Paul Roe

Paul holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Paul has been a Guest Researcher at the former Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is Associate Professor at IRES. His main teaching and research interests lie if the field of Security Studies, in particular with theoretical approaches to international security. Paul’s work has engaged mainly with the so-called Copenhagen School (CoS) of security studies; with the concepts of societal security and, more recently, securitization. Paul’s current research is concerned with the development of the concept of ‘Positive Security’, the book of which will be published by Routledge in 2012.

Other CEU Projects/Positions

Paul is the former Academic Director of the CEU’s Roma Access Programme (RAP). RAP is a 9-month course of study designed to prepare young Roma scholars from the Central and East European region for further, postgraduate study at English language academic institutions; be that at CEU or in Western Europe or North America.

Thesis Supervision

Paul welcomes thesis supervision in the general field of security studies, although he is most interested in research projects oriented towards theoretical/conceptual development and the application of critical security studies scholarships to empirical cases. In the past, Paul has supervised theses which have dealt with the Copenhagen and Welsh Schools of Security Studies, and on the development and application of strategic culture. Theses on feminist/gender approaches to security are also of great interest as an area of supervision.