Current Fellows
Project title: Social Europe and/or Global Europe? Globalisation as a Debate on the Future of Europe
Andreas Antoniades is the Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Lecturer in the International Relations Department, at the University of Sussex. Previously, he worked as a Tutorial Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the LSE, and as a Lecturer in the Department of Government in the University of Essex. He has been awarded a Teaching Prize in International Relations by LSE, and scholarships/awards by the Bodossaki Foundation, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and the Greek State Scholarship Foundation.
He has convened the British International Studies Association's working group in International Political Theory, and has been a member of the editorial boards of the journals /Millennium/ and /Studies for Ethnicity and Nationalism/. His research focuses on: Globalisation, hegemony, discourse, IR/IPE theory, Global Europe, Greece and Ireland. He has published articles in the journals, Review of International Political Economy, Global Society, Greek Political Science Review, International Politics (forthcoming), British Journal of Politics and International Relations (forthcoming).
Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ir/profile215111.html
Project title: A Critical Analysis of Terrorist Entities: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of their Structures and Evolutionary Capabilities
Kevin C. Desouza is on the faculty of the Information School at the University of Washington. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the College of Engineering. Dr Desouza has seven books to his name. In addition, he has published over 80 articles in prestigious practitioner and academic journals. Dr Desouza has received over $1.1 million of research funding from both private and government organizations. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Dr Desouza's research project takes a rational view of terrorist entities. Terrorist entities are rational entities that are comprised of rational individuals who seek to maximize their utilities. For terrorist entities, maximum utility occurs when fear and/or harm is caused to civilians through the use of violence, or threat of violence, in order to achieve political and ideological agendas. Terrorist entities have evolved over time with respect to processes and structures. Terrorist entities have become highly agile, global, distributed, diversified, and their attacks have continued to grow in intensity. In this research project, He seeks to focus on two distinct, albeit related, questions. The first question seeks to examine the organizational structures of terrorist entities. The second question examines how these structures evolve in order to deal with pressures in the internal and external environments in which these entities operate in.
Project title: Israel and Egypt in search of a peace settlement; 1967-1973
Moshe Gat is a Professor of Modern History at the General History Department and at the Political Studies Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His current research focuses mainly on the changing policies of both sides during that period. However, the mutual fears and distrust between the parties stalled any progress toward a settlement. Sadat, Egypt’s President, thought that a war would be an appropriate step to break the impasse, and move the region forward.
Research Areas: European History in the 20th centaury; Superpowers and the Middle East; History of Iraqi Jewry in the 19th and the 20th Century
Among his publications:
1. Britain and the Conflict in the Middle East, 1964-1967: The Coming of the Six Day War (Boulder, 2003)
2. Britain and Italy, 1943-1949: The Decline of British Influence (Brighton, 1996)
3. The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951 ( London, 1997)
Project title: The Gordian Knot of Terrorism, Regime Type and Reporting Bias
Andreas Gofas completed his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2007 and is currently a research fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). His primary research interests are International Relations Theory, European Political Economy and the Political Economy of Terrorism. His work has appeared in Democracy and Security, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Defence and Peace Economics and the Greek Political Science Review. He currently works on a co-edited volume on The Ideas Debate in Political Analysis that will appear with Routledge.
Project title: Cross-National Comparative Research Methods: Theory and Practice
Linda Hantrais is Professor of European Social Policy in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, and a member of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences. She has convened over 40 workshops and seminars on cross-national comparative research theory, methodology and practice, and co-ordinated a number of European Commission-funded comparative research projects on public policy and institutional structures, while also acting as expert advisor and policy reviewer for the Commission, and carrying out an analysis of research assessment procedures in the social sciences and humanities in France. Her recent book-length publications include: Family Policy Matters: responding to family change in Europe (Policy Press, 2004); Pour une meilleure évaluation de la recherché publique en sciences humaines et sociales, vol. 2 (La Documentation française, 2006); Social Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 3rd edn, 2007). Currently, she is preparing a book-length monograph examining international comparative research theory, methods and practice in the social sciences and humanities.
Home page: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/people/academics/Hantrais-Linda.html
Project title: Competing Concepts of Democracy in Indian Political Thinking
Eva-Maria Nag is a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Relations. She has previously held visiting lectureships at the Department of Government at the LSE, at the Department of International SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), and Richmond, the American International University in London. She had been awarded the Robert McKenzie Prize for outstanding PhD by the LSE in 2002 and an LSE Teaching Prize in Government in 2002.
Eva-Maria Nag has convened a number of conference panels on the emerging field of non-Western political ideas at PSA and APSA conferences. Her primary research focuses on South Asian political thinking and history of ideas, in particular radical democracy and post-Marxism. Further research interests are the politics of multiculturalism and affirmative action. She also conducts research in the area of corporate social responsibility, especially with regard to public policies in Asia. Her most recent publications are articles in the Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, a book chapter on universal primary education in ‘Globalization and the Millennium Development Goals: Negotiating the Challenge’ (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007), and a co-edited volume with Anjan Ghosh (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata) on ‘Re-thinking Discrimination’ (OUP, forthcoming).
Project title: A Quarter-Century of Closer Economic Relations: How Useful might the Australia-New Zealand Model Be for the Developing Asia-Pacific Economies?
Srikanta Chatterjee is a professor of economics, with special reference to international economics, at Massey University, New Zealand. An economics Ph D of the LSE, he has lived and worked in a number of countries including Australia, Fiji, India and Japan, and held visiting positions in a larger number of countries.
His teaching and research interests include international trade and finance, the Asia-Pacific economies, development economics, income distribution and inequality and international political economy. He has authored or co-authored five books, and published papers in a range of areas in several reputable academic journals. He has also been consultant in the public and private sector organizations.
Twice awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant, he has visited and addressed seminars at several US universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and Cornell University.
Project title: International legal framework of Private Military and Security Companies
Pilar Pozo Serrano is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law, in the University of Valencia (Spain). She is a Member of the Editorial Committee of Athena Intelligence Journal (on Terrorism and armed conflicts).
Her research project at LSE focus mainly on two areas: Legal Framework (International Law, International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law perspectives, Self-regulation initiatives by the industry, National Legislations) and the Use of Private Military&Security Companies to secure an humanitarian space: recent trends in the United Nations Peacekeeping.
Her research areas include International Humanitarian Law; postconflict reconstruction; Arab-israeli conflict and Private and expanding roles and legal problems posed by Military companies.
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