Michael Magcamit

Hello! I’m Michael Magcamit, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Politics at The University of Manchester in the UK. Before joining Manchester, I was a Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Leicester and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Queen Mary University of London. Prior to moving to the UK, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Musashi University in Tokyo, Japan, where I convened International Relations modules on a joint program between the University of London (LSE) and Musashi.

My research and teaching interests sit at the intersections of Critical International Security, Conflict, Development, and Foreign Policy Studies with a specialist focus on the Asia-Pacific. 

My research projects on affect and conflicts and the security politics of international trade have been funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Program and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, respectively.  My work has also been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, International Politics, Political Science, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among others. 

I am also the author of two books, Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts (Oxford University Press 2022) and Small Powers and Trading Security (Palgrave/Springer 2016). 

I currently teach the following courses at Manchester:

Lead convener: POLI70401 Graduate Seminar in IR Theory

Co-convener: POLI20521 Questions in Global Politcs