nicholasbarker.net - Nicholas Barker

Description: Welcome to my homepage! I am currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham (Department of Political Science and International Studies), where I previously held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021-2022) and have worked as a Research Fellow on several projects. I completed a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations at Nuffield College, University of…

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Welcome to my homepage! I am currently a Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham (Department of Political Science and International Studies), where I previously held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021-2022). I completed a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in 2020.

My primary research interests are the causes, character and consequences of armed conflict and political violence, and the focus of my doctoral research was state and secessionist strategies in the aftermath of separatist armed conflicts, for which I did field research in Abkhazia, Georgia, Kosovo and Serbia and archival research at the UN. My wider research interests include peace processes, international security and conflict management with a regional focus on Wider Europe, qualitative and case study res

I am currently working on a monograph, based on my doctoral research , which is under advance contract with Routledge.