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Nina Musgrave

Dr Nina Musgrave

Teaching Fellow, & Assistant Director, Centre for Defence Studies

Research interests

  • Conflict and security

Biography

Nina Musgrave is Lecturer in Terrorism and Security Education and Assistant Director at the Centre for Defence Studies. She is also the course tutor for the MA programme in National Security Studies in the Department of War Studies.

Nina holds a BA (Hons) from the National University of Ireland (Cork) in History and Economics, an MA in International Relations from the University of Exeter, an MSc in Global Governance and Ethics from University College London, and a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London.

Nina’s research focused on Western approaches to Hamas following Hamas’s political participation in 2006. Her most recent research, published in 2017, (‘Hamas and the ‘trap’ of sectarianism’, Global Discourse, Vol.6, no. 4, pp. 697-708) focused on how Hamas navigated sectarian cleavages in the Middle East following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. Her forthcoming book, Hamas and the Arab Uprisings: resistance, allegiance, and the departure from Syria will be published by I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2020.

Research Areas

  • National security
  • Terrorism
  • Counter-terrorism
  • Non-state actors

Research

War studies 2
Centre for Defence Studies

CDS is a world-leading Centre for Defence and security research, thought-leadership, consultancy and executive development run by director Professor John Gearson.

Nepal Desk Review picture
InterSEC:Action

The InterSEC:Action team review to understand the nature and scale of sexual exploitation in the aid industry and conduct a pilot study using genealogy

Project status: Ongoing

News

Experts examine impact and lasting legacy of the Arab Spring

A decade on from the start of the Arab Spring, a group of experts discussed its legacy and ongoing influence across the Middle East, at an event hosted by...

ArabSpring

Events

14AprThe Arab Spring had profound effects across the Middle East.

The Arab Spring: 10 Years On

Examining the legacy of one of the biggest social and political movements ever experienced in the Middle East.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

War studies 2
Centre for Defence Studies

CDS is a world-leading Centre for Defence and security research, thought-leadership, consultancy and executive development run by director Professor John Gearson.

Nepal Desk Review picture
InterSEC:Action

The InterSEC:Action team review to understand the nature and scale of sexual exploitation in the aid industry and conduct a pilot study using genealogy

Project status: Ongoing

News

Experts examine impact and lasting legacy of the Arab Spring

A decade on from the start of the Arab Spring, a group of experts discussed its legacy and ongoing influence across the Middle East, at an event hosted by...

ArabSpring

Events

14AprThe Arab Spring had profound effects across the Middle East.

The Arab Spring: 10 Years On

Examining the legacy of one of the biggest social and political movements ever experienced in the Middle East.

Please note: this event has passed.