Biography

Teaching

• International Intervention I and II (MA)
• The Changing Face of Eastern Europe (MA)
• Case Studies in Globalisation (Level 3)
• Foreign Policy Analysis (Level 2)
• Introduction to Study Skills and Research Methods (Level 1)

Dissertations

Previously supervised dissertations include:

• The Limits of Hegemony: The USA, Turkey and the EU
• The EU: A Partner or Victim of Russian Energy Politics?
• Liberal Intergovernmentalism and the Codification of ESDP at Nice
• EU Development Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy
• The History of EU Security and Its Future Role
• Turkey, an Ordinary Candidate for EU Membership?
• CFSP: the EU as a Global Actor
• Identity Construction in Central Europe since 1989
• Security and the Need for Cooperation: The Case of Russia

Administrative Responsibilities

I am Undergraduate Programme Director

Research Interests

• European Union External Relations
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Russian Foreign Policy
• IR Theory

Areas of Dissertation Supervision

• Foreign Policy
• Russia
• European Union
• Eastern Europe
• European Enlargement

Research Collaborations

RESEARCH FUNDING BIDS, AWARDS AND PRIZES

2011 with Prof. M Breen-Smyth, British Academy International Partnership Scheme, On the Receiving End: Towards More Critical and Inclusive Perspectives on International Intervention 

2010 Okukubo Prize, Best PhD Thesis, Department of Politics, University of Surrey

2010 UACES and European Security funding for Workshop, Bilateral Relations with Russia and the Impact on a Common EU Policy towards Russia. King’s College London (with J Gower)

2009 Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey funding for Workshop, Responsibility 2 Rebuild: Linking Infrastructure Development, Governance and Democratisation.

2007 TENT (Teaching with New Technologies) Award for EUWiki: Democratising Knowledge of the EU University of Surrey (with R Guerrina)

2005 UACES funding: Workshop, The EU and Russia after the 2004 Enlargement: Lessons for Cooperation and Integration.   University of Surrey

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming 2012, 'The UK's and Ireland's Relations with Russia: Differences on the Periphery', M David, J Gower, H Haukkala (eds.) National Perspectives on Russia; European Foreign Policy in the Making, Routledge.

Forthcoming 2012, with R Guerrina ‘Gender Norms and the EU’s Normative Power in the External Dimension’, Special Issue of Women’s Studies International Forum.

2011, ‘A Less than Special Relationship - the UK’s Russia Experience’, Special Issue Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 19, 2: 189-200

Feb 2008, ‘Exploiting Marginality: The Case of Russia’ in Parker, N (ed) The Geopolitics of Europe’s Identity: Centers, Boundaries and Margins.  Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave

WORK IN PROGRESS

New Technologies: Empowering Citizens in Russia

Russia and the West: Constructing Difference? 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Executive Committee member designate of University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

Member of:

• UACES
• BISA
• PSA
• BASEES

CONFERENCE RELATED ORGANISATION

September 2012 Panel Organiser: The EU-Russia Partnership for Modernisation: Realising the Potential, UACES 42nd Annual Conference

April 2011 Workshop co-organiser Engagement and Impact: How To Connect Communities, Pre-conference event for PSA, London 18 April 2011

April 2011 Workshop organiser and Chair Russia’s Place in the Post-Soviet World, Pre-conference event for PSA, London 18 April 2011

April 2011 Academic Convenor (with R Guerrina, S Usherwood and T Capelos)   PSA Annual Conference, London, 19-21 April 2011

June 2010 Workshop Co-organiser, Responsibility 2 Rebuild: Linking Infrastructure Development, Governance and Democratisation. Funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Surrey

April 2010 Workshop Co-organiser, Bilateral Relations with Russia and the Impact on a Common EU Policy towards Russia. Funded by UACES and European Security

May 2005 Workshop Organiser, The EU and Russia after the 2004 Enlargement: Lessons for Cooperation and Integration Funded by UACES