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British EU security relations |
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British politics and political ideologies |
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Comparative public opinion, voting behaviour, political parties and quantitative methods |
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Gender politics, reproductive rights, feminist approaches to conflict and peace-building, Northern Ireland |
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Immigration, forced labour and human trafficking |
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Inequality, conflict and democracy in world politics |
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Emerging global powers (China and South Africa), global governance, conflict and security, China-Africa relations, Politics in Africa |
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International Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping, EU security and defence policy, legitimacy/power/authority |
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Kantian political thought, African political thought and aesthetic approaches to understanding the refugee crisis within international relations |
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Liberal political theory, secularism, and multiculturalism |
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Civil society, democratization, EU external support, Turkish studies |
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Mass-elite linkages, public opinion and public policy, mental health and politics |
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IR Theory (in particular Post-colonial Approaches), the Concept of Sovereignty and its Transformations, Interventions and Peacebuilding, Responsibility to Protect, the Construction of Identities and Difference in International Politics |
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Middle East politics, politics of development, international political economy |
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Nations and nationalism, Central Europe, post-Soviet space and the Balkans |
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Norm change, private military and security contractors in civil wars and the structure of the market(s) for force |
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Peace and conflict studies, the political economy of inequality and democracy, foreign policy analysis, Southeast Asian politics |
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Political history of Liverpool/Merseyside, British politics/political history, Conservative Party history, local government in the UK, elections, and populism |
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Politics of Northern Ireland, British parties and elections, devolution in the UK |
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Press, television, political and economic opinion in Britain |
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Public policy and the role of policy transfer and learning |
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Rhetoric and oratory in British Party politics |
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UK democratic process and issues with the mechanics of the electoral process |