Aims and interests

As a group, we aim to encourage dialogue between our members and beyond around our work on these topics.

We also act as a support group for works in progress, papers, grant applications (and more), bringing together experienced academics with early career scholars and PhD students.

Our members use a variety of methodological approaches (both quantitative and qualitative) to study a wide range of topics in the field of international politics:

• War, security and conflict
• Private security actors in conflicts
• International interventions
• Inequalities and non-Western actors
• Nationalism and ethnicity
• Colonial history and race
• Middle East politics.