NEWSSeptember 2007 ISSN 0955-6281 Vol. 18 No. 3

Department News | 2Centre for Democracy and Governance,University of Huddersfield | 2Department of Politics, University of Sheffield | 3Department of Government, London School ofEconomics and Political Science | 4Department of International Politics,Aberystwyth University | 5

Department Profile | 6Politics and International Relations at Bristol | 6Celebrating Public Policy and Political Science at UCL | 8 Department of War Studies, King’s College London | 10University of Reading, Political Theory Centre | 10

Specialist Group News | 12News from the German Politics Specialist Group | 12New Political Studies Association SpecialistGroup on Citizenship and Democracy | 12

Association News | 14UK Politics Research “in good shape and getting even better” | 13 Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009 | 14Association says goodbye to Revered Political Scientist | 15Majorie Thompson joins Association | 15Election to the British Academy 2007 | 15

In Full View | 17Doing Political Research at Houses of Parliament | 16 C-SAP | 16 What do you tell the President in Three Minutes about Iraq? | 17The International Association for Political Science Students, 10th Anniversary | 18Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Fellowships 2008-2009 | 19

A Time to Confer | 17APSA 2008 - British Politics Group Panels | 19 British and Comparative Territorial Politics Specialist Group Conference | 20epsNet Innovative Teaching Award | 20Annual Conference, Conservative Women’s Organisation | 20APSA Teaching and Learning Conference | 21ASEN, 18th Annual Conference | 21CANE 2007 | 21‘Conference in UK Political Ideologies’,University of Liverpool | 22C-SAP “Teaching in Public” Conference | 22

Association Annual Conference |23Political Studies Association 58th Annual Conference | 23APSA Annual Conference, Chicago 2007 | 24

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A record number of students sat an A level in Political Studies in 2007. 12,194 students sat the examination, an increase of 7.5% on the 11345 takers in 2006. Students performed even better than on other A levels, where the rise in A grades to 25% caused renewed controversy. Males formed 58.6% of Politics A level takers. Almost one-in-three females taking a Politics A level received the highest grade and 29% of males scored similar success. The A grade is now the most common single award for a Politics A level. The full figures, with last year’s in brackets, are shown on table page 21.

Political Studies also enjoyed the sixth largest increase in terms of University study of any discipline in 2006/07 at UK Universities.

APSA Annual Conference, Chicago 2007

Andrew Seaton, British Consul General, Chicago (on the right), welcomes Political Studies Association Chair, Jon Tonge, to a reception for delegates at the 2007 APSA Conference organised by the British Politics Group

Jon Tonge, Chair (on the right), and John Benyon, Treasurer (on the left), present a gift on behalf of the Political Studies Association to Professor Sam Beer, Harvard University, to mark his long and distinguished contribution to the study of British politics

Politics ‘A’ Level Continues Increase In PopularityMembers and guests of the American British Politics Group enjoying

the reception hosted by the British Consul General

The Political Studies Association sponsored a ‘Related Group’ panel ‘Islamic Extremism in Britain: Causes, Consequences and Solutions’ at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association held in Chicago, 29 August-2 September 2007. Pictured (from left to right) Terrell Carver (Panel Chair, and Chair of PSA’s External Relations Sub-committee; Jonathan Githens-Mazer (Academic Organiser of the Panel; University of Exeter); Brendan O’Duffy (Queen Mary, University of London); Robert Lambert (Metropolitan Police and Exeter University); and Marc Howard Ross (Discussant; Bryn Mawr College).

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‘Mind the Gap! Democracy in theory and in practice’

Karen Celis (Hogeschool Gent, Belgium); Mike Saward (Open University); Anika Gauja (Cambridge University); Brendan Evans (University of Huddersfield); Adriana Jimenez-cuen (London School of Economics); Andrew Clifton (University of Newcastle); John Craig (University of Huddersfield); Albena Kuyumdzhieva (Institute of Pubic Administration and European Integration, Bulgaria); Georgina Blakeley (Open University); Philip Wood (Queens University, Canada); Valerie Bryson (University of Huddersfield); Chris Gifford (University of Huddersfield); Polly Flinders (University of Huddersfield); Peter McLaverty, (Robert Gordon University); Andrew Taylor (University of Sheffield); Esref Aksu (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Chris McInerney, (University of Limerick).

The University of Huddersfield Centre for Democracy and Governance hosted a highly successful political theory conference on 21st-22nd June, 2007, in association with the Open University and sponsored by the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group of the Political Studies Association.

Organised by Georgina Blakeley (Open University) and Valerie Bryson (Huddersfield University), the aim of the conference was to bridge the gap between political theory and democratic practice through an exploration of what happens when people attempt to operationalise key democratic concepts. The fourth in a series of Political Theory conferences at Huddersfield, it brought together subject specialists from nine UK and five overseas universities to share knowledge, ideas and experiences. Concepts addressed included ‘party government’, ‘accountability’, ‘equality’, ‘republicanism’, ‘the majority’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’. Paper givers were asked to assess the different ways their chosen concept had been operationalised over time and to assess the ways in which our understanding of the concept has been modified through practice and how this might

influence its operationalisation in the future. This common approach encouraged the development of themes and cross referencing, and as the conference progressed a clear sense of common engagement emerged, with theoretical debate informed by a wide range of empirical research from community politics in East Manchester to the workings of transnational organisations, via case studies that included the Scottish Parliament, the EU constitution, migrant Mexican workers, penal policies in the US, and the Great Ape Project.

Many of the conference papers are available on the Centre’s website (http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/dbs/cdg/index.htm). It is intended that the proceedings will give rise to an edited volume, as with the previous three conferences (G.Blakeley and V.Bryson eds: Contemporary Political Concepts: a critical introduction, Pluto: 2002; Marx and Other Four Letter Words, Pluto: 2005; The Impact of Feminism on Political Concepts and Debates, Manchester University Press: 2007).

The conference organisers would like to thank the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group in general and Peter McLaverty in particular for their active support for this conference.

Beatrice Heuser to ReadingThe University of Reading is delighted to announce that Beatrice Heuser is to be the first incumbent of a new chair in International Relations. Professor Heuser first took an interest in war when living in Thailand as a child when the Vietnam War threated to spill over across Cambodia into Thailand. Having been brought up by her German parents on stories about the Second World War (persecution of Jews, effects on other civilians), she became very conscious of the effects of war and concerned about the danger of further wars, especially nuclear war. This concern drove her to study international relations first at the LSE and then at Oxford.

Professor Heuser’s research interests focus primarily on the political dimension of strategy, alliance politics, and bureaucratic policy making, especially in Europe and North America. She is also interested in genocide and nationalism as a cause of violent conflicts, and in culture/mentality as a variable in attitudes towards war and peace. She is currently working on books on the Evolution of Strategy and early strategic thinkers.

Beatrice Heuser has previously held a chair in International and Strategic Studies at King’s College, London, Department of War Studies. She worked at NATO Headquarters in Brussels for a year, and has most recently been Director of Research at the Military History Research Office of the Bundeswehr. She is married to a French historian of cinema, and they have one child.

Centre for Democracy and Governance, University of Huddersfield

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‘Mind the Gap! Democracy in theory and in practice’ Department of Politics, University of SheffieldThe last year has been an exciting period of change, achievement and new developments in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.

Staffing The Department has made 4 appointments to permanent positions in the last twelve months, at both senior and junior levels. We have appointed to Chairs Professor Simon Bulmer, formerly of the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, and Professor Colin Hay, from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Simon is a leading authority on politics and policy within the European Union, and Colin is very well known for his work in the fields of political economy, public policy and theoretical approaches to the study of politics. These appointments enhance established areas of strength within the Department.

We have also appointed to permanent Lectureships Dr Garrett Brown, formerly of the London School of Economics, and Dr Alastair McMillan, from Nuffield College, Oxford University. The calibre of the research of both is reflected in prizes awarded to them by the Political Studies Association in 2007 (see below for details). These appointments confirm our strength and standing in the areas of international political theory, political behaviour and South Asian politics.

The Department is currently in the process of making three additional fixed-term appointments. These include the appointment to a teaching position of Professor Brian White, formerly of the University of Warwick, and the forthcoming appointment of two Lecturers in the fields of political theory and international relations.

Promotions The University promoted the following members of staff to senior positions in 2007: To the post of Reader: Dr Ian Bache, Dr Graham Harrison, Dr Georgina Waylen And to Senior Lecturer: Dr Katharine Adeney, Dr Charles Lees

Research Grants We have been highly successful in research award competitions over the last twelve months. Highlights include:

• The award of £270,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council to a team of researchers in the Department (Principal Investigator Professor Andrew Taylor, with co-applicants Dr Ian Bache, Professor Andrew Geddes and Dr Charles Lees) working in collaboration with the University of Sheffield’s South East European Research Centre, based at Thessaloniki, on a project examining ‘Multi-level governance in Eastern Europe’.

• A programme award of £875,964 from the Leverhulme Trust to a team of researchers (based at Warwick, Sheffield and Bristol Universities, and Birkbeck College) studying the importance of ceremony and ritual in the British, Indian and South African parliaments. Dr Georgina Waylen leads the Sheffield team examining how the working ceremonies and rituals in the South African parliament act to empower some people and exclude others. As part of the research programme three doctoral studentships and three post-doctoral fellowships will be offered at the participating Universities.

• The award of £150,000 to Sheffield University’s Public Services Academy, under the leadership of its inaugural Director Professor Andrew Geddes from the Department of Politics. SUPSA is a Politics-led knowledge transfer initiative founded in 2006 to work across the social sciences and with public service organisations to develop collaborative research and serve as a regional think tank. It works with a range of bodies including the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, the Department for Education and Skills, the Institute of Public Policy Research, South Yorkshire Police, the Nuffield Foundation, and the ESRC.

• The award of £80,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council to Dr David Richards for a project on ‘Building Bridges Between Political Biography and Political Science - a Methodologically Innovative Study of the Core Executive Under New Labour’.

• The award of a Major Research Fellowship (£67,000) to Professor Michael Kenny by the Institute of Public Policy Research, to which he will be seconded for two years from January 2008.

• The award of £40,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to a team of researchers led by Professor Andrew Vincent, from the Centre for the Study of Political Thought and Ideology at Sheffield, and the Centre for Political Ideologies at Oxford University. This will fund a series of international workshops on the topic of ‘Comparative Political Theory’.

Prizes The following prizes have recently been awarded to members of the Department in the last year: Dr Alistair McMillan was awarded the 2007 W.J. Mackenzie Prize for best book on British political science for his State of the Nation: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707. This work, which was jointly authored with Professor Iain McLean at the University of Oxford, details important moments in the history of Unionism, the ideology of most of the rulers of the United Kingdom for the last 300 years.

The inaugural International Political Economy Group book prize for 2006 has been won by Dr Graham Harrison for his The World Bank and Africa (published by Routledge). This award was presented at the annual British International Studies Association conference in December.

Dr Sean Carey was in 2007 awarded the Sir Bernard Crick teaching award by the Political Studies Association.

The Sir Ernest Barker prize for the best doctoral thesis in political theory was awarded in 2007 to Dr Garrett Brown, for the doctorate he submitted to the London School of Economics on Kantian cosmopolitanism.

Professor Andrew Taylor and Dr Charles Lees won the prize for the best paper published in Politics in 2006 -- ‘Explaining the 2005 Coalition Formation Process in Germany’.

New Research Centre In 2006, we launched a brand-new Research Centre within the Department - the Centre for International Policy Research (CIPR), with Professor Andrew Geddes as its inaugural Director. CIPR was established to conduct research on issues that lie along the domestic-international frontier, such as security, international migration, changing patterns of governance and European integration. CIPR co-organises with Sheffield’s School of Law a seminar series on changing perceptions of security. It houses ESRC-funded collaborations with South Yorkshire Police and the

UK Human Trafficking Centre, and is a research partner in the European Commission-funded European Migrant Integration Index. With colleagues in the Politics Department at the University of Edinburgh, CIPR recently secured funding for an ESRC seminar series ‘Migration policy and mechanisms of societal steering’.

New Masters ProgrammesThe Department has launched three new Masters programmes since 2006. These are: MA in Political Theory, a programme of study taught in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy at Sheffield; MA in Global Law and Politics, a programme of study taught in conjunction with the School of Law at Sheffield; and MA in Globalisation and Development, a programme that has grown from the considerable expertise in these areas contained within the Department. Above: Prof Colin Hay

Right: Prize winners, Dr Sean Carey and Dr Garrett Brown

New research Centre CIPRProf Simon Bulmer

Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science New Department Convenor Professor George Philip has completed his term of office as Convenor of the Department of Government, during which time the school renamed the job with the more conventional title Head of Department, thereby eschewing any hint of exotic radicalism or class solidarity. He will take up the equally onerous role of Vice Chair of the Appointments Committee, while continuing his work on the politics of Latin America, on which he has written extensively and continues to do so. He will be succeeded for two years by Professor Rodney Barker, whose most recent book, Making Enemies, is not to be taken as a reflection of his new departmental role.

Distinguished political theorist Professor Chandran Kukathas appointed The Government Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Chandran Kukathas to a Chair in Political Theory with effect from the academic year 2007-8. Professor Kukathas will move to the LSE from the University of Utah, where he is currently the Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Service. A graduate of the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales and the University of Oxford, he previously held faculty and research positions at each of these institutions as well as at the Australian Defence Force Academy and George Mason University. Professor Kukathas is a key protagonist in contemporary theoretical debates about liberalism, multiculturalism and diversity and has authored numerous scholarly articles and several books in these areas. Influential contributions include his books The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (Oxford, 2003), Rawls: A Theory of Justice and Its Critics (with Philip Pettit, Polity and Stanford, 1990) and Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Oxford, 1989) and his articles on the concepts of cultural rights, multiculturalism and diversity. Professor Kukathas has visited and lectured at many academic institutions across the world and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to Australian society through the study of social and political theory. His arrival at the LSE will further reinforce the Government Department’s strengths in political theory.

New School Professorship and Research Programme A new Chair and research programme, the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, is to be established at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The endowed Professorship and the programme have been made possible thanks to a pledge of around £5.7 million over ten years by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, formally agreed on 5th June. The Kuwait Endowed Professorship of Economics and Political Science will be based in the School’s Department of Economics http://econ.lse.ac.uk/. The first holder of this Chair will be Professor Tim Besley http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/tbesley/ who will formally take up the position as the Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science this year. The research programme will be a ten year multidisciplinary global programme of mutual benefit to both organisations. The focus will include topics such as globalisation, economic development, diversification of and challenges facing resource rich economies, trade relations between the Gulf States and major trading partners, energy trading, security and migration.

This will be hosted in LSE’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Governance www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global and led by Professor David Held www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/staffprofessorheld.htm, co-director of the Centre. It will support post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, develop academic networks between LSE and Gulf institutions, and host regular seminar series as well as five major biennial conferences. The pledge will also support new Arabic editions of the widely read and influential texts, Global Civil Society Yearbook www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/researchgcspub.htm and Global Transformations and The Global Transformations Reader, published through the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. LSE Director Howard Davies said: ‘We are very grateful to the Kuwait Foundation for this generous pledge. It is an opportunity for the School, our staff and students to broaden and deepen knowledge about Kuwait and the Gulf States.’ The Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States will have a formal launch in autumn 2007.

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University Professor Ken Booth in Istanbul: ‘New Dimensions of Security and International Organizations’ Each year, the Turkish General Staff organises an International Symposium which, among other things, gives the senior members of the military the opportunity in a high profile public event to express their concerns about the most pressing issues of the day. This year’s Symposium, held in Istanbul at the end of May, was titled ‘New Dimensions of Security and International Organizations’. Ken Booth was one of eight non-Turkish speakers addressing the 800-strong Symposium. He talked about ‘Nuclear Weapons and Future Uncertainty’, arguing that human society, globally, is presently at a decisive crossroads. One set of choices will lead to the unique dangers of trying to manage a world of 20, 30, 40 or more nuclear weapons states over the coming decades, while another set of choices should lead to a revival of the NPT through the serious pursuit of nuclear abolition. Further details about the conference, Ken Booth’s paper, and the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies’ work on the future of the NPT can be found on the website at www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/research/CI_home.html

Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler in Geneva: ‘Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-Building’ As part of the growing collaboration between the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies (DDMI, based in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth) and the ‘Disarmament for Humanitarian Action’ (DHA) project of the United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Professor Wheeler attended a one day workshop in Geneva on ‘Human Security, Human Nature, and Trust-Building’ on 25th May 2007. The workshop was jointly organised by DHA and the Geneva Forum and was aimed at promoting thinking outside the box on disarmament by bringing together diplomats, UN officials, NGOs, and researchers on trust. The interdisciplinary focus of the seminar was welcomed by those practitioners present, and it is exploring the potential of such an approach in building trust between states in a world of spreading nuclear knowledge that guides the Institute’s project on ‘Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds’. For more details of

the workshop, including podcasts of the presentations, visit www.disarmamentinsight.blogspot.com. Also see the posts on the DDMI’s blog by John Borrie, leader of the DHA project, and Professor Wheeler.

New Appointment Dr Richard Jackson joined the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth on 1st July 2007 as a Reader in Security Studies. Dr Jackson specialises in security studies, conflict resolution and critical terrorism studies. His research and teaching interests include contemporary discourses of terrorism, the causes of war and processes of international conflict resolution.

Award for Teaching Excellence Staff and students of the Department of International Politics were delighted that Dr Alistair Shepherd was presented with a University Teaching Excellence Award at this year’s graduation ceremony held in July. Teaching Excellence Awards are made to individuals who have made an outstanding

contribution to teaching and the student learning experience. Alistair teaches in the area of European Security. He joins Professor Len Scott and Dr Toni Erskine who received Teaching Excellence Awards in 2003 and 2006 respectively.

Professor Nicholas Wheeler presenting at the Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-Building workshop in Geneva

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Dr. Alistair Shepherd

Political Studies Association represented at APSA Roundtable

The International Committee of APSA sponsored a Roundtable on ‘The Public Presence of Political Science: A Cross-National Perspective’ at its annual meeting in Chicago, September 2007. From left the participants were: Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Chair of Roundtable Session); John Benyon, Political Studies Association Treasurer, representing the British perspective; Richard Johnston, Canadian Political Science Association; Jacques Gerstlé, French Political Science Association; and Kentaro Fukumoto, Japanese Political Science Association.

Politics and International Relations at Bristol

The Department of Politics at Bristol is committed to both high-quality research and teaching in a lively and focused intellectual community. We currently comprise 24 academic staff, three teach-ing associates, two postdoctoral researchers and six support staff. Each year we award over a hundred undergraduate degrees in Politics, Economics and Politics, Politics and Sociology, Politics and Social Policy, and Politics and a Modern Language, and over a hun-dred MSc degrees in International Relations, International Security, International Development, Development and Security, and Gender and International Relations. The current Head of Department is Professor Judith Squires (2006-2010).

The Governance Research Centre (GRC) supports the diverse activities of four dynamic research groups: Security and Governance; Gender and Governance; International Development and Governance; and European Governance. It hosts international scholars, organises cutting-edge research workshops, produces influential policy brief-ings, undertakes consultancy work, and supports a wide range of innovative research projects.

New AppointmentsThe Department continues to grow, having nearly doubled in size since 2001. In summer 2007 two international research professors

joined the Department to further strengthen the GRC research groups. Professor Amitav Acharya joined us in August as Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Governance Research Centre. He was previously Professor of International Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and was Deputy Director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies there 2001-2006. He

specialises in multilateralism, regionalism and human security, international relations theory and Asian security. He has previously taught in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada, where he was Associate Director of the University

of Toronto-York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies. He was awarded the Dean’s award for outstanding teaching at the York University. His recent publications include Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2001) and journal articles in International Organization, International Security, Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly and Political Studies.

Professor Josep Colomer has also joined us as Professor of Comparative European Politics. He was previously Research Professor in Political Science at the Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research in Barcelona. He specialises in comparative Europeanpolitics, democratization, electoral systemsand rational choice theory. He has previouslytaught at Georgetown University,Washington, D.C., and at New York University.

He was awarded the APSA Leon Weaver Award for the best paper at the Annual Meeting in 2004. His publications include Political Institutions in Europe (Routledge, 1996, 3rd edition 2007), Handbook of Electoral System Choice (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), Political Institutions (Oxford, 2001), Great Empires, Small Nations (Routledge, 2007) and journal articles in American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Studies and Public Choice. You can visit his weekly blog on: http://jcolomer.blogspot.com/

PromotionsThe Department actively supports the career development of staff, providing a research-led teaching environment in which colleagues can pursue their individual professional agendas in a productive atmosphere. Recent promotions include: Mark Wickham-Jones to Professor of Political Science and George Sanford to Professor of East European Politics. George Sanford published a scholarly study Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940 in 2005. This book has also just been published in Italian translating as Katyn e l’eccidio sovietico del 1940: verità, giustizia e memoria. Current and Recent Research ProjectsAll research staff in the Department are engaged in funded research projects, with Departmental research grant income increasing at an average of 145% per annum since 2001. Research projects currently or recently underway in the Department include:

• Dr. Sarah Childs (Bristol) and Prof. Paul Webb (Sussex) have been awarded nearly £500,000 by the ESRC for a three-year research project entitled ‘Gender and the Conservative Party’. The project examines the legislative recruitment of women and identifies the attitudes, roles and influences of women and men within the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary party. It also explores changes in policy on ‘women’s issues’ since 1990, how the party acts on women’s legislation as it passes through Parliament, and considers policy developments under David Cameron’s leadership. Further, it explores whether the party’s efforts to increase the number of Conservative women MPs, along with its policies on women’s issues, will be favourably received by voters.

• As part of a multi-institutional research team, the Leverhulme Trust has made a four year grant of £875,964 to Prof. Shirin Rai (Warwick) Prof. Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck) Dr Georgina Waylen (Sheffield) and Dr Sarah Childs (Bristol). ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual and Parliaments: Disciplining Representation’ is a comparative project

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Professor Josep Colomer

The Department of Politics, University of Bristol

Professor Amitav Acharya

Politics and International Relations at Bristol examining the Indian, South African and UK Parliaments. Each case study is supported by a post-doctoral student and PhD student. The research questions explore, amongst others, the formal and informal rules and norms of the parliament and the extent to which ceremony and rituals are gendered, racialised and sexualised and how parliamentary rituals and ceremonies discipline MPs.

• Since the end of the Cold War Britain’s military commitments have been transformed in both scale and nature, with UK forces deployed in multiple theatres on a broad range of missions. But can the armed forces meet the challenges of the 21st century, at home and abroad? Together with London-based Think Tank Demos, Dr Timothy Edmunds (University of Bristol) and Professor Anthony Forster (Durham University) consider the challenges the British armed forces face in adapting to the 21st century. They argue that defence planning in the UK is based on a vision of expeditionary warfare, the demands of which have been consistently underestimated. In this context, the armed forces, and particularly the army, have become critically over-stretched in terms of spending and equipment procurement, while legal regulation, civil-military governance and, crucially, services and care are under even greater pressure. The current situation is unsustainable. It challenges the underlying assumptions against which the armed forces’ roles are premised, and places long-standing relationships between the military, state and society under threat.

• Recent research on peacekeeping has focused on the negative links between men and women in military settings. In the ESRC-funded project ‘Engendering Security in Peacekeeping Missions’ 2004-2007,

Dr Paul Higate and Dr Marsha Henry explore the diversity of gendered relations in Peace Support Operations in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. They analyse the range of gendered relations in mission sites, documenting civilian women’s and male peacekeepers’ experiences of security and insecurity in the context of their relations with one another. Part of the New Security Challenges programme, this research has generated several journal articles to date and will lead to a co-authored book published by Zed next year as Spaces of Peacekeeping in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia.

• The proliferation of private security providers is among the new security challenges facing Europe in North America. In an ESRC-funded research project on the ‘Commodification of Security’ 2006-2008, Dr Elke Krahmann explores the shift from states to markets in the provision of security, and evaluates the consequences for the way the security is conceived and supplied.

• A modern philosophical classic, The German Ideology, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is generally reproduced from defective German transcriptions. Prof. Terrell Carver is finalising work on a new English translation of The German Ideology, Part One, by Marx and Engels, based on texts newly established in Japan and Germany, funded by an AHRC Research Leave Award 2006-2007. His work will be featured at an international conference to be held in Beijing in November 2008.

• The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also played a key role in some of the most important attempts to develop a theory of international politics in the contemporary study of international relations. Prof. Richard Little secured a Leverhulme Major Research Award 2003-2006 to investigate the balance of power in international relations. The resulting monograph, The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths and Models, will be published by

Cambridge University Press later this year. In this book, Little establishes a framework that treats the balance of power as a metaphor, a myth and a model. He then uses this framework to reassess four major texts that use the balance of power to promote a theoretical understanding of international relations: Hans J. Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations (1948), Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society (1977), Kenneth N. Waltz’s Theory of International Politics (1979) and John J. Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001). These reassessments allow the author to develop a more comprehensive model of the balance of power.

• The new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe have remained exceptionally open to external influences on their democratisation processes, with the EU operating a strict political conditionality. In a recent ESRC Research Fellowship 2004-2007, Prof. Geoffrey Pridham evaluated the scope and limitations of the EU’s influence on democratisation. The project adopts a comparative approach, using in-depth research on Slovakia and Latvia, in order to determine the effects of conditionality on these new democracies. The project also entails an analysis of the EU’s conditionality policy after enlargement in order to to identify any significant changes with a likely input from new member states. For a list of research outputs go to: www.bris.ac.uk/politics/grc/groups/egrg/research/politics/grc/groups/egrg/research/eu_demo/publications

Government AdvisingDr. Eric Herring has been Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee since July 2006. The Committee published a report on ‘The Impact of Economic Sanctions’ in May 2007. The report looks at the purpose and effectiveness of economic sanctions, including financial sanctions as well as trade and com-modity sanctions. It also considers whether UK Government policy in this area is coherent and effective. Dr. Martin Gainsborough gave evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development in June 2007. The Committee, chaired by Malcolm Bruce, MP, is reviewing the Department for International Development’s country programme in Vietnam. Dr Gainsborough directs the Bristol-Mekong Project. For details go to www.bris.ac.uk/politics/grc/bvp

Recent and Forthcoming EventsThe Department hosts a wide range of research seminars, work-shops and conferences. Recent events include:

• Judith Squires and Jutta Weldes hosted a BJPIR-funded workshop on ‘Gender and IR in Britain’ in September 2006. Papers from the workshop were subsequently published as a special issue of BJPIR (9:3 2007) edited by Squires and Weldes, including contributions from nine members of the Bristol Gender and Governance Research Group.

• Sarah Childs co-convened a workshop on Substantive Representation at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2007 in Helsinki with Karen Celis. Participants included Prof. Judith Squires and recent Bristol ESRC postdoctoral Research Fellows, Dr Johanna Kantola and Dr Mona Lena Krook. Papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of the journal Representation in 2008.

• Co-hosted by the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Association Specialist Group conference was held this September. Organised by Dr Sarah Childs and Dr Lisa Harrison it brought

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together academics from the UK and abroad and will saw more than 50 papers presented. Roundtables addressed the elections in Scotland, Wales and France, and, reflected the work of the research group in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol, gender and politics. For further details and papers go to www.epop07.com. The Rt Hon Hilary Benn, MP, then Secretary of State for International Development, visited the Department in February 2007. He met with members of the Department’s International Development and Governance Research Group to learn about their research, and he also delivered a lecture on ‘Governance and Poverty’.

• Members of the IDRG held a one-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled Development and Colonialism: The Past in the Present, this month. The papers and presentations explored the interconnections between development and colonialism and the continuing relevance of these unfinished projects, both historically and in terms of metropole/colony relationships, in shaping our present predicament. For further details of the programme and papers go to www.bris.ac.uk/politics/grc/groups/idgrg/events

• Dr Michelle Cini organised a UACES-funded workshop on Interdisciplinarity and EU Studies in which speakers reflected on the subject of interdisciplinarity in the field of EU research, and explored ways in which an interdisciplinary approach had been adopted in an ongoing research project. Papers from the workshop will appear in a forthcoming special issue of European Political Science.

Research PartnershipsThe European Commission recently sponsored Professor Yang Yu and Dr Min Fanxiang, both of the Institute of EU Studies at Nanjing University, People’s Republic of China, for Research Fellowships at Bristol’s Department of Politics. They are working with Dr Michelle Cini as part of an exchange which has also funded a recent fellowship for Dr Cini at Nanjing University in July 2007.

Post-Doctoral ResearchersThe Department is strongly committed to fostering new researchers and has an excellent record in mentoring postdoctoral fellows. Recent ESRC post-doctoral fellows include: Dr Mona Lena Krook, who co-authored an article with her mentor Prof. Judith Squires on gender quotas for British Politics in 2006 and is now Associate Professor at Washington University, St Louis; Dr Dan Conway, whose fellowship outputs include an article in Men and Masculinities and who has just secured a Lectureship in Politics at Loughborough University.

New Curriculum and MSc ProgrammeIn 2007 we are introducing an exciting new curriculum for both Single and Joint Honours Politics degree schools. In addition to giving students a strong grounding in four core areas - Political Theory, Comparative and National Politics, World Politics and Methods & Approaches - the degrees will reflect the research strength of the Department, and equip students for a wide range of careers.

In 2008 we will also be launching a new MSc programme in European Governance. This reflects our growing strength in European research, in the light of the recent appointments of Dr Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán in 2006 and Prof. Josep Colomer in 2007, and the continuing work of Michelle Cini, whose key text European Union Politics has recently been published in a second edition by Oxford University Press.

Celebrating Public Policy and Political Science at UCLOn 31st May, the UCL School of Public Policy (SPP) celebrated its tenth anniversary, with a roundtable discussion on global citizenship, an inaugural lecture by Professor Richard Bellamy as UCL’s first Chair of Political Science and the formal opening of the Department of Political Science by Sir Bernard Crick, a graduate of UCL in Economics (1947) and a Fellow of the College. The School of Public Policy was founded in 1997 as the bridge between UCL’s world-class research and the policy-mak-ing community in Britain and internationally.

In 2005 a Department and Chair of Political Science were created in recognition of its emergence as the core discipline within the School. Located in the magnificent Rubin Building overlooking Tavistock Square, it is Britain’s only politics department dedicated to Graduate teaching and research. Its six Masters and doctoral programmes cover the main subfields of political theory, comparative politics and interna-tional relations, with especial emphasis on public policy making within

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The School of Social Sciences at the University of Paisley has recently appointed Dr Kevin Adamson as Lecturer. Before coming to Paisley, Kevin taught at the Universities of Stirling, Essex, Skopje (Macedonia) and Timisoara (Romania). He has a PhD in Government from the University of Essex. His thesis analysed the communist and post-communist politics of Romania. He also holds degrees from the Universities of London and Sussex. Kevin’s main research is on the ideology of the extreme-right in Europe (with Dr Robert Johns of the University of Strathclyde), and the ideological sources of ethnic conflict in South-East Europe, with particular reference to Macedonia and Moldova. Recently, Kevin has developed an interest in the impact of EU policies on the inclusion of Roma and would welcome being contacted by other scholars who have interests in this area.

The School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley

Sir Bernard Crick looks on as Professor Richard Bellamy opens the event

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the EU, Britain and the USA, democracy, constitutionalism and citizen-ship, human rights, international theory, political economy and security studies. In keeping with the School’s origins as the locus of interdiscipli-nary research between law, philosophy, economics, geography and social scientists in the School of East European and Slavonic Studies, much of its teaching and research is done in collaboration with these and other departments within UCL. The School also houses the administrative offices of UACES and the Constitution Unit, which contributes to both its teaching and research programmes. International in outlook and ambition, its 15 permanent academic staff, like its 6 researchers, 2 postdoctoral fellows, 200 Masters and 25 doctoral students, come from across the globe. In 2008/9 we will be launching a new MSc on Global Ethics and Governance.

New Staff The politics group has been continuously expanded since 2001, with two to three new appointments a year. In 2007/8 the Department will be further strengthened by the arrival of Christine Reh, who comes fresh from a PhD at the EUI to become a Lecturer in European Public Policy, and two new lecturers in International Relations - Dr Markus Kornprobst, currently R.J. Vincent Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford and a Lecturer at Magdalen College, and Dr Alex Braithwaite, at present an Assistant Professor in International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Colorado State University. We will also be joined by Nidhi Trehan from the LSE as an ESRC post-doctoral fellow.

SeminarsThe vibrancy of the Department’s research is evidenced by its three sets of weekly or bi-weekly seminar series. The seminar in Political and Legal Theory and the Colloquium in Legal & Social Philosophy, organised by Richard Bellamy and Cecile Laborde in Political Science, Jo Wolff in Philosophy and Ronald Dworkin and Stephen Guest in Laws, have become key events for the legal and political theory community within the London area, with the preliminary discussions of the paper for graduate students being a particular high point. Recent highlights have included papers by Cass Sunstein, Will Kymlicka, Christine Korsgaard and Thomas Pogge. The Public Policy series has included seminars by Jean Blondel, Mick Moran, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos and Ian Shapiro, and next year will host the Cross-London seminar for Public Policy & Administration. Finally, the Constitution Unit organ-ises a seminar on Constitutional policy with the Ministry of Justice, another - aimed at practitioners and academics as part of its Freedom of Information programme - on Government Information Policy, and a series of Public Lectures and seminars on constitutional issues

more generally. Recent speakers have included Jack Straw and Alan Rusbridger.

GrantsSince 2001, the Department has received external research funding in excess of £3.5 million. Current externally funded projects include ESRC funded studies of the influence of ECHR decisions on national rights regimes (Cali), the impact of Lords reform (Russell), and on Freedom of Information (Hazell); AHRC funded research on multiculturalism and republican citizenship (Laborde); support from the British Academy and Nuffield for work on the politics of ethnic diversity in Central and Eastern Europe (Stroschein); and European Commission projects on new modes of governance (Bellamy and Coen).

PublicationsRecent staff publications include Richard Bellamy, Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Alex Braithwaite, ‘The Geographic Spread of International Conflicts’, Journal of Peace Research, 43 (2006), 507-522, B. Cali, ‘Balancing Human Rights: Methodological Problems with Weights, Scales and Proportions. Human Rights Quarterly 29(2007), 251-270, D Coen and A Broscheid, ‘Lobbying Activity and Fora Creation in the EU: Empirically Exploring the Nature of the Policy Good’, Journal of European Public Policy 14(2007), 346-365, F Franchino, The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU,(Cambridge University Press, 2006), M. Kornprobst, `Argumentation and Compromise: Ireland’s Selection of the Territorial Status Quo Norm’, International Organization 61 (2007), 69-98, R. Hazell, The English Question, (Manchester University Press, 2006), C Laborde (with J Maynor), Republicanism and Political Theory, (Blackwell, 2007), C Provost, `The Politics of Consumer Protection: Explaining State Attorney General Participation in Multi-State Lawsuits. Political Research Quarterly 59 ( 2006), 609-618 and M Russell (with J Bradbury), `The Constituency Work of Scottish and Welsh MPs: Adjusting to Devolution’, Regional and Federal Studies 17 (2007), 97-116. Forthcoming publications include C. Laborde’s major study of Critical Republicanism from Oxford University Press, David Hudson’s collaborative volume (with Donna Lee, Jill Steans, Colin Hay, Adam David Morton & Matthew Watson), International Political Economy, also from Oxford University Press, Saladin Meckled-Garcia’s `On the Very Idea of Cosmopolitan Justice’ in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Christine Reh’s book with Thomas Christianson on Constitutionalising Europe from Palgrave, Sherrill Stroschein’s collection Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities fromRoutledge and Jennifer van Herde’s article (with S. Bowler) on `Parties in an Anti-Party State: The Case of California’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Guests at the opening were keen to start a debate

Dr. Sherrill Stroschein and Dr. Meg Russell

Department of War Studies, King’s College London

Established in 1953, War Studies is a multi-disciplinary department devoted to the study of all aspects

of war and conflict and the broad remit of international relations. The Department has a global reputation for excellence in teaching and research; it offers wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating graduate degree programmes.

The Department of War Studies has seen a significant expansion in its teaching provision in recent years and now offers 10 taught postgraduate programmes in subjects ranging from international relations to the history of warfare. The Department has also launched a highly innovative wholly e-Learning degree programme, the MA in War in the Modern World.

In July 2007 Professor Brian Holden Reid stood down as Head of the Department of War Studies. Professor Mervyn Frost formally took up his duties as the new departmental head on 1st August 2007. Professor Frost said: “Explaining and understanding conflict and war has become increasingly difficult in a globalising world. That we do it well is of the utmost importance. Our department is well placed to take on these tasks - it has excellent students, outstanding staff and superb resources. I look forward to leading it.”

The Department of War Studies and the Defence Studies Department combine to form the War Studies Group. The War Studies Group comprises of nearly 100 faculty and 120 postgraduate student researchers and is the largest independent focus of defence studies expertise in Europe; it is an acknowledged leader in the fields of military studies, security policy and international affairs. Research is supported by close engagement with policy and military user communities, with the Department of War Studies being based close to Whitehall, London, and the Defence Studies Department based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham. The War Studies Group contains three inter-departmental research strands – military, international and policy studies – each lead by a senior mentor, and under which

numerous research groups, programmes and centres are organised.

Personalia Appointments:James Acton has recently been appointed to the post of Lecturer. Prior to this appointment Dr Acton worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Science and Security, one of the research centres in the Department of War Studies. Wyn Bowen has been appointed Professor of Non-Proliferation & International Security. Professor Bowen will take up his post in September. He is currently Professor of International Security and Director of Research in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London.

Anatol Lieven has been appointed Professor of International Relations & Terrorism Studies. Professor Lieven will take up his post this month; he currently works as a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, public policy institute in Washington DC.

Randall S Murch has been appointed as Visiting Professor attached to the Center for Science and Security. Dr Murch is Senior Principal Counselor for Science and Technology at the US Department of Homeland Security and Associate Director for Research Program Development at Virginia Tech. He is a former Special Agent of the FBI and former Director of the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Stephen Biddle and Tami Davis Biddle have both been appointed as Visiting Professors attached to the War in the Modern World programme. Stephen Biddle is Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the US Council of Foreign Relations and has recently served as a special advisor to the Commanding Officer of Multi-national Force-Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. Tami Davis Biddle occupies the George C. Marshall Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College.

Promotions:Vivienne Jabri has been promoted to Professor of International Politics.Michael Rainsborough has been promoted to Professor of Strategic Theory.Dr David Betz, Dr Alan James and Dr Peter Neumann have been promoted to the post of Senior Lecturer.

Conferences and colloquiaRecent - In June 2007 the Insurgency Research Group hosted a closed workshop to provide

an expert review of the British Army’s new draft doctrine on Countering Insurgency. The workshop was attended by doctrine writers from the Joint Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre and the Army’s Land Warfare Centre, as well as the RUSI military sciences group and a select group of external specialists.

In April 2007 the Conflict Security & Development Research Programme (CSDRP) held an authors workshop, ‘Ambiguous Agreements: Aid in negotiating processes’. The authors, academics and practitioners in the field of development, discussed the key themes emerging from research into aid and aid policy in conflict. The research focuses on the processes of negotiation, settlement and implementation of agreements between aid providers (donors and NGOs) and political or military parties in countries in which there is, or has recently been, open fighting.

Forthcoming - The Department hosted two ESRC sponsored conferences in 2006-2007, on media and security and on the attribution of biological attacks, and is hosting another ESRC sponsored conference this month (September) on the Dynamics of Military Transformation in NATO.

The Department of War Studies evening seminar and lecture series will resume in the autumn term, the full programme of events will be available on the departmental website this month at www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies

The Michael Dockrill Lecture will be held on Thursday 8th November 2007 at King’s College London. Philip Bell will deliver the lecture, entitled ‘From “Never Again” to Inevitable War: Britain, France and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe’. To reserve a place please contact the Department of War Studies Events & Publicity Officer, Email: war.project@kcl.ac.uk; Tel: 020 7848 2796.

Research ProjectsProfessor Theo Farrell is co-leading a project on European military transformation which is funded under the ESRC’s New Security Challenges Programme. Project activities include large-scale surveys of officer opinions towards transformation among students at the NATO War College and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College, and focus group interviews of French officers at the Ecole Militaire. The main project conference is being co-funded by NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and shall be held at ACT in Norfolk, Virginia in November 2007.

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PublicationsRecent publications include: War and the Transformation of Global Politics by Professor Vivienne Jabri, Palgrave Macmillan (January 2007)The Biopolitics

of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies, by Dr Julian Reid. Manchester University Press (December 2006)

New Modules and ProgrammesThe Department has developed new graduate option modules. The modules, offered from September 2007, include ‘African Security’, ‘Natural Resources & Conflict’, and ‘Security & Migration in Europe in the 21st Century’. The Department is in the process of developing two new MA programmes in Terrorism and Non-proliferation.

Other News• In August 2007 researchers in the King’s

Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) found evidence that the amount of time Armed Forces personnel spend on military operations, above current guidelines, increases the risk of common mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder.

• A new paper entitled Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK armed forces: first phase of a cohort study – published on the BMJ online – looks at the possible effects of operational ‘overstretch’ in the services given current commitments. A full copy of the study can be downloaded from the BMJ site at www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.39274.585752.BEv1

• Further information about KCMHR is available at: www.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/

• In June 2007 Professors Matthew Hotopf and Simon Wessely, with colleagues from the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), published a new study which highlights problems UK reservists experience before and after deployment – one indicator as to why this group has more mental health problems than regular soldiers. The findings published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (June) indicate that the main differences relate more to problems at home than to what

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actually happens to reservists in Iraq.• In April 2007 Tony Blair approved the

appointment of Dr Michael Goodman, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, as the Official Historian for the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).

• Dr Goodman will be on secondment to the Cabinet Office for two years from September 2007. The official history will be from the JIC’s origins in 1936 to the end of the Cold War. He will examine JIC’s organisational developments, the nature and composition of intelligence assessments and how, historically, the Government has used JIC’s findings. The research will be based on classified and declassified archival sources and interviews with past serving members of the committee. The history is due to be published in 2011 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the committee’s founding.

• In March 2007 Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal (Research) and Professor of War Studies at King’s was presented with the International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association (ISA) at a reception in his honour in the United States. Professor Freedman is the first non-US scholar to receive the award from the international scholarly community for his contributions to the study of security. In presenting the award at the ISA 48th annual convention in Chicago, Illinois, International Security Studies Section Vice President, Professor Jay Parker, Georgetown University, said: ‘In presenting this award to Sir Lawrence Freedman, we honour a colleague who is widely admired for his enormous contribution to scholarship, teaching, and public service in the field of security studies.’

• Professor Farrell led a team that has produced the official English translation of the new French Army Doctrine, Winning the Battle, Leading Towards Peace.

University of Reading Political Theory CentreThe Political Theory Centre has had a successful first year of operation. The new Politics/Philosophy MA in Ethics and Political Theory has been taught to an enthusiastic

Space Available at APSA Centennial Centre APSA Headquarters and Centennial Center building, The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs can be an invaluable resource to political and social scientists. Housed in the APSA headquarters near Dupont Circle, the Center provides a great base of operations for scholars researching in Washington, DC. It offers visiting scholars a furnished work space, telephone, fax, computers, Internet access, conference space, a reference library, and access to George Washington University’s Gelman Library.

Visiting Scholar stays range from a few days to 12 months. Space is limited to APSA members and available to faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students from the U.S. and abroad. There are a limited number of funding opportunities available to support Visiting Scholars. Prospective visiting scholars may apply at any time. Positions are awarded on a space-available basis. Find details on the Center and the Visiting Scholars Program at www.apsanet.org/centennialcenter. You may also contact William Harder at APSA: 001 202-483-2512 or wharder@apsanet.org.

class drawn equally from the two disciplines. The Centre has also been the host to three one-day conferences: ‘Patriarchalism’, ‘Global Justice and Climate Change’, and ‘Climate Change and Liberal Priorities’. ‘Patriarchalism’ was the third in the biennial series of Reading Colloquia in the History of Political Thought (following ‘Late Hobbes’ in 2003 and ‘The Levellers’ in 2007). Both ‘Climate Change’ conferences addressed the problems raised for political theory, especially liberal political theory, by this increasingly urgent practical challenge; in both cases, discussion was much enriched by the participation of theoretically-informed experts. The papers from the latter will be published as a special issue of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and as a book from Routledge.

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The German Politics Specialist Group has had an active year so far and this trend is likely to continue. At the annual conference in Bath, 11th-13th April, the Group convened a panel on ‘German Politics under the Grand Coalition’. Speakers included Thomas Saalfeld, Christian Schweiger and Lothar Funk. The panel was chaired by Hartwig Pautz.

The German Politics Specialist Group has also recently been involved in Political Studies Association funding bids, two of which – we are pleased to announce – have been successful. Thanks to an initiative by the Italian and the French Specialist Groups, a successful joint bid will ensure that we can collectively commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome with a joint conference at the University of Glasgow.

‘Germany in a Changing Europe’ will also be the focus of our annual German Politics Specialist Group workshop which will take place at the School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham, 19th-20th September. Consul General Ingo Radcke from the German Consulate General Edinburgh has also kindly agreed to attend the workshop and give a talk.

We are delighted to report that our submission to the Association guest speaker competition for PSA 2008 at Swansea has been successful.

This will enable Professor Joyce Mushaben from the University of Missouri-St.Louis to attend the annual conference next year and enrich the consideration of the academic theme of the conference ‘Democracy, Governance and Conflict: Dilemmas of Theory and Practice’ as a whole, as well as to give a focus to panel(s) organised by our group. The title of Prof. Mushaben’s paper is From (Schein)Heiligendamm to Democracy Doomed? The Globalization of Protest and the Return of ‘Ungovernability’.

Joyce is a full professor of Comparative Politics and has pursued nearly 30 years of active field research, supported by well established national and international research foundations (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Ford Foundation, DAAD, Fulbright, German Marshall Fund etc.). She has frequently been described as a ‘passionate, dynamic speaker’. The keynote address for the International Association

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of Human Caring (May 2007) which she delivered recently was subsequently labelled ‘the most inspiring event of the entire conference’. Joyce has a distinguished research/publication record regarding new social movements, youth protests, migration/minority/diversity issues, and other ‘democratic deficits’. We are very much looking forward to welcoming her at Swansea.

In addition to Joyce’s contribution to the Political Studies Association conference next year, we are also planning to run other panels on German politics. If you would like to propose a panel and are looking for additional speakers or a chair, or if you would like to submit an individual paper but are still trying to find a home in a panel proposal, please let us know and we will try to help with co-ordination.

Next year we are planning to hold our German Politics Specialist Group workshop at the Academy in Tutzing, Germany. Gerd Strohmeier from the University of Passau has kindly agreed to organise it. Watch this space!

We would like to remind you that we can post any information on forthcoming conferences, Calls for Papers etc. on our website. Please send details to Claire Sutherland at

claire.sutherland@manchester.ac.ukIf you have any other ideas for activities

of our Specialist Group or suggestions for improvement of what we are doing, please let us know.

If you would like to become a member of the German Politics Specialist Group and receive our regular newsletter, please send an email to ruth.wittlinger@durham.ac.uk. We very much look forward to hearing from you.

Professor Joyce Musthaben

New Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Citizenship and Democracy

Aims and objectivesThe aim of the group is to provide a forum for discussion and debate on key contemporary issues relating to practices and theories of citizenship and democracy. The group will encourage and disseminate work on issues including the following:

• Practices of citizenship: In what ways is citizenship as a form of membership undergoing change in the contemporary world? Do ‘trans-national citizenship’, ‘multiple citizenship’ and/or ‘global citizenship’ deserve the name? What is the future for European Union citizenship? What does the phenomenon of mass migration imply for practices of citizenship? In what sense, and to what effect, can we speak of ‘environmental citizenship’ as a practice? Does workplace democracy represent a promising avenue for renewing citizenly participation? What are the prospects for improving citizenly relations in deeply divided societies?

• Citizenship and participation: Is there a necessary connection between citizenship and civic participation? Are concerns about declining civic participation, and rising political disenchantment, justified? Are we witnessing the emergence of opportunities for citizens to engage in new forms of civic and political activity, for example, through innovative information and communication technology? To what extent are meaningful opportunities for citizenly participation provided by trans-national and global organizations, or ‘global civil society’?

• Citizenship as a normative ideal: Does the ideal of equal citizenship continue to provide a resource for the critique of contemporary inequalities? Should social rights be seen as conditional on contribution to society? Do citizens have an unconditional right to a basic income? What are the relationship between citizenship, gender and sexuality? In what ways has the advent of multiculturalism, both in theory and practice, forced us to rethink our conception(s) of citizenship? In what sense is the idea of environmental

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citizenship that transcends the nation-state intelligible?

• Citizenship and education: Where do we ‘learn’ how to be citizens? What is/should be the role of formal education – in particular schools and universities – in ‘teaching’ citizenship’? What other institutions shape our understanding of citizenship and democracy?

Planned activitiesThe group intends to run both regular and one-off events, as well as acting as a source of information for those interested in the core themes of citizenship and democracy. Core activities will include:

• maintaining an email service for members, providing details of forthcoming conferences, publications and so on

• maintaining a web presence providing information on events, publications, seminars and opportunities relating to teaching and research on citizenship and democracy

• providing a site for citizenship-related resources including recent publications, relevant websites, and teaching materials

• organising panels on citizenship and democracy at major conferences such as the Political Studies Association Annual Conference

• organising workshops and seminars on themes relating to citizenship and democracy. So far, planned activities include a conference on gender, citizenship and participation at the University of Bristol during 2008; a workshop on environmental citizenship

at Keele University in November 2007, and hopefully a workshop on the work

of John Dunn at the University of Southampton in Spring 2008

• facilitating discussion and cooperation between scholars working on citizenship and democracy, to enable the coordinating of funding bids and publication plans where appropriate

Further informationThe group will have a web presence in the near future, providing information on aims and activities.

In the meantime, contact Chris Armstrong on chris.armstrong@soton.ac.uk for further information.

UK Politics Research “in good shape and getting even better”

By Jon Tonge, Chair, Political Studies Association UK Politics Research is “in good shape and it is getting even better” according to a

major International Benchmarking Review of Politics and International Studies report released in June. The research conducted in this country is strong in virtually all areas and world-leading in several.

FindingsKey findings from the assessment included:

• UK Politics and International Research is of high quality. The Panel found considerable evidence of research quality across almost all the principal sub-disciplines.

• The UK is a world leader in many areas of the discipline. The Panel found considerable strengths in political theory; in electoral studies; in the ‘English School’ of international relations; in European Union studies; in ‘critical’ security studies; in political economy; domestic and especially international; and in certain areas of public policy and administration and of comparative and area studies.

• UK Political and International Studies make an enormous contribution to social, cultural and intellectual capital throughout the wider UK community. The Panel found considerable evidence of engagement with end-users in the policy community and even more evidence of knowledge transfer. UK Politics and IS scholars have a truly distinguished record of providing research-based advice to public policy-makers.

• UK Politics and International Studies are in robust good health. The discipline is demographically balanced, with no looming retirement crisis. Very promising young scholars are being recruited into the junior ranks and are progressing well through the ranks. Student demand, both undergraduate

and postgraduate, is strong, especially from overseas.

• UK Politics and International Studies are highly diverse. The discipline has strong international networks. Its European connection is one of the most distinctive features and an important source of comparative advantage.

RecommendationsThe panel made a number of recommendations for building on the strong performance of the discipline in the UK:

• Tailor resources to facilitate the targeted training of advance research methods. The panel recommends the expansion of bursaries for people to undertake advanced methods training short courses at a variety of places. These should be available to staff and students, irrespective of whether they hold ESRC studentships.

• Dissemination of information about existing bursaries needs improvement

• Endorsement for the concentration of training resources. The panel endorses the use of quotas in the allocation of ESRC studentships [one of the more controversial verdicts?] believing that it is better to concentrate research training in the biggest departments. All ESRC-funded students should have supervisory panels consisting

of not less than two members.• Develop strategies to ensure that more

women and ethnic minorities are able to reach senior positions in the discipline. Vigorous proactive strategies are required to remedy the under-representation of women, particularly in senior ranks and ethnic minorities across all ranks [nb. as an initial diagnostic response, the Association is to commission an investigative report into ethnic minority representation within the profession].

• Fund research fellowships at levels sufficient to make them more useful in facilitating career development. Post-doctoral Fellowships should be of 2-3 year’s duration. Professorial Fellowships should offer up to 80-100% buyouts. Early-mid career Research Fellowshsips should be for people 5 years post PhD to establish their research programme, perhaps lasting as long as 3-5 years.

• Endorsement of the dual support structure and the concentration of research funding based on academic quality. Research quality should not be assessed by metrics alone, but rather by

panels of scholars capable of reading and judging work for themselves when metrics might be misleading.

• Ensure more visible support to foster innovative and high-risk research. Funding agencies should support research that has no immediately foreseeable practical pay-offs.

• Take a broader view of research impact so as not to dissuade theoretical research applications or those with more diffuse impacts on public culture

• Develop more innovative research dissemination techniques. A stronger web presence and the already strong engagement with non-academic users should be further enhanced through ‘knowledge-brokers’.

The assessorsThe international assessment of UK Politics and IS research strengths was carried out by a distinguished panel, as below:

The International Review PanelProfessor Robert Goodin (Chair) Australian National University; Professor James Der Derian, Brown, USA; Professor Kris Deschouwer, Free University, Brussels; Professor Friedrich Kratochwil, EUI, Florence; Professor Audie Klotz, Syracuse University, USA; Professor Brigid Laffan, University College Dublin; Professor Pippa Norris, Harvard, USA/United Nations; Professor B. Guy Peters, Pittsburgh, USA; Professor Joel Rosenthal, Carnegie Council, USA; Professor Virgina Sapiro, Wisconsin, USA

The steering group established by the ESRCto set up the review, receive the report and,

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where accepted, implement its recommen-dations, was as follows:

Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive, ESRC; Professor Jon Tonge, Chair, PSA (Liverpool); Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Ex-Chair, BISA (Sheffield, now Warwick); Professor Colin McInnes, Chair, BISA (Aberystwyth); Professor Richard Bellamy, ECPR (UCL); Professor Ray Bush, DSA (Leeds); Dr Catherine Fieschi, Demos; Professor Justin Fisher, EPOP (Brunel); Professor Andrew Gamble, (Cambridge); Professor Vincent Geoghegan, Ex-Chair, PSA Research Committee (Queen’s Belfast); Dr Andrew Russell, Chair, PSA Research Committee (Manchester); Professor Wyn Grant (Warwick); Professor Charlie Jeffery (Edinburgh); Dr Declan McHugh (Hansard Society); Professor Anthony Payne, Chair, RAE panel (Sheffield); Mr Peter Riddell, The Times; Mr Mark Ross, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust; Professor Trevor Salmon, (Aberdeen); Professor Antje Wiener, ISA, SGIR (Bath)

What happens next?The Steering Group met on 12 June in London to formally accept the report and discuss its recommendations.

Responses to the report are welcome (see below) and will be considered as the ESRC/PSA/BISA and other relevant groups oversee the implementation process. Copies of the report are to be distributed to a wide range of recipients, including policy-makers, MPs, Vice Chancellors, journalists and chairs of other learned societies.

The report will also be distributed, with a formal event, as a prelude to the Association’s awards ceremony, on 27 November at the Institute of Directors in London.

What do you think?The Association welcomes your views on the 51 page report, which contains considerable detail on research performance, including the level of success of UK Politics academics in targeting leading journals and our record in respect of citations. To obtain a copy, email either luke.moody@esrc.ac.uk or psa@ncl.ac.uk - to provide your views, please email j.tonge@liv.ac.uk

The Political Studies Association expresses its thanks to Professor Bob Goodin and his team for completing the assessment in such a thorough and fair-minded way. The Association is also grateful to Luke Moody and Ian Diamond at the ESRC for the profes-sional manner in which the assessment was organised.

By Sue Forster (Association Conference Officer) and Lisa Harrison (Conferences Sub-Committee Chair)The 59th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, in 2009, will be held in the city of Manchester. As the Annual Conference has gradually grown in size, we have taken the opportunity to reflect on the purpose and the structure of the conference, and feel the time has come for some updat-ing. With the appointment of a dedicated Conference Officer in 2006, a new model can be introduced. Current practice is for the conference organisation to be handled by the host University and their own academic staff. The 2008 Annual Conference at Swansea will be the last under that model. From 2009 onwards, the conference organisation will be solely and fully the responsibility of the Association Conference Organiser, including all necessary finances. This will streamline all the processes involved and ensure a much more coherent and professional approach to its Annual Conference. The role of Academic Convenor will remain a crucial one, and the Political Studies Association is committed to offering an Annual Conference which, on the one hand is as welcoming to the broad membership as possible, and on the other seeks to guarantee a high standard of academic presentations which reflect cutting edge research and pro-motes our profile internationally.

As a result, the choice of Academic Convenor will no longer automatically be linked with the conference venue.

In future the convenors will be chosen by the Association on their academic merit and all paper and panel proposals will be subject to a more detailed process of peer review prior to acceptance.

It will be the responsibility of the convenor, in consultation with Specialist Groups on the one hand and the Conference sub-committee on the other, to ensure that suitable reviewers are appointed.

For a number of years now the numbers attending the annual conference have risen – and with the impending changes the Political Studies Association is confident that this trend will continue.

Professor Ian Diamond Professor Robert Goodin

Professor Colin McInnes

Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009

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Professor Graeme Moodie, Chair of the Political Studies Association from 1969 until 1971 and a Vice President of the Association, died on 3rd August 2007 aged 82. In presiding

over a period of growth and development of the Association, Graeme Moodie served the Political Studies Association with distinction as part of a very distinguished academic career. Despite a childhood afflicted by polio, Graeme studied at St Andrew’s University and Oxford, taking a first in PPE at the latter in 1946. He then lectured at Oxford, St Andrews, Princeton and, from 1953 until 1963, at Glasgow. During this period, Graeme combined scholarly endeavour with political activism. He was narrowly defeated (with 42% of the vote) as Labour candidate for Dumfriesshire in the 1959 General Election, denting the majority of the Conservative ministerial incumbent. Four years later, Graeme Moodie became the first Professor of Politics at the newly formed University of York. Graeme played pivotal administrative and academic roles and the rapid development of York into one of our leading institutions owed much to his contribution. He developed progressive, democratic and viable governing structures, whilst cultivating personal and university-wide research excellence and assisting in shrewd recruitment. Graeme was Deputy Vice Chancellor at York from 1981 until 1984

and professor emeritus from 1988. Graeme Moodie’s 1961 book, The Government of Great Britain was a standard work on the subject. His co-authored work (with GeoffreyMarshall) Some Problems of the Constitution provided an early questioning of the idea that the convention of ministerial responsibility was an adequate mechanism for parliament to hold a minister to account. The book enjoyed six editions. At York, Graeme produced the slim but seminal Opinions, Publics and Pressure Groups (1972) with Gerald Studdert-Kennedy.

Beyond the politics research sphere, however, Graeme Moodie made a sustained and positive contribution to the debate on the future of universities. His 1959 Fabian pamphlet, The Universities – A Royal Commission – offered support for the soon-to-follow Robbins expansion of the system, whilst maintaining a strong commitment to quality. His co-authored work (with Rowland Eustace) on Power and Authority in British Universities (1974) provided further articulation on the ideals associated with the running of a university. From 1969 until 1972 Graeme chaired the Society for Research into Higher Education and his US expertise led to him taking a post as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Moodie was also an expert on South Africa Higher Edu-cation and held a visiting professorship at Witwatersrand University. The Political Studies Association Executive extends condolences to all of Graeme’s family.

Over the past few years, the Political Studies Association’s range of activities has grown tremendously. With the surge of traditional and new media outlets, there has been a corresponding interest from the media on the activities of the Association and its members. Professor Ivor Gaber has done an excellent job at developing the Association’s links with the media, most notably through the annual

awards. In order to assist Ivor Gaber, the Executive Committee of the Association agreed to hire Marjorie Thompson as the Political Studies Association’s annual conference media consultant. Her primary duties

will be to enhance the media coverage of the annual conference. Marjorie Thompson is an extremely energetic individual with a wide range of personal interests.

Marjorie has a wealth of experience working as a parliamentary officer, communications consultant, author, and activist. She is certain to be an asset to the Political Studies Association and we welcome her.If you are sponsoring a prominent guest speaker, preparing a special event, or are planning to present a paper at the Association’s annual conference in Swansea and you think that your paper’s subject matter is potentially newsworthy, then please contact the chair of the IT and Media subcommittee, Dr Lawrence Saez at ls4@soas.ac.uk or the Association’s national office at psa@ncl.ac.uk.

Marjorie Thompson joins Ivor Gaber as Political Studies Association Media Consultant Lawrence Saez, Chair of the IT and Media Subcommittee

Two leading Political Scientists, Carol Pateman, Cardiff, and Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck, were elected asfellows of the British Academy in 2007.

Professor Joni Lovenduski

Association says goodbye to Revered Political Scientist

Marjorie Thompson

Professor Graeme Moodie

Professor Carol Pateman

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The Centre forSociology, Anthro-pology and Politics (C-SAP)C-SAP is one of 24 Subject Centres which comprise the Higher Education Academy’s National Subject Network. C-SAP supports the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and politics, and is based at the Nuffield Learning Centre at the University of Birmingham.

The Centre is made up of a small team of staff who work in a variety of ways to promote scholarly and disciplinary-specific approaches to new and innovative ways of learning and teaching across the social sciences, and to develop and enhance the student learning experience. It works in a variety of ways;

• To recognise innovative work and practice• Develop a network of colleagues• Provide an outlet for pedagogic practice• Offer advise in a changing and challenging

educational environment

The centre offers opportunities for academic staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students to share and develop practice by feeding their work back into the wider network of the Higher Education Academy. This includes involvement through a successful annual tranche of funding and mini-projects, publications, resources, workshops and events, reference group meetings and other activities led by our subject academic co-ordinators. Much of the work of our coordinators addresses national themes in teaching and learning within Higher Education. Reports from the C-SAP projects and details of work in progress are available at: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/resources/project_reports/

Legacy Political StudiesBy Richard Topf (Electronic Publications Editor)I am pleased to announce that the Political Studies Association’s flagship journal, Political Studies, is now available to members on our web site, complete from Volume 1, Issue 1 (1953). Electronic versions of current issues were first created from Volume 47 (1997). This new digitisation adds almost two thousand further articles, and has been carried out by Wiley Blackwell as part of our new contract signed earlier this year. The direct web link to the Association facility is http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/PolStudies.asp. In addition to year-by-year listings of articles, there are advanced search tools by author and key words, including the full text of all articles. I hope that members will find this new facility a useful additional to their research resources. If you have any queries, or find problems, please do not hesitate to let me know at webmaster@psa.ac.uk.

Doing Political Research Launches at Houses of ParliamentThe DVD ‘Doing Political Research’ directed by Cardiff-based Politics Staff Tutor, Dave Middleton was launched at a gala event in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday June 19th. Members of the 40+ project team were joined by guests including: PVC (Research and Staff ) Professor Brigid Heywood, Baroness Boothroyd (former speaker in the House), Lord Brian Rix, Dr Hywel Francis MP, Mark Lancaster MP, Dr Ian Gibson MP, a number of Heads of Department of Politics Departments, parliamentary researchers and members of other HEFCE funded projects.

The event was hosted by Barry Sheerman MP a former OU Tutor in Wales and now Chair of the Education and Skills Select Committee and guest speaker for the event was renowned broadcaster Andrew Marr.The DVD contains 13 self contained tutorials which will form the core research training for politics postgraduate students. The DVD is an interactive experience which includes games, quizzes, clips of The Office and Monty Python as well as audio and visual material developed by the Project Team under the direction of Dave Middleton. The DVD will now ‘go live’ to departments throughout the UK who can obtain it by joining the Research Training Consortium led by Dave Middleton. It is hoped to raise enough finance to be able to develop further products for disciplines such as social policy, social work, criminology, business and health care. Following the launch Dave Middleton said: “We are tremendously pleased with the way in which the entire DVD has come together. We set out to provide a resource that would see the end of the boring methods lecture once

and for all, we think we have achieved that. Moreover, the credit for doing this must go to a large team who worked tirelessly to bring to fruition the methodology which we adopted.” In introducing Dave Middleton at the event, Professor Brigid Heywood praised Dave’s leadership skills and the vision which had produced a product of which the OU could be proud.

The DVD outline can be seen at http://www.open.ac.uk/parle

Andrew MarrDave Middleton

Friday 7th December 2007 - The Commonwealth Club Northumber-land Avenue LondonFurther information from Sue.forster@ncl.ac.uk

Heads of Department Conference 2007

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C-SAP also provides a unique opportunity to draw on the different strengths of its three disciplines in order to analyse and shape current practices and debates in the Higher Education landscape, and to offer an informed critique of educational policy. A wide range of publications, including a peer reviewed journal, a monograph series, newsletters and other occasional papers, including collections of papers from themed events, are readily available for distribution to departmental links in Higher Education. All titles and information on forthcoming work can be found at: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/resources/publications/

What do you tell the President in Three Minutes about Iraq?

By Professor Richard Rose, University of Aberdeen The call to the White House came out of the blue. It was a nondescript email

captioned ‘An invitation’; the sender’s address was: nsc.eop.gov. Having worked Pennsylvania Avenue for 35 years, I knew the initials meant National Security Council, Executive Office of the President. The invitation was straightforward: ‘I am writing to invite you to a small group discussion with President Bush at the White House on May 30th. From time to time the President meets with outside experts who can participate in a live and off-the-record discussion focused on an issue of importance. In the proposed session we are inviting you and three or four other experts in divided societies who, we hope, would be willing to share their perspective on what their research has to say about the current challenges in Iraq.’ After expressing regret that travel expenses could not be paid, since most of those invited could walk to the White House from their downtown Washington offices, I was politely asked whether a meeting a fortnight hence would work for me. It did. Iraq certainly qualifies as a problem worth thinking about and I certainly was an outsider, never having published anything about Iraq or the Middle East. That was just the point. The invitation came because I had written two books about a divided society,

Northern Ireland. The cover of the first, Governing without Consensus, showed the British Army in action in Belfast with a big IRA slogan in the background. The second, Northern Ireland: Time of Choice, offered a cover with a gun and a ballot box or, as an Irish friend assumed, a gun and a coffin. I googled the NSC source of the invitation, Peter Feaver, and found he was on leave from a chair at Duke, where he had published five books on security issues and civil-military relations with major university presses. He had worked at the NSC for President Clinton as well as Bush, and was now identified with arguing that the President needed to convince the American people that the war in Iraq was winnable. This was hardly my view of Iraq but the meeting was not about supporting a particular cause. At no point did he or anyone else ask what my views were (against the war from before the start) or my politics (a Truman Democrat). A follow up email made clear what to expect: prepare three-minute answers to the question: What are the most important insights from my research about conflict societies that the President may not already have heard and what lessons could be drawn from it that would be relevant to Iraq right now? The key words were ‘right now’, that is, the problem as it actually is rather than what you would have done in 2003 (not gone to war) or what you would do if you became president in 2009 (hope the strife had ended). A lifetime of public speaking has accustomed me to timing my remarks. Thus, I was not frustrated by condensing into a few minutes thoughts expressed in a million published words about Northern Ireland and millions more about how regimes fall and others attempt to fill that void. Being at home in both English and American, I adapted my words but not my thoughts to the audience at hand, speaking in hard-hitting one-liners rather than in the indirect discourse of Mandarin English. When the day came, I turned up at the White House gate 20 minutes early. The security guards were far more polite and efficient than at airports and promptly ushered me to a West Wing waiting room to meet other group members, all senior scholars. Two were specialists on conflict resolution in Africa, two Arabic speakers familiar with Iraq, and another an expert on constitutions of divided societies. Walking into the Oval Office was like entering a living room rather than an office--except for a battery of NSC staffers ranged on one side to take notes. The President shook

our hands, thanked us for coming, motioned toward two large sofas, offered us a choice of a cola or water, and then asked us to share our thoughts with him. When my turn came, I proceeded on the principle of Ernst Dichter, a Viennese refugee turned marketing consultant. He advised the makers of the first American cake mix to leave something out, such as an egg, so that a housewife could feel ownership of the cake. I left out Iraq, on the assumption that the President would see the relevance of my parable about Northern Ireland. It went like this: A divided society can be a stable society provided that, in Max Weber’s terms, there is a state with institutions that have a monopoly of violence and can protect its borders from foreign incursions. When the authority of a divided society is successfully challenged, it fragments. The state collapses and there is competition in violence between multiple and competing factions. I quoted what John Hume once said to me: ‘When they shoot politicians, they always shoot their own side’. The British Army found itself trying to defend a state that didn’t exist and was thus caught in a crossfire. Troops from the outside can support a civil power but cannot substitute for it.

It takes time for armed groups to exhaust their hopes that violence serves their ends and consider a political settlement. In Northern Ireland it took 38 years. The glimmer of good news in the parable was also the bad news, peace and stability is eventually achievable, but warring Iraqis will do more to determine when and how this happens than will outsiders, such as decision-makers in Washington. We were told to expect a wide-ranging and free-flowing discussion and this forecast was accurate. After the President made several references to the importance of liberty, I reminded him that Isaiah Berlin was not only in favour of liberty but also of order. The place to talk about liberty was not in discussions about a land lacking order but when he next saw President Putin. When the conversation became too academic, the President even began leafing through a book of mine that I had given him that ends with a chapter about America’s victory over Iraq in Kuwait, a victory that left his father riding the crest of a wave--after which there was only a one-way option down. The President listened far more than he spoke and when he did it was to make simple points that many critics dodge, such as: We had to do something after

By Iana Stantieru, IAPSS ChairpersonThe International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) is a platform for political science students and students interested in political science issues. The Association is international, politically inde-pendent, non-profit and student-run, and aims to have global impact in the political science sphere. Providing its members with knowledge, information and skills regarding current matters in the field of political science and their approach, IAPSS seeks to play a role in the lives of Political Science stu-dents in the world. It aims at engaging their potential and stimulating them to become active participants in shaping their local communities and the wider international society. In its nine years of existence, IAPSS has embraced over 50 association members, approximately 10,000 individuals, from more than forty countries spread all over the world.

It evolved from a loose network to an Association with a permanent secretariat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where a team of ten students is working on a daily basis to initiate and coordinate projects and activities at local, regional and international levels.

This year the International Association for Political Students is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In order to mark this salient event in the history of the organization, more than one hundred of students world-wide gathered at the 10th General Assembly and Annual Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 14th until 19th of May. The event was packed with interesting lectures and workshops on Globalizing Citizenship, which placed under discussion the traditional view that citizenship is being undermined by the challenging reality of globalisation. What is more, the highlight of the cultural part of

the event was represented by the IAPSS Gala. Its specific red carpet, its special dress code, the IAPSS anthem and the IAPSS Awards have turned the ceremony into a most memorable event for all the members of the associa-tion. Through its projects, IAPSS is striving to offer its members a sense of responsability concerning their role in creating an improved political and social environment, as well as to provide them with the skills and knowledge neccessary to act in this direction. It does so by organizing seminars, conferences, round tables and debates, panels; by regularly creat-ing and distributing academic and opinion publications (Politikon- The IAPSS Journal of Political Science or the monthly IAPSS maga-zine, A Different View); by providing online platforms for debate and interaction for all students engaged in discussing current issues of Political Science ( the IAPSS online Working Groups); by placing on the public agenda important topics that have only ben-efited from little attention in the past. One such topic is represented by the Roma issues, which will be discussed during an important upcoming IAPSS event, the international sem-inar ‘Youth Bridging the Gap: Reaching Out

to the Roma’, which will take place from 22nd until 28th of July in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

At the international level, IAPSS has already organized many large scale successful events, with various topics and world-wide participation. To name but a few of the most recent ones: 10th IAPSS Annual Conference on Globalizing Citienship and General Assembly (May 2007) held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the IAPSS Academic Conference on Non-Violence which took place in Trieste, Italy, Old, New and Future Europe – one international event consisting in 3 international conferences organized in Ljubljana, Bucharest and Rome (March and May 2006), supported by the European Commission and targeting issues of identity and future of the European continent; 9th IAPSS Annual Conference and General Assembly (April 2006) held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a participation of 100 students world-wide and tackling Global Crime; in September 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia, IAPSS is organizing an international NATO Simulation, in cooperation with NATO and the Munich European Forum.

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19 young people blew up 3,000 Americans. At one point he remarked he never wanted to be a war president. I looked at the busts of two great war leaders behind his chair, Churchill and Lincoln, and thought but did not say that Churchill had the far easier war, for it united his country and after six years ended in victory. By contrast, Lincoln fought a civil war at the cost of half a million lives in a country whose population was then little more than Iraq today. And the peace was lost because federal troops could not control the states that they occupied in a futile attempt

to reconstruct the South. Was it worthwhile? The President seemed to think so, for the meeting ran over its scheduled time. What did my insights add? An emphasis on the paramount need of a state worth killing for. If I were being vain, I might claim that his criticism the following week of President Putin for suppressing liberty was due to my influence. But I doubt that he needed my intervention to say that. Only after leaving the Oval Office did I realise that my parable had been understood. The President asked me one question that no one else ever had: What

would have happened had the British not sent troops into Northern Ireland in 1969? My answer about Ulster was simple: There would have been fighting and deaths but fewer people would have been killed before a new state was established.

Professor Richard Rose, University of Aberdeen, is author of The Post-Modern Presidency: George Bush Meets the World (1991) and The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World (2001).

Article taken from THES as published 29th June 2007.

The International Association for Political Science Students Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

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Large Grant to Research Parliaments and Political Performance

The University of Warwick, in collaboration with Birkbeck College, Sheffield and Bristol Universities, has been awarded £875,964 by the Leverhulme Trust for a four-year programme to study the importance of ceremony and ritual in the UK Parliament and others. Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies said: “Ceremony and ritual play a role in how people working in political institutions are socialised and made part of the culture.This can have both positive and negative effects. For instance, some people find parliamentary ceremonies empowering; ritualized forms of speech in debating chambers can enable participation while ensuring heated exchanges don’t get out of hand. However, ritual can also mark people as outsiders, alienating them in terms of gender, race or class.”

This programme of work will be led by Prof. Shirin Rai of the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Prof. Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck College), Dr. Georgina Waylen (Sheffield University) and Dr. Sarah Childs (Bristol University). Prof. Rai added: “By comparing the Parliaments of South Africa, India and the UK we will be able to consider how distinct political cultures have evolved from the Westminster model. This will be the first such comparative study. We must understand the role played by ceremony and ritual so that we better understand how different groups can have a sense of belonging as well as can feel excluded through these. We hope to gain insights that will help to invigorate democratic practices and participation.” As part of the research programme three doctoral studentships and three post-doctoral fellowships will be offered at the Universities of Warwick, Sheffield, Bristol and Birkbeck.

Two Visiting Fellows will also participate. A dedicated programme website will disseminate information about the progress and outcomes of the research.

The programme will run for four years. However, interim results will be reported in yearly workshops. Article credited to Webwire 23rd July.

Woodrow Wilson International Centerfor Scholars Fellow-ships 2008-2009

The Woodrow Wilson Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually in an international competition. Successful fellowship applicants submit outstanding proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance. Fellows should be prepared to interact with policymakers in Washington and with Wilson Center staff who are working on similar topics.

Eligibility: Applications from any country are welcome. Men and women with out-standing capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds are eligible for appointment. For academic participants, eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level. Academic candidates must demonstrate their scholarly development by publications beyond their Ph.D. dissertation. For other applicants, an equivalent level of profes-sional achievement is expected. Applicants should have a very good command of spo-ken English, since the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its Fellows.

Stipend: In general, the Center tries to ensure that the stipend provided under the fellow-ship, together with the Fellow’s other sources of funding (e.g., grants secured by the appli-cant and sabbatical allowances), approximate a Fellow’s regular salary. Fellows are provided private offices, Windows-based computers, and research assistants. Professional librarians provide access to the Library of Congress, universities and special libraries in the area, and other research facil-ities. The Center holds one round of competitive selection per year.

Woodrow Wilson Center Scholar Selection and Services Office One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004-3027Email: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org Visit the website at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships

APSA 2008 British Politics Group Panels

Call for Papers The BPG is accepting proposals for talks, papers, panels and roundtables for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Proposals on all aspects of UK politics are invited. We particularly welcome proposals on topics that address convergence and/or divergence in the Union (for example, policies, institutions, leaders, parties, elections, public opinion...); situate UK politics in regional, transnational and global contexts; and examine the UK in a broader comparative perspective.

Paper proposals should include an abstract of the paper and full contact details for the presenter; panel proposals should include an abstract for each paper and full contact details for each participant. The deadline for submitting all proposals is 1st December 2007.

Send proposals and queries to the 2008 BPG Program Organizer: Mark Shephard University of Strathclyde Department of Government McCance Building 16 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XQ

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Conservative Women’s Organisation Annual ConferenceThe undergraduate study of politics is often classroom or library based. But observation and participation can offer new insights and enhance students’ understanding of politics. To this end, last autumn some fifteen or so University of Bristol third year, ‘Politics of Gender’ students attended the Conservative Women’s Organization Annual Conference at Westminster Hall.

The CWO Annual Conference permitted students to observe the long-established and infamous Conservative Women’s party organization at first hand. Invited speakers included Clarissa Dickson-Wright (of ‘Two Fat Ladies’ fame’) who extolled; the virtues of buying British; Shami Chakrabati, the Director of Liberty; and Lesley Abdela MBE founder of shevolution who talked about women’s human rights.

Party speakers included the new leader David Cameron, who was warmly welcomed by the audience, alongside one of his predecessors William Hague, who was even more warmly welcomed, and Theresa May, who is the most visible woman in the party seeking to increase the number of Conservative Women MPs.

The module analyses women’s participation and representation in politics, empirically in the UK and in terms of feminist theory - does women’s under-participation in party politics matter? Should there be more women in electoral politics? And what difference do women make when they are present?

The 2007 CWO Annual Conference is being held on Monday 12th November 2007. Booking forms are available from http://www.conservativewomen.org.uk/conference.asp

Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2008Rethinking the European Union38th Annual UACES ConferenceUniversity of Edinburgh1st – 3rd September 2008 Does your research have an emphasis on Europe? The 38th UACES Annual Conference is an opportunity to present a paper to an audience from a broad range of European-related disciplines. For calls for panels and papers please go to http://www.uaces.org/

British and Comparative TerritorialPolitics Specialist Group ConferenceBritish and Comparative Territorial Politics University of Edinburgh10th -11th January 2008

Call for PapersTerritorial politics in the UK remains ‘interesting’. Following the 2007 elections to the Scottish Parliament, there is now an SNP government. In Wales there is a minority Labour administration while alternative coalition possibilities continue to be discussed. In Northern Ireland there has been an extraordinary restoration of devolution and renewal of power-sharing government. In England, regional governance continues to develop in complex forms while Englishness is a dog that has started to bark. All of this is occurring in the context of Prime Ministerial change at the centre. This conference will seek to feature the best of contemporary research on territorial politics in the UK, as well as research that seeks to put British territorial politics in a comparative context, and draws on comparative examples of multi-level government from around the world.

Papers are encouraged on any aspect of territorial politics including political ideas, political movements, elections and parties, institutional and policy developments, and inter-governmental relations. The conference will consider research that offers findings from case studies, cross-national and regional comparison within the UK, international comparison and theoretical developments within political science.

The conference in Edinburgh will follow our successful specialist group conferences at Queen’s University Belfast in 2006, the University of Strathclyde in 2004, Cardiff in 2001 and Newcastle in 1998. It aims to feature papers on new research by established academics as well as papers by researchers who are about to complete, or have recently completed, their doctorates. The programme will also feature guest speakers from the political world in Scotland.

Submissions The deadline for electronic submission of

epsNet Innovative Teaching AwardThe European Political Science Network’s Innovative Teaching Award was estab-lished last year to recognise the delivery of remarkable and/or outstanding inno-vations in the teaching political science. The Award may be given either to indi-vidual staff or PhD students of Politics Departments in Europe, or to European institutions based in Europe which teach political science.

The 2007 epsNet Award of £2,000 (3,000 Euros), endowed by Collegium Civitas of Warsaw, was presented to Dr Stéphane La Branche of the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, during the epsNet Annual Conference in Ljubljana. The Awards Jury congratulated Dr La Branche for his highly innovative use of ICT and role playing simulations in International Relations classes.

Also commended were Elena García Guitán and Irene Martín Cortés of the Autonomous University of Madrid, and Cathy Gormley-Heenan of the University of Ulster.

Application forms for the 2008 Award will be available later in the year from the epsNet website - www.epsNet.org.

proposals for papers or panels is Friday 14th September. If you are suggesting a paper please submit as an email attachment on one side of A4 your name, institutional affiliation, email address, title of paper and an abstract of 200-300 words. If you are proposing a panel of 3-4 papers please give all of these details for all proposed papers in the panel. A full conference programme will be agreed and published soon after 14th September, with details of booking arrangements and accommodation.

For inquiries regarding the submission of panel and paper proposals, please contact the Academic organisers of the conference:Dr Jonathan Bradbury, Tel: 01792295961. Email: j.p.bradbury@swansea.ac.uk or Dr Nicola McEwen, Tel: 0131 6511831. Email: N.McEwen@ed.ac.uk

For information regarding travel and other local organisation matters, please contact the local organiser, Mrs Lindsay Adams, Tel: 0131 6502456, Email: Lindsay.Adams@ed.ac.uk

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APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2008San Jose, California22nd – 24th February 2008

Call for Proposals and WorkshopsWith the Teaching and Learning Conference, APSA promotes greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom. This conference provides a unique forum for scholars to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education.

The call for papers and workshops opened on 2nd July 2007.

All proposals should be submitted online by 17th September 2007. For more detailed information (including paper and workshop guidelines and themes) please visit www.apsanet.org/tlc2008. For information on San Jose, visit sanjose.org.

Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood’!8th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)London School of Economics15th – 17th April 2008It has long been standard in the field of nationalism studies to classify nations according to which principle serves to unify the nation. The distinction between the Western, political type of nationalism, and Eastern, genealogical nationalism as systematised by Hans Kohn in 1945 has been used, extended and adjusted by scholars of nationalism to conceptualise a framework of “inclusive” nationalism based on citizenship and territory and “exclusive” nationalism based on common ethnic ties and descent. This conference seeks to assess the continuing relevance of this dichotomy in its various forms: its contribution to theoretical work on nationalism, its usefulness for historical interpretation and its value for contemporary policy-making. The 2008 Conference Committee is now calling for

papers to be presented on the conference. The application is open to any researcher who is interested in the study of nationalism and/or ethnicity, and PhD students and young scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

The abstracts of the proposed papers should not exceed 500 words and are expected by 1st November 2007. The Committee will notify applicants by 30th November 2007. Please see the ASEN website (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ ) for more information and to submit your proposal.Conference in UK Political Ideologies

CANE 2007Central and Northern England Graduate ConferenceThe University of York Department of PoliticsSaturday 17th November 2007With a Keynote Paper by Professor Lord Anthony Giddens

Call for papersThe eleventh CANE Postgraduate Conference in Politics will take place at The University of York Department of Politics on Saturday, 17th November 2007. Papers are welcome on all aspects of politics, political philosophy, and international relations. Panel subjects will include: development, public policy/comparative politics, post-war recovery, and labour movements; additional panel suggestions are also encouraged.

CANE is a conference organized by postgraduates for postgraduates. It provides an opportunity to present a paper or a ‘work in progress’ on politics in a relaxed atmosphere. CANE is the ideal setting to present both embryonic ideas and fully polished papers ready for publication. The conference also provides an ideal

New Book: Pensions by Michael HillThe Policy Press has just published a new title Pensions by Michael Hill. This book provides a much-needed intro-ductory guide to the issue surrounding pension policy and offers a critique of some of the dominant ideas and assumptions. Noting the intense debate that currently surrounds the subject, the book explores a wider view of the continuing issues about pension policy.

More information can be found at: https://www.policypress.org.uk/ catalog/product_info.php?cPath= 10086&products_id=1100

The Policy Press has just published a new title, Women and new Labour edited by Claire Annesley, Francesca Gains and Kirstein Rummery. Women and New Labour will be a valuable addi-tion to both feminist and mainstream scholarship in the social sciences, particularly in political science, social policy and economics. This book offers an analysis of New Labour’s politics and policies from a gendered perspective.

More information can be found at: https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1149

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CANE 2007 environment to discuss general issues regarding postgraduate study, and is a useful way of establishing contacts within the postgraduate community. You do not have to present a paper in order to attend the conference.

Submission Deadline: Monday, 24th September 2007Please forward your contact details, title, and abstract of no more than 300 words to: cane2007@googlemail.com.

Contact details should include name, university, programme of study, email address, and tel./mobile number. Please indicate if you are a member of the Political Studies Association.

Please indicate if you require the use of Powerpoint equipment.

If you wish to attend without presenting a paper, please send your contact details to the above email address, as we need to know how many people are attending to coordinate adequate room bookings and refreshments.

For further details about the conference, including information on travel to and accommodation in York, please see: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/news/cane.htmThere is no registration fee for CANEAll conference events, including lunch and other refreshments, are free of charge.Full Information available on: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/news/cane.htm

‘Conference in UK Political Ideologies’

School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool10th - 11h July 2008

Call for papersKevin Hickson and Mark Choonara (conference convenors)Following the success of this year’s conference in UK political ideologies,

we are intending to hold a follow up conference next year.

Plenary speakers are likely to include Professor John Callaghan (University of Salford) Professor Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge), Professor Dennis Kavanagh (formerly, University of Liverpool) and Neal Lawson (Director, Compass). A panel will also be organised by the Europe in the World Centre at Liverpool University on Britain’s relations with the EU.

We are now inviting offers of papers on any aspect of British political ideology including conservatism, social democracy, liberalism, ideologies of extremist parties, nationalism and attitudes to the Union. Other issues such as culture and British

political ideology, theoretical approaches to political ideology and so forth are welcome. Offers of papers on Welsh and Scottish aspects of political ideology and the relationship between political ideology and public policy are particularly appreciated.We warmly invite those who gave papers at this year’s conference to return, but ask for different papers or papers which have undergone significant revision, in order to maintain the freshness of the discussions achieved at the first conference.

Please submit all proposals (of no more than 250 words) to m.y.choonara@liv.ac.uk by 30th November 2007. We will reply to you as soon as possible and look forward to hearing from you.

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Swansea University,

1st - 3rd April 2008

Never has academic political research been

so relevant. The world faces a wide range of

controversial political problems; a pressing

need for greater knowledge of political

systems and practices; and a vibrant interest

in re-thinking our understanding of what

is ‘the political’. Research inevitably raises

a wide range of questions for theoretical

debate, empirical analysis and practitioner

experience. Consequently, it is important that

the UK Political Studies Association annual

conference provides a key forum for reflection

and dissemination among researchers.

It should also continue to move towards

developing a regular engagement between

researchers and those concerned with the

practice of politics outside universities in

government, the media, NGOs, think tanks etc.

Accordingly, as organisers of the 58th annual

conference, we seek to feature and promote

the best of contemporary research in any field

of politics and international relations. The

conference theme encourages a particular

focus on questions of theory and practice in

relation to issues of democracy, governance

and conflict. We welcome all proposals

but would like to encourage imaginative

proposals that incorporate non-academic

political practitioners in panels. Association

specialist groups have a central role to play

in the conference and they are reminded of

the funding opportunities provided by the

Specialist Group guest speaker competition. As

conference organisers we will seek to enhance

the programme with guest speakers that

highlight issues of major research interest and

further raises discussion between political

researchers and practitioners. Please note that

this year a separate Graduate Conference has

been re-instated. This will be held immediately

prior to the annual conference on 31st March-

1st April. The deadline for all Panel and Paper

proposals is 28th September 2007.

Eligibility for Submission

We welcome proposals from any academic

researcher across disciplines and worldwide.

We hope to feature new research by both

established academics as well as by those

who are about to complete or have recently

completed doctorates. Any individual

researcher may propose up to two panels,

although anyone wishing to propose more

should contact the academic convenor. We

recognise that this may particularly be the case

with PSA specialist group organisers. Individual

researchers are limited to the submission of

two paper proposals. All colleagues submitting

a proposal either for a panel or a paper are

encouraged to make themselves available to

chair or act as a discussant in other panels.

Submission of Proposal for a Panel

If you are proposing a panel please fill in

the Panel Proposal Form and submit it as an

email attachment to the conference website

address - papers08@psa.ac.uk . We will not

accept proposals that do not use this form.

Please note that all panels should have a

minimum of three papers and a maximum

of four. Participation by graduate students is

limited to one paper per panel proposal. All

panel proposals forms must be completed

in full, including an abstract for each paper.

If proposals are incomplete it will be the

responsibility of the panel proposer to ensure

full details. Subsequently, the panel proposer

is expected to take responsibility for liaison

with the Academic Convenor, alert him to any

changes or problems and to ensure that paper-

givers register for the conference and deliver

their papers by the due dates.

Political Studies Association 58th Annual Conference 2008‘Democracy, Governance and Conflict: Dilemmas of Theory and Practice’

Submission of Proposal for a Paper

If you are proposing a paper please fill in

the Paper Proposal Form and submit it as an

email attachment to the conference website

address- papers08@psa.ac.uk . We will not

accept proposals that do not use this form.

Before submitting a paper proposal we ask

that you consider submitting your paper

as part of a panel, either by contacting the

relevant specialist group, or by consulting with

colleagues in your research area and organising

a panel. However, if you do submit a paper

proposal we will consult relevant specialist

groups and we will make every effort to include

your paper in a coherent panel.

Submissions of Proposals by Postgraduate

Students

If you are proposing a panel that includes a

postgraduate student, or you are a postgraduate

student submitting a paper proposal, you are

eligible to apply to the PSA Postgraduate Access

fund. If you wish to be considered for this fund

please say so on the proposal form.

Academic Review of Submissions

Panel and paper proposals will be reviewed in

the first instance by the Academic Convenor.

Where it is thought necessary, proposals may be

referred to a ‘special cases’ review group, chaired

by the Academic Convenor, and individual

paper submissions that cannot be organised in

coherent panels may be rejected. Acceptance of

proposals should not be

considered automatic.

Programme Confirmation

It is expected that a full conference programme

will be agreed and published by December 2007.

It is expected that once this has occurred details

of registration and paper delivery arrangements

will immediately be made available.

Pre-conference Registration Rules

At the time of programme confirmation all

paper-givers will receive instructions regarding

registration. While it is to be hoped that compli-

ance with these will be straightforward we do

need to have rules; planning for the usage of

on-site facilities, including accommodation and

meals, is potentially problematic. There will be a

cut off date in early 2008, after which there will

be both a late registration fee and the provision

of accommodation and meals on the conference

site cannot be guaranteed.

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There will be a further cut-off date in early

2008 when the conference programme is being

printed, after which non-registration will lead

to the removal of panels and/or papers from

the programme.

Paper Delivery Obligation

Equally, at the time of programme confirma-

tion all paper-givers will receive instructions

regarding paper delivery. Again, we need rules

to maintain the integrity of the programme. By

submitting a proposal authors agree that they

and/or their co-authors will submit a copy of

the paper to the conference website address

by a stipulated paper submission date ahead

of the conference. This is essential to allow the

conference organisers the time to make papers

available on-line to delegates. In turn this is the

only means by which we can enable delegates

to read papers ahead of conference panels

and thus enhance their success. In addition,

by submitting a proposal authors agree that

they and/or their co-authors will present the

paper in person at the conference. Authors may

withdraw a paper without ‘penalty’ until 31st

December 2007. Cancellation thereafter might

mean that we do not accept offers of a paper at

the next annual conference. Colleagues should

know that details of late withdrawal from the

2007 conference may affect confirmation of

proposals for 2008.

Availability during the Conference

By submitting a panel or paper proposal

authors agree to be available for presentation

at any scheduled session at the conference.

Once the programme has been settled we will

countenance programme changes only

in extreme circumstances.

Conference Academic Convenor: Dr Jonathan

Bradbury at j.p.bradbury@swansea.ac.uk

Political Studies Association 58th Annual Conference 2008

David Denver, Political Studies Association Executive, with former student, Zowie Hay, Texas A&M University attending the APSA Conference

Helen Margetts, Oxford University, attending APSA Conference

Professor Sam Beer, Harvard University, with British Politics Group Member Donley Studlar, West Virginia University

APSA Annual Conference, Chicago 2007

Professor John Benyon, University of Leicester, making his presentation on ‘The public presence of political science’ at the session organised by the APSA International Committee. The panel was chaired by Professor Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (seated right), and included speakers from the political science associations of Brazil, Canada, France and Japan as well as the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom

Moya Lloyd, Loughborough University, attending the APSA Conference

Nicolas Sauger, Paris and Florence Faucher-King, Vanderbilt, at the British Politics Group reception in Chicago