Teaching Overview

I have taught on a variety of courses at LSE, Warwick, Essex, and Sussex including:

  • The Structure of International Society (1st Yr UG, LSE)
  • Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (3rd Yr UG, LSE)
  • Strategic Aspects of International Relations (3rd Yr UG, LSE)
  • International Politics (MA, LSE)
  • The Politics of the USA (2nd Yr UG, Warwick)
  • Security Studies (MA, Warwick)
  • International Security Studies (3rd YR and MA, Essex)
  • Theories of International Relations (MA, Essex)
  • Contemporary War and Peace (MA, Sussex)
  • Contemporary International Relations Theory (2nd YR UG, Sussex)
  • Issues in International Relations (1st Yr UG, Sussex)
  • Issues in International Security (2nd Yr UG, Sussex)
  • International Security after 9/11 (3rd Yr UG, Sussex)
  • Security: Concepts and Theories (MA, Sussex)
  • The Global Politics of Disease (MA, Sussex)
  • International Security (MA, Sussex)

My current courses at Sussex are:

 The Global Politics of Disease (M.A. Option)

This course begins to theorise the ways in which disease and globalization are becoming increasingly linked, and analyses the various economic, political, social, legal, and security challenges that diseases pose for contemporary world politics. The course then evaluates the competing mainstream and critical approaches to global governance, paying particular attention to how they conceptualise health issues. Important questions addressed by the course include: How can global health issues be effectively governed in an international system divided into sovereign states? Can the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria respond to these health crisis effectively, or are will other measures need to be devised? What, finally, are the complex ethical issues involved in responding to global health crises

International Security after 9/11  (3rd Year, UG)

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international society has become increasingly concerned with the quest for security. This course draws upon a variety of theoretical perspectives in security studies to analyse the complex ways in which international society has been threatened by the events surrounding ‘9/11’. In so doing, the course is divided into four parts. The first section explores different conceptions of security in order to determine what kind of security threat terrorism actually presents for international society. The second part then outlines the wider historical, political, economic and cultural factors that have traditionally shaped the security of international society, and assesses how they have been affected by ‘9/11’. In the third part of the course the wider ramifications of 9/11 for other global security issues such as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the Middle East peace process are then analysed. The question of whether terrorism genuinely represents the greatest contemporary threat to international society is raised in the final part of the course by contrasting it with a new security issue such as HIV/AIDS.