Role
Lecturer in International Relations
Module Leader:
IRL2203 International Security Studies
IRL3210 Foreign Policy Analysis
IRL520 Critical Security Studies
Qualifications & background
BA Hons (Wales), MA (Exeter), PhD (Exeter)
Professional membership
BISA
PSA
ISA
Roles on external bodies
BISA British Foreign Policy Working Group Coordinator
Teaching interests
Foreign policy, international security, international justice, ethics
Research interests
International society, ethics, foreign policy decisionmaking, human rights, intelligence and security studies
Publications
British Foreign Policy: Crises, conflicts and future challenges (Polity Press, 2012)
Co-edited with Oliver Daddow, British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years (Palgrave MacMillan, July 2011)
'Interpreting Ethical Foreign Policy: Traditions and Dilemmas for Policymakers' British Journal of Politics and International Relations (Special Edition 2013)
'Entangling Alliances? The UK's Complicity in Torture in the War on Terrorism' International Affairs Vol: 87 No.4 (July 2011)
'The Virtues in International Society' European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming)
'Where would we be without rules? A Virtue Ethics Approach to foreign policy analysis' Review of International Studies Vol: 37 No.1 (2010)
‘Because they lied? New Labour, Iraq’s WMD and Trust’ Chapter 2 in Evaluating the Political Achievement of New Labour Since 1997: Social Policy and the Public Trust
Nicholas Johns and Adrian Barton (eds) (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009)
'The Construction of British Foreign Policy: Ethics Vs Interests?' Online Case Study for Smith, S., Hadfield, A. and Dunne, T. Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors Cases (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
'Discourses and ethics: the social construction of British foreign policy' Foreign Policy Analysis Vol: 2 Issue 4 Oct 2006
'Ethical policies or empty promises?: New labour and human rights in British foreign policymaking' International Journal of Human Rights Vol: 10 No. 1 2006
Reports & invited lectures
Invited Lectures:
The Virtues of International Society, 16 February 2011, Loughborough University
Holding people accountable in International Relations, 14 Oct 2009, University of Leeds
'Human Rights and Foreign Policy' 21 November 2007, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
'Ethics and Foreign Policy' 24 April 2006 Exeter University
Conferences organised
BISA/FCO Workshop ‘British Foreign Policy for the 21st Century’ FCO, London 2010
- Brought together academics, policymakers, civil servants and NGOs for a 2 day conference on the identities, values and power concerns informing British foreign policy – hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Whitehall 4-5 Feb.
BISA Workshop, British Foreign Policy: Future Challenges, April 2009 Plymouth
BISA Workshop, British Foreign Policy, Nov 2006, LSE
Other academic activities
Gaskarth, J. (2010)’A Mission to Venus? Interpreting ethical foreign policy’ Invited panellist, Berkeley, UC.
Gaskarth, J. (2010) ‘Entangling Alliances? The UK’s Complicity in Torture in the Global War on Terrorism’ US Foreign Policy Working Group, Leeds, September
Gaskarth, J. (2010) ‘Nothing left to share with another? Entangling Alliances and the ethics of UK foreign policy’ ISA, New Orleans; BISA Workshop, FCO Building, London
Gaskarth, J. (2009) ‘UK leadership and the ethics of British foreign policy’ BISA Workshop, Plymouth
Gaskarth, J. (2008) ‘Virtue Ethics and foreign policy analysis’ BISA Annual Conference, Exeter
Paper given at ISA Conference, San Francisco, 2008 'Virtue Ethics and foreign policy'
