Dr Patrick Shea
- Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Global Governance (Political & International Studies)
email:
Patrick.Shea@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences. Formerly, I was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University. My work can be found in the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.
Research interests
My research focuses on:
- international relations
- the political economy of conflict processes
- politics of international finance and debt
- the international politics of state capacity
- leaders and international relations
- domestic politics of international relations
- statistical and causal inference.
Supervision
I am most interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:
- International Political Economy
- Sovereign Debt
- Foreign aid
- Development finance
- Quantitative methods and international relations.
If you wish me to supervise your PhD project, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Send me a short research proposal and curriculum vitae.
Current supervision projects:
- Wu, Zhihang
Principles or Pragmatism? Social Standards in FTAs