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ANNuaL Report 1 August 2012 – 31 July 2013 Department of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 278700 Fax: +44 1865 278725 Email: [email protected] www.politics.ox.ac.uk www.politics.ox.ac.uk annual_report_cover_2013.indd 1-2 16/09/2013 11:20 Annual Report 1 August 2012 – 31 July 2013 Annual_Report_13th_2013.indd 1 16/09/2013 11:20 Table of Contents Introduction … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 3 Teaching … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 4 Graduate Studentships and Bursaries … … … … … … … … … … … 7 Appointments, Prizes and Awards … … … … … … … … … … … … 8 Research … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 9 Staff … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 19 Academic Visitors … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 21 Finance … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 23 Office Holders … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 24 Acknowledgments … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 24 Cover images courtesy of Susan Taylor: [email protected] 2 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual Report Annual_Report_13th_2013.indd 2 16/09/2013 11:20 Introduction Professor Stephen Whitefield, Head of Department HE YEAR past has been one of intense activity the Department’s REF exercise. Fourth, with the able Ton multiple fronts of great importance to the leadership of our Deputy Head of Department, Paul Department. First, as a consequence of successful Martin, we were successful in winning funding (subject fund-raising with Christ Church and Brasenose, whose to final agreement on the budget) to introduce step- cooperation is hugely appreciated, we have been able change to our undergraduate quantitative methods fully to endow two University Lectureships. Second, provision. Fifth, thanks to the intellectual power of our with the budgetary bonus of these endowments, plus academics and the superb assistance of our Research the implementation of the Department’s ‘size and Facilitator, Rasangi Prematilaka, we have seen a marked shape’ review which led to a modest but significant improvement in the success rate and total research reduction in our total staffing Full Time Equivalence, funding awards. Sixth, with the vital input of our plus further cooperation with Colleges led by Courses Finance and Projects Manager, Genevieve J. Garrido, Team Manager Maria Moreno – Christ Church, Lady and the Departmental Administrator, Janice French, Margaret Hall, Nuffield, St Cross, and University – we we have managed all this within budget while at the were able to double our total funding for doctoral same time undertaking a major refurbishment that will studentships. Third, even with the modest reduction in make DPIR space much more attractive for all to work in. our total permanent staff compliment, we have made Seventh, with Kate Candy in the lead, we have continued six new permanent appointments (Balliol, Brasenose, to develop our alumni relations and communication Magdalen, Nuffield, St Anne’s, St Hugh’s) as well as a and, with Liz Greenhalgh, to increase our capacity for number of fixed-term positions that should put us in knowledge exchange. Last, but certainly not least, a good position for the upcoming Research Excellence the Department has ensured its success for the future Framework (REF) submission. I am very grateful to by appointing my successor to start in January, 2014, all those who took part in the arduous appointment Elizabeth Frazer. process, in particular to Petra Schleiter, who is leading Annual Report 3 Annual_Report_13th_2013.indd 3 16/09/2013 11:20 Teaching UNDERGraDuaTE TEACHING Seth Johnston (Trinity), How NATO Endures: An Institutional Analysis Josiah Kaplan (St Cross), “The West and the ‘Rest’?”: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is the Critiquing the “Hierarchical Assumption” of Global Department’s largest undergraduate joint degree, Peace Enforcement Capacity popular both in the UK and around the world: Lucas Kello (Magdalen), urope in Contest: A Study of the Michaelmas 2012 saw an intake of 264 students of 24 Genesis of Peaceful Union, 1947-57 different nationalities. Only 15.6% of applicants were Amy King (St Antony’s), Imperialism, Industrialisation successful for 2012 entry, and this stiff competition for and War: The Role of Ideas in China’s Japan Policy, places continues to attract a high calibre of students. 1949-1965 In summer 2012, approximately 86% of PPE Finals Samuel Kleiner (St Antony’s), Declaring War No More: students took at least one Politics paper in their exams, US Presidential Utilization of International Legal demonstrating that Politics remains the most popular Frameworks to Expand the President’s Constitutional discipline within the joint degree. Power to Use Military Force History and Politics, the Department’s second joint Cetta Mainwaring (Wadham), Centring on the Margins: undergraduate degree, continues to grow in popularity. Migration Control in Malta, Cyprus and the European The course had a strong intake of 46 in Michaelmas term Union 2012, and the total number of applicants continues to Travers McLeod (Balliol), Rule of Law in War: International rise each year. Law and United States Counterinsurgency Doctrine in the Era of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, 2001-2009 Chris Oates (Balliol), The Role of the United States in the GraDuaTE TEACHING European Union’s Decision-making on Security Policy: 2001-2005 GraDuaTE INTAKE 2012-13 Emily Paddon (St Antony’s), Taking Sides: Impartiality, Research Intake Norm Contestation and the Politics of UN Peacekeeping Rahul Prabhakar (St John’s), Varieties of Regulation: How DPhil International Relations 13 States Pursue and Set International Financial Standards DPhil Politics 23 Diarmuid Torney (St Antony’s), A Leader without Followers? European Union Relations with China and Taught Intake India on Climate Change, 1990-2009 Clara Weinhardt (Hertford), Playing Different Games - MPhil International Relations 28 West African and European Perspectives on Negotiating MPhil Politics (Comparative Government) 15 Economic Partnership Agreements MPhil Politics (European Politics and Society) 11 Sarah von Billerbeck (Nuffield), Whose Peace? Local MPhil Politics (Political Theory) 11 Ownership and UN Peacebuilding MSc (Politics Research) 2 MSc (Political Theory Research) 3 Titles of successful DPhil Politics theses in 2012-13 included: Rawya Amer (St Cross), State-Society Relations and Titles of successful DPhil International Relations Regional Role: Comparing Egypt and South Africa theses in 2012-13 included: Rachel Bayefsky (New College), Humiliation and Liberal David Blagden (University College), Economic Openness, Democratic Politics Power and Conflict Johanna Boersch-Supan (Nuffield), Peace as Societal Francesca Giovannini (Trinity), Cooperating to Compete: Transformation: Intergenerational Power-Struggles the Role of Regional Powers in Global Nuclear and the Role of Youth in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone Governance Lydiah Kemunto Bosire (New College), Judicial Statecraft Nina Hall (St Antony’s), Moving Beyond Their Mandates? in Kenya and Uganda: Explaining Transitional Justice How International Organisations are Responding to Choices in the Age of the International Criminal Court Climate Change Maja Bovcon (Merton), France’s Response to the Ivorian Tiang Boon Hoo (Nuffield), A Responsible Great Power: Crisis Under Gbagbo Through the Lens of IR Regime The Anatomy of China’s Proclaimed Identity Theory 4 Department of Politics and International Relations Annual_Report_13th_2013.indd 4 16/09/2013 11:20 Daniel Brieba (Nuffield), Disaggregating State Capacity: Barney McManigal (Merton), Controlling Controversial Explaining Policy Effectiveness in Latin America, 1996- Science: Biotechnology Policy in Britain and the United 2006 States (1984-2004) Melanie Bunce (Green Templeton), Reporting From ‘The Kristina Mikulova (Nuffield), “Missionary Zeal of Recent Field’: Foreign Correspondents and the International Converts”: Norms and Norm Entrepreneurs in the News Coverage of East Africa Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic, Poland and Janalee Cherneski (Brasenose), Mind the Gap: Slovakia 1989-2011 Communication Beyond Representation in Joseph Marek Naczyk (St Antony’s), The Financial Industry and Schumpeter’s Political Thinking Pension Privatization in Europe: Shareholder Capitalism Lillian Cherotich (St Antony’s), Political Corruption in Triumphant? Kenya: The Goldenberg Scandal Abdillah Noh (St Antony’s), Small Steps, Large Outcome: Ian Cooper (St Antony’s), Parties, Factions and Votes: A A Historical Institutional Analysis of Malaysia’s Political Comparative Study of Electoral Politics in Post-Colonial Economy Namibia Adam Sandel (Jesus), Prejudice Reconstructed: A Defense Diana Fu (Linacre), Flexible Repression: Engineering of Situated Understanding Control and Contention in Authoritarian China Stephanie Silverman (St Antony’s), The Normative Ethics Aleksandra Gadzala (Merton), China and Ethiopia: The of Immigration Detention in Liberal States Political Dynamics of Economic Relations in the New Michal Simecka (Nuffield), Exporting Post-Communist Global Order Experience: Intra-regional Diffusion and Learning in John Givens (St Antony’s), Suing Dragons? Taking the Eastern Europe, 2003-2011 Chinese State to Court Piero Tortola (St Antony’s), Federalism, the State and the Kerah Gordon-Solmon (The Queen’s College), If You’re City: Explaining Urban Policy Institutions in the United an Egalitarian, How Come You Don’t Believe in Genetic States and in the European Union Enhancement? Eno Trimcev (St Edmund Hall), Rethinking Political
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