Research Students

• List of Recently Completed PhD Theses
• Postgraduate Research Students and their Areas of Expertise

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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 in 2001-2 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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DAN ALAMARIU
Email: d.a.alamariu@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Transnational economic actors in civil wars.

ANA CRISTINA ALVES
Email: a.c.alves@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Decentralising the International System: China in the Third World - the case of Portuguese Speaking Countries.

CHRISTOPHER ANKERSEN
Email: c.p,ankersen@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Civil-military cooperation in Canadian Peace Support Operations in the Balkans.

MATTHEW ARNOLD
Email: m.b.arnold@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Responding to Frontiers of Insecurity: Pacifying Disorder or Creating Order?

LISA ARONSSON
Email: l.a.aronsson@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Transatlantic Relations and Foreign Policy.

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KARIM BAKHIT
Email: k.m.bakhit@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Dangerous Pacification? The Impact of Security Interventions on Post-Sovereign Governance in Africa
Areas of Expertise: IR Theory, “failed states”, African international politics (West Africa/Great Lakes/Sudan), theories of the state, Critical Security Studies, UN and African conflict management and peacekeeping, ECOWAS, theories of International Political Economy, post-conflict reconstruction.

ROSA BALFOUR
Email: r.balfour@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: European Union Policies for Human Rights and Democracy in its Foreign Relations.

SHONDEEP BANERJI
Email: s.banerji@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Creation of Harmonised Regulatory Orders for Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPS Agreement and the Role of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry..

KAREN BARNES
Email: k.n.barnes@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Multilateral Donors and the Gendered Politics of Peacebuilding: The United Nations and the Post-Conflict Agenda in Sierra Leone
Areas of Expertise: Feminist IR theory; Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction; Conflict, peace and security studies; UN system; African politics; International relations and politics of developing countries.

CRISTINA BARRIOS
Email: c.barrios@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Democracy promotion in post-Cold War American and European foreign policy: the unexpected divergence?
Areas of Expertise: Post-Cold War International Relations, European foreign policy, American foreign policy, Democratization, Democracy promotion.

HARRY BAUER
Email: h.bauer@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: International NGOs in Global Environmental Politics: Power, Practice and Pathologies
Areas of Expertise: International Relations Theory; Social and Political Theory; Global Environmental Politics; Contentious politics; Activism; Private Actors in World Politics.

CLAIRE BEAUGRAND
On fieldwork in the 2006/7 session
Email: c.b.beaugrand@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Use of Nationality as a Soft Power Instrument in Inter-State Relations. Genealogy of the case of stateless residents in Kuwait and Bahrain.

FELIX BERENSKOETTER
Email: f.s.berenskoetter@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Rise and Demise of Security Communities: Explaining Change in German-American Cooperation
Areas of Expertise: IR Theory, Comparative History, Identities, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, German/US Foreign Policy.

ALEXANDRA BIRD
Email: a.e.bird@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Islam and Turkish Foreign Policy
Areas of Expertise: IR Theory, Politics and History of the Middle East, Turkish Foreign Policy, Religious Political Thought, Political Islam, American Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy, Constructivism and Historical Sociology in IR.

SIMONE BOHNENBERGER
Email: s.bohnenberger@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Chinese Foreign Policy Towards Central Asia: A Return to the Qing Dynasty?

ANNIKA BOLTEN
Email: a.bolten@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Convertibility Coalitions - Exchange Rate Politics under Emerging Market Conditions in Latin America
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Political Economy, Development, Politics of Monetary and Exchange Rate Policymaking, Latin American Political Economy, Economic Reforms and Stabilisation, IPE Theory.
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bolten

RAPHAEL BOSSONG
Email: r.s.bossong@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The making of EU counterterrorism policy and processes of security governance.

MAALFRID BRAUT-HEGGHAMMER
(on leave in the 2007/8 session)
Email: m.braut-hegghammer@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Nuclear Proliferation and rollback in the Middle East (1968—2004)
Areas of Expertise: Strategic Studies; WMD Proliferation; WMD Disarmament; Middle Eastern Politics; National Missile Defence; Strategic Culture.

DOUGLAS BULLOCH
Email: d.a.bulloch@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Implications of the Political Thought of Carl Schmitt for International Relations Theory.
Areas of Expertise: IR Theory, International Political Theory, The Political Theory of Carl Schmitt, European Integration, Nationalism, The Figure of the Partisan in IR.

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OLIVIER CHARNOZ
Email: o.charnoz@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Guiding global governance: The limits of liberal values.

JAMES CHUI
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.

MOTY CRISTAL
(on leave Michaelmas and Lent Terms 2007/8)
Email: m.cristal@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations during the Barak Government.

ALEXIS CROW
Email: a.crow@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Cultural Dialogue and the Western Alliance: NATO as an Enterprisein the Twenty-First Century.

PATRICK CULLEN
Email: p.j.cullen@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Private Mercenary Companies and the Future of Warfare.

SIMON CURTIS
Email: simoncurtis@mac.com
Thesis Title: World Cities and the International System
Areas of Expertise: International Relations Theory, World History, World Systems, Network Society.

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PATRICIA DAEHNHARDT
Email: p.v.daehnhardt@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Germany's Foreign Policy in the Post War World.

KLAUS DALGAARD
Email: k.g.dalgaard@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Energy Security and Regional Integration in South America.

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).

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JARED ENGLISH
Email: j.s.english@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The political determinants of financial reform.

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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PHILIPPE FOURNIER
Email: p.fournier@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Critical Security Studies in the Age of Terrorism.

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ULF GARTZKE
Email: u.gartzke@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Consolidation in the US and European Aerospace Industries: The Boeing/McDonnell Douglas and EADS Mergers.

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.

DERYA GOCER
Email: d.gocer@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Two different trajectories: The comparative story of nation state building in Turkey (1908-1923) and in Iran (1905-1925).

SARA GROSS
Email: s.r.gross@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: New Economy, Old Politics: The Mexican Experience of Economic Restructuring Using Competition Policy in Telecommunications, 1990 to 2005.

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RUNE HENRIKSEN
Email: r.henriksen@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: "Do We Still Need Warriors?"
Areas of Expertise: Strategic Aspects of IR, IR Theory, War and Warriors, Norwegian foreign relations, Modernity and Postmodernity, Poststructuralism, Literary Theory, War and Literature.

BENJAMIN HOLLAND
Email: b.holland@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Natural law and the theory of international society.

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.

ANNIKA HUGHES
Email: a.k.hughes@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Hegemonic Power - to be Taken (f)or Granted?: The Concept of Political Power and its Significance for an Analysis of Hegemonic Power in International Relations.

TEYMUR HUSEYINOV
Email: t.huseyinov@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Central Eurasia: Energy and Security in a Comparative Perspective.

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ANJA KALLMEYER
Email: a.kallmeyer@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Formal and Informal Relations Between UN Headquarters, Permanent Missions and NGOs - A Social Network Analysis
Areas of Expertise: rational choice and collective action theories, global public goods, the UN and civil society, NGOs, financing for development, sustainable development, quantitative methods.

CAROLA KANTZ
Email: c.kantz@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Norm Creation among Public and Private Actors in International Regimes - The Case of the Kimberley Process
Areas of Expertise: IR/IPE Theory, International Institutions, Non-State Actors, Politics of Development (especially HIV/Aids-Crisis), Globalisation, Human Security.

NICK KITCHEN
Email: n.j.kitchen@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: American Power - For What? Ideas, Unipolarity and America's Search for Purpose Between the 'Wars', 1991-2001.

SCOTT KOFMEHL
Email: s.e.kofmehl@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: US foreign policy and post-conflict state-building: an intra-agency analysis.

MARJO KOIVISTO
Email: m.a.koivisto@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The struggle for ethical foreign policy: a critical realist approach to normative state agency in International Relations.
Areas of Expertise: IR theory, philosophy of social science, international ethics, state theory, Nordic domestic and foreign politics.

MAIKO KUROKI
Email: m.kuroki@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The resurgence of nationalism and Japan's contemporary foreign policy.

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JORGE LASMAR
Email: j.lasmar@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Impact of the Global War on Terrorism on the Institutions of International Society.

DOROTA LECZNAROWICZ
(on leave in the 2007/8 session)
Email: d.lecznarowicz@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Process of international economic negotiations.

CORINNE LENNOX
Email: c.lennox@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The International Protection of Minorities in Africa and Asia
Areas of Expertise: Human rights, minorities and indigenous peoples, human rights and development.

FRANCESCA LESSA
Email: f.lessa@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Politics of the Past: Truth and Justice, Memory and Forgetting in the aftermath of human rights violations in Argentina and Uruguay.

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VALENTIN MANDACHE
(on leave in Michaelmas and Lent terms 2007/8)
Email: v.mandache@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Post-Soviet Moldova: national identity on the double periphery of Russia and Romania.

SIMONA MANEA
Email: s.f.manea@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Moving away from anthropomorphic conceptions of the state: the state as a relational, network and emergent actor.

TATOUL MARKARIAN
Email: t.markarian@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Dynamics of Domiestic-Foreign Policy Relationship in Transition States.

JONAS MECKLING
(on fieldwork in the 2007/8 session)
Email: j.o.meckling@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: European and US Multinationals in Global Climate Politics. Transnational Business Coalitions and Market-based Climate Policy, 1990-2007.
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/meckling/

ALVARO MENDEZ
Tel: +44 (0)7816 453333
Email: a.mendez@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: US-Colombian Relations in the Wake of 9/11
Areas of Expertise: Political Psychology, Latin American Politics and Development, e-Democracy, Foreign Policy Decision Making, Technology and IR.

YASSER ELWY MOHAMED MAHMOUD
Email: y.m.elwy@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Political Economy of Egyptian Foreign Policy.

DAVID MOLE
Email: d.j.mole@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Governmentality, the State and the 'Family of Nations': a genealogy of the conceptual formation of 'worldly' kinship.

CANDICE MOORE
Email: c.e.moore@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Emerging Powers of the Global South: An examination of the global impact of regional powers.

AHMAD FAISAL MUHAMAD
Email: a.f.muhamad@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Struggle for Recognition and Foreign Policy: Malaysia under Mahathir (1981 - 2003).
Areas of Expertise: Malaysia and South East Asia political history; South East Asia/East Asia regionalism; South - South relations; OIC; IR theory; Foreign Policy Analysis; Identity and recognition politics.

CORINNA MULLIN-LERY
Email: c.j.mullin@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Discourse of Political Islam in the U.S. 1992-2004: Political Islam as the West's New 'Other'
Areas of Expertise: Political Islam, International Relations of North Africa/Middle East, International Relations Theory.

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HEBA NEGM
Email: h.e.negm@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: States' alliances: Unravelling strategic culture.

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UZZI OHANA
Email: u.ohana@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Conveyors? Securitizers? Audience? Assessing the role of the media in securitizations
Areas of Expertise: International security, theory of securitization, identity formation, American identity, Mexican politics, international media & journalism.
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ohana

TIMOTHY L OLIVER
Email: t.l.oliver@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Governance of British Foreign Policy: Analysing the impact of Europeanisation, governance and globalisation on the making of foreign policy
Areas of Expertise: British foreign policy and decision making; Whitehall; Foreign and Commonwealth Office and HM Diplomatic Service; UK-EU relations; foreign policy analysis; governance; EU Institutions; EU external and defence policy.
Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/olivert

KEVORK OSKANIAN
Email: k.oskanian@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Securitisation in the Southern Caucasus: Mapping the Road to a Viable Security Regime.

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RAMON PACHECO PARDO
Email: r.pacheco-pardo@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Weak states in regional politics: An assessment of North Korea's foreign policy.

VASSILLIOS PAIPAIS
Email: v.paipais@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Self and Other in International Relations: Assimilation, Incommensurability and the (Im)possibility of Communication.

CORDELIA PARK
Email: c.w.y.park@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Hong Kong - Legitimation Crisis.

JOHN PEARSON
Email: j.pearson@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Cosmopolitan law and the global public sphere.

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.

CHRIS J O PHILLIPS
(on leave in the 2007/8 session)
Email: c.j.phillips@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: A reconsideration of the role of Arab nationalism in the politics and culture of the contemporary Arab Middle East.

MARCO PINFARI
Email: m.pinfari@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Time Pressure and 'Deadline Engineering' in International Negotiation.

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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ADAM QUINN
Email: a.j.quinn@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Bush National Security Strategy in Historical and Ideological Context: The Balance of Power, Entanglement and Liberal Universalism.
Areas of Expertise: US foreign policy; The history of the USA since 1789; American political ideology; Twentieth century international history.

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HENRY RADICE
Email: h.radice@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Humanitarian Internationalism in Theory and Practice: The New Labour Government, 1997-2007.

JEFFREY REEVES
Email: j.reeves@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Mongolia People's Republic as a weak state in North Asia: the growing economic and cultural influence of the People's Republic of China.

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.

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FATHIMA SHIHANA SAMAD
Email: f.s.samad@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The Role of Food Safety Standards in the EU and their impact on Agro based Exports from Developing Countries.

EFRAT SHAOULIAN-SOPHER
Email: e.shaoulian-sopher@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Israeli-Iranian Relations: A Covert Alliance pre- the Iranian Revolution.

SERENA SHARMA
Email: s.k.sharma1@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Just War and Jihad: The Relationship Between Justification and Restraint in Two Distinct Ethical Traditions.

RASHMI SINGH
Email: r.singh3@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Conceptualising Suicide Bombings: Rethinking International Relations Theory
Areas of Expertise: Ethics of War, Terrorism (specifically suicide terrorism), International Peace and Conflict Studies, Culture and Religion in IR, International Relations Theory, Ancient and Medieval History.

EWAN STEIN
Email: e.stein@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Ideas, Intellectuals and the International in Arab State and Society: The case of Egypt.
Areas of Expertise: Middle East international politics, Middle East domestic politics, IR theory, Gramscian political theory; social movement theory.

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.

HOLGER STRITZEL
Email: h.stritzel@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Understanding Securitisation. The Politics and Internationalisation of Threat Images
Areas of Expertise: IR Theory, Security Theory, Constructivism, Organized Crime, Rogue States, Failed States.

JILL STUART
Email: j.a.stuart@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Outer Space Politics and International Relations Theory: Neorealism, neoliberalism, and the English school
Areas of Expertise: Commercialisation of outer space, cooperation in outer space, militarisation of outer space, outer space law, IR Theory.

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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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TINE VAN-CRIEKINGE
Email: t.van-criekinge@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Power relations between the European Union and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States in the areas of aid, trade, and politics.

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JOY WANN
Email: j.wann@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The 'marketisation' of governance? Examining the role private market actors play in the formation of international financial standards.

FLORIAN WASTL
Email: f.wastl@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Against binary divides in International Relations theory: towards a different conception of the end of the Cold War.

SARAH JANE WILLIAMS
Email: s.j.williams@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: A constructivist strategy for designing peace processes.

SARAH WOLFF
Email: s.a.wolff@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The EU's external governance in the Mediterranean.
Website: http://www.sarahwolff.eu

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FENG ZHANG
Email: f.zhang1@lse.ac.uk
Thesis Title: Illusive Suzerain: The Myth of the Chinese World Order.

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