Room:  NW 812
Phone:  0121 204 3755
Email: [email protected]

I have joined Aston University in June 2006 having previously taught at Royal Holloway, the School of Oriental and African Studies and at the Universities of Reading, East Anglia and Magdeburg.

My research focuses on comparative regionalism with an emphasis on Europe and East Asia regional institution-building. Here, I am particularly interested in the impact of crises as critical junctures on drivers, spoilers and dissolvers of regional institutions.

I have also worked on the EU and China as normative actors in global climate change negotiations, regional responses to refugee crises in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, the emergence of post-national actorness and interregionalism.  

Past Modules:

UG: Introduction to International Relations; International Relations: Theories and Issues; Inernational Political Economy; The International Relations of East Asia; East Asian Politics and Society

PG: International Relations Theories; The EU as a Global Actor; Globalisation, Regionalism and Global Governance; Comparative and International Political Economy; The EU and East Asia (Jean Monnet Module) 

Current Modules:

UG: International Relations Theories; International Political Economy; East Asian Politics and Society; International Relations of East Asia

PG: Europe and East Asia

• Phd (2003, University of East Anglia)
• MA in International Relations and Asia-Pacific Studies (1998, University of East Anglia)
• Diplomkaufmann (1997, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy