Section: Staff Profiles

Andrea Birdsall

Name
Dr Andrea Birdsall
Title
Lecturer
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
Research Interests
Human rights,International Relations,War on terror,norm creation,International Law & International Relations
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/andrea_birdsall

 

Office Hours

Tuesdays, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm

Qualifications

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

Biographical Statement 

Andrea is a lecturer in International Relations. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh on the international politics of judicial intervention in December 2006. 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 convenes the MSc courses Human Rights, Global Politics & International Law and War & Morality, the honours course Human Rights in International Relations and the second year course International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond. She also teaches on the undergraduate courses War & Justice and International Law (IR). 

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

 

Publications

Monograph

Birdsall, Andrea The International Politics of Judicial Intervention: Creating a more just order London: Routledge, 2009 (paperback January 2012)

Articles

Birdsall, Andrea 'The "Monster That We Need to Slay?" Global Governance, the United States, and the International Criminal Court' Global Governance, vol. 16, No. 4, 2010, pp. 451-470

Birdsall, Andrea ''A monstrous failure of justice'? Guantanamo Bay and national security challenges to fundamental human rights' International Politics, vol. 47, No. 6, 2010, pp. 680-697

Peterson, John and Birdsall, Andrea 'The European Commission: Enlargement as Reinvention?' in: E. Best, T. Christiansen and P. Settembri (eds.) The Governance of the Wider Europe: EU Enlargement and Institutional Change Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 54-81

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, pp. 397-418

Birdsall, Andrea 'The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - Towards a More Just Order' Peace, Conflict & Development, vol. 8, 2006, pp. 1-24

Book Reviews

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

Birdsall, Andrea 'Book Review: David Chandler: From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention' Millennium, vol. 36, No. 2, 2008

Topics interested in supervising

I am particularly interested in supervising dissertations that deal with the interplay between International Relations and International Law and issues related to Human Rights.

If you are interested in being supervised by Andrea Birdsall, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics

This page was published on 1 February 2012


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