Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Research

Euro-Arab trade relations; FDI & economic growth; inward investment attraction & facilitation; global strategies for multinational enterprises; internationalization of small & medium sized businesses.

History of Religions (intellectual history of the modern Muslim world; Islam in Southeast Asia); Islamic Studies (contemporary thought in the Muslim world; Islam in global and transnational contexts); Southeast Asian Studies (European expansion in Southeast Asia; Islamization in Southeast Asia; Religion in Southeast Asia); Study of Religions (Islamic Studies as an academic specialisation, theory and method; philosophy of religion); travel writing (historical travel accounts on Southeast Asia).

+44 (0)20 7848 1795

Clemens Sedmak works in three areas:
social ethics with a special emphasis on poverty research, theories of justice and aspects of social exclusion, having coordinated an interdisciplinary research group on "option for the poor" at the University of Salzburg
epistemology with a special focus on the relation between ethics and epistemology
philosophy of religion and religious studies, with a special interest in the social dimensions of religion and epistemological questions of religion.

+44 (0)20 7848 2510

clemens.sedmak@kcl.ac.uk

The history and politics of the Middle East; US and Russian foreign policy; foreign policy issues in the Mediterranean.

020 7848 2325

Arab-Israeli conflict; Israeli foreign policy; US & the Middle East.

Religion and society in Western and Eastern Europe, in particular in post-communist societies;
New religious movements;
Religion and migration;
Religion, ethnicity and nationhood;
Religion, violence, and conflict;
Church-state relations;
Religion law, and human rights

+44 (0)20 7848 2637

Dr Kerr’s research interests include power-sharing and third party intervention in divided societies, civil war and peace processes. He is offering a new specialist MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies. Dr Kerr is the author of several books and his current research projects focus on revolution and civil war in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Iran. Keywords: Lebanon; Middle East; Northern Ireland; Unionism; Divided Societies; Ethnic Conflict Regulation; Power-Sharing.

+44 (0)20 7848 2656

His fields of interest are EU and US Policy in the Middle East and wider Mediterranean, as well as the history of Zionism and anti-Zionism and Irish foreign policy in the Middle East. He is also the author or editor of a number of books on these subjects.

+44 (0)20 7848 2535