Research Report 2009 - School of Political Science and ...

Research Report 2007 - 2009
right’, Global Security Vol 23, no.3,
pp207 – 224. He also began work on a
research grant proposal to the
Economic and Social Research Council
on ‘Law, War and the American
Exception’ which was ultimately funded
as an ESRC small Grant Award in
October 2008.
Philip Mc Michael
Philip McMichael is a Professor of
Development Sociology at Cornell
University. He served as Chair of
Department from 1999-2005. He
teaches courses on international
development, political sociology, food
and ecology, and historical methods.
His works include the award-winning
Settlers and the Agrarian Question.
Foundations of Capitalism
in Colonial Australia (1984); The Global
Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
(1994, editor); Food and Agrarian
Systems in the World Economy (1995,
editor); New Directions in the
Sociology of Global Development
(2005, co-editor), and Development
and Social Change: A Global
Perspective (2008, 4th edition).
Current research is on the politics of
globalisation and climate change, food
regimes and agrarian movements.
While visiting the University of
Queensland, he completed rewriting
the fourth edition of Development and
Social Change, and began editorial
work on Contesting Development:
Critical Struggles for Social Change,
edited by Philip McMichael (Routledge,
2010).
2008
Oliver Richmond
Oliver Richmond's primary area of
expertise is in peace and conflict
theory, and in particular its
interlinkages with International
Relations theory. He is interested in
how critical approaches to
international theory impact upon
debates about conflict and peace, and
published a book on concepts of peace
and their implicit usages in
International Relations theory, Peace in
International Relations, Routledge
2008. He also published The
Transformation of Peace in 2005, which
was funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship
and examined the conceptualisation of
peace, and in particular the
construction of the 'liberal peace', in
post-conflict zones. A volume called
'Liberal Peace Transitions: Between
Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, which
is co-authored with Jason Franks, has
just been published.
He is currently co-directing and
involved in projects on A Just and
Durable Peace (EUFP7) and Liberal
Peace Transitions II. He has been
involved in fieldwork in Cyprus and
Turkey, Kosovo, Bosnia, Cambodia, Sri
Lanka, East Timor, Nepal and Kashmir,
as well as in the Eastern Congo region.
He is also an Associate Editor of the
Review of International Studies, which
is currently based at the University of
St Andrews. He directs the Centre for
Peace and Conflict Studies, which
houses many of the projects mentioned
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