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Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 5 February 2012 Politics and International Studies Newsletter Middle East? The conference, organised for 25 February, in the 50 Years of Politics at SOAS Introductions Khalili Lecture Theatre, is set to examine the revolutionary uprisings that have taken place across the Middle East in the past year. These uprisings have thus far produced dynamic societal developments that include new governments, transformed socio- political discussions, military intervention, and constitutional changes. This one-day conference seeks to address these issue areas, as well as others, in the hopes of better A Note of introduction from Alex understanding the hopeful Craven: opportunities and significant challenges that lie ahead for the “Hi everyone - my name is Alex Mark Friday and Saturday 24 & region and its peoples. Craven and I have just joined 25 February in your diaries! SOAS as the academic support The Department of Politics and This student-organized conference officer for the Politics Department. International Studies will celebrate will feature academics, activists, and I studied History at Oxford its fiftieth birthday on 24 February, journalists. Panels will include: University, and after graduating starting at 18.30 in the Brunei spent three years working at Gallery Lecture Theatre. The Geopolitical Challenges to Wadham College in Oxford, before event will include a panel followed Political Change moving to London last September. Away from work I am a keen film by a party in the Brunei Suite from Justice, Intervention, and the buff (I volunteer at a cinema 8pm onwards. Students, colleagues, Rule of Law in Transition and alumni are especially welcome. museum in Kennington) and also Gender and Sexuality in enjoy travelling, reading and pub- Revolutionary Politics quizzing.” After the Spring: Which Way Transforming Societies? Social The Centre for the International Forward for the Middle East? Change Across the Region Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice welcomed its first Research To register, email Associate, Nicola Dahrendorf. [email protected] with your Ms Dahrendorf is an expert on full name and affiliation. sexual violence, human rights and Attendance is FREE, with a security sector reform. She was suggested donation £5 at the door formerly the UN Special Advisor on assist with costs associated with the sexual violence in the Democratic conference. Republic of Congo. While at CCRJ, Nicola will be working on issues related to sexual violence, land, and peacekeeping. New Publications A number of students in MSc Middle East Politics have organised PhD student Anna Rader’s 2010 a conference, After the Spring: conference paper, “Overcoming the Which Way Forward for the Past: War and Peace in Sudan and 1 Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 5 February 2012 South Sudan”, has been published of UK-EU Policing” in the Journal of empirical orthodoxies in transitional in the new volume edited by Jeffrey Common Market Studies 50 (1): pp. justice. Herbst, Terence McNamee and 37-53. Using Bourdieu‟s concept of Professor Stephen Chan’s latest Greg Mills, On the Fault Line: the field, the article offers a book, Southern Africa: Old Treacheries Managing Tensions and Divisions within typology to analyze different aspects and New Deceits (Yale University Societies (Profile Books, 2012). of transnational police cooperation. Press, 2011), was the „best-selling‟ PhD candidate Hannes Baumann MSc student Berkay Gülen‟s The book on Africa in the United States recently published “The ascent of Two U.S. Think Tanks on Turkey: The in January 2012, in terms of library Rafiq Hariri and philanthropic Brookings Institution and The Council on acquisitions. It has been reviewed in practices in Beirut” in a volume Foreign Relations’ Perceptions on Justice Foreign Affairs and The New Republic, edited by F. Mermier and S. Mervin, and Development Party’s Foreign Policy among other journals, and Leaders et partisans au Liban (2002-2010) has been published by University of Texas Professor, (Karthala, 2012). Lambert Academic Publishing. Derek Catsam, writing in Foreign Policy Blogs, named it his book of Hannes Baumann has edited a In December, David Harris‟ new the year. The Southern African features section for the December book, Civil War and Democracy in edition, simply titled Old Treacheries 2011 issue of Studies in Ethnicity and West Africa: Conflict Resolution, and New Deceits (Jonathan Ball, Nationalism 11(3) on “Nationalism Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and 2011), has attracted much and Ethnicity in the Arab Liberia, was published by IB Tauris. controversy and has been the Revolution”, available at This is David’s first book and to subject of full-page newspaper http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ celebrate this publication and the features in both South Africa and 10.1111/sena.v11-03/issuetoc new publication of a former SOAS Zimbabwe. President Mugabe‟s Salwa Ismail contributed an article colleague, Julia Gallagher, a launch office requested (and received) a on Syria, titled “The Syrian will be held at SOAS on 2 March. signed copy. However, Professor Uprising: Imagining and Performing Chan won‟t reveal what the the Nation.” Other contributors inscription said. included Madawi al-Rasheed, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Curtis Ryan, and Sami Hermez. Doctoral candidate Hania Sobhy’s “The De-Facto Privatization of Secondary Education in Egypt: A Study of Private Tutoring in Technical and General Schools” has appeared in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 42 (1): 47-67. Hania Sobhy’s “Amr Khaled and Young Muslim Elites: Islamism and the Consolidation of Mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt” appeared in Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space and Global Modernity, edited by Research Centres, Clusters, and Diane Singerman (American Doctoral student Michael A. Innes Networks University Press) which is now out has published “After the Storm: in paperback. Cote d‟Ivoire in the Wake of the The Comparative Political In December, Laleh Khalili’s “Too 2010-2011 Conflict” in Jane’s Thought cluster Early to Tell: When Is a Revolution Intelligence Review (February 2012), a Revolution?” was published by pp. 31-36. Rochana Bajpai, Matt Nelson, Georgetown‟s Centre for In February, Phil Clark published a and Charles Tripp successfully bid Contemporary Arab Studies; new co-edited collection, Critical for departmental funds to organize Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Perspectives in Transitional Justice a one-day workshop in the summer Service in an occasional paper titled (Intersentia Publishers, 2012), with of 2012. This will build on the Revolution in the Arab World: The Long Nicola Palmer and Danielle success of the 2011 workshop and View. Granville. The volume of 24 inter- will focus specifically on http://ccas.georgetown.edu/256660 disciplinary chapters - including an methodological issues that arise in .html introduction by Clark and Palmer - relation to the emerging field of comparative political thought. The Felix Berenskoetter has published critiques current theoretical and intention is that the discussions an article titled “Mapping the Field 2 Politics & International Studies Newsletter, no. 5 February 2012 should contribute to efforts to Chia-Feng Lieu, Hanan Toukan, exchanges at the other member answer the epistemological Hania Ramadan, and Isabelle institutions. questions that arise when the scope Cheng and to their supervisors. Phil Clark has also received a of political thought itself is Doctoral student Anna Rader has $90,000 grant from the Fetzer broadened. The workshop is also been awarded the Department‟s Institute. The grant is for a 2-year intended to inform the core course scholarship to attend the Institute research project examining issues of of the planned MSc in Comparative for Qualitative and Multi-Method post-atrocity forgiveness and Political Thought that is presently Research training programme in reconciliation in Rwanda and being designed in the department. Syracuse. The programme will be Uganda. The funds will cover In mid-January, the Comparative held over the course of two weeks several fieldwork trips, the Political Thought cluster heard in June. production of a series of radio from the ESRC that the outline programmes for Rwandan, Ugandan MSc student Sara Farhoudi won proposal for a major grant to and international audiences, a the 2011 student travel grant of the establish a Centre for Comparative regional workshop and a booklet of Swedish Leadership Academy, the Political Thought in the department photographs and personal Sture Academy Programme, with had been successful. We have now narratives. He will also be writing her essay “Sweden‟s liberal feminists been invited to submit a major, fully several journal articles and a of today- where are they?” The reasoned and fully costed proposal magazine piece based on the Sture Academy Programme‟s travel to the ESRC for consideration in research. grant goes to 20 students, journalists the summer of 2012. and researcher every year and brings Rahul Rao has recently been them to Washington DC for a study awarded a grant by the British visit in where they meet scholars Institute in Eastern Africa to fund a Centre for the International and professionals involved with research project on queer memory Politics of Conflict, Rights and political policymaking on different and belonging in Uganda. Justice levels. Laleh Khalili has joined the The Centre for the International In December, Phil Clark was part editorial board of a new series Politics of Conflict, Rights and of a research consortium - led by published by Palgrave on History of Justice hosted Professor Bruce the German Institute of Global and Social Movements, and also the Jentleson of Duke University who Area Studies (GIGA) - that was Board of Trustees of The British spoke to an audience of 150 awarded €700,000 by the Leibniz Academy‟s Centre for British students, scholars, and policymakers Association for a three-year project Research on the Levant. about the Responsibility to Protect on “Institutions for Sustainable and the use of force in Libya. In December, Leslie Vinjamuri Peace”.