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 in US Foreign Policy toward the Middle Skepticism: Why the World’s Sovereign Wealth Funds MPhil International Relations 23 Ruth Hall (St Antony’s), The Politics of Land Reform in Post East, 2001-2006 are Not Paying Dividends’, Basic Income Studies: Vol. 6. MPhil Comparative Government 21 Apartheid South Africa, 1990-2004: A Shifting Terrain of Rajaie Batniji (University), Beyond Contagion: Explaining Iss. 1, Article 4; it is available online at Power, Actors and Discourses International Cooperation On Health http://www.bepress.com/bis/vol6/iss1/art4/. MPhil European Politics and Society 16 Marek Hanusch (Worcester), Electoral Competition and Ricardo Borges de Castro (St Antony’s), The Impact MPhil Political Theory 12 the Dynamics of Public Debt: Context-Conditional of the European Union on the Guardianship Role of Benjamin Noble, DPhil Candidate in Politics at New MSc Political Research 2 Political Budget Cycles the Turkish Armed Forces: From Democratization to College, has been awarded an Alfa Fellowship 2011/2012 MSc Political Research Theory 4 Whitney Haring-Smith (St John’s), “All Conflict is Local”: Desecularisation? and a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship. DPhil International Relations 13 An Empirical Analysis of Local Factors in Violent Civil Theresa Bridgeman (University), Accountable to Whom? He will hold the latter award as Visiting Scholar at the Conflict The World Bank and its Inspection Panel, 1994-2004 Institute of Law and Public Policy, Moscow, from October DPhil Politics 30 Mazen Hassan (St Anne’s), Determinants of Party System Paolo De Renzio (University), Buying Better Governance: 2011 to October 2012. Institutionalism in New Democracies: A Cross National The Political Economy of Budget Reforms in AID Titles of successful Politics DPhil theses in 2010-11 Study Dependant Countries, 1997-2007 Rahul Prabhakar, MPhil Candidate in International included: Faik Kurtulmus (Queen’s), Justice, Constructivism, and Magdy Fawzy (New), The Foreign Policy of Anwar Sadat: Relations and a Clarendon Scholar, was awarded the the Egalitarian Ethos: Explorations in Rawlsian Political Continuity and Change, 1970-1981 2011 Hans Daalder Prize from the European Consortium Reem Abou-El-Fadl (St Antony’s), Divergent Pasts, Philosophy Jonathan Fisher (St Antony’s), International Perceptions for Political Research. The prize has been awarded Diverging Choices: Foreign Policy and Nation Building in John Law (St Hugh’s), Rethinking Federalism and African Agency: Uganda and its Donors 1986-2010 for a paper entitled ‘Globalized Finance and National Turkey and Egypt during the 1950’s Hugh Lazenby (Queen’s), A Conception of Equality of Agnia Grigas (Brasenose), Explaining the Policies of the Regulation’, which was delivered by Rahul at the ECPR Nike Alkema (St Antony’s), A Historical Institutionalist Opportunity Baltic States towards Russia, 1994-2010 Graduate Conference in Dublin in summer 2010. Rahul Explanation for Party Change - The Contingent Collapse Helen McCabe (Somerville), ‘Under the General Mhairi Guild (St Antony’s), Securitising the Refugee: An was also awarded the Malone Prize for the highest of the Democrazia cristiana and the Path Dependent Designation of Socialist’: The Many-Sided-Radicalism of Analysis of Asylum Discourse in the US, UK and Australia, marked MPhil International Relations thesis (where Political Diaspora of Catholics in the Italian Party System John Stuart Mill 2001-2006 the student will be continuing on to the DPhil), titled Daniel Altschuler (St Antony’s), Power to the Parents?: Olga Onuch (Nuffield), Revolutionary Moments and Kalin Ivanov (St Cross), EU Conditionality and the Politics Varieties of Regulation; Domestic Preferences and Global Participatory Governance, Civil Society, and the Quality Movements: Comparing The Processes of Mass- of Anticorruption in Bulgaria and Romania, 1997-2007 Outcomes in Finance. of Democracy in Rural Honduras and Guatemala Mobilisation in Argentina (2001-2002) and Ukraine Shoehei Sato (St Antony’s), Britain’s Withdrawal from the Hannah Badiey (Pembroke), The State Within: The Local (2004) Persian Gulf, 1964-1971: A Study of Informal Empire Please see details of our courses at Dynamics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Juba, Jim Panton (New), Politics, Subjectivity and the Public/ Sarah Sewall (St Antony’s), The Civilian in American http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/study/study.html Southern Sudan (2005-2008) Private Distinction: the Problematisation of the Public/ Warfare: Normative Pathways and Institutional Christopher Ballinas Valdes (Hertford), The Politics of Private Relationship in Political Thought after World War Imperatives Agency Design: Politics and the Forging of Autonomous II Agencies in Mexico

4 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 5 Graduate Studentships & Bursaries Appointments, Prizes and Awards

DEPARTMENTAL BURSARIES, AHRC Research Preparation ACADEMIC STAFF Dr Sara Hobolt was awarded the European Union 2010-11 Masters Awards Studies Association’s EUSA Award for Best Book Ian Cooper Paul Billingham Professor Archie Brown was awarded the Alexander Published in 2009 or 2010. Sara received the award for Angela Cummine Jeffrey Wright Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic and her book Europe in Question: Referendums on European Alessandro Iandolo East European Studies for the most outstanding book Integration (Oxford University Press, 2009). She has also Gaby Maas ESRC Studentships in Russian, Soviet or post-Soviet studies, as well as the been awarded the APSA Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour section’s emerging scholar award, Michael Manulak Jack Blumenau 2010 W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies which she received jointly with Professor Cindy Kam Barney McManigal Matthew Powell Association of the UK for best political science book of (Vanderbilt University). Kristina Mikulova Ruben Reike the year. Both prizes are for Brown’s The Rise and Fall of Shany Mor Patrycja Stys Communism (Bodley Head, 2009; Vintage paperback, Ben Noble 2010). Professor Christopher Hood was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in the Gabriel Pereira Rhodes Scholarships Dr David Butler was awarded the Political Studies United States. He was also appointed a Commander of Rachel Bayefsky DEPARTMENTAL STUDENTSHIPS, Association’s ‘Best Book in British Political Studies, 1950- the British Empire (CBE) for services to social science. Roxanne Bras 2010-11 2010’ for his work, Political Change in Britain: Forces Erin Fitzgerald Shaping Electoral Choice, which he published with Professor Andrew Hurrell and Professor Jeremy Nana Antwi-Ansorge Raphael Graybill Donald Stokes in 1969. He was also knighted in the 2011 Waldron were elected Fellows of the British Academy Andrea Baumann Susan Humphrey New Year’s Honours List for services to political science. for 2011. Ian Cooper Scott Moore Angela Cummine Jessica Panegyres Professor Neil MacFarlane was awarded the title Ursula Hackett Professor Giovanni Capoccia received the Sage Award Daniel Shih of Doctor Honoris Causa in the field of International Kofi Hope for the Best Paper in Comparative Politics presented at Relations by Tbilisi State University Academic Council Jeffrey Howard the 2010 Annual Convention of the American Political Clarendon Awards for his outstanding contribution in the development of Maidul Islam Science Association. His paper is entitled ‘Normative teaching, research, expertise and internationalisation of Gavin Jacobson Emma Lochery frameworks, electoral interests, and the boundaries disciplines. Varvara Lalioti Tristen Naylor of legitimate participation in post-authoritarian Chris Lewis democracies. The case of Italy’. He was also awarded the Professor Walter Mattli won an open competition to Andrew Macdonald American Political Science Association’s Mary Parker edit the 50th anniversary commemorative issue of the Corey MacIver Follett Award for Best Article in Politics and History, for Journal of Common Market Studies to be published in Cetta Mainwaring ‘The Historical Turn in European Democratization: A New early 2012. Walter and Professor Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Kristina Mikulova Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond’, co-authored Law School) will be the editors of and contributors to Carlotta Minnella with Professor Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard). This latter paper the special issue. Toni Mladenova can be found at Comparative Political Studies, August/ Shany Mor September 2010, vol. 43, no. 8-9, pp. 931-968. Dr Stewart Wood was appointed to the House of Lords Abdillah Noh in November 2010. Yael Peled Dr Elizabeth Frazer and Dr Scot Peterson won an Despoina Potari Oxford Teaching Award to acknowledge their use of Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira WebLearn in support of study. Henning Tamm A list of research awards can be found on page 8. Piero Tortola Dr Roxana Gutiérrez Romero, Dr Dirk Haubrich Margaret Xu and Professor Iain McLean were awarded the Best Xibai Xu Article of 2010 award from the International Institute Peter Zeniewski of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) for their article ‘To what extent does deprivation affect the performance of AHRC Doctoral Awards English local authorities?’ The article can be found at: International Review of Administrative Sciences, March James Christensen 2010, vol. 87, no.1, pp. 137-170. Joanna Firth Jonathan Leader Maynard Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh received the Prix du Sénat du Livre d’Histoire from the French Senate for his book, Le Mythe Gaullien (Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2010).

6 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 7 Research Funding Conflict have been awarded further funding to maintain This has been an incredibly busy and exciting year their activities, respectively, from the Thomson Reuters Research for the Research Support Team with a wide range of Foundation and the James Martin 21st Century School. activities taking place in the Department. 2011 has The preparatory work for the Research Excellence seen a sharp increase in funding applications both to Framework (REF) 2014 has been gathering momentum The Department’s research activities continue to grow and develop. Highlights from our activities this year are external and internal funding bodies; an overview of and we are pleased to be working together with the summarised in the following pages; a list of successful research awards is set out below. funding applications made and awarded is given below. Division in successfully keeping to the HEFCE REF We are pleased to announce that the Reuters Institute schedule. Principal Investigator Sponsor Project Profile and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Adam Swift Arts and Humanities Family Values: A Liberal Egalitarian Theory of the Family Grant Applications & Awards 1 August 2010 – 31 July 2011 Research Council

Marc Stears Arts and Humanities Festivals of Freedom: Culture, Democracy, and the Making of Funding applications made 60 £ 11,050,962 Research Council the Free World Applications Funding applications received 19 £ 919,731 Adam Ziegfeld British Academy Understanding Vote Choice in India: A New Dataset on 20 Candidates for Legislative Office The two graphs 18 Applications Christopher Hood Economic and Social When the Party’s Over: The Politics of Austerity in Public 16 illustrate the variety Research Council Services 14 of sponsors that the Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Leverhulme Trust Post-War Reconstruction in Angola: Oil, the State and the 1220 Department has Politics of Oligarchic Capitalism 1018 applied to and awards 16 8 that were received David Levy Media Economia Coverage of Major Infrastructure Projects in Britain and 14 Società Istituzioni France 6 during the period 1 124 Applications August 2010 – 31 July David Levy Open Society Coverage of the 2011 Referendum in the Sudanese Media 102 2011. The majority Institute 08 6 of these awards have James Painter Grantham Research The International Media Coverage of the Scientific Consensus 4 Institute on Climate Change Applications taken the form of 2 smaller grants. The James Painter British Council The International Media Coverage of the Scientific Consensus 0 Department will seek to on Climate Change encourage stronger and Heike Kluver British Academy Top-down or Bottom-up? A Longitudinal Study of Interest larger applications to Representation targeted sponsors and Patricia Thornton British Academy History’s Rearview Mirror: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the schemes in the future Chinese Cultural in an effort to increase Revolution the number of excellent Radoslaw Zubek British Academy Parliaments and Majority Rule in East Central Europe research projects within Andrew Hurrell (Co-I) Volkswagen Stiftung The Post-Transatlantic Age: A Twenty-First Century Concert of the Department and its Powers? Funded Awards research income. David Rodin (Co-I) The Dutch Research Military Human Enhancement: Design for Responsibility and Council Combat Systems 4 Simon Caney (Co-I) Austrian Climate and Responding to the Challenges for International and European 3.5 Funded Awards Energy Fund Climate Policy After Copenhagen 3 2.5 Christine Cheng John Fell Foundation Extralegal Groups in Weak and Failing States: Examining 24 Somali Pirates and Mexican Drug Cartels 1.53.5 Stephen Whitefield/Sarah John Fell Foundation ‘We were just using different words to mean the same thing’ : 13 0.52.5 Hobolt/ Eamonn Molloy Exploring the Affective Norms of Political Party Manifestos Funded 2 Awards 0 Robert Picard/Anne John Fell Foundation Trust in News Media After the Revolution: The Case of Egypt 1.5 Geniets 1 0.5 Giovanni Capoccia John Fell Foundation Political Geography and Institutional Design. Shaping Political Funded Participation in Post-authoritarian Democracies Awards 0

Please see the Department’s website for more information on all of our research projects: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/

8 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 9 Events Peacebuilding’, organised by Dr Liz Carmichael (Oxford), • China, the United States and Global Order, Rosemary in Korea, Paris and at the World Economic Forum in The Department has hosted and organised over 30 7 May 2011 Foot and Andrew Walter (Cambridge University Press, Davos. conferences, workshops and training programmes • ‘Major Powers and International Responsibilities,’ 2011) covering various research interests. These events are organised by Professor Andrew Hurrell and Sam Daws • European Stories: Intellectual Debates on Europe Rethinking development assistance continued as a a valuable element of the Department’s activities, (Oxford), 5 May 2011 in National Contexts, Justine Lacroix and Kalypso theme with fresh insights being offered by: enhancing the profile of the Department and providing • ‘Civil Resistance: Popular Movements Challenging Nicolaidis (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2011) opportunities for the exchange of knowledge and Oppression’, Wilton Park conference organised by • Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, • S tephen Jennings (CEO of Renaissance Capital) in his perspectives between local, national and international Professor Adam Roberts (Oxford), 30 March – 1 April 2011 Sarmila Bose (Columbia University Press / Hurst C & Co, GEG lecture ‘Africa: The World’s Greatest Investment academics, graduate students, practitioners and policy • ‘Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History,’ 2011) Story’ makers. organised by Dr Karma Nabulsi (Oxford), 27-28 November • P rofessor Andres Velasco (former Chilean Minister of 2010 External Relations Finance) on ‘Fiscal Policy in Natural Resource Intensive CIS researchers are engaged in collaborative research Countries: Some Theory and the Experience of Chile’ Research centres and programmes Seminar Series with a wide range of institutions, including the Centre for • Dr Dev Kar (Lead Economist at Global Financial • ‘Border Crossings: Explaining China’s International International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa; Integrity and former Senior Economist with the IMF) The research centres and programmes continue to Behaviour Through a Domestic Lens’, Michaelmas Term the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI); on ‘Africa’s Missing Millions - Illicit Financial Flows’ showcase the diversity of the Department’s research 2010 the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect, City through their seminars, workshops and collaborative • ‘IR Research Colloquium’, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity University of New York’s Graduate Center; the Woodrow Highlights of Research Projects projects, as will be seen in the following pages. Terms 2010-11 Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, • The ‘Global Architecture for Financial Regulation’ is a Please see page 24 for a list of visitors to Department • ‘Great Causes in Modern Europe’, Michaelmas Term 2010 Princeton University; and the School of International research project in GEG which hosted a meeting of Research Centres and Programmes. Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. scholars and officials in Oxford on 29th-30th June 2011 Lectures including the Prime Minister’s office who are briefing • ‘Can the Core of International Society be Morally the G20 leaders on this issue. A report is available on C entre for International Studies Justified?’, Dr Rita Floyd (Warwick) the GEG website. (CIS) • ‘Norms and UN Peacekeeping Coalitions: the Case of G lobal Economic Governance • The ‘Global Trade Governance’ project launched its high- Cyprus’, Dr Katharina Coleman (University of British Programme (GEG) level taskforce on the global governance of intellectual Columbia) property under the direction of Dr Carolyn Deere. http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk • ‘Conceptual Roots of Failure in Afghanistan’, Whit Our project on small states in trade negotiations was Mason (Former UN Justice Coordinator for southern ably taken forward by researcher Emily Jones who is http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org Director: Afghanistan) compiling a handbook for negotiators. Professor Richard Caplan • ‘Why Nations Fight’, Professor Richard Ned Lebow • In the ‘Global Migration Governance’ project, two new Director: (Dartmouth College) books were launched in New York and Oxford: Refugees Professor Ngaire Woods Established in 1992, CIS exists to promote and advance • ‘The Relative Power of the US in International Relations,’ in International Relations (OUP) and Global Migration research in International Relations in Oxford. CIS Dr Geir Lundestad (Norwegian Nobel Institute and Governance (OUP). The Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG) sponsors externally-funded research projects, convenes University of Oslo) • In the Global Health Governance project, Dr Devi examines institutions of global governance from the conferences and seminars, and hosts visiting scholars. • ‘Did US-Pakistan Relations Impact Global FDI, Aid and Sridhar published on Developing a Sustainable Global perspective of developing and emerging economies. The work of CIS involves close association with two Trade in Pakistan (1972-2009)?’, Dr Muhammad Arshad Response to HIV/AIDS. Funded by the IDRC, the Ford Foundation, and the major research programmes — the Global Economic Khan (Pakistan Institute for Development Economics) MacArthur Foundation, GEG seeks to shape academic Governance Programme (GEG) and the Oxford Institute • ‘Economic Implications of Political Succession in North GEG published a number of policy briefs and working debates and to generate evidence-based ideas and for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) — a range of Korea’, Professor Byung-Yeon Kim (Seoul National papers on issues such as litigation in the pharmaceutical solutions. smaller research projects, and the individual research of University) sector, climate finance and a West African perspective faculty and post-doctoral fellows. on the Arab spring. Highlights of Events Highlights of Research Activities The G20 and its role since the 2008 financial crisis is Highlights of Events New Research Associations External Relations one focus. GEG hosted two of the architects of the most Workshops and Conferences • The Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace), co- GEG continued to collaborate with other Oxford research successful G20 meeting (London, April 2009): • ‘Orientalism at War’, 17-19 June 2010 ordinated by Dr Liz Carmichael: OxPeace is a multi- centres to co-sponsor events including departments of • ‘Operationalising the Responsibility to Prevent,’ disciplinary initiative to promote the academic study of International Development, Economics, Public Health, • In February 2011 the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown (former organised by Dr Mónica Serrano (Global Center for the peace, peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping the Saïd Business School and the Blavatnik School of UK Prime Minister) presented his vision of global Responsibility to Protect), 17 June 2011 at the University of Oxford. Government. governance ‘After the Crash’. • ‘The Politics of Accommodation in Multinational • In May 2011 Lord Malloch-Brown (former Minister Democracies,’ organised by Dr Jaime Lluch (Oxford), 16- New Books of the FCO, and former UN Deputy Secretary-General) 17 June 2011 • The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation outlined his view of ‘The Unfinished Global Revolution’ • ‘The Role of Status in International Relations,’ organised in the World Economy, Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli and global leadership after the crash. by Professor Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), 10 June 2011 (Princeton University Press, 2011) • GEG Director Ngaire Woods presented her research • OxPeace conference on ‘Media in Conflict and • Global Migration Governance, Alexander Betts (ed.) on the G20 at various high-level forums, including (Oxford University Press, 2011)

10 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 11 ELAC is a leading global centre for the interdisciplinary funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation • ‘Bernard Williams Politics Workshop’, 15 April 2011 O xford-Princeton study of the ethics, law, and politics of armed conflict. for Scientific Research, examining the ethical and legal • Workshop on ‘A Permanent Revolution?: Neo- Global Leaders Fellowship Funded by the Oxford Martin School, its central aim is implications of new military technology. Liberalism and British Politics’, co-organised by the Programme to strengthen law, norms and institutions to restrain, • Code of Professional Military Ethics: David Rodin is Centre for British Politics (University of Nottingham) regulate and prevent armed conflict. advising the US Army on this first formal code and and the CPI, 15 June 2011 hosted a closed workshop and public seminar in • ‘Oxbridge Critical Exchanges: Graduate Seminar in Highlights of Events Political Thought’, in collaboration with the Cambridge http://glf.politics.ox.ac.uk October 2010. • ‘Why We Fight: The Purposes of Military Force in the 21st Centre for Political Thought, 11 May 2011 Century’: the second ELAC Annual Workshop brought Director: External Relations together some of the world’s leading philosophers on Professor Ngaire Woods David Rodin was selected by the World Economic International Conference the ethics of war to discuss the reasons for deploying Forum as a Young Global Leader 2011, and will attend • ‘Languages of European Liberalisms: Comparisons, military force. The papers from 2009 will be published The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship seeks an annual summit in China in September 2011. ELAC Encounters and Transfers’, 17-18 June 2011 in a symposium issue of the prestigious journal Ethics. to create and nurture a global network of scholar- also welcomed a number of Visiting Fellows, including • ‘Classification of Armed Conflicts’: ELAC and Chatham practitioners across the developing world. It selects up Professor Cheyney Ryan who is currently undertaking Seminar Series (Hilary term 2011) House co-hosted a workshop in February 2011, to six developing country scholars each year to conduct research on Pacifism and just war theory. Please see a • ‘From Liberalism to Liberalisms: A Reassessment’, examining the legal problems caused by difficulties two years of post-doctoral research on global economic full list of academic visitors on page 24. Michael Freeden in classifying armed conflicts as international or non- governance. Fellows spend their first year at Oxford (at • ‘Procedural Representations of Ideology’, Arthur Hjorth international. The papers will be published by OUP. GEG) and their second year at Princeton (at the Woodrow (Agent Based Modelling) • ‘ELAC/CCW Lunchtime Seminars’: ELAC co-hosted a Wilson School). The Programme has built a supporting • ‘Beyond the Opposition between Materialism and varied series of seminars with the Changing Character network of senior mentors across developing and C entre for Political Ideologies (CPI) Idealism: Ideology and Interest as the Driving Forces of War Programme (CCW). Speakers included Professor developed countries to help both with recruitment, and of Social Change’, Dr Sophie Heine (Université Libre de Martin Cook (US Naval War College) and Professor Ian with re-insertion back in home countries of the fellows. Bruxelles) Clark (Aberystwyth) with Professor Christian Reus-Smit The Programme also features a ‘returning with ideas • ‘Socialism and the Market’, Dr Simon Griffiths (European University Institute, Florence). fund’ to provide an incentive (through material support (Goldsmiths, University of London) • ‘Peace and Diplomacy’ Lecture Series: Dr Geir for specific projects or needs) for scholars – after their http://cpi.politics.ox.ac.uk • ‘Left and Right as Political Resources’, Dr Jonathan Lundestad (Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute) post-doctoral period - to return home to contribute to White (LSE) presented a fascinating lecture in October 2010, strengthening capacity within developing countries. Directors: • ‘The Strange Liberalism of Michel Chevalier’, Dr Michael ‘Power and Norms: What can the Nobel Peace Prize Professor Michael Freeden (Michaelmas & Hilary accomplish? The Inside Story’. In November Professor Drolet (DPIR) GEG welcomed the third cohort of Global Leaders Terms); Joy Gordon (Fairfield) gave a sharp indictment of US • ‘Re-imagining Britishness’, Dr Varun Uberoi (Brunel Fellows this year: Dr Ombolaji Olarinmoye (Nigeria), Dr Marc Stears (Trinity Term) policy in ‘Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq University) Dr Ren Hongsheng (China), Dr Valeria Silva (Brazil), Sanctions’, followed by discussion led by Professor • ‘Hermeneutics and the History of Political Thought’, Dr Dr Shuxi Yin (China) and Dr Ousseni Illy (Burkina The Centre for Political Ideologies (CPI) is dedicated David Miller (DPIR). Reidar Maliks (DPIR) Faso). In addition, Oxford hosted the 2011 Global to repositioning the study of ideologies at the heart • ‘Intervening to Protect Civilians: Debating the Leaders Fellowship Annual Colloquium, on of political research, and to promoting the theories NATO-led Mission in Libya’: ELAC hosted a topical Lectures 23 - 24 May. The colloquium highlighted the need for and concepts for that study. It serves as an arena for panel discussion in May 2011 debating some of the • ‘The Change of Social Imaginaries and Remaking of new approaches to studying issues of global governance developing this growing and innovative field in political recent issues from the perspective of ethics, law and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary China’, Professor from the perspective of developing countries. studies and is at the cutting edge of research as the world Qing Liu (East China Normal University, Shanghai) international relations. centre of excellence in its domain, and the nucleus of an • Film Discussions: ELAC encouraged debate with a • Weekly CPI Thursday lunchtime meetings, with staff The Executive Committee includes DPIR faculty international network. The Centre fills a crucial gap in wider audience with a new termly film screening and and students, throughout the academic year Professor Ngaire Woods (founder and co-chair), current understandings of politics and political theory discussion; co-hosted with CCW. Professor Rosemary Foot, Professor Andrew Hurrell and - that between analytical political philosophy and the Highlights of Research Activities Dr Nic Cheeseman (who has taken over from Professor history of political ideas - and is also a focus for building Highlights of Research Activities • Michael Freeden is co-editor of a new series of books David Anderson). bridges between several sub-disciplines of political on the Conceptual History of Europe, to be published • Oxford Martin School: ELAC was successful in bidding studies, including comparative politics, international by Berghahn Books. He also attended a workshop in for additional funding for 2011-12 and looks forward relations and area studies. to the outcome of the next funding round. Berlin on the subject. O xford Institute for Ethics, Law and • Preparation of the Oxford Handbook of Political • ‘ The Responsibility to Prevent – Developing Ad hoc Highlights of Events Ideologies, co-edited by Michael Freeden, Marc Stears Armed Conflict (ELAC) and Systemic Strategies’: a series of policy meetings Workshops and Professor Lyman Tower Sargent (University of began in summer 2011 in Washington, New York and • ‘Politics in Strange Places: Breaking the Boundaries Missouri-St Louis), is in its closing stages. Ghana with policy-makers, NGOs and academics, as of the Definition of the Political’, graduate workshop, http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk • Michael Freeden delivered a keynote address in June this project continues to support understanding of Oxford, 18 September 2010 to a conference in Iceland on ‘Crisis and Renewal: prevention of mass atrocities. • ‘Comparative Political Thought: Sources and Ends’, 6 Directors: Welfare States, Democracy and Equality in Hard Times’, • ‘ Military Human Enhancement: Design for Responsibility November 2010 Professor Jennifer Welsh, Mr Dapo Akande (Faculty of and lectured in Sweden and Italy. and Combat Systems’: ELAC is collaborating with • ‘Oxford-SOAS Workshop on Comparative Political Law) and Dr David Rodin • M arc Stears was appointed Visiting Fellow at the the Delft University of Technology on a new project Thought’, 17-18 December 2010

12 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 13 Institute for Public Policy Research (www.ippr.org) to Dr James Tilley, funded by the Economic and Social Topics included: a crash course in R; making good in regimes of any type. work on radical and left ideologies. Research Council. This project was completed on 31 graphs; density estimation and descriptives; displaying December 2010. multivariate data; presenting linear model effects; GLM Highlights of Events External Relations • ‘ Adolescent Peer Social Network Dynamics and Problem theory; GLMs and predicted probabilities; models with The Centre planned and hosted an active schedule of Collaboration with SOAS and the international Behaviour’: Professor Tom A. B. Snijders, funded by multi-category response variables; and model selection. roundtables, conferences, workshops and research conceptual history group continues. National Institutes of Health Course instructors were Professor Robert Andersen projects among Oxford faculty and outside scholars. (University of Toronto) and Associate Professor David Selected Publications Armstrong (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). These included: • Geoffrey Evans and Mark Pickup (2010), ‘Reversing the • ‘Popular Reactions to the Great Recession,’ 24- 26 June C entre for Research Methods in the Causal Arrow: The Political Conditioning of Economic Short Courses 2011 Social Sciences (ReMiSS) Perceptions in the 2000-2004 US Presidential Election • ‘Analysing Network Dynamics using rSiena’, Professor • ‘Political Consequences of Declining Inequality in Cycle’, The Journal of Politics 72: 1236-51 Tom Snijders (Department of Statistics, Oxford), 22-24 Brazil,’ 3 December 2010 • Matthew Loveless and Stephen Whitefield (2011), March 2011 • ‘The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies,’ 11 ‘Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality: Explaining the • ‘Introduction to Methods for Analysis of Combined November 2010 http://remiss.politics.ox.ac.uk Political Significance of Social Inequality in New Market Individual and Aggregate Social Science Data’, • ‘Comparing Transitions across Regions,’ 6 November Democracies’, European Journal of Political Research Professor Nicky Best (Imperial College London), Dr 2010 Director: 50 (2): 239-66 Steve Fisher (Department of Sociology, Oxford) and Professor Geoffrey Evans • James Tilley and Sara Binzer Hobolt (2011), ‘Is the Dr Jane de Lance Holmes (ICL), in association with the Seminars Government to Blame? An Experimental Test of How BIAS Project, 21 March 2011 OCSID sponsored a programme of Faculty Seminars in The Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences Partisanship Shapes Perceptions of Performance and Michaelmas term, in which outside speakers included is intended to develop rigorous, advanced and Responsibility’, Journal of Politics 73(2): 316-30 Professor Susan Stokes (Yale) and Professor Steven appropriate techniques for application to research • Sara Binzer Hobolt and Bjorn Hoyland (2011), ‘Selection Wilkinson (Yale). across the social sciences, particularly in the area and Sanctioning in European Parliamentary Elections’, of quantitative methods, and to provide teaching C entre for Statistics in the Social British Journal of Political Science 41 (3): 477-98 Throughout the year, OCSID hosted a number of and advice to students and researchers in all of the Sciences (Statistics Unit) • James Tilley and Geoffrey Evans (2011), ‘Political seminars in association with Nuffield College; the social sciences at Oxford, with the exception of the Generations in Northern Ireland’, European Journal of ‘Historical Turn in the Study of Democracy’ lecture series, Department of Economics. Political Research 50(5): 583-608 organised by Professors Nancy Bermeo and Giovanni The Centre’s remit involves the co-ordination • Tom A. B. Snijders (2011), ‘Statistical Models for Social Capoccia, and Dr Maya Tudor; the ‘Comparative Political and planning of graduate teaching in research The Statistics Unit, joint with the Department of Statistics Networks’, Annual Review of Sociology 37, 129-51 Economy‘ seminar series, organised by Professors Pablo methods, the provision of doctoral supervision, the and supported initially by the Univeristy’s Restructuring Beramendi, Desmond King and David Rueda; and the development of collaborative projects with members and Investment Fund and the Department, is responsible ‘Democratization: Theory and Practice’ graduate classes, of social science departments engaged in quantitative for the provision of teaching in quantitative methods ReMiSS hosts two units: organised by Laurence Whitehead and Dr Timothy teaching and research, and the provision of technical in social science to students in the social sciences, and Power. Outside speakers included: and expert advice and consultancy. Several members beyond. of the Department have international reputations in O xford Spring School in • Dr Michel Cahen (Bordeaux) quantitative political science and this is an area that has Quantitative Methods for Social • Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia (Florence) been developed strongly in recent years. Research • Professor Pepper Culpepper (European University O xford Centre for the Study of Institute) Highlights of Research Activities http://springschool.politics.ox.ac.uk Inequality and Democracy (OCSID) • Dr Thad Dunning (Yale) Research Projects • Professor Susan Eckstein (Boston) • ‘ Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Director: • Professor Peter Hall (Harvard) Democracy in the European Union’ (PIREDEU): as Deputy Professor Geoffrey Evans http://ocsid.politics.ox.ac.uk • Branko Milanovic (World Bank) Chair, Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt was responsible for co- • Dr Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca (Juan March Institute) ordinating and integrating data collection efforts in The Oxford Spring School, hosted by the Centre for Director: • Dr Dan Slater (Chicago) the context of elections to the European Parliament in Research Methods in the Social Sciences (ReMiSS), Professor Nancy Bermeo • Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) June 2009. The project was completed on 31 January is a week of events targeted at political and social • Dr Jason Wittenberg (UC Berkeley) 2011. science researchers, who already have training in and OCSID is aimed at promoting both independent and • Dr Jonas Wolff (HSFK) • ‘ The Emotional Voter. An Experimental Test of the Impact experience of quantitative research and are seeking to collaborative research among the diverse community of • Professor Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard) of Emotions on British Electoral Behaviour’: Dr Sara extend and broaden their skills. comparative politics specialists at Oxford – convening Binzer Hobolt, funded by the British Academy seminars and conferences, hosting visiting scholars, Highlights of Research Activities • ‘ELECDEM - Training Network in Electoral Democracy’: Highlights of Events and organising externally funded research projects. New Research Associations Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt, funded by the European Annual Week of Spring School Courses The Centre seeks to be a focal point for Comparative • Dr Gwendolyn Sasse has edited a collection of essays Commission The annual week of Spring School courses, which Politics research and foster the analysis of a broad range from the November conference on ‘Comparing • ‘ Perceptions of Power: Voter Attribution of Responsibility took place on 4-8 April 2011, proved very popular, of issues and institutions in established democracies as Transitions Across Regions,’ with essays by Timothy within the European Union’: Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt and the theme being ‘Communicating Statistical Results’. well as the analysis of economic and political inequalities Power, Dr Nic Cheeseman, Dr Paul Chaisty, Nancy

14 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 15 Bermeo and Gwendolyn Sasse. Barnett (Founder, openDemocracy.net), Dr Rosemary participated in a conference organised by The Political • ‘Feasibility and Political Theory’, 15-16 March 2011, • Nanc y Bermeo, Professor Larry Bartels (Princeton) Bechler (Editor, openDemocracy.net), Baron Maurice Quarterly on looking back at the record of the last organised by Dr Nicholas Southwood (Faculty of and Professor Jonas Pontusson (Geneva) are editing Glasman, Samantha Mauger (Age Concern London), Labour government. He presented on ‘New Labour Philosophy, Oxford/Australian National University). a collection of essays from the March 2010 Oxford- Professor Jonathan Michie (Oxford), Professor and the Politics of Ownership’ and has contributed a Speakers were Dr Joel Anderson (Utrecht; Netherlands Princeton Conference titled ‘Coping with Crisis: Graham Smith (Southampton), Professor Helen paper on this topic to a forthcoming edited volume. Institute for Advanced Study), Professor David Estlund Government Reactions to the Great Recession,’ with Sullivan (Birmingham), Andrea Westall (TSRC), and • In a personal capacity, PPU Director Stuart White (Brown University), Dr Pablo Gilbert (Concordia essays by Dr David Rueda, Professor David Soskice Stuart White. was also involved in helping to organise the University), Dr Holly Lawford-Smith (ANU), Professor and Dr Johannes Lindvall (Lund). They are also editing Oxford-London seminar series on ‘The Labour David Miller, Dr Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College a volume of essays from the ‘Popular Reactions to the A transcript of the conference is available at: Tradition and the Politics of Paradox’ which London), Dr Nicholas Southwood and Dr Laura Great Recession’ conference held in Oxford in June, http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk/past_materials/ resulted in an e-book of the same title available at: Valentini (DPIR). with essays by Professor Ray Duch, Dr Sara Binzer transcript_associativedemocracy.pdf http://www.soundings.org.uk/. This e-book has had Hobolt, and Gwendolyn Sasse. • ‘Rethinking the State from First Principles’, a one-day over 100,000 downloads since publication on May conference on February 11, 2011, with papers from PPU’s 2011 and made an important contribution to debates External Relations Visiting Fellows Guy Lodge, Sophie Moullin, and Patrick about the future of the Labour Party. O xford-Sciences Po Research Group To develop intellectual and financial ties with Diamond. Invited participants included representatives • Iain McLean has continued to advise the Cabinet Office in the Social Sciences (OXPO) universities abroad, as well as to foster collaborative from a range of think-tanks including Institute for Bill team, first on the Parliamentary Voting System and research, OCSID has forged formal links with a number Public Policy Research (IPPR), the Fabian Society and Constituencies Act 2010 and, in the second half of the of outside universities. These include the following Respublica. Presentations from the day are available at: year, on the White Paper and draft bill on House of http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk topics and institutions: http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk/past_materials/. Lords reform. Director: • ‘Democracy in Adversity and Diversity’ (Stanford Highlights of Research Activities Dr Florence Faucher University and the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem) Events / Publications • ‘Economic Crisis, Public Policy and Inequality’ (Princeton • Drawing a New Constituency Map for the United C entre for the Study of Social OXPO is a meeting point for social science scholars in University) Kingdom (British Academy 2010; 978-0 85672-591-3) Justice (CSSJ) Oxford and at Sciences Po, who work on the comparative • ‘Perceptions of Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies’ by M. Balinski, R. Johnston, Iain McLean and Peyton analysis of the evolution of political systems and (Sciences Po) Young (Department of Economics, Oxford) with societies, in Europe and beyond. It coordinates various research assistance from Angela Cummine (DPIR), in http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk comparative research projects that contribute toward conjunction with British Academy Policy Centre. This this goal and offers opportunities to develop new was extremely influential throughout the protracted Director: collaborations. parliamentary debates on the Parliamentary Voting Public Policy Unit (PPU) Professor David Miller System and Constituencies Act 2010, being frequently Highlights of Events cited in both Houses. The Centre’s aim continues to be that of providing Workshops and Conferences • Media launch of House of Lords Reform: A Briefing Paper a forum that brings together Oxford’s large group • ‘The Dynamics of Politics and Inequalities’ (OXPO Joint (978-0-9569661-3-1) by Dr Alan Renwick (Reading; http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk of political theorists with an interest in problems of Doctoral Seminar), 25-26 May 2011 ex-DPIR and Iain McLean’s doctoral student), in social justice, broadly conceived. Its core membership • ‘Current Issues in Apportionment and Redistricting: conjunction with Political Studies Association. Iain Director: comes mainly from the Department of Politics and International Perspectives’, convened by Professor Iain shared the press launch with Alan, and was on the Dr Stuart White International Relations, but also includes colleagues in McLean (DPIR), Dr David Goldey (DPIR), Dr Luc Borot advisory committee for the publication. Research Director: Philosophy, Law and Economics. Through its fortnightly (Maison Française d’Oxford) and Dr Alan Renwick Professor Iain McLean lunchtime seminars it provides a focus and a point of (University of Reading), 12-14 May 2011 Publications contact for post-doctoral fellows in political theory, as • ‘Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 • Andrea Westall, ed., Revisiting Associative Democracy The centre’s aims and objectives are to undertake well as for academic visitors to Oxford associated with Hariri Assassination’, convened by Dr Aurélie Daher - an e-book published by Lawrence and Wishart policy-relevant academic research and, by means of the Centre. It also sponsors conferences and workshops (Sciences Po) and Dr Sami Hermez (Visiting Fellow, Centre available at events which bring academics and policy-makers into organised by its members on relevant topics. for Lebanese Studies, St Antony’s College, Oxford), http://lwbooks.co.uk/ebooks/AssociativeDemocracy. discussion of this research, provide a bridge between 20 May 2011 html. This is an edited volume based on the conference academic research and policy-making. • ‘New Directions in the Study of Social Distinction’, ‘Revisiting Associative Democracy’. Highlights of Events organised by Professor Jean-Pascal Daloz (Maison • Stuart White (2010), ‘Ethics’, in Francis G. Castle et al., Highlights of Events Workshops and Conferences Française d’Oxford), 10 November 2010 eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. (Oxford: • ‘Associative Democracy Revisited’, a one-day • ‘Kant and Colonialism’, 1-2 October 2010, organised Oxford University Press), 19-31 conference in October 2010 on the contemporary by Dr Lea Ypi and Dr Katrin Flikschuh (LSE). Speakers Lectures • Stuart White (2011), ‘Basic Income Versus Basic Capital: relevance to policy-makers of Paul Hirst’s book, were Professor Anna Stilz (Princeton), Liesbet Vanhaute • ‘Constitutional (In)stability in the Fifth Republic’, Dr Can We Resolve the Disagreement?’, Policy and Politics Associative Democracy. This was in collaboration (Antwerp), Professor Pauline Kleingeld (Leiden), Sylvain Brouard (Sciences Po), 4 February 2011 39: 67-81 with OurKingdom and supported by a grant from Professor Sankar Muthu (Chicago), Dr Johannes • ‘Une Langue Asturienne en Terre Lusitanienne’, Dr the JRSST Charitable Trust, and hosted by Coin Thumfart (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), Professor Howard Michel Cahen (Sciences Po), 10 February 2011 Other Research Highlights Street Community Builders, 108 Stamford Street, Williams (Aberystwyth), Alice Walla (St Andrews). • ‘The Shock and Awe American State’, Professor • In September 2010 PPU Director Stuart White South Bank, London. Participants included: Anthony Desmond King (DPIR), 25 May 2011

16 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 17 • ‘Is Portuguese-speaking Africa Comparable with Latin coordinates and facilitates research on the politics and to major issues of relevance to the world of practice of mapping the changing provision of international news America?’, Dr Michel Cahen, 8 February 2011 modern history of government in Africa. The network’s news media. It is global in its perspective and in the in six African countries as well as in India and Pakistan, members are drawn primarily from the Department content of its activities. assessing the evidence for patterns of consumption, Highlights of Research Activities of Politics and International Relations, the Oxford and reviewing how attitudes to trust in global media OXPO runs a successful and popular visitors programme Department of International Development (ODID) and Highlights of Events sources may be changing. between Oxford and Sciences Po. In 2010-11, Dr Laurent the Faculty of History. Seminars • ‘ Can it Tweet its Way to Democracy?’: this study aims to Fourchard, Dr Michel Cahen, Dr Nathalie Berny, Dr • RISJ Wednesday seminars (Green Templeton College) show how the internet is democratising public spheres Aurélie Daher, Mathieu Ichou and Nassim Majidi (all Highlights of Events • Media Research Seminars (Reuters Institute) and political cultures in authoritarian regimes without from Sciences Po) visited Oxford; and Dr Nicholas • The ‘African History and Politics’ seminars are delivered • Media and Politics (Nuffield College) necessarily threatening the regimes’ power in the short Cheeseman, Dr Petra Schleiter and Giovanna Lauro (all by colleagues across the University and in the UK, term. Target countries include Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda, from DPIR) visited Sciences Po, Paris. Europe, Canada, USA and Africa. In 2010-11, presenters In addition, some of the special events over the past Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Eritrea and Rwanda. included: year have included: Details of books, journal issues, articles, chapters or External Relations papers explicitly supported by OXPO, or completed by • Clare Thomas (FCO) Conferences and Workshops Partnerships and Collaborations their authors thanks to the visit they made under the • Ethan Sanders (Cambridge) • ‘Charitable and Trust Ownership of News Organisations’, • With the British Council on a panel at the UN Climate OXPO exchange framework, can be found at: • Dr Ruth Watson (Cambridge) 13-14 September 2010 Change Conference 2010 in Cancun, Mexico http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/index.asp. • Professor Stephen Chan (SOAS) • With the Bosch Stiftung on the ‘East-West Forum on • Dr Mike Jennings (SOAS) Lectures, Panels and Launches Quality Journalism’ in Berlin External Relations • Dr Joel Cabrita (SOAS) • ‘Summoned by Science: Reporting Climate Change at • With the BBC for the first annual David Butler Lecture, OXPO brings together scholars from the Department • Dr Adekeye Adebajo (Cape Town) Copenhagen and Beyond’, London and Cancun which was televised on BBC Democracy Live of Politics and International Relations, the Department • Professor Dr Achim von Oppen (Bayreuth) • ‘The Changing Business of Journalism and its • With Edelman on a launch event in Brussels for RISJ of Sociology and Nuffield College at Oxford University, Implications for Democracy’, Ofcom, London publication The Changing Business of Journalism and its the Maison Française d’Oxford and several research • The OReNGA Special Lecture 2011, ‘How to Build a • Reuters Memorial Lecture: ‘Opportunities and Limits Implications for Democracy centres within Sciences Po (such as CERI, CEVIPOF, Successful Opposition Party in Africa’, was delivered by of Journalism in China’, Oxford • RISJ was a partner of the IPPR / Guardian Oxford Media OSC) to collaborate on research projects. More Michael Sata (leader of Zambia’s Patriotic Front) on 2 • ‘Are Foreign Correspondents Redundant? The Changing Convention details about our research projects can be found at: May 2011. Face of International News’, Thomson Reuters, London • RISJ Director David Levy has been appointed to the http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/projects/index.asp • Inaugural Reuters Institute/BBC David Butler Lecture: Content Board of Ofcom and also sits on the board of OReNGA continues to contribute to consolidating ‘Politics, Performance and Rhetoric – the 2010 Prime France 24 In conclusion, we believe that OXPO has played a key Oxford as the leading centre in the UK for the study of Ministerial Debates’, London • RISJ ’s Director of Research Robert Picard is currently role of facilitation and stimulation for many of the Africa and to extending research networks to African • ‘From Their Own Correspondent? New Media and working together with Goldsmiths to submit an ESRC events and publications associated with it. OXPO has and European scholars. the Changes in Disaster Coverage’, Thomson Reuters, grant proposal now established its place both at Oxford and in Paris. London Colleagues at Oxford and Sciences Po know they can • ‘Can it Tweet its Way to Democracy? The Promise of get in touch with us and get support when they have Participatory Media in Africa’, Oxford Internet Institute Media and Democracy in Central a project and look for either contacts or orientation. As Reuters Institute for the Study of • ‘In the Pursuit of Purity: Reflections on the BBC’, Oxford and Eastern Europe (MDCEE) such, the institutional framework set up has fulfilled Journalism (RISJ) the ambition of providing flexible and responsive Highlights of Research Activities support to academic initiative. OXPO does not plan or • ‘ Poles Apart - the International Reporting of Climate http://www.mde.politics.ox.ac.uk organise research: it accompanies researchers’ projects. Scepticism’: the study looks at the prevalence of climate http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk Its mere existence however is an incentive to develop sceptic voices in the print media in six countries (UK, Director: French-British collaborative projects in sociology and USA, Brazil, China, India and France) between two Director: Professor Jan Zielonka in political science. We know from reports, projects and three-month periods in 2007 and 2009-10. It aims to Dr David Levy publications that our visitors benefit very much from examine and explain cross-country differences and Hosted by St Antony’s College and administered by the their stays. variations within countries between left- and right- The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) Department, this major ERC-funded interdisciplinary leaning newspapers. was established in autumn 2006 and is based at the research project looks at the often troublesome and • ‘ The Business of Journalism and its Role in Democracy’: Department. Its core funding comes from the Thomson poorly understood relationship between democracy this project analyses the impact of the internet and Reuters Foundation. and the media in Central and Eastern Europe. Professor the recession on commercially-supported journalism O xford Research Network on The Institute marks Oxford University’s commitment Terhi Rantanen of the London School of Economics and across the world, differing industry and policy Government in Africa (OReNGA) to create an international research centre in the Political Science is the project’s Co-Investigator and responses and the implications of these for democracy comparative study of journalism. The Institute aims to three Senior Research Fellows, Drs Péter Bajomi-Lázár, and accountability. serve as the leading forum for a productive engagement Henrik Örnebring and Václav Štětka, head our research • ‘ International News: Provision, Trust and Consumption in http://orenga.politics.ox.ac.uk between scholars from a wide range of disciplines and pillars. a Rapidly Changing Broadcast Environment’: the project the practitioners of journalism. It brings the depth and addresses the key issue of the role of international OReNGA is an interdisciplinary research network that rigour of academic scholarship of the highest standards media and news flows in globalisation through

18 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 19 H ighlights of Events being prepared, containing a selection of papers from Highlights of Events Workshops and Conferences the two conferences held this year in Oxford (March) Anglo-German ‘State of the State’ Workshops and Conferences • ‘Media and Democracy: Poland in a Comparative and Sydney (September) Fellowship Programme • The ‘State of the State’ lecture series was organised by Perspective’ (7-8 January 2011, Warsaw) examined the • Special issues of the following journals are in the fellows with speakers such as Professor Thomas role of the mass media in the process of democratic preparation: Pogge (Yale) and Professor Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) transition in Poland in comparison with other countries • East European Politics and Societies (2011): http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/ • ‘Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary of the region. The entire project team attended this publishing a selection of the seminars delivered in anglo-german-state-of-the-state-fellowship- Perspectives’: this second Anglo-German conference conference, which was organised as a direct result of Michaelmas Term 2010 on ‘Democracy in Central programme/anglo-german-project.html was held on 21 May 2011 and was organised around our research by a member of our Academic Advisory and Eastern Europe: the State of the Art’, together six panels, running in two parallel sessions. Professor Committee and visiting fellow, Professor Radosław with other commissioned papers (editors: Jan Director: Saskia Sassen (Columbia) delivered the keynote Markowski. Zielonka and Jacques Rupnik) Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt speech. • ‘The Media, Democracy and Public Spheres in Europe’ • International Journal of Press/Politics (2012): open (4-5 March 2011, Oxford) brought together leading call for papers on the structure and performance The Anglo-German Fellowship Programme, which has Highlights of Research Activities political theorists in such areas as public spheres, of the news media in Central and Eastern Europe been running since 2009, aims to enable outstanding • Currently there are seven postdoctoral fellows based democracy, power and the rule of law and those with (editors: Jan Zielonka and Paolo Mancini) scholars at the start of their careers to spend time at the at the University of Oxford: five at the DPIR and two at expertise in democracy and the media in Central and • Communication, Politics & Culture 45.1 (July 2012): University of Oxford and to turn their finished doctoral the IECL Eastern Europe. papers from the seminar to be held in Melbourne theses into a manuscript suitable for publication with • An additional four fellows were selected at the third on 1-2 September 2011 (editors: Henrik Örnebring a good university press. The Programme is funded and final recruitment round, held in the Department Seminar Series and Václav Štětka) by the German Volkswagen Foundation, and is run on the 20th May 2010 (Dr Michal Bobek, Dr Theresa • A highly successful Michaelmas Term 2010 seminar in collaboration with the Universities of Bremen and Kuhn, Dr Kyriaki Nanou and Dr Kundai Sithole). These series on ‘Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: External Relations Göttingen (Department of Politics) and the University new fellows will begin on 1 September 2011. the State of the Art’ was launched by Jan Truszczyński • The Center for the Study of Democracy (Warsaw) of Oxford (Department of Politics and International from the European Commission and featured senior and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Relations, and the Institute of European and Comparative External Relations scholars of the region, including Professor András the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Law, Faculty of Law). The Fellowship Programme is • German Volkswagen Foundation Bozóki (Central European University, Budapest), Sciences (Warsaw): a two-day conference in January multidisciplinary, and is open to people who work in • University of Bremen Dr Venelin Ganev (Miami University, Oxford, USA), 2011 the fields of political science, law, history, sociology or • Univ ersity of Göttingen Dr Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton University), • The EU Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne and economics as long as they work on the transformation Professor Gabriella Ilonszki (Corvinus University, the RMIT School of Media and Communication: a of the modern state (broadly conceived) with a focus on Budapest), Professor Vello Pettai (University of Tartu, two-day conference on 1-2 September 2011, ‘Media, Western Europe and/or European integration. Estonia), Professor Petr Kopecky (University of Leiden) Communication and Democracy: Global and National and Professor Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po). Environments’ • The Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law Two stand-alone seminars in Hilary Term: at the University of New South Wales, Sydney: two • ‘System Change in Poland: Media and Politics’, Professor conferences - ‘The Media, Democracy and Public Radosław Markowski and Dr Beata Klimkiewicz (MDCEE Spheres in Europe’, 4-5 March 2011, Oxford; and ‘Media, Visiting Fellows) Democracy and the Rule of Law: Global and Local, New • ‘Democracy in the Age of Google, WikiLeaks and Democracies and Old’, 5-6 September 2011, Sydney Facebook’, Professor John Keane (University of Sydney • S ydney Democracy Initiative, The University of Sydney: and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin) a one-day symposium, ‘Mediacracy? Public Information and the Future of Journalism and Democratic Politics’, Highlights of Research Activities 7 September 2011, Sydney • The project hosted five visiting fellows in 2010-11: • S ofia University ‘St Kliment Ohridski’: a two-day please see details on page 24 conference: ‘Media and Democracy in Southeast • We are recruiting for a new post-doctoral fellow Europe: the Case of Bulgaria’, 7-8 October 2011, Sofia • We have published individual country reports and a • The University of Perugia: a two-day conference, summary of the findings of our first year’s fieldwork on ‘Political Culture in the Mediterranean Area and in our website Central and Eastern Europe’, March 2012, Perugia) • Our Senior Research Fellows have undertaken a second round of fieldwork in the ten Central and Eastern European countries being researched by the project, interviewing key actors in the political field, with further interviews scheduled for early autumn 2011 • A book proposal, Media, Democracy and the Rule of Law. New Democracies and Old, Global and National (editors Martin Krygier (UNSW) and Jan Zielonka) is currently

20 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 21 Staff

* Indicates leaver during or at end of 2010-11 ** Indicates starter during 2010-11

Academic Staff Professor Avi Shlaim* Mr John Lloyd Professor Anthony Heath Departmental Research Programme Professor David Anderson Professor Cindy Skach Dr Reidar Maliks* Dr Adam Humphreys Administrator Support Staff Professor Pablo Beramendi* Professor Duncan Snidal Dr Rasmus Nielsen Dr David Leopold Janice French Amanda Armstrong* Professor Nancy Bermeo Professor Tom Snijders Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou Mr Tom Lubbock Lucy Crittenden Dr Nigel Bowles* Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Dr Olarinmoye Omobolaji** Professor Margaret MacMillan Support staff Kate Hanneford-Smith Professor Simon Caney Professor David Soskice Dr Henrik Ornebring Professor Helen Margetts James Baldwin Sara Kalim Professor Richard Caplan Dr Marc Stears Dr Illy Ousseni* Dr Hartmut Mayer Pat Boreham* James Painter Professor Giovanni Capoccia Dr Adam Swift Dr David O’Shaughnessy Dr Normand Linn Esther Byrom* Alex Reid Professor Martin Ceadel Dr Patricia Thornton Dr Robert Picard** Dr Joseph Nye Kate Candy Nicola Shepard Dr Paul Chaisty Dr James Tilley Dr Jochen Prantl* Dr Mark Pickup Sophie Forsey Jennifer Wilkinson* Dr Nicholas Cheeseman Professor Jeremy Waldron* Dr Hongshen Ren** Professor Sir Adam Roberts Nicola Froggatt** Dr Marwa Daoudy** Professor Alan Ware* Dr Ruth Ripley Sir Ivor Roberts Genevieve J. Garrido Professor Anne Deighton Professor Jennifer Welsh Dr Philip Roessler* Dr Meredith Rolfe Elizabeth Griffiths Dr Raymond Duch Dr Stuart White Dr David Rodin Professor Alan Ryan Alison Hunt* Dr Louise Fawcett Professor Stephen Whitefield Dr Dima Sarbo* Dr Shahira Samy Jason Hussain** Professor Joe Foweraker Dr Stewart Wood* Dr Serena Sharma Dr Shohei Sato Margo Kirk Professor Rosemary Foot Professor Ngaire Woods* Dr Valeria Silva** Professor Henry Shue Marga Lyall* Dr Elizabeth Frazer Professor Jan Zielonka Dr Vaclav Stetka Professor Vivienne Shue Andrew Melling Professor Michael Freeden* Dr Radoslaw Zubek Dr Maya Tudor* Professor Hew Strachan Maria Moreno Dr Michael Hart Dr Varun Uberoi* Mr Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds Julie Page ** Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh Mrs Traci Wilson Mr Patrick Travers Rasangi Prematilaka** Dr David Hine Nuffield Official Fellows Dr Shuxi Yin** * Dr Laura Valentini Samantha Rainbird** Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt Professor Geoffrey Evans Dr Michael Wheeler-Booth Christine Raybould Professor Christopher Hood Professor Iain McLean Dr Suke Wolton Gemma Roche Professor Andy Hurrell Professor David Miller Associate Members Dr Dominic Zaum* Sarah Travis Dr Edward Keene Mr Laurence Whitehead Mr Roham Alvandi Dr Yuen Foong Khong Dr Othon Anastasakis Professor Desmond King Mr Alan Angell Professor Neil MacFarlane Research Fellows Professor William Beinart Dr Paul Martin Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl** Dr Daniel Benamouzig Professor Walter Mattli Dr Emma Anderson* Dr Scott Blinder Dr Daniel McDermott Dr Peter Bajomi-Lazar Dr Carlo Bonura Professor Lois McNay Dr Alexander Betts Professor Archie Brown Professor Rana Mitter Dr Sarmila Bose* Dr Andreas Busch Dr Karma Nabulsi Dr Lucie Cerna* Dr David Butler Professor Ian Neary Dr Yekaterina Chzhen** Dr Christine Cheng Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis Dr Ruth Dixon Dr Richard Coggins Dr Nicholas Owen Dr Anne Geniets Dr Jean-Pascal Daloz* Miss Gillian Peele Dr Jonathan Floyd** Dr Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck Dr Sarah Percy Dr Le Thanh Forsberg* Dr Raffaella Del Sarto Dr Mark Philp Dr Abdourahmane Indrissa* Dr Michael Drolet Dr Timothy Power Dr Avril Keating** Mr John Dunbabin Dr Alex Pravda Mr Csaba Zsolt Kiss Dr Florence Faucher-King Professor David Robertson Dr Heike Kluver** Dr Stephen Fisher Dr Philip Robins Dr Johan Koskinen* Dr James Forder Professor David Rueda Dr Seth Lazar* Dr David Goldey Dr Gwendolyn Sasse Dr Brigitte Leucht * Dr Matthew Gibney Dr Petra Schleiter Dr Leany Lemos* Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill Dr Noa Schonmann** Dr David Levy Dr Nandini Gooptu

22 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 23 Academic Visitors 2010-11

he Department welcomes applications from Centre for Political Ideologies Media and Democracy in Central and Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group in the Tacademics and practitioners in the UK and overseas, Visiting Research Fellows Eastern Europe Social Sciences (formerly the European and those with a relevant professional or academic – Dr Peter Breiner (University at Albany, State Visiting Research Fellows Research Group) interest, who wish to contribute to, and participate in, the University of New York) – Dr Beata Klimkiewicz (Jagiellonian University) Visiting Research Fellows work of the Department as visitors or associates. – Dr Simon Griffiths(Goldsmiths University of – Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia) – Dr Daniel Benamouzig (Sciences Po) London) – Professor Radosław Markowski (Polish Academy – Dr Michel Cahen (Bordeaux University) – Sophie Heine (Université Libre de Bruxelles) of Sciences/Warsaw School of Social Sciences and – Dr Aurelie Daher (Sciences Po) In the academic year 2010-11 the Department has – Dr Mason C. Meiringer (Sciences Po Paris) Humanities) hosted the following visitors (grouped by centre or – Dr Marc Plattner (National Endowment for Post-doctoral Visiting Research Fellow programme affiliation): Visiting Doctoral Student Democracy/Journal of Democracy, Washington DC) – Nassim Majidi (Sciences Po) – M artin Johannes Beckstein (University of St Gallen) – Dr Manuela Preoteasa (University of Bucharest) CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Visiting Research Fellows Centre for the Study of Social JuStice Public Policy Unit – Yukari Akeda (Keio University Tokyo) Visiting Research Fellow Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Visiting Research Fellows – Dr Philipp Amour (University of Fribourg) – A ndrew Lister (Queen’s University, Ontario) Armed Conflict – Philip Collins (The Times and Demos) – Dr Katharina Coleman (University of British Visiting Research Fellows – P atrick Diamond (Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street) Columbia) – Dr Molly Cochran (Georgia Institute of Technology) – Guy Lodge (Institute for Public Policy Research, – S am Daws (United Nations Association of the UK) – P rofessor Max du Plessis (University of KwaZulu) London) Department – Dr Nora Fisher Onar (Bahcesehir University) – Professor Laurence Lustgarten (Oxford University) – S ophie Moullin (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit) – Frances Harrison (Freelance) Visiting Research Fellows – Simon o’Connor (Norwegian Red Cross) – Dr Zhaoyu Huang (China Institute of Contemporary – Dr Ben Clift (University of Warwick) – Olav Ofstad (International Federation of Red Cross/ International Relations) – Z oltan Fazekas (University of Vienna) Crescent Society) Reuters institute for the study of – M inna Jarvenpaa (European Stability Initiative) – Dr Jeroen van der Heijden (Delft University of – Professor Cheyney Ryan (University of Oregon) journalism Technology) – Dr Damien Scalia (Geneva Academy of International Visiting Research Fellows Research Associates – M alta Hinrichsen (University of Amsterdam) Humanitarian Law and Human Rights) – Nicholas Fraser (BBC) – Dr Jane Boulden (Queen’s University, Ontario) – Dr Tomila Lankina (Leicester Business School) – Dr Hugo Slim (C for C Ltd) – P rofessor Anton Harber (University of – Dr Alia Brahimi (London School of Economics) – Dr Karolina Milewicz (University of Lucerne) Witwatersrand) – Dr Evelyn Goh (Royal Holloway, University of – Dr Ike Okonta (New Centre for Social Research, Visiting Doctoral Students – Geert Linnebank (ITN) London) Nigeria) – Johanna Luttrell (University of Oregon) – P rofessor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia) – Dr Rama Mani (Freelance) – P rofessor Tongjin Yang (Chinese Academy of Social – Nic Newman (Digital Media and Journalism Sciences) Consultant) Visiting Doctoral Student – R ichard Sambrook (BBC) – Gjovalin Macaj (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Johanna Vehkoo (Aamulehti) – M arek Hanusch (Ministry of Finance and Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan Development Planning, Lesotho) Established in 2008, the scheme sponsors one scholar or practitioner from Pakistan at the Centre for Visiting Doctoral Students International Studies for one term. – S amantha Balaton-Chrimes (Monash University) – Dr Muhammad Arshad Khan (Pakistan Institute of – Diego Garzia (University of Siena) Development Economics) – Daniele Marchesi (University of Cologne) – M ikkel Runge Olesen (University of Copenhagen) Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Fellows – Hanna Schwander (University of Zurich) Thanks to the generosity of an Oxford alumnus, the – A gnieszka Walczak (University of Amsterdam) Fulbright Visiting Fellowship has been established in the University Department of International Relations for 10 years from 2010 to attract outstanding scholars or scholar-practitioners for stays in Oxford for periods of up to one term per year. – Professor Deborah Larson (UCLA) – P rofessor Joseph Nye (Harvard Kennedy School)

24 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 25 Finance Office Holders

he Department ended its financial year with a are largely attributable to research grant buy-outs. The Department would like to thank the following for their valuable contribution to teaching, administration Tmodest surplus of £85k which increased the reserves The slight increase in non-pay expenditure reflects the and management over the past year: balance to £1.142 million. This year-end position is in Department’s growing contribution to studentships Dr Nicholas Owen, Deputy Head of Department Professor Jennifer Welsh, Director of Graduate Studies line with the Department’s longer term financial plan. and bursaries. The Department also gained favourability (International Relations) The reserves offer an opportunity to invest in research on the new charging mechanism for infrastructure Dr Nigel Bowles, Director of Graduate Studies (Politics) capacity for the REF exercise and provide a cushion and capital charges. The Department continues to Dr Edward Keene, Director of Methods Training against future challenges we may face. Income of explore the diversification of its funding base through Professor Anne Deighton, Course Director, MPhil (International Relations) £9.101 million is slightly down from 2009/10 mainly various activities and has identified a further increase European Politics and Society due to a decrease in research income and overheads in departmental graduate studentships as a funding Dr Karma Nabulsi, Course Director, MPhil International for this year. On the expenditure side, salary savings priority. Dr David Rueda, Director of Methods Training (Politics) Relations Income and expenditure summary For the year ended 31 July 2011 Dr Daniel McDermott, Course Director, MPhil Political Dr Paul Martin, Director of Undergraduate Studies Theory Year ended Year ended Dr Suke Wolton, PPE Admissions Tutor 31 July 2011 31 July 2010 Dr James Tilley, Course Director, MPhil Comparative Income £000 £000 Government Dr Mark Philps, Placement Officer Joint Resources Allocation Model (JRAM) 5,952 5,493 Student/Other Fees 420 499 Research Income 1,609 2,007 Research Overheads 220 344 Trust Fund Income 340 297 Donations/Other 560 667 Total Income 9,101 9,307

Expenditure Pay 5,436 5,948 Non-Pay 1,751 1,553 Infrastructure and Capital Charges 1,829 2,020 Total Expenditure 9,016 9,521

Surplus/(Deficit) 85 (214)

Reserves brought forward 1,057 1,246 Reserves adjustment - 25 Reserves carry forward 1,142 1,057

Trust Fund Research DPIR Income 2010/11 DPIR Expenditure 2010/11 Income Overheads Infrastructure & 4% Donation/Other 2% Capital Charges 5% 20% Research Income 18%

Non-Pay 20% Pay 60% Other Student Fees Joint Resources 5% Allocation Model (JRAM) 65%

26 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report 27 Acknowledgements

The Department would also like to thank the following people:

Professor Nancy Bermeo for being a member of the Dr David Hine for his continuing role as Development General Purposes Committee from 2008-2011 Advisor

Dr Nigel Bowles for being Director of Graduate Studies Dr David Leopold for being Academic Editor for the and member of the General Purposes Committee from inaugural publication of the alumni magazine, InSpires 2008-2011 Dr Paul Martin for being Director of Undergraduate Professor Richard Caplan for being Director of the Studies in 2010-11 Centre for International Studies from 2008-2011 Dr Karma Nabulsi for being Course Director for the Professor Giovanni Capoccia for being Research MPhil in International Relations from 2008-2011 Director and member of the General Purposes Committee from 2008-2011 Dr Nicholas Owen for being Deputy Head of Department from 2008 to 2011 Dr Elizabeth Frazer for being a member of the General Purposes Committee from 2008-2011

Professor Michael Freeden for being Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies from its inception until 2011

Cover images courtesy of Sue Srawley, [email protected], with the exception of image of Tanzania, courtesy of Alexander Betts

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