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After an academic career in which he was Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen’s University of Belfast and before that Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Adrian Guelke retired in September 2012 and is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy who is attached to the Institute.  He is the editor of the journal, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and a member of the Board of Research Committee 14 (Politics and Ethnicity) of the International Political Science Association, which he chaired between 2006 and 2012.  He has a longstanding interest in the politics of deeply divided societies.  This arises in part out of specialisation throughout his career on the politics of South Africa and of Northern Ireland, particularly from an international perspective.  Another area of his research has been on political violence, most particularly on terrorism, including its impact on politics at the global level.

Recent and Selected Publications

Books

• Politics in Deeply Divided Societies (Polity Press, 2012). Details can be downloaded here 
• Editor (with Jean Tournon), The Study of Ethnicity and Politics: Recent Analytical Developments (Barbara Budrich Publishers 2012) Details can be downloaded here
• Editor, The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism: Case Studies in Identity Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)
• The New Age of Terrorism and the International Political System (IB Tauris, 2009)
• Terrorism and Global Disorder: Political Violence in the Contemporary World (IBTauris, 2006)
• Editor (with Michael Cox and Fiona Stephen), A Farewell to Arms?: Beyond the Good Friday Agreement  (Manchester University Press, 2006)
• Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: South Africa and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• Editor, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict: Advancing Peace in Deeply Divided Societies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Journal Articles

• (with Tom Junes) ‘ “Copycat Tactics”  in Processes of Regime Change: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa’, Critique and Humanism, Vol.40, special issue 2012
• ‘The USA and the Northern Ireland Peace Process’, Ethnopolitics, Vol.4, No.4, November 2012.

Book Chapter/Other

• ‘Consociationalism and conflict resolution’ in Michelle Hale Williams (ed.), The Multicultural Dilemma: Migration, ethnic politics, and state intervention (Routledge, 2013)
• ‘The potency of external conflict management: Northern Ireland’ in Stefan Wolff and Christalla Yakinthou (eds), Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice (Routledge 2012).
• ‘Lessons of Northern Ireland and the Relevance of the Regional Context', LSE IDEAS Special Report, SR008 - Northern Ireland, November 2011.  Details can be downloaded here.