Middle Eastern politics

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• British Politics
• Political Economy
• Labour markets and Immigration
• Monetary Policy

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• International political economy
• Agrarian studies
• Chinese studies
• State analysis
• Environment and sustainable development
• Latin American studies

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• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Policy-making
• UK Foreign Policy
• US Foreign Policy
• Iraq War

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• Political theory
• History of political thought
• Multiculturalism

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• International Political Economy
• Global Environmental Politics
• Food systems politics
• Trade and the environment
• Transnational Environmental Governance

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• Departmental Academic and Communication Skills

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• Northern Ireland
• Irish Political Thought
• Unionism(s)
• Territorial Politics in the UK
• National Self-Determination

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• International Relations Theory
• Critical Security Studies
• Political Psychology
• International Political Sociology,
• Emotion research in Politics and International Relations

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• Political institutions
• Democratic processes
• African politics

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• Feminist international relations
• Critical military and critical war studies
• Sexual and gender-based violence

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• Transitional justice
• Development and human rights
• Culture and human rights practice

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• Political economy of development
• Politics of citizenship
• Human rights and democratization

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• Rebel Governance
• Conflict and Peace Studies
• Illicit Economies
• Colombia and Latin American Studies
• Transitional and Transformative Justice

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• Democratisation of human development
• Economic justice
• Modalities of institutional change
• Comparative political economy of development and public policy
• Basic income
• Comparative capitalism and the welfare state

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• Comparative European politics
• Voting behaviour and party politics
• Populism
• Nationalism and extremism
• Far right parties
• Comparative methods

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• International securitisation of mobility
• Contemporary border politics

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• The politics of regulation
• EU and transnational regulation
• Banking, food safety and pharmaceuticals regulation
• Comparative public policy and administration

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• Trade
• Food systems
• Global value chains
• Environmental sustainability

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• Development and human rights
• Climate and environmental change
• Human rights and social movements
• Transitional and transformative justice

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• International Development
• International Political Economy
• Technological Innovation and Regulation

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• Feminist Political Economy
• Land Dispossession
• Agrarian Change
• Gender and Global Governance

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• Party politics
• Comparative politics
• The radical left

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• Cultural politics
• Citizenship practices
• Engaged political theory
• Feminist theory

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• Sustainable cocoa value chains
• Decoloniality & justice in conservation
• Political ecology

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• Comparative and international political economy
• European Union Politics
• Public policy

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• Strategy
• Counterinsurgency
• International Security/Conflict
• Ethics (Just War Tradition)
• Strategic Ethics

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• Politics of expertise
• Contemporary democratic theory
• Deliberative democracy
• Political theories of trust and distrust
• Democratic innovations

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• Environmental politics
• Climate action
• European Union politics and policy
• Political myth

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• Power, ideas and institutions in politics of international development

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• Political theory
• Historical injustice & Memory
• Gender and Sexuality
• Race
• Structural injustice
• Immigration
• Pluralism

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• Urban studies and urban theory
• Socio-spatial informatics
• Politics of asylum and immigration
• Comparative European politics

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• Public policy
• Political economy
• Regulatory governance

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• International relations and international security
• Nuclear disarmament
• Proliferation and arms control
• US and UK national security

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• Heterodox political economy
• Development
• Global Food Production
• Social Movements

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• Civil war
• Computational social sciences
• Ethnography
• Middle East
• Contentious politics and social movements

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• Rising powers
• Political change and social transformation

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• British politics
• Gender
• Elections
• Public policy

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• Decentralisation
• Parties and electoral politics
• Gender and politics
• Gender and conflict
• Southeast Asia

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• Civil war
• Social mobilisation
• Ex-combatant reintegration
• Civilian protection norms and practices
• Fieldwork methods and ethics

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• Non-state armed groups
• Political parties
• Secessionist conflict
• Peacebuilding
• Democratisation

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• Democratisation
• War to peace transitions
• Humanitarian interventions
• Ethno-religious violence
• Development in contested states

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• Social movements and civil society
• Young people's politics
• Qualitative, creative and participatory research methods

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• British politics
• Public policy
• State transformation

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• Political theory
• History of political thought
• Historical formation of modern ideas

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• Historian of early modern Europe

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• Borders, mobility, control
• Postcolonial theory, race, violence
• The geopolitics of intimacy, gender and family

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• Civil war
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Transitional justice
• Decoloniality
• Transitional justice
• Arts-based research methods

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• Just war theory
• Global ethics
• Political theory

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• Political Psychology
• Political Behaviour
• Comparative Politics

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• Non-state armed groups
• Moderation and Radicalism
• Local politics and ethno-national conflict
• Power-sharing