Dr Tara McCormack

Dr Tara McCormack lectures in international politics at University of Leicester. Tara has a BA in Politics from Queen Mary College (University of London) and an MSc in International Relations and Government from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the Centre for Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.

Her research focuses on security (theory and practices), sovereignty, agency, and intervention after the Cold War.

Tara is engaged in a number of academic working groups. She contributes articles on international affairs to spiked, and reviews to Culture Wars.

She is author of Critique, Security and Power, the Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches (London: Routledge 2009) and has been published in a number of academic journals

She has also contributed an essay on ‘Human Security’ to C. Bickerton, P. Cunliffe, A. Gourevich (eds.), Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (UCL, 2007).

 Related Sessions

Thursday 9 October 2008, 7.00pm London South Bank University
What is the point of British foreign policy?

Sunday 2 November 2008, 11.00am Seminar Space
Election USA

Sunday 2 November 2008, 2.00pm Seminar Space
Is America still the world’s policeman?

Sunday 2 November 2008, 4.00pm Seminar Space
What does it mean to be American?


 Publications

Critique, Security and Power: the Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches (Routledge, 2009)
Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations [chapter, ‘Human Security’] (UCL Press, 2007)


 Festival Buzz

"…the most interesting, diverse, serious and argumentative audience imaginable."
Prof Sir Bernard Crick