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Subject Lead in Social Sciences & Law, University of Sussex

Nick is a researcher and teacher of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex International Study Centre. His book, 'Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse: The Island Race', is published with Routledge in July 2023. His research interests include critical geopolitics, British politics, foreign policy, national identity and discourse. He has written for the major academic journals 'Political Geography' and 'Geopolitics' and the 'Strategy in the Contemporary World' textbook. As a speaker, he has recently addressed a Labour Party branch meeting and a conference of Geography teachers on what Brexit means for British foreign policy and identity.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Subject Lead in Social Sciences & Law, University of Sussex International Study Centre
  • 2017–2021
    Tutor of International Relations, University of Sussex International Study Centre
  • 2017–2020
    Convenor & Tutor of Foreign Policy Analysis, University of Sussex

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Sussex, DPhil

Publications

  • 2023
    Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse: The Island Race, London: Routledge,
  • 2022
    Political Geography, Popular geopolitics and political memoir: Geopolitical expertise and force majeure as foreign policy justifications in Tony Blair’s A Journey
  • 2022
    Geopolitics & Grand Strategy, with Stefanie Ortmann in J. Baylis, J.J. Wirtz and J. Johnson (eds.), Strategy in the Contemporary World: an Introduction to Strategic Studies (seventh edn.), Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 2018
    Geopolitics, The Island Race: Ontological Security and Critical Geopolitics in British Parliamentary Discourse