Dr Richard Jackson
Reader in International Politics
| Tel: | +44 (0) 1970 621955 | |
| Fax: | +44 (0) 1970 622709 | |
| Email: | rsj@aber.ac.uk |
Room: 3.16
Office Hours
Wednesday 10.30-11.30
Thursday 10.30-11.30
Profile
Dr Jackson lectures on critical terrorism studies, international conflict resolution and security studies. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and has previously taught at the Universities of Manchester, Canterbury , and Otago. He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism , and the founding convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (CSTWG). He is currently the Secretary of the British International Studies Association (BISA), and a Senior Researcher in the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV).
Teaching
Undergraduate:
International Conflict Resolution
Terrorism, Culture and Identity
Dissertation Research Design
Postgraduate:
Critical Security Studies
Research Interests
Critical terrorism studies
Terrorism, culture and identity
The social construction of political violence
International conflict resolution
The state and conflict in Africa
Areas of Supervision
Critical terrorism studies
The discourses of terrorism and counter-terrorism
Culture, identity and terrorism
Security, identity and the War on Terror
The causes of intrastate war
International conflict resolution
War, security and the state in Africa
Conservative Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy
The privatisation of security and war