About Global Politics

Global Politics Magazine provides a forum where politically interested individuals, journalists, academics, and international relations professionals can exchange insights and develop new approaches both to the study of international relations and to the analysis of emerging political trends. We are read in dozens of countries around the world each month, although most of our readership is located in the US and UK.

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Global Politics writers have been published in the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Scotsman, Huff Post, the Daily Beast and the Independent. Please see our Contribute section for more details on how you can become involved with Global Politics Magazine as well as our current vacancies.

Who is Global Politics Magazine produced by?

Our Team Sheet shows how we fit together. 

Dr David Miles – Editor-in-Chief

David is a former Carnegie Scholar and has a PhD from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is an Associate Lecturer in the School of International Relations. Apart from writing for and editing Global Politics, his writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, Carnegie Ethics Online, Huff Post and the Scotsman. His interests include political and legal theory, US foreign policy, modern German history, and American and German constitutional history. He is the author of ‘Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State: a Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism’ published by Routledge. When not writing, doing research, or teaching, he enjoys good single malts and the charms of the Old Course. He lives in St Andrews, Scotland.

Caroline Plocki – Trainee Associate Editor

Dante Williams – Trainee Associate Editor

Dante is a German American third-year student of International Relations and English literature at the University of St Andrews. His political interests include a focus on international extremist rhetoric and radicalisation, as well as domestic U.S. politics. He also enjoys the biting comedy of Tom Lehrer, Old English literature and European mythology, and consumes a near infinite number of mediocre sci-fi novels.

Jack Horrigan – Trainee Associate Editor

Jack is a second-year student of Economics and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He is specifically interested in international law and finance, and plans to attend law school following his graduation.

Sofia Sanz-Kimura – Trainee Associate Editor

Sofia is a second year studying International Relations and Geography at the University of St Andrews. She is originally from the Washington D.C. area with a Japanese, Spanish and Puerto Rican background. She is particularly interested in geopolitics, migration politics, humanitarian issues and Middle Eastern foreign policy.

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Dr Quinn Coffey – Middle East Editor

Quinn has a PhD in international relations from the University of St Andrews. He received his MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2011. Quinn’s research focuses on the interplay of identity, religion and politics within the Palestinian Christian communities, in light of the stagnant peace process, demographic decline and the current shape of the Palestinian Authority. Quinn has lived and worked for extended periods in the West Bank where he previously taught at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. Prior to this, Quinn worked in the legal field in the United States. Apart from Quinn’s contributions to Global Politics, he is also regular contributor to Open Democracy and has been featured on the award-winning blogs Informed Comment and the Web Arab News Digest (W.A.N.D). Quinn lives and works in Oslo, Norway where he spends his free time playing music, skiing and cycling.

quinn@global-politics.co.uk

Dr Rikard Jalkebro – Asia Pacific Editor

Rikard has a PhD in international relations from the University of St Andrews with a focus on peace and conflict studies and terrorism studies in the Philippines. He is a graduate of the University of Gothenburg and has masters degrees from the Uppsala University and Dublin City University. Rikard has done extensive fieldwork on terrorist groups in the Philippines and is interested in the relationship between insurgencies and peace agreements. He is a Teaching Fellow in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and plays football and golf in his spare time.

rikard@global-politics.co.uk

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