Stuart Croft
Profile
I joined PAIS in January 2007 as Professor of International Security. Prior to that, I had been at the University of Birmingham for 18 years, latterly as Professor of International Relations, and also served for three years as the Head of the School of Social Sciences. My work is in the field of security studies, and my latest book is "Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror" (Cambridge University Press, 2006). The book was short listed for the ISA's International Security Section book award for 2007. I'm interested in constructivist and cultural accounts of security, as can be seen in the December 2006 special issue of the journal International Relations, which I guest edited. I also guest edited a special issue of Government and Opposition, published in July 2007. I also collaborated with colleagues in Chatham House in the development of the special issue on African Security published by International Affairs during November 2007, and a special issue on radicalisation and terrorism in July 2010, in which I co-wrote the lead article.
For eight years I was Director of the ESRC's New Security Challenges Programme, a £6.5 plus million programme that supported nearly 50 research projects based at a variety of UK universities and other institutions. The latest initiative under that programme is to support a series of projects investigating Radicalisation and Violence around the world. Before the New Security Challenges Programme, I worked on a project funded by the ESRC on media representations of the war in Iraq, and before that worked with colleagues on an ESRC funded project on the future of NATO. I have also had a NATO research grant, and also grants from Nuffield, the Cadbury Trust and the British Academy.
Research interests
Of my current projects, one is looking at the interplay of discourses on 'Britishness' and 'jihadi-ism', an early paper from which I published in Defence Studies in 2007. A second project is looking at the foreign policy of American evangelical organisations and thinkers, and I published a paper on that in the November 2007 issue of International Politics. I have completed a book on Britishness and identity constructions called Securitizing Islam, for which I was funded by an ESRC funded Research Fellowship. I am currently completing another book on radicalisation, focussing on right wing nationalists, neo-Nazis and Christian fundamentalists.
In early 2009, I began working on a project funding by the EU, and led by the UN University in Bruges, focusing on issues in security governance, with a total value of €1.94 million; see http://www.eugrasp.eu. From 2011, I am the co-lead of Work Package 4 on security issues in the 8 million euro programme Global Reorderning: Evolution Through European Networks. During 2011-12, I will have 35% of my time funded by those projects.
Teaching and supervision
I have supervised 17 successful PhD students in Birmingham and now Warwick, and have been an external examiner on 20 PhDs in various universities around the UK. I currently supervise seven research students, and am working as mentor with 4 postdoctoral fellows, funded by the ESRC, EU and British Academy. In 2006, I was elected as an Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Since 2005, I have been editor for the Palgrave book series on New Security Challenges, which has seen the first set of books published in 2007. I was co-editor of the journal Contemporary Security Policy for fifteen years until 2004 and now sit on its editorial board; I am also on the boards of Critical Studies on Terrorism, and of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.
From January 2009 I was the Chair of the British International Studies Association, having been vice chair for the previous two years; from 2011, I am the President of the Association.
Professor of International Security
Room: S1.57
Telephone: (024 765) 24257
Email: S.Croft@Warwick.ac.uk
