Teaching

Current

IR5902 Research Methods 

IR4574 Understanding Terrorism

IR5951 Fundamental Issues and Structures of Terrorism 

IR2006 Studying International Relations

Research areas

Javier Argomaniz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), where he has published widely on the subject of state, non-state and civilian responses to political violence. His work has been published in Terrorism and Political ViolenceStudies in Conflict and TerrorismCooperation and ConflictIntelligence and National Security and a number of other peer-reviewed journals. He has co-directed two separate international and multi-disciplinary projects funded by the EU on the needs of victims of terrorism and the role of victims in the prevention of conflict. Argomaniz is the author of Resisting Terror. Civil Action and Non-Violent Resistance to Terrorism in Basque Country (OUP, 2025) and  Post–9/11 European Union counter-terrorism: Politics, Polity and Policies (Routledge, 2011). He is also co-editor and contributor to Victims of terrorism. A comparative and Interdisciplinary Study (Routledge, 2014); International Perspectives on Terrorism Victimisation. An Interdisciplinary Approach (Palgrave, 2015), EU Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence: A Critical Assessment (Routledge, 2016) and Victims and Perpetrators of Terrorism. Exploring Identities, Roles and Narratives (Routledge, 2018)

PhD supervision

  • Areej Al Khathlan
  • James Hewitt
  • Mohammad Tariq Jahan
  • Lydia Maria Roth
  • Nicolò Scremin

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