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March 2007 ISSN 0955-6281 Vol. 18 No. 1 World PoliticalNEWS Scientists Content Convene in Bath Department News | 2 Title | 2 Wyn Grant, President, Political Studies Association first interim conference scheduled to be held in Title | 3 The executive committee of the International Montreal in 2008 which will provide a new focus Title | 4 Political Science Association will hold its next for the organisation’s Research Committees. Time to Confer | 5 executive committee meeting concurrently with The current IPSA president, Professor Lourdes Title | 5 the Political Studies Association conference in Bath. Sola, is from Brazil and she will be presenting the Title | 6 This will bring some leading world political prizes at the Political Studies Association annual Department Profile | 7 scientists to the conference. The IPSA Executive will dinner. Title | 7 have a busy agenda, including firming up plans She is professor of political science at the University Title | 8 for the next IPSA congress in Santiago, Chile in of Sao Paolo. She obtained her PhD in political Title | 9 2009. A key part of IPSA’s role is reaching out to science at Oxford University in 1982 and has served Title | 11 political scientists in the Global South and helping two terms as president of the Brazilian Political Association News | 12 the subject’s development there. The congress in Science Association. Her research has been focused PHD Prize 2007 | 13 Santiago should give a boost to political science on comparative politics and democratisation and Research and Writing Opportunities | 14 in Latin America which suffered from the years of her books in English include The State, Economic Specialist Group News | 14 military dictatorship in many countries there and Reform and Democratization. Title | 15 the consequent exile of social scientists overseas. [Continued on page 15] Title | 16 The IPSA executive will also be organising the Title | 16 In Full View | 17 From top left to right: Title | 17 Helen Milner, Executive Committee, IPSA; Professor Hideo Otake, Executive Committee, Links with Other Associations | 18 IPSA; Professor Lourdes Sola, President, IPSA; 2007 Annual Conference | 19 Professor Max Kaasa, Executive Committtee, IPSA Politics Political Studies Association Agrees Undergraduate New Publishing Contract Numbers Rise Again David Denver, Chair, Publications interview (by a panel that Sub-Committee included Jon Tonge, Martin Smith UCAS figures show that applications All of the Political Studies and Jack Arthurs in addition to to study Politics at UK universities Association journals (Political pub-sub members). Following have risen sharply again – the sixth Studies, Political Studies Review, lengthy negotiations and much consecutive increase. By 15 January British Journal of Politics and discussion it was finally decided 2007, 23,693 students had applied to International Relations and to recommend to the Executive study Politics, a very healthy increase Politics) are currently published that the bid from Blackwell be of 8.4% (above the average discipline on behalf of the Association by accepted and this was agreed. increase of 6%) on the previous year’s Blackwell. This contract comes I am grateful to the members total. The number of applicants now to an end at the start of 2008, of the Association panel for makes Politics the 37th most popular however, and during 2006 the their involvement in making David Denver (of 82 recorded disciplines) subject for Publications sub-committee this important (and, as it proved, university applications. invited publishers to bid for the difficult) decision and also to the confident that the Association See June edition of Newsletter for full new contract to run from 2008- short-listed publishers for their will continue to have an effective report. 13. patience and the quality of the and profitable relationship with Competition was gratifyingly bids that they made. Although Blackwell over the lifetime of the fierce and three publishers it was a matter over which new contract. were short-listed for intensive we agonised a good deal, I am 2 Department News Department News News from the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Canada. Office. Professor Richard Caplan (Professor of International Relations, Mr Oisín Tansey was awarded an ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship University Lecturer, Official Fellow, Linacre College) has been awarded for his project entitled, ‘Democratic Transition in the Context of funding from the Oxford John Fell OUP Research Fund and the Folke International Administration’. Bernadotte Academy in Sweden for his project, ‘Exit Strategies and the Dr Ngaire Woods (University Lecturer in Politics and International Consolidation of Peace’. Relations, Director of Global Economic Governance Programme, Professor Giovanni Capoccia (Professor of Comparative Politics, CUF University College) was awarded funding from the Oxford John Fell University Lecturer, Fellow, Corpus Christi College) has been awarded OUP Research Fund for a project entitled, ‘Rolling Out Affordable the Oxford John Fell OUP Research Fund: Small Award Scheme, for his Health Solutions for the World’s Poorest’, which she is pursuing jointly project ‘Measuring Political Repression in Advanced Democracies: A with Oxford’s Department of Public Health and the Tropical Medicine Study of Western Europe’. Network. Dr Thomas Davies (Junior Research Fellow, Project ‘Civil Resistance The Department of Politics and International Relations was awarded and Power Politics, St Antony’s College) was awarded the British the Astor Visiting Lectureship to bring Stephen Walt (Belfer Professor of International History Group Thesis Prize of the British International International Relations and Academic Dean, 2002-06, John F Kennedy Studies Association for his thesis, ‘Transnational Activism and its School of Government, Harvard University) to Oxford. Professor Walt Professor Nicolas Wheeler and Professor Ken Booth (foreground). Left to right: Frank Barnaby, Lord Hannay, Sir Michael Quinlan and Professor Nicholas Wheeler. Limits: The Campaign for Disarmament between the Two World Wars’. will visit the Department in Michaelmas Term 2007. Dr Colin Farrelly (Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Social The Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences (ReMiSS) held The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime and the of Uncertainty’ at a conference organised by Greenpeace/The WMD Justice) was awarded funding from the Wellcome Trust for the confer- a successful workshop on ‘Experimenting in the Social Sciences’, organ- Implications for Trident Awareness Project, chaired by Baroness Shirley Williams, called ‘Trident: ence entitled ‘Genetics and Justice’. The conference will be held on 2-3 ised by Ray Duch on 20 November 2006. The Centre plans to organise On 2nd December 2006 the David Davies Memorial Institute of the Tipping Point?’ in the House of Commons, December 2006. July 2007. more events this summer and next year. Details will be posted on the International Studies based at the Department of International Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Fellow of the British Academy, CUF Lecturer Centre website, http://remiss.politics.ox.ac.uk. Politics, Aberystwyth, co-hosted a conference entitled ‘Multilateral Choices for Western Intelligence: The Security Challenges of the in Politics, University and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Balliol College) has The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism had an extremely approaches to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament’ at the Twenty-First Century been awarded the Second Empire Prize from the Foundation Napoléon successful Launch Event on 20 November 2006. The Chancellor, Lord Temple of Peace in Cardiff. This timely event (the British govern- The Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies based for his book, La Légende de Napoléon, published in Paris by the Editions Patten of Barnes, delivered the inauguration speech for the opening of ment will announce its decision over the future of Trident in the very at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth is hosting a Tallandier earlier this year. Reuters Institute. The keynote address was given by Washington Post near future) addressed the following broad themes: ‘The state of conference at the University of Wales Conference Centre, at Gregynog, Dr Andrew Hurrell (University Lecturer in International Relations, Executive Editor Leonard Downie on ‘Journalism after Iraq’. It was fol- the nuclear non-proliferation regime’, ‘Strengthening oversight and 28-30 April 2007 entitled ‘Choices for Western Intelligence: The Security Faculty Fellow, Nuffield College) was awarded an Oxford Social Sciences lowed by a panel discussion involving eminent journalists – Director enforcement’, and ‘A more secure world? nuclear weapons, disarma- Challenges of the Twenty-First Century’ Showcase Programme grant for his project ‘Governing the Globe: General of Al Jazeera Wadah Khanfar, BBC Head of News Helen Boaden ment and international peace and security’. The conference was intro- A Special Issue of the Journal Intelligence and National Security Designing Global Institutions for the 21st Century’. and Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, St duced by Stephen Thomas (Director, Welsh Centre of International based on proceedings of the conference is intended follow in due Dr Hartmut Mayer (Supernumerary Fellow and Lecturer in Politics, Antony’s College. Affairs) and Professor Nicholas Wheeler. The speakers were Sir course.