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I teach international relations theory and political economy. My areas of specialism are Critical Theory and International Political Economy.
I joined MMU in 2019 as a lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Previously, I worked in the Department of International Relations and International Organisation at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and in the Politics Department and the Department for Lifelong Learning at the University of Sheffield. I obtained my PhD in 2018 at the University of Sheffield, writing on the contemporary challenges facing Frankfurt School theory in International Relations. Before that, I completed a BA degree in Politics at the Università Statale di Milano in 2010 and an MA in International Relations at the University of York.
I have published in the European Journal of International Relations as well as, collaboratively, in Geoforum, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Italian (mothertongue); German (mothertongue); French (intermediate); Spanish (intermediate)
I'm interested in supervising PhD projects in the areas of Critical International Relations Theory, Frankfurt School, Marxism, global finance and Critical Political Economy.
My research background is one of interdisciplinary critical inquiry that straddles the line between International Political Economy, International Relations (IR) theory and Critical Theory. What characterises all of my scholarship is an interest in how the current post-crisis conjuncture in international politics is exposing and problematizing many of the unspoken theoretical and normative assumptions of critical as well as traditional theories of international politics.
My current work is organised around two main areas of inquiry. Firstly, my research involves a theoretical engagement with the tradition of Frankfurt School critique in IR. In particular, I question the ability of the prevailing, Habermasian paradigm of Critical Theory in IR to provide an adequate analysis of contemporary global politics. In response to this, I look for ways for Critical Theory in IR to establish new connections with Marxist, Postcolonial and Feminist theory and in doing so reacquire the capacity to diagnose and interpret politically the present global conjuncture.
The second area of research revolves around the political economy of global capitalism since the 2008 financial crisis. In particular, I have worked with colleagues from the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) on the impact of Brexit on global finance. Currently, I am working on the questions of deglobalisation and world (dis)order in the post-2008 global conjuncture, mapping the shifts that have taken place over the last decade in the domains of trade and investment, geopolitics as well as monetary and financial policy.
S. Lavery, D. Schmid (2021). European Integration and the New Global Disorder. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 59(5), pp.1322-1338.
S. Lavery, S. McDaniel, D. Schmid (2018). Finance fragmented? Frankfurt and Paris as European financial centres after Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy. 26(10), pp.1502-1520.
S. Lavery, S. McDaniel, D. Schmid (2018). New geographies of European financial competition? Frankfurt, Paris and the political economy of Brexit. Geoforum. 94, pp.72-81.
D. Schmid (2018). The poverty of Critical Theory in International Relations: Habermas, Linklater and the failings of cosmopolitan critique. European Journal of International Relations. 24(1), pp.198-220.
I have peer-reviewed articles for various academic journals, including the Review of International Studies, Globalizations and the International Studies Review.