Kcl Research Centre In International Relations

Research Centre in International Relations
www. kclrcir.org
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The previously named Centre for the Study of Political Community and the International Political Sociology group have recently formed the Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR): The Study of Political Community, Conflict and Security.

The Centre conducts research in International Relations that relates the ‘political’ to practices of security and conflict. Drawing on international political sociology, philosophy, and international political theory, scholars associated with the Centre are interested in how the discourses and practices of security, war, and responses to conflict reflect and constitute particular governmental rationalities that transcend the inside /outside, domestic /international distinction and that have implications for the constitution of political communities and their transformations. Our research projects focus on war and the government of populations, security and the discourses and practices of securitisation, the international political sociology of mobility, governmental rationalities in crisis and catastrophe, the role of the media and virtual space in conflict and security, and the international politics of conflict and contention.

The views expressed here are those of the members of KCL RCIR and in no way reflect the views of King’s College London or the Department of War Studies.