Ali Watson
Professor
Room: 244
Office Hours: currently on research leave
Tel: 2930
Email: amsw
st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching
IR4521: Representations of International Relations
Research
Keywords: Childhood studies, Children in International Relations, Activism, Motherhood.
My primary research interest lies in examining the place of children within the international system, and how their incorporation into the IR discourse may change the questions raised within the discipline itself, as well as in its sub-fields. As well as continuing to work on children in the international political economy, and on children and conflict, I am currently working on issues surrounding the relationship between youth violence and gang culture. I also have a developing interest on issues of activism and motherhood, and am currently working on issues surrounding the activism of mothers in everyday life, and issues related to emotions in international relations.
Books
The Child in International Political Economy: A Place at the Table, Routledge, 2009.
Global Communication and IR, Special Issue of Review of International Studies (co-edited with Costas M. Constantinou and Oliver P. Richmond), Cambridge University Press, 2008.
An Introduction to International Political Economy, Continuum, 2004.
Aspects of European Monetary Integration: The Politics of Convergence, Macmillan, 1997.
Articles
2008; A M S Watson; "Can There Be A "Kindered" Peace?"; Ethics and International Affairs; 22(1):35-42; More info
2007; A M S Watson; "Children Born of Wartime Rape: Rights and Representations"; International Feminist Journal of Politics, March.
2006; A M S Watson; "Children and International Relations: A New Site of Knowledge?"; Review of International Studies; 32 (2).
2006; A M S Watson; 'Saving More than the Children: the role of child-focussed NGO's in the creation of Southern security norms"; Third World Quarterly; 27(2), March.
Book Chapters
2009; A M S Watson; "Children and Post-Conflict Security Governance"; European Security Governance The European Union in a Westphalian world; Charlotte Wagnsson, James A. Sperling, Jan Hallenberg (ed); Routledge; 114-126
2009; A M S Watson; "Children’s Human Rights and the Politics of Childhood"; The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations; P Hayden (ed); Ashgate, London and Aldershot, UK; 247-260
2009; A M S Watson; "Too Many Children Left Behind: The Inadequacy of Human Rights Law Vis-A-Vis The Child"; Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 12: Structural, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives; Jens Qvortrup (ed); 249-271
2008; A M S Watson, Trevor C. Salmon, M F Imber; "'Gender and Other Others'"; Issues in International Relations; Routledge; 195-206
Forthcoming
Children and Conflict, Polity, 2012.
Current Research Students
Neil Bowie
Ashley Cole
Anne de Graaf
Rikard Jalkebro
Athanasios Stathopoulos
PhD Supervision topics
I am happy to supervise studies in children's place and positioning in the international system - particularly in theoretical/conceptual terms; issues of activism and resistance; women's role in conflict and post-conflict settings'; as well as a range of issues in peace and conflict studies, including NGO activity and development issues.
