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Anna Stavrianakis
Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex (website)
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email: A [dot] Stavrianakis [at] sussex [dot] ac [uk] 
phone: +44 1273 877835

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Anna Stavrianakis is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. She also works with members of parliament (MPs) and NGOs on issues of UK and EU arms export controls, and has given evidence to the parliamentary Committees on Arms Export Controls.  

Stavrianakis did her first degree at Bristol University (BA Politics and German, 2000), her Masters at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (MScEcon Security Studies, 2001) and returned to Bristol for her PhD (Politics, 2007). Her main research interests are the arms trade, UK arms export policy, international arms transfer control, and militarism.

Her first book, Taking Aim at the Arms Trade. NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order (Zed Books, June 2010), analysed the way that NGOs such as Amnesty International, Oxfam, Saferworld and Campaign Against Arms Trade work for tighter controls on the arms trade. She is the co-editor (with Jan Selby) of Militarism and International Relations: Political Economy, Security, Theory, published by Routledge (August 2012). She is also an Associate Editor at Security Dialogue, which recently published a Special Issue on "Militarism and Security: Dialogue, possibilities and limits". More recently, she has written about the UN Arms Trade Treaty, which sets common international standards for the regulation of arms transfers. 

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Recent Publications:​
  • ​"Arming Ukraine: Weapons Control and the Future of International Order," Global Policy Journal, May 31, 2022.
  • "Missing in Action: UK arms export controls during war and armed conflict," WPF, March 15, 2022.
  • "'Isolated incidents': The legal absurdity of UK arms sales for Saudi war in Yemen," Middle East Eye, July 23, 2020.
  • "Towards a Postcolonial, Anti- Racist, Anti- Militarist Feminist Mode of Weapons Control" in New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, Bristol University Press, June 12, 2020.
  • "The UK feigns ignorance, but five years on it's still intimately involved in Yemen's war," The Guardian, March 31, 2020.
  • "Biden's announcement on Yemen is a hopeful sign – now the UK must follow suit," The Guardian, February 8, 2020.
  • "Britain must be held to account for its role in the war in Yemen," The Guardian, January 24, 2020.
  • "Requiem for Risk: Non-knowledge and Domination in the Governance of Weapons Circulation," International Political Sociology vol. 13, no. 4, December 16, 2019
  • "UK Stance on Khashoggi murder betrayed by unlawful arms sales to Saudis," The Guardian, October 3, 2019.
    “See no evil: How the UK government tries not to know about bombing civilians in Yemen,” Middle East Eye, June 27, 2019.
  • “British arms sales to Saudi Arabia deemed unlawful, but now the hard work begins,” The Guardian, June 22, 2019.
  • "Sorry Jeremy Hunt, it's not that easy to excuse selling arms to Saudi Arabia," Independent, April 2, 2019.​
  • "Why can't we talk about the UK sending arms to Yemen?" The Guardian, Feb. 11, 2019.“​
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