BSc SocSci (Hons), PGCert, PGDip, MSc SocSci, PhD

Michelle Bentley is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Security.

Her research has been published in key journals, including Contemporary Security Policy, International Affairs, International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, and Security Studies. She has written three sole-authored books: The Biological Weapons Taboo (Oxford University Press, 2023), Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden (Manchester University Press, 2016), and Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy: The Strategic Use of a Concept (Routledge, 2014). She has also co-published two edited volumes on the Obama administration and continuity in US foreign policy as well as a further volume on the Trump presidency.

She is currently writing her next book on securitization and emotion - under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological, and chemical); taboos; US foreign policy; political rhetoric; terrorism and counter-radicalisation

Undergraduate

PR2550 War and Security in World Politics (module convenor)

PR3620 US Foreign Policy (module convenor)