In this fourth episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 we discuss ‘Civil Wars: from internationalised to localised conflicts’ with our amazing guests.

Dr James Worral is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the University of Leeds where he has worked since 2005 His research interests focus on Comparative Politics, Security Studies and International Relations with a particular interest in the Gulf and the Levant. He has conducted research on a wide range of related areas, such as the West’s relationship with the Arab World, Decolonisation, Counterinsurgency, and Rebel governance. He recently published a book on statebuilding and counterinsurgency in Oman and has co-written a book on the IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani and his role in Iranian propaganda.

Dr Alex Waterman is a Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. Prior to this, Alex worked as a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and also worked at the University of Leeds. 

His research agenda investigates how actors, from state and non-state armed actors to ceasefire brokers, peacebuilding and civil society actors, understand and try to shape the complex moving parts, (in)formal rules and institutions that make up conflict-affecting settings. In particular his research has focused on insurgency and counter-insurgency in north-eastern India.

Megghi Pengili is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds and her research interest sits between Defence and Security Policies, Civil-Military Relations, and EU Foreign and Security Policy. In her PhD she explored the influence that partnerships between industry and public bodies have on the innovation of institutions, the governance methods and the performance of the defence policy by contracting and processing specialised knowledge. 

Alex and James are co-editors of the Journal of Civil Wars and Megghi is the assistant editor. The journal is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and a Special Issue is coming out soon, what this space. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fciv20

To follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JournalofCW 

What’s next? The next episode will be coming out soon, and we will discuss Gender and Nuclear Weapons with Dr Laura Considine, stay tuned! 

To find out more about cutting edge research of the CGSC

Visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges website.

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This third episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 is a special episode as the CGSC and EJIS gave us the opportunity to be present at their conference “Security in times of polycrisis” in May 2023. 

The term ‘polycrisis’ has gained prominence over recent years as a way of articulating the sum of the multiple, intersecting crises of our contemporary world.

Their panelists agreed on speaking to us after their presentations, a big thanks to all of them: Alba Griffin, Ishmael Billa, Jethro Norman, Natalie James and Katherine Pye. 

To find out more about our guests research

• Alba Griffin
• Ishmael Billa: He is a doctoral researcher in the faculty of business and law at the University of Portsmouth. 
• Jethro Norman
• Natalie James
• Katherine Pye

To find out more about cutting edge research of the CGSC

Visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges website.

What’s next? 

This is the last episode before summer, so Enjoy!

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or check our twitter @InsecurePod for more information.

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In this second episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 we discuss the future of Security Studies with our amazing guests all working at the University of Leeds. We will be answering questions which were put to us by undergraduate students taking the Security Studies module at the University of Leeds and addressing a key question: what is the future of security studies?

Our guests 

• Dr Louise Pears, Lecturer of Global Security Challenges. Louise works on Feminist Security Studies, Popular Culture and World Politics, Race and Postcolonial IR and in CTS. 
• Pr Jack Holland, Professor of Global Security Challenges. Jack is the co-director of ‘Centre for Global Security Challenges’, and editor of British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Jack's work is known for its substantive contributions on US, UK, and Australian foreign and security policy as well as theoretical contributions to (critical) constructivism and methodological contributions to discourse analytic approaches.
• Lucas de Belmont, postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Lucas' research investigates international responsibilities to protect indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon. 
• Mohamed Abdi Mohamood, postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Mohamed's research encapsulates the locally owned ‘hybrid’ peace in Somalia and the gendered implications of different peace building models. 
• Dr Laura Considine, Associate Professor in International Politics. Laura is the co-director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges and her research project involves looking at the role of gender in nuclear weapons in politics and on a project on how to understand the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons 
• Dr James Worrall, Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies. James' research lies in the fields of Comparative Politics, Security Studies and IR, with particular geographical concentration on the Gulf and the Levant. He is the co-editor of the Journal Civil Wars.

To find out more about cutting edge research of the CGSC

Visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges website.

What’s next? 

Stay tuned, our next episode will be coming out next week and we will be looking at ‘Security in time of Polycrisis’ theme of the CGSC x EJIS Conference which happened in May 2023 at the University of Leeds. 

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or check our twitter @InsecurePod for more information.

It was Marine and Harry for Insecure: A Security Podcast. 

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We are launching the second season of Insecure: A Security Podcast with this mini episode in which we discuss the future of our research, both as Early Career Researchers and Research Fellows at the University of Leeds.

This fascinating discussion explores our ongoing research and plans for the future.

Marine discusses her recent research including a forthcoming book chapter in an edited volume for Manchester University Press in which she analyses the colonial legacies of French counterterrorism strategy in securitising the terrorist bodies in response to the threat of terrorism. Additionally we discuss a Special Issue which she has contributed to and which is soon to be published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, where she writes about the analysis undertaken on the French political discourse and the framing of the terrorist threat to uncover the securitisation framework in November 2015. Based on critical discourse analysis, it underpins engaging with the debate around the constructed notion of ‘temporality’. The article brings a critique of the notion of ruptural temporality and the notion of existential threat by demonstrating the coloniality of such powers through a continuity rather than rupture. Finally, Marine discusses her contribution to Securitization Theory regarding the nexus of securitization-desecuritization and argues for the impossibility of desecuritising the threat of terrorism in the French context when resting upon colonial continuities. 

To find out more on Marine’s research, follow her https://twitter.com/GueguinMarine on Twitter or visit her webpage: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/875/marine-gueguin- 

Harry discusses a paper which he recently presented at the ISA Annual Convention 2024 in which he compared representations of the ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ in the English language propaganda produced by the Islamic State and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. In so doing this paper explores how two groups with shared origins have developed in radically different ways. Additionally this research informs this episode’s discussion of ‘narratives’ as a distinct form of discourse. 

To find out more on Harry’s research, follow him https://twitter.com/HarrySwinhoe on Twitter or visit his webpage: https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/ 

To find out about the cutting edge research taking place within the CGSC

Please visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges’ webpage

What’s next?

Stay tuned, our next episode will be coming out next week and we will be looking at the Future of Security Studies.

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or using our twitter @InsecurePod to find out more or to submit questions for future episodes.

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In this bonus episode Dr Harrison Swinhoe and Marine Gueguin will discuss their own research within terrorism studies.

Dr Harrison Swinhoe is an Early Career Research at the University of Leeds. His PhD thesis explored how the Islamic State’s strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy were constructed through the English language propaganda content produced by the group between 2014 and 2017. In so doing his thesis analysed a range of discourses constructed by the Islamic State and the relationship between these discourses and the group’s strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy. This thesis was supervised by Pr Jack Holland and Dr Gordon Clubb. Dr Swinhoe has also published an article in Critical Studies on Terrorism entitled, '“They are not muslims. They are monsters”: the accidental takfirism of British political elites', which explored discursive practices utilised by British political elites to police the boundaries of religion and the potential implications and risks of these discursive practices. You can also find him on:

https://twitter.com/harryswinhoe

https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/

His recent publication:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2021.1902614

Marine Gueguin is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Her thesis focuses on French counterterrorism strategy, and specifically a critique of the crystallisation and/or normalisation of emergency powers, looking at securitisation and a critique of securitisation framework, the construction of the terrorist identity in a French context and the application of emergency powers through a decolonial perspective. Her thesis is supervised by Prof Edward Newman and Dr Gordon Clubb.

She previously worked as a research assistant for the InterParliamentary Union, the IPU, working on the 3rd Global Parliamentary Report released in April 2022. Marine Gueguin has continued to work with the InterParliamentary Union, engaging in research on Tunisia and newly democratised regimes for the IPU’s Global Parliamentary Report which was published recently. She also co-authored an article with Frank Feulner based on research undertaken for the Global Parliamentary Report entitled “Building Public Engagement in Small Island Nations” which will be published in a special issue in the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Marine has also written book chapter entitled “ Are French counterterrorism strategies a colonial legacy? What remains from the colonial matrix when constructing and responding to the threat of terrorism?” for a forthcoming edited book by Prof Tahir Abbas, Dr Sagnick Dutta, and Dr Sylvia Bergh.

You can also find her on:

https://twitter.com/GueguinMarine

https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/875/marine-gueguin-

3rd Global Parliamentary Report, IPU:

https://www.ipu.org/resources/publications/reports/2022-03/global-parliamentary-report-2022

Stay tuned, 'Insecure: A security podcast' will be back next month with its 3rd episode!

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In this second episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast we discuss the future of terrorism studies with Dr Gordon Clubb, Associate Professor in Terrorism at the University of Leeds and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation Studies ( https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/66/dr-gordon-clubb ) and Mr. Mohammad Didarul Islam, a PhD student at the University of Leeds and an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka ( https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/1248/md-didarul-islam )

This fascinating discussion explores current and emerging trends within terrorism studies, the nature of ‘the terrorist threat’, and the relationship between the study of terrorism, extremism, and CVE (counter-violent extremism).

It also showcases the research undertaken by both our speakers on CVE and deradicalisation in different contexts, as well as, their thoughts on the current state of terrorism studies and the existing literature.

Dr Gordon Clubb’s recent work on the topic:

Clubb G, Koehler D, Schewe J, O'Connor R. 2021. Selling De-Radicalisation Managing the Media Framing of Countering Violent Extremism. Routledge Studies in Countering Violent Extremism. London, UK: Routledge

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/175528/

Clubb G, Barnes E, O’Connor R, Schewe J, Davies GAM. 2019. Revisiting the de-radicalisation or disengagement debate: Public attitudes to the re-integration of terrorists. Journal for Deradicalization. (21), pp. 84-116

His co-edited book, mentioned within this episode

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terrorism-Political-Violence-Caroline-Kennedy-Pipe/dp/1446272818

Mr. Mohammad Didarul Islam’s recent work on the topic:

Islam MD, Siddika A. 2021. Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh. International Migration Review https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01979183211064829

To find out more about cutting edge research on this, please visit the webpage of the CGSC research centre:

https://css.leeds.ac.uk/research/counterterrorism-and-deradicalization/

https://icct.nl/

What’s next?

Stay tuned, our next episode will be coming out next month and we will be looking at ‘European Security following the invasion of Ukraine and the French Presidential Elections’’.

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or using our twitter @InsecurePod to find out more or to submit questions for future episodes

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Credits to CGSC https://css.leeds.ac.uk, particularly to Prof. Jack Holland, Dr. Laura Considine, and our Assistant Producer Eirin Groenlund.

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In this debut episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast we discuss environmental security and COP 26 with Prof. Richard Beardsworth, the Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, (https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1141/professor-richard-beardsworth ) and Dr. Nicole Nisbett, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1575/dr-nicole-nisbett).

This fascinating discussion explores how climate change is securitised by different actors, actors’ different experiences of climate change and climate diplomacy, the potential conflict between climate security and other forms of security, and how does the Russian invasion of Ukraine impact on the challenge of climate change and the need for climate action. In doing so the episode seeks to address the central question: is the world more secure or insecure today as a result of COP 26?

Prof. Beardsworth’s recent work on this topic:

· Beardsworth R. 2020. Climate science, the politics of climate change and futures of IR. International Relations.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820946365

· Beardsworth R. 2021. COP26: A decade of decision.

https://www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/cop26-decade-decision

To find out more about cutting edge research on this and other topics

Priestley International Centre for Climate and the Centre for Global Security Challenges websites.

Priestley Internal Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds: COP 26 Reflections https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/cop26/cop26-reflections/

The IPCC 6th Assessment Report April 2022

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/

The Glasgow Climate Pact

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-glasgow-climate-pact-key-outcomes-from-cop26

https://theconversation.com/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-glasgow-climate-pact-171799

The UNFCCC https://unfccc.int

IPU https://www.ipu.org/event/144th-assembly-and-related-meetings

What’s next?

Stay tuned our next episode will be coming out next month and we will be looking at ‘The future of Terrorism Research’ with Dr. Gordon Clubb and Mr Mohammad Didarul Islam.

Get in touch with us at [email protected] or check our twitter InsecurePod for more information.

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We are delighted to announce the new PGR and ECR led podcast ‘Insecure: A Security Podcast’, season 1, funded by the Centre for Global Security Challenges (CGSC).

The podcast is hosted by Marine Guéguin (@GueguinMarine), a postgraduate researcher in POLIS, and Dr Harrison Swinhoe (@HarrySwinhoe), with the goal of advancing the CGSC’s innovative research by strengthening the centre’s existing research culture and fostering new academic relationships between postgraduates, early career researchers and more established academics. Guests on the channel will have the chance to showcase their work to a diverse audience whilst critically engaging with the implications of work for both policy and future research.

The creation of the channel marks an exciting development in the collaborative research culture of the CGSC and POLIS at the University of Leeds, providing a new platform to discuss the centre members’ cutting-edge research and disseminate it to a diverse audience.

Each episode will engage with one of the CGSC’s core research themes whilst engaging with the range of scholarship taking place within the CGSC and relevant current events. Listeners will be encouraged to engage with upcoming podcast topics by submitting their questions to us and the speakers on Twitter @Insecure

Follow ‘Insecure: A Security Podcast’ on Twitter (https://twitter.com/InsecurePod) and contact us via email at [email protected]

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