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Annual Report 1 August 2011 – 31 July 2012 Department of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 278700 Fax: +44 1865 278725 Email: [email protected] www.politics.ox.ac.uk www.politics.ox.ac.uk annual_report_cover_2012.indd All Pages 18/10/2012 09:28 Annual Report 1 August 2011 – 31 July 2012 Annual_Report_12th_2012_12KCeditsv3.indd 1 18/10/2012 09:27 Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………… 3 Teaching ……………………………………………………………………………… 4 Graduate Studentships and Bursaries ……………………………………………………… 7 Appointments, Prizes and Awards ………………………………………………………… 8 Research ……………………………………………………………………………… 9 Sta …………………………………………………………………………………… 23 Academic Visitors ……………………………………………………………………… 25 Finance ………………………………………………………………………………… 27 Oce Holders ………………………………………………………………………… 28 Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………… 28 Cover images courtesy of Susan Taylor: [email protected] 2 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report Annual_Report_12th_2012_12KCeditsv3.indd 2 18/10/2012 09:27 Introduction Professor Stephen Whiteeld, Head of Department HE ACADEMIC YEAR just passed has been busy, against sti challenges from competitor departments Tchallenging and broadly successful. in the USA and in the UK/Europe. In part to that end, we Our academic standing remains outstanding in global have begun implementing the ‘size and shape’ review of terms. Politics and International Relations retained its the Department, which indicated that there was some position as World Number 2 in the annual QS World scope for a reduction in the total academic sta, through Rankings of universities and academic programmes. careful recruitment planning, without compromising With that, however, we are not complacent and have the excellent quality of our current academic provision. reviewed our activities internally and through the Savings are to be used where nancially possible to 5-year Divisional Review with an aim to ensure that our support graduate studentships. standing is enhanced in future. We embarked on our rst Executive Education To that end, we have made a number of strong programme by hosting a group of distinguished Indian academic permanent appointments – Catherine de MPs, sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Vries (Lincoln), Dominic Johnson (St Antony’s), Karolina Oce. The programme not only provides some funds Milewicz (Univ), Zoa Stemplowska (Worcester), - even for our core activities but crucially it builds strong as we have had to cope with the loss of some outstanding relations with important interlocutors in India at a time colleagues due to retirement – David Robertson (St when relations with that dynamic country are of ever Hugh’s) and Vivienne Shue (St Antony’s) - or as they growing importance to the university. have moved on to other universities - Sara Hobolt and Our development programme is gathering strength, Sarah Percy. Sadly, I also must note the passing of a led by David Hine, Janice French and Kate Candy. We former colleague, Shahira Samy (St Edmund Hall). We hosted a number of high prole public events, including have also lled a number of post-doctoral fellowships the 2nd Annual Fulbright Lecture in International with colleagues able to make a signicant contribution Relations, delivered this year by US Ambassador to our teaching, supervision and research. Thomas Pickering, in support of an initiative to fund a Despite the dicult scal climate, we remain permanent post in International Relations in Senator nancially in strong shape with another year in surplus Fulbright’s name. We also put on (jointly with the adding further to our reserves. Where we note a Ashmolean Museum) the second exhibition by our concern, however, is in the monetary size (though not ‘artist in residence’, Maxim Kantor, and held alongside the quantity or academic quality) of successful external it a symposium, Volcano, which brought a diverse research grants. We have moved to consider carefully group of scholars, artists, authors and others together how this may be turned around in the near term. to discuss the global economic crisis. We participated We have taken important steps to shore up our fully in the University Alumni Weekend. And our blog, position in the global market for top-notch graduate Politics in Spires, produced in collaboration with our research students. With Nancy Bermeo in the lead, sister department in Cambridge, goes from strength to we conducted a thorough review of our graduate strength. programmes in politics which pointed to important In short, we are clear about our strengths and ways in which our department should consider weaknesses and have identied ways to address the innovation so that we can enhance the strength of latter. The Department as a whole is committed to our teaching and supervision. But the review also implementing the policies and changes needed and identied an increasingly important need to provide we have a strong team of academic and administrative enhanced funding for our doctoral research students, leadership to achieve our goals. Annual Report 3 Annual_Report_12th_2012_12KCeditsv3.indd 3 18/10/2012 09:27 Teaching UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING Internal Armed Conict: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Oce of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is the Alexander Bristow (St Antony’s), The 1969 Summit Within Department’s largest undergraduate joint degree, the Japan-US Security Treaty System: A Two-Level with an intake of 248 students in Michaelmas term Approach 2011. It remains hugely popular with applicants, both Marcel Dietsch (University), The Political Economy of within the UK and increasingly internationally, despite Natural Gas Producer Cooperation: Cartelisation and erce competition for places (only 14.8% of applicants Market Power were successful in 2010-11). Politics remains the most Janina Dill (Merton), The Denition of a Legitimate popular discipline within the degree, and in summer Target in US Air Warfare: A Normative Enquiry into the 2012 approximately 86% of Finals students chose to Eectiveness of International Law in the Conduct of take at least one Politics paper in their exams. Hostilities The Department’s second undergraduate joint Kai Hebel (St Antony’s), Britain’s Contribution to Detente: degree, History and Politics, had an intake of 48 in The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Michaelmas term 2011. The degree continues to be a 1972-1975 popular choice for applicants, with the total number of Nicola Horsburgh (St Antony’s), China’s Engagement applicants continuing to rise each year. with Global Nuclear Order Since 1949 Alessandro Iandolo (St Antony’s), Soviet Policy in West Africa, 1957-64 GRADUATE TEACHING Zachary Kaufman (Magdalen), From Nuremberg to The GRADUATE INTAKE 201112 Hague: United States Policy on Transitional Justice Research Intake Walter Ladwig III (Merton), The Lesser of Two Evils? U.S. DPhil International Relations 19 Indirect Intervention in Counterinsurgency, 1946-1991 Nicholas Lees (University), The Evolution of International DPhil Politics 26 Inequality: Justice, Order and North-South Relations from the NIEO to the G20 Taught Intake Tobias Lenz (St Antony’s), The EU’s Inescapable Inuence MPhil International Relations 22 on Global Regionalism MPhil Politics (CG) 14 Daragh McDowell (Exeter), The Relationship between Russia and Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan from MPhil Politics (EPS) 13 2000-10: A Post-Imperial Perspective MPhil Politics (PT) 14 Hilary Price (St Antony’s), NATO-Russia Cooperation in MSc Political Theory Research 3 Bosnia, 1995-2003 MSc Politics Research 7 Keith Stanski (Nueld), ‘Warlord’: A Discursive History of the Concept in British and American Imperialism, 1815- 1914 and 1989-2006 Titles of successful DPhil International Relations Ralf Szwed (St Antony’s), Asymmetry Matters: Polish- theses in 2011-12 included: German Relations in the Post-Cold War Era Maria Banda (Balliol), Between Politics and Law: The Frederic Wehrey (St Antony’s), The Politics of Sectarianism Evolving Doctrine and Practice of the ‘Responsibility to in the Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, 2003- Protect’, 2001-2009 2011 David Baugh (Campion Hall), The League’s Long Shadow: Peter Zeniewski (Somerville), Pipe Dreams; Explaining American Constitutionalism and the International the Energy Security Policy of Poland, 1990-2007 Delegation Dilemma Andrea Baumann (Lincoln), Clash of Organisational Cultures? A Comparative Analysis of American and Titles of successful DPhil Politics theses in 2011-12 British Approaches to the Coordination of Defence, included: Diplomacy and Development in Stability Operations, Abigael Baldoumas (St Hugh’s), Social Movements in the 2001-2010 British Policy Process: The Environmental and Global Miriam Bradley (St Antony’s), Protecting Civilians in Justice Movements 4 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual_Report_12th_2012_12KCeditsv3.indd 4 18/10/2012 09:27 Claudine Burke (St Cross), Students of Resistance: Democratic Attitudes and Behaviour in Post-Soviet Palestinian Student Mobilization at Home and in Exile Georgia Erin Court (St Antony’s), How Transnational Actors Ignacio Jurado (Nueld), The Politics of Distribution Change Inter-State Power Asymmetries: The Role of Diloro Kadirova (St Antony’s), Implementation of the Indian Diaspora in Indo-Canadian Relations on Aid Initiatives in Post-conict Reconstruction and Migration