Section: Staff Profiles

Andrea Birdsall

Name
Dr Andrea Birdsall
Title
Teaching Fellow
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
3.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44(0)131 650 6974
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/andrea_birdsall

Office Hours

Tuesdays, 10.00-11.00 am

Qualifications

  • Dipl.-Kauffrau (University of Cologne, Germany)
  • MA (Leeds)
  • MSc by Research (Edinburgh)
  • PhD (Edinburgh)

Biographical Statement 

Andrea completed her Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh on the international politics of judicial intervention. Her main research interests lie in the interplay between International Relations and International Law with a particular focus on human rights, international criminal justice and global governance. Her research focuses on the impact of human rights on national and international security considerations by looking at contentious issues related to the so-called ‘war on terror’.

Andrea teaches on the undergraduate course International Law and the MSc course War & Morality. In recent years she has taught on a variety of courses, including Human Rights in International Relations, War and Justice and International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond.

Andrea is a member of the International Politics Research Group and the Just World Institute.

Publications

Birdsall, Andrea The International Politics of Judicial Intervention: Creating a more just order (London: Routledge, 2009)

Birdsall, Andrea "Norms among states: Review of Ian Clark's International Legitimacy and World Society", The Review of Politics, vol. 71, No. 1, 2009

Peterson, John and Birdsall, Andrea "The European Commission: Enlargement as Reinvention?" in Edward Best, Thomas Christiansen and Pierpaolo Settembri (eds.) The Governance of the Wider Europe: EU Enlargement and Institutional Change (Edward Elgar, 2008)

Birdsall, Andrea "Book Review: David Chandler: From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention", Millennium, vol. 36, No. 3, 2008

Birdsall, Andrea "Creating a more 'just' order - the Ad Hoc International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia", Cooperation & Conflict, vol. 42, No. 4, 2007

 

This page was published on 4 September 2009


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