Dr Haro Karkour

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Research

My research engages with postcolonial and classical realist theory, and currently applies them to debates in 

1] US foreign policy and the crisis of the liberal order: my 2018 and 2021 International Relations articles present a critique of military interventionism in post-Cold War US foreign policy. In 2022, I published an article with International Affairs and a book with Palgrave Macmillan, where I engage with IR theory and the debate on the crisis of the liberal order.

2] Global and climate justice. I have published 2 articles with Journal of International Political Theory (2021; 2023), where I engage with E. H. Carr’s theoretical work and apply it to contemporary debates on global justice and the climate crisis. 

3] IR as a discipline. I have a publication with the European Journal of International Relations where I engage with the debate on the fragmentation of IR as a discipline. More recently, in co-authored International Studies Review and International Political Sociology articles (with Dr Felix Roesch and Dr Marco Vieira respectively) I engage with the debates on race and diversifying IR.

I also disseminate  my research via op-eds, blog posts and videos to prospective IR students, policymakers and the wider public. All my posts are available in the link to my blog on the right hand side.

Current projects include

• From Palestine to Ukraine: a postcolonial critique of the neo-realist strategy of offshore balancing
• Science and colonialism: Frantz Fanon and the sociological basis of contemporary global climate and health problems
• Realist case for democratic peace

Teaching

Term 1:

• PL9195 Intro to IR
• PLT050 Issues in IR

Term 2:

• PL9355 After the West
• PLT062 Research Methods

Biography

I was appointed Lecturer at Cardiff in October 2020 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2024. Previously I held teaching positions in the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham and Queen Mary, University of London.

Supervisions

I welcome enquires from prospective doctoral applicants in my research specialisms. In particular, I am interested in supervising projects in the following areas: 

1] Theories of IR (including intellectual history of the discipline and contemporary theoretical debates) 

2] Contemporary US foreign policy (including liberal order, US-Sino competition, NATO and Russia, and US involvement in the Middle East) 

3] Debates in international political theory on global justice and climate change/justice 

4] Technology (AI) and foreign policy 

Current supervision

Rhys Lewis-Jones

Graduate Tutor