Annual Report 1 August 2010 – 31 July 2011 Annual Report 1 August 2010 – 31 July 2011 Table of Contents Introduction: Head of Department
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Annual Report 1 August 2010 – 31 July 2011 www.politics.ox.ac.uk Annual Report 1 August 2010 – 31 July 2011 Table of Contents Introduction: Head of Department Introduction: Head of Department … … … … … … … … … … … … 3 he year just ended, my first as Head of Department pressures, reflecting the cuts in funding to universities Tas successor to Professor Neil MacFarlane, has that are already feeding through and are set to Teaching … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4 brought a number of conspicuous achievements and continue. We were set an increased budget surplus to steps forward taken in response to the significantly achieve by the Social Sciences Division, which we have Graduate Studentships and Bursaries … … … … … … … … … … … 6 more challenging environment in which we are now broadly met. Financially, it would be fair to say that the operating. Department is in a sound position in steady-state, but Appointments, Prizes and Awards … … … … … … … … … … … … 7 Firstly, our achievements. The Department ranks steady-state will not apply. That is why we have started second in the world in the QS world subject leagues for in the last year to look at new plans for the future. Research … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 8 Politics and International Relations. Christopher Hood, This means, of course, promoting what we do Gladstone Professor of Government, was awarded a CBE academically since our academics are the main source Staff … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 22 for services to social science. Stewart Wood was elevated of our financial stability. Our REF preparations are under to a peerage – as Lord Wood of Anfield – and now way, led by Petra Schleiter, as the Department tries to Academic Visitors … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 24 serves as the Labour Party’s Shadow Minister without match its performance in the previous RAE 2008 when it Portfolio and as Head of Strategy for Ed Miliband, which submitted the largest number of 4* and 3* academics in Finance … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 26 extensive duties have not surprisingly led him to resign the country. Our new Senior Research Officer, Rasangi his teaching post at the end of the academic year paSt Prematilaka, is carrying on from where Esther Byrom Office Holders … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 27 We wish him well in a thoroughly non-partisan way (now at Division) left off in assisting faculty to obtain and look forward to continued association with him in more and larger research grants, a significant part of Acknowledgments … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 28 various new ways. Further honour was brought to the our income. We have started a strategic review of the Department when both Professor Andrew Hurrell, the ‘size and shape’ of the Department to concentrate Montague Burton Chair in International Relations, and resources in areas of greatest need – research, teaching, Professor Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Chair in Political supervision. We have been hugely assisted in the ‘size Theory, were elected as Fellows in the British Academy. and shape’ review by the results of the first Teaching Congratulations to all of them. Review, led in the Department by the outgoing Deputy We were delighted to welcome new members of the Head of Department, Nick Owen. We thank Nick for his Department – Jeremy Waldron, Duncan Snidal, Marwa efforts in this regard and in innumerable other ways. Daoudy and Noa Schonmann – and offer our thanks to At the same time, Nancy Bermeo has commenced a some others departing. We note particularly the huge strategic review of our graduate programmes in Politics contributions made by Avi Shlaim, Michael Freeden and and another is under way in International Relations Alan Ware over many years of service and wish them that will ensure that what we provide to our students well in retirement. And we also thank and offer well- remains of the highest international standard. wishes to others who have moved on to other positions: We have also started to focus much more on alumni Nigel Bowles, who becomes the permanent Director relations and development, led by the Department of the Rothermere American Institute; Ngaire Woods, Administrator, Janice French and our Communications who is the Academic Director of the Blavatnik School Officer, Kate Candy. To this end, we have launched the of Government; and Pablo Beramendi, who returns to first of an annual series of alumni publications titled Duke University. Inspires, which was sent to over 11,000 people. Success The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, in development will also depend on projecting our which the Department hosts, has established itself academic strengths and engaging alumni in debate, over the last five years as a leading centre in its field in and here we have started, with our sister department the world. Core funding for the Institute is provided at Cambridge, a regular blog called Politics in Spires. Our by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on a three-year hope is through these efforts to improve fund-raising rolling basis and in June this year, in recognition of capacity significantly, with a particular emphasis on the Institute’s achievements, that funding was again support for academic posts and for graduate bursaries. extended to the end of 2014. We congratulate RISJ Finally, Genevieve J. Garrido, Finance Manager, has Director, David Levy, and the rest of its staff. We also taken the lead in developing programmes of executive launched the Inaugural Fulbright Lecture, given by education which we hope will come to fruition in 2012. Professor Anne Marie Slaughter, hosted by the Vice- In short, we are in good shape now and well-placed Chancellor, with generous funding from Brian Wilson. to deal with future challenges as well as opportunities, Now to some of the challenges. The last year found because of the talents and dedication of all staff and the Department operating under stricter financial faculty. Stephen Whitefield 2 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 3 Teaching UNDERGraDuaTE TEACHING Jason Bello (Magdalen), The Making and Consequences Justin Pearce (St Antony’s), Control, Ideology and Identity Patrick Travers (Linacre), Confronting Crisis: Norms, of Everyday Political Discussion Networks in Civil War: The Angolan Central Highlands 1965-2002 Argumentation and Humanitarian Intervention Klaus Broesamle (Nuffield), Careering Bureaucrats and Thomas Pegram (Nuffield), The Global Diffusion of Kudrat Virk (Hertford), Developing Countries and Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is the Bureaucrats’ Careers National Human Rights Institutions and their Political Humanitarian Intervention in International Society after Department’s largest undergraduate joint degree, Christine Cheng (Nuffield), Extralegal Groups, Natural Impact in Latin America the Cold War with an intake of 241 students in 2010-11. It remains Resources, and Statebuilding in Post-Conflict Liberia Yael Peled (Nuffield), Linguistic Justice and Philosophical Jeni Whalan (St Antony’s), The Power of Legitimacy: Local hugely popular with applicants, both within the UK and Milos Damnjanovic (St Antony’s), The Breakdown of Empowerment: Two Justifications for a Plurilingual Cooperation and the Effectiveness of Peace Operations increasingly internationally, despite fierce competition Semi-Authoritarian Regimes: The Role of Domestic Theory of Democracy Daniel Zoughbie (Exeter), The Ends of History: George for places (only 16% of applicants were successful in and International Actors in Bringing about Democratic Ronen Shnayderman (Nuffield), Freedom, Persons, and W. Bush’s Political Theology and the Israeli-Palestinian 2010-11). Politics remains a core part of the degree, and Transitions in Serbia and Croatia External Resources Conflict in summer 2011 approximately 90% of Finals students James Dray (Mansfield), Voter Turnout in Sub-Saharan Patrick Tomlin (Balliol), Public Justice, Personal Vices chose to offer Politics options in their exams. Africa Tiziana Torresi (St Antony’s), The Right to Free Movement Student and Alumni Awards, Fellowships and Prizes Gideon Elford (New), Equality, Responsibility, and Desert: Laurens Van Apeldoorn (Nuffield), Human Agency in have included the following: The Department’s second undergraduate joint A Defence of Responsibility Sensitive Egalitarianism Hobbes’s Moral and Political Philosophy degree, History and Politics, had an intake of 49 in 2010- Ruth French-Hodson (Merton), The Paradox of the Angela Cummine, DPhil Candidate in Politics, was 11. The degree continues to be a popular choice for American State: Public-Private Partnerships and State Titles of successful International Relations DPhil awarded the 2011 Basic Income Studies Essay Prize for applicants, with the total number of applicants rising Building theses in 2010-11 included: the best English-language essay, based on a paper she year on year for the past three years. Shivi Greenfield (Wolfson), Authority, States and Persons: presented at the 2011 North American Basic Income In the Search for Optimal Reconciliation Roham Alvandi (St Catherine‘s), Nixon, Kissinger and the Conference in New York, which was funded by an Jaideep Gupte (St Antony’s), Linking Urban Civil Violence, Shah: US-Iran Relations and the Cold War, 1969-1976 Andrew Mellon grant. The paper has been published GRADuaTE TEACHING Extralegality and Informality: Credibility and Policing in Jessica Ashooh (St Antony’s), Beltway Battles: Ideology as, Cummine, Angela L., (2011) ‘Overcoming Dividend GraDuaTE INTAKE 2010-11 South-central Mumbai, India and Infighting