Conflict & Security
The University of Bath has a long-standing research agenda in the areas of conflict and security. This research is present in many departments within the Faculty of Social Science & Humanities, but also further afield in such departments as Computer Science, Biology, and Engineering.
The departments of Politics, Languages & International Studies (PoLIS) and Social & Policy Science (SPS) have made major contributions, including research on contemporary warfare, defence and security policy, post-conflict reconstruction, international organisations, development and conflict, and human security. Our research thus goes beyond departmental and disciplinary boundaries.
The current focus is on technology and security, identity and conflict, complexity and crisis management, international (dis)order and supranational governance. The IPR will highlight the complex and inter-disciplinary nature of this research and the multi-level, multi-agent nature of policy and its impact.
Policy briefs
Research summaries
Publications
- Counterinsurgency and Terror Expertise: the integration of social scientists into the war effort (Miller, 2010)
- European Organizations and Minority Rights in Europe: On transforming the securitization dynamic (Galbreath, 2012)
- Securitizing Democracy and Democratic Security: A reflection on democratization studies (Galbreath, 2012)
- European Foreign Policy and the Quest for a Global Role: Britain, France and Germany (Aggestam, 2012)
- European Security in the Twenty-First Century: the challenge of multipolarity (Hyde-Prince, 2007)
- Italian Organized Crime in the UK (Allum, 2012)
- A Comparative Study of British and German Press Articles on 'Organised Crime' (1999-2009) (Allum, 2012)
- The Third Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention and beyond: : key themes and the prospects of incremental change (Kelle, 2013)
- Non-Proliferation and Preventing the Re-Emergence of Chemical Weapons (Kelle, 2012)
- Displaced Children's Participation in Political Violence: Towards greater understanding of mobilisation (Hart, 2008)
- Dislocated Masculinity: adolescence and the Palestinian nation-in-exile (Hart, 2008)
