Dr John Heathershaw
PhD, London School of Economics
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Telephone: 01392 724185
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
I am Senior Lecturer in International Relations with interests in two fields: Central Asian studies, including the former Soviet republics and Afghanistan; Peace and Conflict Studies, including the interdisciplinary study of the politics of international peacebuilding. I have spent several years working for governmental, international non-governmental and academic institutions in and on Central Asia. I have been elected a director of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, serving from 2011-2014, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Central Asian Survey. At Exeter, I am part of the faculty of theCentre for Adavanced International Studies, an associate fellow of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-political Studies (EXCEPS), a research associate of Exeter Turkish Studies and a co-convenor of the research group on Communism and Post-Communism.
My first book has recently been published: Post-Conflict Tajikistan: the politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order (London: Routledge, 2009). Links to pre- and post-print versions of my other publications can be found on my Academia.Edu homepage.
I also write for Ekklesia and OpenDemocracy.
From 1 July 2011 to 1 January 2012 I will be on academic leave. From August - December 2011 I shall be based in Bishkek as a visiting research fellow of the University of Central Asia.
