Centre for International Politics (CIP)
The Centre for International Politics (CIP) brings together academic staff and research students working in broad field of international politics. We have expertise in development, the environment, ethics, foreign policy, gender, global governance, human rights, international theory, the media, regionalism, trade, transition and security. In addition, we have area specialisms in Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Indian Ocean and the US. The development of international politics has been a core Politics strategy since CIP was first created. We are now one of the largest and best centres of international politics in the UK. CIP members sit on the executive committees of the British International Studies Association (BISA) and the International Studies Association (ISA) and are active in a range of other professional organisations. A number of journals and book series are edited from Manchester. Our members are regularly consulted by government, the non-governmental sector and the media. Each year we host a number of high profile workshops and conferences. And our work is published in the leading journals and by the most significant publishers. Information on the work of members of CIP is provided in our individual research profiles.
CIP strives to produce and support scholarship of the highest quality. We provide our staff and research students with an encouraging and supportive environment. CIP members regularly present their work at the Politics Seminar, and we host a number of visiting speakers in our Occasional Lecture series and at other events. We publish a Working Paper Series comprising the very best papers given in the Centre by members and our visitors. Each year CIP hosts a major postgraduate event. And we also participate in the work of the other research clusters as well as in the Gender Research Network and the Love Network. We take our teaching as seriously as we do our research, a commitment that is reflected in both our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching provision. Our size and quality enables us to offer a wide variety of high quality courses at the cutting edge of knowledge. We all enjoy teaching and this is reflected in the feedback we get from our students. Visit our undergraduate and postgraduate pages for more information.
Rorden Wilkinson
Head of the Centre for International Politics