Sibylle Scheipers
Lecturer
Room: 105
Office Hours Tue 3-4
Tel: 01334 462944
Email: ss203@st-andrews.ac.uk
About
I joined the School of International Relations in 2011. Previously I held positions as Director of Studies for the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford University and as a Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Relations and Security Studies at Chatham House. I hold a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin.
Teaching
IR 1006 Introduction into International Relations (Lectures on International Security after the Cold War)
IR 2006 Issues in International Relations (Lectures on The 'New Wars')
IR 3029 Irregular Warfare (Junior Honours)
IR 4540 The Changing Character of War (Senior Honours)
IR 5007 Terrorism and Liberal Democracy (M.Litt - lecture on Terrorism and the Laws of War)
IR 5050 Strategic Studies (M.Litt)
Research
I will be on research leave during the academic year 2012-2013 (Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship) in order to complete my monograph on irregular fighters.
Apart from irregular fighters, my research interests also include the law of armed conflict, prisoners and detainees in war and notions of courage and heroism in war.
Books
- Unlawful Combatants: A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- The Changing Character of War (ed. with Hew Strachan) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
- Prisoners in War (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
- Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: International Society and the International Criminal Court (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).
Articles
- ‘Closing Guantanamo and Investigating the Past: Chances for Renewing Transatlantic Ties?’, Survival 51/3 (2009), pp. 66-69.
- ‘Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?’, Survival 51/1 (2009), pp. 5-12.
- ‘Flüchten oder standhalten’, Internationale Politik 62(9) (2007), pp. 120-125 (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).
- Die Nato in Afghanistan. Das Bündnis und die Grenzen seiner Strategiefähigkeit. SWP-Aktuell No. 44 (2007), Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).
- Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan: Burden-sharing or Disunity? Chatham House Briefing Paper ISP/ASP 07/01 (2007), London: Chatham House (co-authored with Timo Noetzel).
- ‘Empowering Africa: normative power in EU-Africa relations’, Journal of European Public Policy 15/4 (2008), pp. 607-623 (co-authored with Daniela Sicurelli).
- ‘Civilization vs toleration: the new UN Human Rights Council and the normative foundations of the international order’, Journal of International Relations and Development 10/3 (2007).
- ‘Normative power Europe: a credible utopia?’, Journal of Common Market Studies 45/2 (2007), pp. 435-457 (co-authored with Daniela Sicurelli).
Book Chapters
- ‘Introduction: The Changing Character of War’ (co-authored with Hew Strachan), in The Changing Character of War (ed. with Hew Strachan) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
- ‘The status and protections of Prisoners of War and detainees’, in The Changing Character of War (ed. with Hew Strachan) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
- 'Une généalogie du combattant irrégulier’, in Christian Malis (ed.) La guerre irrégulière (Paris, Economica, 2010).
- ‘Introduction: Prisoners in War’, in Prisoners in War (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
- ‘Conclusion: Prisoners and detainees in current and future military operations’, in Prisoners in War (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Administration
I am Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
Affiliations
Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Changing Character of War Programme.
Grants
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2012-2013 (£43,000)
US Army War College/Strategic Studies Institute Conference Grant for a conference on 'Post-Heroic Warfare?', Oxford 21-23 March 2011 (£18,000, matched with the same amount by the Australian Land Warfare Studies Center)
Current Research Students
Timothy Williams: 'The Complexity of Evil: A Multi-Faceted Approach to Genocide Perpetration' (starting in 2012/13)
PhD Supervision topics
War and strategy, insurgency and counter-insurgency, the military as an institution, the laws of war.
