Dr Helen Dexter

Director of Distance Learning

Associate Professor of International Politics

• Office: Attenborough Tower 916
• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 1083
• Email: hd99@le.ac.uk
• Twitter: @HDexterN

• Feedback and Support Times (Semester 2, 2020-21): By appointment only
• Dissertation Hour (Semester 2, 2020-21): By appointment only

Personal details

I hold a BA, MA and PhD from the University of Manchester.

Before joining the University of Leicester in November 2011, I was Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Manchester, Teaching Fellow in International Politics at Keele University and Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Salford.

Teaching

I teach distance learning modules in the area of security, war and ethics.

Publications

• (2016) ‘”I ain’t got no problem with the Vietcong”: War, ethics and the individual’ in Jonna Nyman and Anthony Burke Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda, London: Routledge.
• (2015) Co-authored with Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet Teaching (Something About) Terrorism: Ethical and Methodological Problems, Pedagogical Suggestions. International Studies Perspectives, vol.15, Issue 4, pp374-393.
• (2014) Co-authored with Richard Jackson, ‘The Social Construction of Organised Political Violence: An Analytical Framework’ Civil Wars Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 1-23
• (2013) Co-edited with David Miller, Jesse Blackbourn and Rani Dhanda Critical Terrorism Studies Since 11 September 2001: what has been learned? London, New York: Routledge.
• (2012) 'Terrorism and Violence: another violence is possible?' Critical Studies on Terrorism Vol.5 No.1 April, pp. 119-135.
• (2011) English Riots: rejecting a moral debate’ Open Democracy.
• (2011) ‘Terrorism’ in Karl Erik Haug and Ole Jørgen Maaø (eds), Conceptualising Modern War: a critical enquiry, London, Hurst.
• (2010) ‘The Paradox of the “Values” Discourses’ in Jim Whiteman and Sarah Perrigo (eds) The Geneva Conventions Under Assault, London: Pluto Press.
• (2009) ‘New Wars’ in Ronaldo Munk (ed) Globalisation and Security, Westport: Praeger International
• (2008) ‘The ‘New War’ on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the Just War Revival’ Government and Opposition Winter 2008 Volume 43, Issue 1, pp. 55-78.
• (2007) ‘New War, Good War and the War on Terror: Explaining, Excusing and Creating Western Neo-interventionism’ Development and Change November 2007, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp. 1055-1071.

Research

My research interests include:

• Political violence
• The nature and logic of violence
• The categorizing of war and conflict
• Ethics and law in the context of war
• Narrative approaches to international politics

I am co-convenor of the British International Studies Association Working Group for Critical Studies on Terrorism.