Contact Dr Anastasia Filippidou
Background
Dr Anastasia Filippidou is a Senior Lecturer in terrorism, intelligence, and conflict resolution at the Cranfield Forensic Institute. Anastasia is the course director of the MSc Counterterrorism. She joined Cranfield University in 2009, she is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds a PhD from the War Studies Department, KCL, University of London. Anastasia's thesis was a comparative study and examined peace processes and negotiating methods with terrorist organisations. She specialises in terrorism, intelligence and conflict resolution, leadership in transitional states, deterrence and radical extremism. Anastasia currently focuses on diplomacy and violent extremism in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Latin America.
Prior to her employment at Cranfield University, she was a Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, while she was also a teaching fellow at the War Studies Department, King's College London. She works fluently in five languages - Spanish, French, Greek; proficient in Russian, and Arabic - and is currently learning Turkish.
Research opportunities
Dr Filippidou is interested in working in the areas of terrorism and violent extremism, intelligence, leadership and conflict resolution, diplomacy and peace processes.
See below for publications in these areas.
Research students
Paul Fish, Cranfield University, title: 'The role of Private Military Organisations (PMOs) in countering terrorism.'
Sali Abdeltawwab, Cranfield University, title: 'Evaluating Intelligence-Led Policing and Intelligence Sharing in Counterterrorism: The Cases of Egypt and the UK.'
Ben Tripp, Cranfield University, title: 'US counter-terrorism campaigns and their relationship with just war tradition.'
Kirby Wedekind, Cranfield University, title: 'Perpetual War: US National Interest and Global Security in the 21st Century.'
Samara Ahmad, Cranfield University, title: 'The Role of Education in Radicalisation: an evaluation of the impact of Madrassas established in the UK.'
Current activities
Dr Filippidou is the Programme Director of the MSc Counterterrorism, on which she delivers a number of courses. She runs modules on several Mater's degrees including the MSc Defence Leadership, and the MSc Counterterrorism, Risk Management, and Resilience. She delivers short courses on terrorism, intelligence, leadership, and conflict resolution in the UK and abroad from South East Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Clients
Member of the team for the 'Managing Defence in the Wider Security Context' programme, part of the UK Defence Engagement Strategy delivering courses internationally.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Filippidou A & O’Brien T. (2020). Trust and distrust in the resolution of protracted social conflicts: the case of Colombia. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 14(1)
- Filippidou A. (2020). Digital Jihad: Palestinian Resistance in the Digital Era. Information, Communication & Society, 23(9)
- Filippidou A. (2020). The oxymoron of a benevolent authoritarian leadership: the case of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah. Terrorism and Political Violence, 34(3)
- Filippidou A. (2020). The Impact of Forced Top-Down Nation Building on Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. Nationalities Papers, 48(1)
- Silke A & Filippidou A. (2019). What drives terrorist innovation? Lessons from black September and Munich 1972. Security Journal, 33(2)
Conference Papers
- Filippidou A. (2022). In from the cold: the role of whistleblowers in the intelligence community the case of CIA, FBI and counterterrorism
- Filippidou A. (2022). An umbrella methodology? Ethnographic approaches in terrorism studies
- Filippidou A. (2022). When the margins become the protagonists: the peace processes in Northern Ireland, Colombia, and Lebanon
- Filippidou A. (2018). US Foreign Policy and the Mediterranean (Panelist)
- Filippidou A. (2017). Deterrence and Conflict Resolution
- Filippidou A. (2017). Learning from Conflict Resolution Processes and State-Building Efforts
- Filippidou A. (2016). Learning from conflict resolution efforts: compulsory population exchanges
- Filippidou A. (2016). When conflict resolution efforts create conflict: revisiting the Turco-Greek compulsory exchange of populations
- Filippidou A. (2015). Learning from conflict resolution processes and state-building efforts: the cases of Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, the Basque Country and Northern Ireland
- Filippidou A. (2014). The Role of Leadership in Transitional States: the cases of Lebanon, Israel-Palestine
- Filippidou A. (2011). Black Sites and Extraordinary Renditions: outsourcing the ‘special relationship?
- Filippidou A. (2010). Leadership and Peace Processes
- Filippidou A. (2008). The West and its Attitude towards Ethnic or Civic State-Building
- Filippidou A. (2007). Negotiating Tactics and Conflict Resolution Processes in Long-Lasting Intrastate Conflicts
Books
- Filippidou A. (2023). Chapter 7: Ethnographic approaches in terrorism studies and research In Frumkin LA, Morrison JF & Silke A (eds), A Research Agenda for Terrorism Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Filippidou A. (2023). Terrorism In Gruszczak A & Kaempf S (eds), Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. Routledge.
- Filippidou A. (2023). Terrorism: the never-changing chameleon In Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. Taylor & Francis.
- Filippidou A. (2023). Terrorism In Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. Taylor & Francis.
- Filippidou A. (2023). Ethnographic approaches in terrorism studies and research In A Research Agenda for Terrorism Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Filippidou A. (2022). The Weaponisation of the Eastern Mediterranean In de Sousa Moreira W & Kennedy G (eds), Power and the Maritime Domain. Routledge.
- Filippidou A(ed.). (2020). Deterrence
- Filippidou A. (2020). Chapter 1: Deterrence concepts and approaches for current and emerging threats In Filippidou A(ed.), Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer.
- Filippidou A. (2020). Chapter 6: deterring violent extremism and terrorism In Filippidou A(ed.), Deterrence: concepts and approaches for current and emerging threats. Springer.
- Filippidou A. (2020). Deterrence: Concepts and Approaches for Current and Emerging Threats In Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer Nature.
- Filippidou A. (2020). Deterring Violent Extremism and Terrorism In Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer International Publishing.
- Filippidou A. (2018). Negotiating Theories and Tactics in Asymmetric Conflicts (1st)
- Filippidou A. (2016). Lebanese Republic In Dorman AM, O’Brien T & Craig M (eds), Security Sector Horizon-Scanning 2016 – Middle East. Cranfield University.
- Filippidou A. (2015). Lebanese Republic In Cleary LR, Dorman AM & Craig M (eds), Security Sector Horizon Scanning 2015 - Near East. Cranfield University.
- Filippidou A. (2014). The role of Leadership in Transitional States
- Filippidou A. (2013). Black Sites and Extraordinary Renditions: outsourcing the ‘special relationship' In Kennedy Gregory (ed.), Anti-Americanism in the UK Security and Defence Sector. Strategic Studies Institute.
- Filippidou A. The Weaponisation of the Eastern Mediterranean In Power and the Maritime Domain. Taylor & Francis.
