Dr Benjamin Martill

Research Interests

International Relations Research Group

European Union's foreign and security policy, British politics, party politics, European security, transatlantic relations, Foreign Policy Analysis.

Background

Benjamin is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think-tank of the London School of Economics. His research examines the politics of foreign policy, with a focus on Brexit and European security. Benjamin is the Programme Director of the MSc in International and European Politics, Co-Editor of the Routledge/UACES book series on Contemporary European Politics, a Co-Investigator on the Horizon 2020 project ENGAGE, and Associate Director of the Europa Institute. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, University College London, Canterbury Christ Church University, and the University of Oxford.

Qualifications

DPhil in International Relations, University College, Oxford

MPhil in International Relations (with Distinction), St Antony's College, Oxford

MSc in International Relations Research (with Distinction), London School of Economics

BSc in Government, London School of Economics

Academic Articles

With or Without EU: Differentiated Integration and the Politics of Post-Brexit EU-UK Security Collaboration'. European Papers, 7(3), February 2023 (with Monika Sus).

Combined differentiation in European defense: tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity. Contemporary Security Policy, 44(1), January 2023 (with Carmen Gebhard).

'Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence'. British Politics, Online First.

'Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy'. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 24(4), September 2022.

How to be Great (Britain)? Discourses of Greatness in the United Kingdom's Referendums on Europe'. European Review of International Studies, 9(2), August 2022 (with Adrian Rogstad).

'When politics trumps strategy: UK-EU security collaboration after Brexit'. International Political Science Review, 43(3), June 2022 (with Monika Sus).

'Unity over Diversity? The Politics of Differentiated Integration after Brexit'. Journal of European Integration, 43(8), December 2021.

Bounded Rationality and the Brexit Negotiations: Why Britain Failed to Understand the EU'. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(12), December 2021 (with Filipa Figueira).

'Deal or no Deal: Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement and the Politics of (Non-)Ratification'. Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(6), November 2021.

'The Domestic Sources of Détente: State-Society Relations and Foreign Policy Change during the Cold War'. Foreign Policy Analysis, 17(2), April 2021 (with Angelos Chryssogelos).

Negotiating Brexit: The Cultural Sources of British Hard Bargaining'. Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(2), March 2021 (with Uta Staiger).

'The Party Scene: New Directions for Political Party Research in Foreign Policy Analysis'. International Affairs, 97(2), March 2021 (with Stephanie Hofmann).

'Shadows of the Empire: Hard Brexit, Commonwealth Revival, and UK-Canada Relations'. Balsillie Papers, 3(3), November 2020.

The 2019 European Parliament Election in the United Kingdom'. Italian Political Science Review, 50(3), November 2020.

'Great Expectations: The Brexit Moment in EU Security and Defence and the Return of the Capabilities-Expectations Gap'. Europe in the World: A Law Review, 3(1), December 2019 (with Monika Sus).

'The end of consensus? Folk theory and the politics of foreign policy in the Brexit referendum'. Global Affairs, 5(5), December 2019 (with Adrian Rogstad).

Centre of Gravity: Domestic Institutions and the Victory of Liberal Strategy in Cold War Europe’. Security Studies, 28(1), January 2019.

‘Post-Brexit EU/UK security cooperation: NATO, CSDP+ or French Connection?’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20(4), September 2018 (with Monika Sus).

Over the threshold: the politics of foreign policy in majoritarian parliamentary systems—the case of Britain’. International Politics, 55(5), September 2018.

‘International ideologies: paradigms of ideological analysis and world politics’. Journal of Political Ideologies, 22(3), 2017.

Edited Volumes

Theory as Ideology in International Relations: The Politics of Knowledge. Routledge, 2020. (Editor, with Sebastian Schindler).

Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe. UCL Press, 2018. (Editor, with Uta Staiger).

Works within

Politics and International Relations

Publications

Martill B, Gebhard C. Combined differentiation in European defense: Tailoring Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to strategic and political complexity. Contemporary Security Policy. 2022 Dec 18;1-28. Epub 2022 Dec 18. doi: 10.1080/13523260.2022.2155360

Rogstad A, Martill B. How to be Great (Britain)? Discourses of greatness in the United Kingdom’s referendums on Europe. European Review of International Studies. 2022 Aug;9(2):210-239. Epub 2022 Aug 24. doi: 10.1163/21967415-09020007

Martill B. Negotiating secession: Brexit lessons for Scottish independence. British Politics. 2022 Jun 2. Epub 2022 Jun 2. doi: 10.1057/s41293-022-00210-1

Martill B, Sus M. Growing apart together? Brexit and the dynamics of differentiated disintegration in security and defence. In Leruth B, Gänzle S, Trondal J, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union. 1st ed. London: Routledge. 2022. p. 696-711. (Routledge International Handbooks). doi: 10.4324/9780429054136-47

Martill B. Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 2021 Sep 9. Epub 2021 Sep 9. doi: 10.1177/13691481211044645

Martill B. Deal or no deal: Theresa May's withdrawal agreement and the politics of (non-)ratification. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 2021 Jun 8. Epub 2021 Jun 8. doi: 10.1111/jcms.13205

Martill B, Sus M. When politics trumps strategy: UK-EU security collaboration after Brexit. International Political Science Review. 2021 May 11. Epub 2021 May 11. doi: 10.1177/01925121211003789

Chryssogelos A, Martill B. The domestic sources of détente: State-society relations and foreign policy change during the Cold War. Foreign Policy Analysis. 2021 Apr;17(2):orab003. Epub 2021 Feb 16. doi: 10.1093/fpa/orab003

Hofmann SC, Martill B. The party scene: New directions for political party research in foreign policy analysis. International affairs. 2021 Mar;97(2):305–322. Epub 2021 Mar 8. doi: 10.1093/ia/iiaa165

Martill B. Unity over diversity? The politics of differentiated integration after Brexit. Journal of European Integration. 2021 Jan 25. Epub 2021 Jan 25.

Martill B. The 2019 European Parliament election in the UK. Rivista italiana di scienza politica. 2020 Nov 30;50(3):368-381. Epub 2020 May 26. doi: 10.1017/ipo.2020.15

Martill B. Shadows of Empire: Hard Brexit, Commonwealth revival, and UK-Canada relations. Balsillie Papers. 2020 Nov 6;3(3):1-10.

Figueira F, Martill B. Bounded rationality and the Brexit negotiations: Why Britain failed to understand the EU. Journal of European Public Policy. 2020 Aug 19. Epub 2020 Aug 19. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2020.1810103

Martill B, Staiger U. Negotiating Brexit: The cultural sources of British hard bargaining. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 2020 May 12;N/A:1-17. Epub 2020 May 12. doi: 10.1111/jcms.13059

Martill B. Liberalism and the Cold War: The international thought of Jo Grimond. In Martill B, Schindler S, editors, Theory as Ideology in International Relations: The Politics of Knowledge. 1st ed. London: Routledge. 2020. (Worlding Beyond the West). doi: 10.4324/9780429021008

Martill B, (ed.), Schindler S, (ed.). Theory as Ideology in International Relations: The Politics of Knowledge. 1 ed. Routledge, 2020. 254 p.

Martill B, Schindler S. Introduction: Theory as ideology in International Relations. In Martill B, Schindler S, editors, Theory as Ideology in International Relations: The Politics of Knowledge. 1st ed. London: Routledge. 2020. (Worlding Beyond the West). doi: 10.4324/9780429021008

Martill B, Sus M. Great expectations: The Brexit moment in EU security and defence and the return of the capabilities–expectations gap. Europe and the World: A law review. 2019 Dec 19;3(1):1-17. doi: 10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2019.18

Sus M, Martill B. Channel trouble? Challenges to UK-EU security collaboration after Brexit. In Baciu C-A, Doyle J, editors, Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe: Risks and Opportunities. Springer International Publishing AG. 2019. p. 29-49 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12418-2_2

Achilleos-Sarll C, Martill B. Toxic masculinity: Militarism, deal-making and the performance of Brexit. In Dustin M, Ferreira N, Millns S, editors, Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit. Springer International Publishing AG. 2019. p. 15-44 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03122-0_2

Martill B. Center of gravity: Domestic institutions and the victory of liberal strategy in Cold War Europe. Security studies. 2019 Jan 1;28(1):116-158. Epub 2018 Sep 28. doi: 10.1080/09636412.2018.1508636

Martill B, Rogstad A. The end of consensus? Folk theory and the politics of foreign policy in the Brexit referendum. Global Affairs. 2019;5(4-5):347-367. Epub 2019 Dec 14. doi: 10.1080/23340460.2019.1701950

Martill B, Sus M. Post-Brexit EU/UK security cooperation: NATO, CSDP+, or ‘French connection’? British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 2018 Nov 1;20(4):846-863. doi: 10.1177/1369148118796979

Martill B. Over the threshold: The politics of foreign policy in majoritarian parliamentary systems—the case of Britain. International Politics. 2018 Sep 1;55(5):631-654. Epub 2017 Oct 25. doi: 10.1057/s41311-017-0106-0

Martill B, (ed.), Staiger U, (ed.). Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe. London: UCL Press, 2018. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt20krxf8

Martill B. International ideologies: Paradigms of ideological analysis and world politics. Journal of Political Ideologies. 2017 Sep 2;22(3):236-255. Epub 2017 Jun 30. doi: 10.1080/13569317.2017.1345139