Dr Clara Eroukhmanoff

I am a senior lecturer in International Relations and Politics and the Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at the College of Society and Professions.

I also sit on the leadership Committee of Minorities of Peace and Security as partnership lead, an organisation dedicated to creating a platform and solidarity network within the UK that fosters thought leadership, forges coalitions for change, and inspires a new generation of diverse professionals in Peace and Security.

My research interests are broadly situated at the intersection of gender and foreign policy; critical security studies, in particular the politics of the War on Terror and the securitisation of Islam.

 
I would be interested to supervise PhD Students on:

• French feminist diplomacy
• Gender and foreign policy
• The war on terror and the securitisation of Islam
• Emotions in global politics

I am a passionate teacher and teach and lead a number of modules at LSBU in Politics and IR.

My current research lies at the intersection of gender and foreign policy, in particular the re-masculinisation of international politics (see my article on US decline and Trumpism in International Relations journal), the rise of anti-genderism, and the concept and practice of 'feminist foreign policy' especially, the French version of this framework, 'French feminist diplomacy'. I explore these themes in a new co-edited book on 'Feminist policymaking in Turbulent Times', a critical study of various gender-sensitive projects around the world in three areas of policy (economy, security and foreign policy), co-edited with Hannah Partis-Jennings, which will be published in June 2024. This is an international collaboration with gender practitioners, policy-makers, activists and scholars.

 
I am also interested in the emotion and visual Turns in international relations, in particular the affective and visual responses of solidarity to victims of terrorism such as ‘Je suis Charlie’, ‘Peace’ and ‘I heart MCR’. I have published an article on this in the Journal of International Political Theory.

My previous work was situated in Critical Security Studies, in particular the Copenhagen School's Securitisation Theory. I have published a book on the 'securitisation of Islam post-9/11' in which I explore how elite speakers like the President of the United States, the police and the intelligence community in the US construct (linguistically) the threat of terrorism and revert to covert forms of racism to securitise minorities. This book was nominated for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. I have also published a number of articles on the notion of 'remote securitisation' and the use of euphemisms and technostrategic language by the intelligence community.

I am currently leading a British Academy funded project entitled 'publiSHE: empowering women's research voices' which seeks to address barriers to female early career researchers in Jordan.

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the College of Societ and Professions.