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Mark Laffey is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POL) at SOAS University of London. His work spans International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, Security Studies, and Critical Theory, focusing on decolonial approaches, global governance, and the critique of liberal international order.
His research interrogates the intersections of poststructuralism, historical materialism, and globalization, with a sustained interest in diaspora security governance, epistemic justice, and the politics of representation. Key themes include the hybridity of liberal peace, policing transnational networks, and the legacy of Cold War narratives in shaping international hierarchy.
Recent publications like Complex Indebtedness: Justice and the Crisis of Liberal Order (2023) analyze contemporary challenges to the liberal international framework, while older works such as Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis (2008) and The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies (2006) remain foundational to critical IR scholarship. His 2025 article Critical Race Theory: “Is Your IR Class Racist?” extends his critique to race and pedagogy in international studies.
Laffey has supervised PhD students including S. Hale, whose 2023 thesis on Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and global elite networks, and V. Kanapathipillai’s 2018 work on state-corporation-security relations. He is contactable via ml23@soas.ac.uk.
