Elisabeth Schweiger

• Lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling

Elisabeth is a Lecturer in International Politics. Prior to joining the University of Stirling she worked as a lecturer at the Politics department of the University of York and at the University of Edinburgh. Elisabeth is Convenor of the BISA Working Group for Security Policy and Practice. She is interested in alternative approaches to security and foreign policy and has worked with policy-makers, NGOs, and think tanks.

Her research focuses on contemporary asymmetrical use of force within the wider context of the colonial continuities of counterinsurgency practices. She has particularly focused on the role of silence in military violence, through interlinking modalities such as secrecy, acquiescence, presuppositions, silencing and exclusion.

Elisabeth obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands where she particularly focused on 'targeted killing' practices in international law and politics. She has previously studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

Elisabeth's work is interdisciplinary, engaging with international politics, international political sociology, international law and history.

Her research is multifaceted and varied. Keywords include:

.Counterinsurgency, asymmetric warfare and new weapon technologies of colonial violence law and the regulation of the use of force of military violence and militarism, rhetoric and war propaganda, secrecy, acquiescence, exclusion and feminist theories

Elisabeth has published single-authored and multi-authored articles in different disciplines, including an article on Researching Silence in Millennium and a paper on Covert Warfare in the European Journal of International Relations.

• –present Lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling

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