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The Centre for Global and Transnational Politics aims to focus on the theoretical cutting-edge of  research and writing on multi-level/macro-social change and, specifically, work that theorizes and conceptualizes the interface between international and global politics.

The field of International Relations continues to focus our attention on questions of power, identity, sovereignty, legitimacy, and political action. Global Politics represents an emerging research agenda which recognizes that, in addition to local, national, and international politics, there are also political relations and issues that are essentially trans-national in nature, and trans-regional or even global in scope. Thus, global studies adds to the agenda of political studies a focus on political processes that transcend or transect territorial borders, and that directly connect disparate levels of political and social life.

The central concern of the Centre is with how engagement between International Relations and Global Politics can enable us to understand the substance of, and connections between and among, political processes that operate at all levels or scales: the local, national, international, trans-national, and global; theorise and conceptualise these processes;  and  understand how normative recommendations about what sort of world we should aspire to achieve are affected by them.

 

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