Aims
The Centre has five principal aims:
- to further our understanding of the nature and direction of current trends of change by promoting greater theoretical innovation and inter-disciplinarity in International Relations and Global Politics;
- to further our understanding of connections between and among political processes that operate across levels or scales of analysis, to contribute to the theorisation and conceptualisation of these connections and further our understanding of how normative recommendations about what sort of world we should aspire to achieve are affected by them;
- to support the work of scholars who create connections as an intrinsic result of the kinds of research they do;
- to establish a forum for open and critical debate;
- to build a network of scholars from around the world whose work transects the boundaries conventionally drawn between and within disciplines
Research Areas
Regional, Transnational, & Comparative Politics
- The politics of the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, the EU, and other regions
- Transnational governance
- Global development
- Borders in global politics
- Power and identity
- Comparative and international public policy
- National, regional and international security
- Cosmopolitanism
- Global media and politics
- Food, water, and environmental politics
International Law, Conflict and Security
- International law and institutionsThe political theory of global social justice
- Immigration and citizenship
- Media, war, and new security challenges
- Human rights
- Global legal and institutional networks
- Military operations & international law