
Dr Raphael Lefevre
Expertise
My research tackles international relations and global security, with a focus on state-led threats like transnational repression as well as the rise of non-state actors, like armed groups, organized crime and foreign fighters.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Biography
Research interests
I am a scholar of international relations and global security with a focus on the threat posed by both state and non-state actors to the global order. My research agenda encompasses transnational repression, foreign fighters, insurgents in civil wars and transnational organized crime.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Addressing and Countering Transnational Repression in the UK
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
02/06/2025 to 01/03/2026
Publications
Recent publications
15/02/2025Shia Foreign Fighters, State Support and Ideology
Security Studies
Armed groups in the Middle East and conflict research
Perspectives on Politics
Why jihad goes local: mechanisms behind the transnational spread of militant ideologies
Borders of Conflict
The Republic of the Outlaws
When Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi‘a Islamist Groups
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism