 | 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). |
Saturday 31 October 2009, 9.30am Henry Moore Gallery
Is there a global power shift from West to East?
Saturday 31 October 2009, 12.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
When is it right to go to war? Kosovo, Iraq and beyond
Saturday 31 October 2009, 4.15pm Student Union
Revolutions Balloon Debate
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)
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