World-leading Research

Our research looks at big and broad-ranging topics and answers important questions through rigorous analysis and strong theoretical approaches. 

With access to expertise in a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods, our people apply their academic and methodological skill to help us understand the political worlds of today—and shape those of the future.

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A nexus for big questions and big ideas. We develop innovative new ways for gathering, processing and analysing data; we create new theoretical frameworks; and our research projects tackle some of the most-pressing challenges around the globe.

Research Excellence

Research publications

Hussein, H. (2025) “Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States. By Naosuke Mukoyama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 228p”., Perspectives on Politics [Preprint].
Smith, A. (2025) Gettysburg. Oxford University Press.
Hochmüller, M. and Idler, A. (2025) “Porous borders and the emergence of hybrid sovereignties”, Territory Politics Governance, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–20.
Nejjar, S. and Ketchley, N. (2025) “MENA Historic Shapefiles”, Center for Open Science.
Eijking, J. (2025) “The Micro-politics of International Commissions”, in Ways of Seeing International Organisations. Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 186–207.
Howlett, M. and Dvornichenko, D. (2025) “Losing and finding home twice: Ukrainian women’s experiences of secondary internal displacement”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies [Preprint].
Kelly, E., Tilley, J. and Oskarsson, S. (2025) “Revisiting the link between political trust and political participation”, Journal of Politics [Preprint].
Fawcett, L. (2025) “‘New’ regional order in the Middle East: plus ça change?”, APSA-MENA Newsletter [Preprint].
Howlett, M. and Kurylo, B. (2025) “Reframing Reflexivity”, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, pp. 1–14.
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