Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy

Dr Mark Laffey

BA, MA (Canterbury, New Zealand), PhD (Minnesota)

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7898 4744
Address: School of Oriental and African Studies Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office no: 211
Office hours: 12:30-2:30 Mondays
Dr Mark Laffey

International relations theory; international security; historical sociology; postcolonial theory; foreign policy analysis; U.S. foreign policy; ideas, culture and ideology

Degree programmes

Degree courses

Edited publications

  • Barkawi, T and Laffey, M, eds. (2001) Democracy, Liberalism and War: Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debates. Lynne Rienner (USA).

  • Weldes, Jutta and Laffey, Mark and Gusterson, Hugh and Duvall, Raymond, eds. (1999) Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Borderlines)

Book chapters

  • Laffey, Mark and Weldes, J. (2005) 'Policing and Global Governance.' In: Barnett, M. and Duvall, R., (eds.), Power in Global Gevernance. Cambridge University Press, pp. 59-79.

  • Laffey, Mark and Weldes, Jutta (2004) 'Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity?' In: Passavant, Paul and Dean, Jodi, (eds.), The Empire's New Clothes: reading Hardt and Negri. New York: Routledge, pp. 121-142

  • Laffey, Mark and Dean, Kathryn (2002) 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: globalization and historical materialism.' In: Rupert, M. and Smith, H., (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays on Continuity and Change. London: Routledg

  • Laffey, Mark (1999) 'Adding an Asian Strand: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Culture in New Zealand, 1984-97.' In: Laffey/J, M, (ed.), Cultures of Insecurity: States Communities and the Production of Danger. Univ of Minnesota Press, pp. 233-260

Articles

  • Laffey Mark and Suthaharan Nadarajah (2012) ‘The Hybridity of Liberal Peace: States, Diasporas and Insecurity’, Security Dialogue, 43(5): 402-419 (with Suthaharan Nadarajah)

  • Laffey Mark (2010) ‘Things Lost and Found: Richard Ashley and the Silences of Thinking Space’, Review of International Studies, 36(4): 989-1004.

  • Laffey, Mark and Weldes, Jutta (2008) 'Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis.' International Studies Quarterly, 52 (3). pp. 555-577

  • Barkawi, Tarak and Laffey, Mark (2006) 'The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies.' Review of International Studies, 32 (2). pp. 329-352

  • Laffey, Mark and Weldes, J. (2004) 'US Foreign Policy, Public Memory, and Autism: Representing September 11 and May 4.' Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17 (2). pp. 355-75

  • Laffey, Mark (2003) 'Discerning the Patterns of World Order: Noam Chomsky and International Theory after the Cold War.' Review of International Studies, 29 (4). pp. 587-604

  • Laffey, Mark and Barkawi, T (2002) 'Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations.' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 31(1) . pp. 109-127

  • Laffey, Mark (2001) 'Tall Tales of the State and Its Trials: The World According to Liberal Cosmopolitanism.' Politologiske Studier, 4(2) . pp. 74-81

  • Laffey, Mark (2000) 'Locating Identity: Performativity, Foreign Policy and State Action.' Review of International Studies, 26 (3) . pp. 429-444

  • Laffey, Mark and Barkawi, T (1999) 'The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization.' European Journal of International Relations, 5 (4) . pp. 403-434

  • Laffey, Mark and Weldes, J (1997) 'Beyond Belief: Ideas and Symbolic Technologies in the Study of International Relations.' European Journal of International Relations, 3 (2) . pp. 193-237