Amal Abu-Bakare is a lecturer in the politics of race and decolonial studies at the University of Liverpool. She received her PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University. Her current research profile remains centred on using anti-colonial IR theory to explore how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions and terror. She is currently finishing her upcoming book under contract with Manchester University Press. It is titled The Colour of Counterterrorism: anti-terrorism and race in the United Kingdom and Canada.