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International: Politics, institutions & law
Parent category: European & other international expertise
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Prof Anoush Ehteshami
Professor, Director of the Al-Sabah Programme and Joint Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, School of Government and International Affairs
Special Advisor to the Islamic Crimnal Justice Project, Centre for Criminal Law & Justice
Specialist expertise:
- Arab-Israeli relations
- Central Asia
- defence
- international defence-related issues (nuclear proliferation, etc.)
- Iran, Iraq & other Gulf states
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Middle East
- Middle Eastern politics
- Politics of the Red Sea
- security & strategic affairs
Professor Marcus Power
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Professor, Culture-Economy-Life
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Reader, Politics-State-Space
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Professor, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Professor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41828
Specialist expertise:
Dr Christian Schweiger
Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 47220
Specialist expertise:
- Central and Eastern Europe
- European Union
- Germany
- Globalisation
- Transatlantic Relations
- United Kingdom
Prof John Williams
Professor, School of Government and International Affairs
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Specialist expertise:
- Research interests in ethics and international relations, especially in relation to the use of violence and war; the ethics of territory; international relations theory.