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International Conflict Analysis MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Politics and International Relations subject area.
Outline
Our research programmes provide a combination of formal research training and individual supervision within a supportive environment, with regular interaction between staff and students.
This includes a weekly Graduate Research Training Seminar, regular meetings with a supervisor and supervisory team as well as an annual postgraduate research conference. You may also be able to benefit from the skills training offered by the University's Graduate School
During the first year, all research students receive training in research methods and practice, while also working on their projects under supervision from a specialist in the relevant research area.
All members of staff can supervise theses leading to research degrees. We encourage potential research students to refer to our postgraduate research handbook for detailed information.
In 2011, the University successfully applied for ESRC recognition as a provider of doctoral training in political science and international studies (and other areas of the social sciences) as part of a consortium. As a result, we are now part of the South East ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, making us one of the key training outlets in our subject in the UK. Further details can be found on the South East DTC website.
Key facts
- Subject area: Politics and International Relations
- Location: Canterbury or Brussels
- School: School of Politics and International Relations
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September or January.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Research areas
Our research interests span a broad spectrum of the discipline, with particular strengths in the fields of conflict analysis and resolution, political theory and European politics. The strength of the School's research culture is reflected in the numerous books and articles published and in the existence of its three core research groups: Conflict, Security and Human Rights; Comparative Politics; and Political and Social Thought. Two of our groups contain a University-recognised research centre: the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) is part of the Conflict, Security and Human Rights group and the Centre for Federal Studies (CFS) is part of the Comparative Politics group.
Centre for Federal Studies
The Centre for Federal Studies, officially launched in October 2005, is the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom and it welcomes expressions of interest from both students and established scholars in any branch of federal studies. The focus of the Centre's activities is not only the established federations, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and Austria but also the European Union (EU) as an emergent federal union together with those parts of the world where federal arrangements have the practical possibility to promote peace, justice and stability. The work of the Centre is consonant with world trends that indicate a renaissance of federal ideas, proposals and practices appropriate to the new age of justice as the recognition of difference, diversity and human rights.
Conflict Analysis Research Centre
Kent has been at the forefront of conflict negotiation and resolution for almost 50 years. The Conflict Analysis Research Centre brings together academics working on different aspects of conflict and security as well as PhD and Master's students studying International Conflict Analysis, International Law and International Relations. Current research includes an investigation into how migrant communities can support peacebuilding in their home society and how South Africa and the UK treat refugees and security. The Centre is also at the forefront of trying to resolve actual conflicts – for example, it played a role in the Moldova-Transnistria peace process and has supported reconciliation efforts in Africa.
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|Key facts
- Subject area: Politics and International Relations
- Location: Canterbury or Brussels
- School: School of Politics and International Relations
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September or January.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Staff research
Full details of staff research interests and publications can be found on our website.
Dr Gülnur Aybet: Senior Lecturer in International Relations
International security; European security; strategic thought; international organisations. Recent publications include: NATO in Search Of A Vision (co-author, 2010).
Dr Albena Azmanova: Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Political traditions and democratisation; globalisation and political identities; European integration. Recent publications include: The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment (2012).
Dr Tugba Basaran: Lecturer in International Development
Critical approaches to international relations and international development; political, social and postcolonial theory; politics of exclusion; security, liberty, law and borders; migration and refugees. Recent publications include: Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties (2012).
Dr Ruth Blakeley: Senior Lecturer in International Relations
US foreign policy; US-Latin American relations; terrorism; state violence; human rights. Recent publications include: State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South (2009).
Professor Michael Burgess: Professor of Federal Studies
Federal political theory and philosophy; comparative federalism; Canadian constitutional politics; European integration. Recent publications include: Multinational Federations (co-ed, 2007); Federal Democracies (co-ed, 2010); In Search of the Federal Spirit: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspective in Comparative Federalism (2012).
Dr Tom Casier: Senior Lecturer in International Relations
EU as an international actor; EU-Russian relations; Russian foreign policy.
Govinda Clayton: Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis
International conflict and co-operation; mediation; negotiation, intra-state conflict and resolution; mathematical and statistical models, research design and methodology.
Professor Feargal Cochrane: Professor of International Conflict Analysis
Conflict studies; Northern Ireland conflict; Irish American diaspora. Recent publications include The End of Irish-America (2010).
Dr Philip Cunliffe: Lecturer in International Conflict
IR theory; sovereignty; peacekeeping; liberal interventionism; Marxism and critical theory; political theory; social theory. Recent publications include: Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice (2011).
Dr Paolo Dardanelli: Lecturer in European and Comparative Politics
Federalism, devolution, secession; nationalism; democracy; state formation and dissolution; European politics.
Dr Andrea den Boer: Lecturer in International Relations
Human rights and ethics; international political theory; continental political philosophy; feminism.
Dr Charles Devellennes: Lecturer in Political and Social Thought
Political theory; history of political thought; international relations theory.
Dr Elise Féron: Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis
Conflict prevention; gender and conflicts; diasporas and conflicts; conflicts and questions of identity.
Dr Frank Grundig: Lecturer in International Relations
Power, interests and institutions; regime and rational actor theory; international environmental politics; hegemonic leadership.
Dr Anne Hammerstad: Lecturer in International Relations
Displacement and security; securitisation theory; the UNHCR; conflict and security in Africa.
Dr Sarah Hyde: Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of East Asia
Party politics; electoral systems; participation; e-democracy; e-voting; Japanese politics. Recent publications include: The Transformation of the Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New Democrats (2009).
Professor Elena Korostoleva: Professor of International Politics
European politics; European Union studies; eastern partnership and the new eastern Europe. Recent publications include The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours (2012).
Dr Ersun N Kurtulus: Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics
State sovereignty; Lebanese politics; collapsed states; international relations of the Middle East; counter-terrorism.
Dr Pak Kuen Lee: Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations
Chinese politics; non-traditional security threats in China (especially energy security and public health security); China's engagement with global governance. Recent publications include: China Engages Global Governance: A New World Order in the Making? (co-author, 2011).
Dr Neophytos Loizides: Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis
Federalism; ethnic conflict; international politics; conflict analysis; negotiation and mediation; referendums. Recent publications include: Cyprus: Federal and Consociational Failures and Prospects (forthcoming).
Dr Matthew Loveless: Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Comparative and European politics; political behaviour and attitudes.
Dr Iain MacKenzie: Lecturer in Politics
Critical political theory and philosophy. Recent publications include: Politics: Key Concepts in Philosophy (2009); Dramatizing the Political: Deleuze and Guattari (co-author, 2011).
Dr Luca Mavelli: Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
International relations theory, social theory; security and political violence. Recent publications include: Europe's Encounter with Islam (2012).
Dr Edward Morgan-Jones: Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Parliamentary and semi-presidential regimes; Cabinet composition and termination; West and East European Politics. Recent publications include: Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty (2010).
Dr Jane O'Mahony: Lecturer in European Politics
European integration; EU policymaking; Europeanisation; Irish politics. Recent publications include: Ireland and the European Union (co-author, 2008).
Dr Adrian Pabst: Lecturer in Politics
Political theory and political economy; political philosophy and history of ideas; European thought; religion, politics and ethics, with a special focus on Christian social teaching. Recent publications include: The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Pope Benedict XVI's Social Encyclical and the Future of Politial Economy (2011); Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy (2012).
Dr Stefan Rossbach: Senior Lecturer in Politics
Political theory and methodology; history of political philosophy; religion and politics.
Professor Richard Sakwa: Professor of Russian and European Politics; Head of School
Russian government and politics; communism and postcommunism; democratisation. Recent publications include: Putin: Russia's Choice (2007); Russian Politics and Society (2008); The Quality of Freedom: Putin, Khodorkovsky and the Yukos Affair (2009); Communism in Russia (2010); The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession (2011).
Dr Ben Seyd: Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics
Political institutions; electoral systems; public attitudes to the state and trust; British politics. Recent publications include: Has Devolution Worked? (co-author, 2009).
Dr Doug Stokes: Reader in International Relations
US foreign policy; international security. Recent publications include: Global Energy Security and American Hegemony (co-author, 2010).
Dr Harmonie Toros: Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis
Conflict resolution, conflict transformation, terrorism studies. Recent publications include: Terrorism, Talking and Transformation: A Critical Approach (2012).
Professor Richard Whitman: Professor of Politics
European studies, international relations, international role of the European Union. Recent publications include: The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective: Context, Implementation and Impact (co-ed, 2010); Normative Power Europe: Empirical and theoretical perspectives (2011); Italy's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: A Contested Nature? (co-ed, 2012).
Dr Andrew Wroe: Lecturer in American Politics
Direct democracy; trust in politics; immigration; race/ethnicity; American politics and government. Recent publications include: The Republican Party and Immigration Politics: From Proposition 187 to George W Bush (2008); Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency (2009).
Further information:
Key facts
- Subject area: Politics and International Relations
- Location: Canterbury or Brussels
- School: School of Politics and International Relations
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September or January.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Contact details
Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Roxanne Devine
School of Politics and International Relations, Rutherford College,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827307
F: +44 (0)1227 827033
E: polirpgadmissions@kent.ac.uk
Michael Sewell
Brussels School of International Studies,
University of Kent at Brussels, Boulevard de la Plaine 5, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
T: +32 2 641 1721
F: +32 2 641 1720
E: ukbapplications@kent.ac.uk
Key facts
- Subject area: Politics and International Relations
- Location: Canterbury or Brussels
- School: School of Politics and International Relations
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September or January.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
How to apply
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Key facts
- Subject area: Politics and International Relations
- Location: Canterbury or Brussels
- School: School of Politics and International Relations
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September or January.
- Fees and funding: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).