Tenth Annual Report 1 August 2009 – 31 July 2010

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 1 20/09/2010 14:42 Table of Contents

Introduction … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …3

Vision … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …4

News and Highlights … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 5

Teaching … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …10

Graduate Studentships and Bursaries … … … … … … … … … … … … …13

Research … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …14

Awards, Fellowships and Prizes … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …28

Administration … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …30

Finance … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …31

Staff … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …32

Academic Visitors … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …34

Acknowledgments … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …Insidebackcover

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h arte Dep ment has had another extremely Tsuccessful year. In most external rating scales, we continue to be the top-ranked Politics Department in the UK. On the financial front, we have returned to balance after a few years of planned deficit, and have substantially expanded postgraduate research student funding for coming years. Research funding applications continue their rising trend, with a number of very substantial successes. Undergraduate and post-graduate applications are extremely healthy. Our courses continue to draw excellent students and their evaluations suggest that they have a happy and productive time with us. The Department, for the first time, had an artist-in-residence who, in addition to leading a seminar on art and politics, mounted an exhibition of paintings in the Manor Road Building that completely (and positively) transformed the space in which we work. We should do that again. As I find every year, individual achievements are too numerous to cover fully here. Among the highlights: Christopher Hood’s exemplary ESRC Public Services would like to wish them every success in the next stage Programme wound up officially in a highly successful of their professional lives. closing conference in London in December. It is fair to Several challenges face us in the next year. One is, say that the Programme has taken the study of public of course, the prospect of deep cuts in public funding services in the UK to an entirely new level. Jan Zielonka of higher education and the possible reorientation of has established an extremely promising ERC-funded the funds that remain towards the STEM disciplines. interdisciplinary project to study the interface between Addressing these risks will require careful strategic politics and media in Central and Eastern Europe. David planning. A second is the need to accelerate preparation Levy and his colleagues succeeded in having the core for the 2013-14 Research Excellence Framework. funding of the Reuters Institute renewed and increased Block grant research funding is a critical element of for at least three years. our financial strategy. Although the ESRC has yet to Among honours won by Department colleagues, the announce the results of the interuniversity competition Légion d’Honneur was awarded to Vernon Bogdanor, for Doctoral Training Centres, we shall face substantial Giovanni Capoccia won the Best Paper in Comparative reorganisation of doctoral methods and skills provision Democratisation award at the 2009 APSA convention, whatever the outcome of that competition. The recent Geoff Evans received the PSA’s 2009 Harrison Prize, establishment of the Blavatnik School of Government Seth Lazar received the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize is exciting and welcome, but it will require careful of the American Philosophical Association, and Maya consideration of questions relating to curriculum, the Tudor won the APSA’s 2010 Gabriel Almond Prize. extent of colleagues’ involvement in the activities of the Congratulations to them all. It is a privilege to work School, and financial relations between the Department among such accomplished colleagues. and the School. Finally, the Department still needs to find It has been a quiet year in recruitment, although we its niche in the University’s accelerating development have invested in the hiring of two extremely promising efforts. Although this is a complex agenda, the early-career specialists in the Politics and International Department is in good shape to take it on. And the new Relations of the Middle East in order to address growing Head, Stephen Whitefield, has my full confidence as we demand in that sub-field. In addition we shall be look to the future. joined by two senior appointments in theory and in This is my last introductory note. It only remains for international relations in the coming year. We are losing me to say that it has been an honour to have had the two colleagues to retirement this year, Vernon Bogdanor opportunity to head this Department for five years. and Gavin Williams. We have benefited greatly from I am grateful for the support and consideration of my their wisdom and commitment for a very long time. I colleagues.

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OLITICAL STRUCTURES and processes have The Department is committed to providing graduate Pprofound impacts on the distribution of resources and undergraduate training that grounds our students necessary for human life, on the degree of autonomy in the discipline, and that encourages innovative which human beings enjoy as they pursue their research and writing, based on rigorous reasoning individual lives, and on people’s and communities’ and careful reflection. We encourage our students capacities to live free from the threat of violence as to explore a variety of qualitative and quantitative they go about their affairs. methods in their research. We recognise that research Our Department produces research of global quality design belongs to the researcher; our role is to provide in all of these crucial areas. We seek to deepen scholarly the knowledge and skills to enable them to make their understanding of politics and international relations, choices. Our teaching relies heavily on Oxford’s small and to produce research that is useful in addressing group and tutorial methods, but is enriched with a practical policy problems. Our community is pluralistic number of newer techniques. We seek to train our in approach and method. We are outward-looking, students not only for academic life, but for a variety of seeking to build research ties across disciplinary other public and private sector careers. boundaries within the University and enthusiastically participating in European and international networks of research excellence.

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DPIRa St ff in the Media The 41 research projects the This year has seen staff from the Department making Programme commissioned have frequent media appearances on a wide variety of produced many discoveries issues, and being particularly in demand on discussions about who sees what as good concerning the UK General Election, the coalition public service performance, how government and the implications of the global economic performance can be measured crisis. Professor Vernon Bogdanor and Professor and managed and what the causes Christopher Hood have made numerous contributions and consequences of good or bad performance are. For instance, we Professor Christopher to programmes on BBC Radio 4, and to publications such Hood as the Financial Times and the Guardian. Professor Iain know for the first time how public McLean has written articles for attitudes to public service management compare across the Guardian and the Independent the countries of the UK, we know much more about how on the implications of a British managers and professionals respond to various kinds of coalition government, and been incentives, and we know much more about the scope interviewed by international and limits of performance metrics in public services. media on the subject. Professor Such findings are now appearing in top journals across Ngaire Woods has been quoted the world; they have been presented on five continents in the Financial Times on global Professor Iain McLean and the Programme’s director Christopher Hood has economic policy, and won an picked up three international awards for his work over online debate in The Economist defending fair trade. the past three years. Professor Rana Mitter has been a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs, as has Professor Avi Shlaim on conflict in the Middle East.

The Department and the University of Oxford Are Top-Ranked The Department of Politics and International Relations and the University of Oxford have again topped UK university league tables. The Department of Politics came top in The Independent’s ‘The Complete University Guide’ 2011 rankings, and the Guardian’s ‘University guide 2011’. In The PSP team from left to right: Rikki Dean, Bryony Gill, Deborah both rankings, the Department received a total score of Wilson, Mat Kladney, Ruth Dixon, Gail Savage 100, the highest possible. The University of Oxford has been named top But the Programme has been more than the sum of its University in the UK for the ninth year in a row. ‘The Times parts. Over the past five years it has mounted 100-odd Higher Education’ - QS World University Rankings 2009 – conferences and meetings devoted to analysis of public placed Oxford in joint fifth place overall worldwide, and service performance at all levels, from a session in an third in the Social Sciences. Oxford comprehensive to a big conference held last year in London’s QE II Conference Centre which involved top- level civil servants. It has produced a network of more Conclusion of the ESRC Public Services than 100 researchers and experts on public services in Programme Britain alone, who have developed whole new areas of In showbiz they say you should always leave your research, for example in medical performance. On top of audience wanting more. That’s usually easier said than the many project-specific journal articles from individual done, but the ESRC Public Services Programme that research teams, the Programme has five books and seven Professor Christopher Hood and his team have directed special issues of top journals published or in progress, from the Department over the past six years will leave a and has engaged with literally dozens of practitioner lot behind it when it ends this summer. organisations, all of which it will leave wanting more.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 5 20/09/2010 14:42 Indeed, it is likely to have an impact well into the public service broadcasting in eastern and southern 2010s: because public service performance is just as Europe. Future seminars are planned for 2010-11 on important in hard times as in prosperous ones, because democracy and pluralism in the region. the Programme has influenced the work of organisations For further information, see such as the Institute for Government and the 2020 http://mde.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Public Services Commission, because of the national and international networks it has established and because many of those who have worked with the Programme Oxford Hosts Project on the will continue to influence research and practice in public ‘Responsibility to Protect’ services. Oxford University’s Centre for International Studies (CIS) is collaborating with the New York-based Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect to undertake research Professor Jan Zielonka awarded €2 million into the status of the evolving norm of the ‘responsibility by the European Research Council to protect’ (R2P). Professor Jan Zielonka has been awarded a prestigious Led by Dr Rama Mani, a member of the Global Centre’s ERC Advanced Investigator Grant of over €2 million. The International Advisory Board and a Senior Research scheme is designed to support established researchers Associate at CIS, the project focuses on the Southern with an exceptional track-record, helping them to set up cultures of Africa, Asia, Middle East-Central Asia, and innovative research projects at the interface between Latin America to shed light on one critical and heretofore various disciplines. overlooked dimension of the responsibility to protect, Jan Zielonka has used the namely culture. Titled ‘Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in funding to set up a four-year Southern Cultures’, the project examines whether the interdisciplinary research project values and principles underlying the concept of R2P looking at the interaction are endogenous to Southern cultures and whether between Media and Democracy they are embedded within the philosophical, religious, in Central and Eastern Europe spiritual, and cultural traditions of the countries of the (MDCEE). But rather than focusing global South. If so, it is thought, the R2P norm might on whether the media is good or acquire greater universal resonance. It is expected Professor Jan Zielonka bad for democracy, the project that the project will also reveal distinct cultural or turns this on its head and asks: what sort of democracy geographical variations in ideas about the appropriate does the media need if it is to function effectively? The implementation of the responsibility to protect in project looks at both old and new media in the ten different contexts. Central and Eastern European countries to join the EU A major aim of the project is to draw on the since 2004, testing hypotheses on media ownership, knowledge of Southern scholars whose work is often regulation and professionalisation. Its findings should highly respected and well known within their home be broadly applicable to consolidating democracies countries or regions but is often not known or ignored worldwide. in the Politics and International Relations literature Launched in October 2009 and managed through and in policy circles around the United Nations. All the the Department, MDCEE has a core team of media contributors to the project originate from countries that specialists comprising a Co-Investigator and three have experienced violent conflict or mass atrocities, Senior Research Fellows. The project is also working and have first-hand experience in living through and with a range of leading specialists in Central and Eastern addressing these issues. The contributors represent a European media and democracy, including an Advisory wide geographical spread and a mix of Anglophone, Committee and project-funded Visiting Fellows drawn Francophone, Hispanophone, and Arabophone writers, from across the region and across the disciplines. and they draw on a broad range of literary and scholarly MDCEE’s first nine months have been devoted to traditions. The studies will be published in a volume to establishing the initial research agenda and undertaking be edited by Dr Mani and Professor Thomas Weiss, the fieldwork in Central andE astern Europe. The project also Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International organised successful international seminars on research Studies, which houses the Global Center, at the City methods in media studies and political science, and on University of New York’s Graduate Center.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 6 20/09/2010 14:42 A conference was held on 15 January 2010 at CIS Anglo-German ‘State of the State’ that brought together the authors and the editors with Fellowship Programme scholars from diverse disciplines—including Philosophy, The Department and the Institute of European and Theology, Art History, and Anthropology, as well as Comparative Law at the University of Oxford - in Politics and International Relations—primarily from cooperation with the Universities of Bremen and the University of Oxford. The purpose was to provide a Göttingen - are hosting the Anglo-German ‘State of the forum for interaction between scholars at Oxford and State’ Fellowship Programme. the project’s authors, and to discuss the draft papers for This Fellowship Programme, which is supported the publication and the project as a whole. A second by the German Volkswagen Foundation, was officially and final authors’ meeting and public policy conference launched in October 2009 in Oxford and will run for five is planned around mid-October 2010 in New York City years. The Programme will enable up to 10 scholars to to coincide with the UN General Assembly and the spend two years at the Department or at the Institute Advisory Board meeting of the Global Center. of European Law at Oxford. Fellows can also choose Further details about the project can be found at to spend some time at the Universities of Bremen or http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/R2P Göttingen. southernperspectives.asp

Electoral Democracy The Department received funding for two early stage researchers as a result of its collaboration in the EC-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network, Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM), coordinated by Exeter University. The network involves academic institutions from across Europe, bringing together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in elections research to a Photo (From left to right): Reidar Maliks, Brigitte Leucht, Lucie cohort of early stage and experienced researchers. This Cerna, Sara Hobolt year, the researchers attended ELECDEM workshops on ‘Electoral Survey Design’ in Budapest and ‘Experimental The Anglo-German Fellowship Programme involves Methods’ in Brussels. Dr Sara Hobolt, Professor Geoffrey scholars who work on the transformation of the modern Evans and Professor Raymond Duch supervise the two state with a focus on Western Europe and/or European PhD students, Traci Wilson and Zsolt Kiss, based in the integration, be it in political science, law, history, Department. They also jointly supervise the projects economics or sociology. The Programme aims to enable ‘Accountability and Attribution of Responsibility in the outstanding scholars at the start of their careers to spend European Union’ and ‘Comparing Observational and time at Oxford and allow them to turn their finished Experimental Studies: Campaign Effects on Electoral doctoral theses into an English-language manuscript Behaviour’, which are hosted at Oxford University. For suitable for publication with a good university press. more information, please see: www.elecdem.eu The Programme also seeks to establish an international network of leading scholars specialising in the study of the state.

Fellows for 2009-10 were: • Dr Lucie Cerna: ‘State Responses to Global Challenges: The Case of High-Skilled Immigration Policies’ • Dr Brigitte Leucht: ‘Learning competition: The origins of European economic integration’ • Dr Reidar Maliks: ‘Making the Center Hold: Kant on Sovereignty and Resistance’

Traci Wilson and Zsolt Kiss Details of the ‘State of the State’ lecture series (held

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 7 20/09/2010 14:42 in Oxford) and workshop (held at the University of Gavin Williams retires Bremen), including podcasts, can be found on the (by Gavin Williams Celebrations Organising Committee: Programme website at http://www.politics.ox.ac. Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Dr Ricardo Soares de uk/research/projects/Anglo-German_Fellowships/ Oliveira, Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch, Dr Luisa Pinto Teixeira, Dr Nic index.asp Cheeseman, and Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha) Please also find details of forthcoming events and The ‘Celebrating Gavin’ the people involved in the Fellowship Programme. conference to mark the The Fellowship Programme is coordinated by Dr Sara retirement of Gavin Williams Hobolt. was held on 9 July (at the Department) and 10 July (at the Oxford Department of ‘William Godwin’s Diary: Reconstructing International Development). a Social and Political Culture 1788-1836’ The event was a great conference success, bringing together On 23-24 July 2010 the Department hosted a British a broad range of students Academy-funded conference titled ‘William Godwin’s and colleagues across the Gavin Williams Diary: Reconstructing a Social and Political Culture continents, disciplines and 1788-1836’. The conference marked the culmination of generations to celebrate the scholarship, teaching, a three-year Leverhulme Foundation-funded digitising service to the collegiate university, solidarity and and editing project on the diary Godwin kept daily for friendship of Gavin Williams. Thanks to the generous almost half a century. It is a cryptic source, listing what support of numerous sources around the University a he wrote, what he read, who he saw and where he went. number of former students from abroad were able to There are also references to events, both major and participate in the conference, which added greatly to the minor – in January 1793, ‘execution of Louis’; in June festivities. All told, over 30 speakers and 50 participants 1825, ‘void a large worm’! The conference consisted of were in attendance. 35 papers demonstrating the light the diary sheds on The conference covered many of the core themes different aspects of late 18th and early 19th century of Gavin’s career, including the political economy of culture – politics, diaries, sociability, publishing, the Nigeria, South African history, understanding agrarian theatre, visual culture and literary women – given societies, academia as a vocation, Weber, Marx, and by scholars from around the world and from a range political sociology. Professor Lionel Cliffe (University of disciplinary backgrounds, literary studies, history, of Leeds) opened the conference by paying respect theatre studies, political thought and statistics (the diary to Gavin’s willingness to devote his time and energies has significant potential for network analysis). The first to the task of institution building, and spoke warmly day’s sessions culminated in a first public performance of their work together setting up the influential of Godwin’s tragedy St Dunstan (1790). The project has Review of African Political Economy. Thereafter many been run by Dr David O’Shaughnessy (DPIR), Dr Mark of the speakers highlighted the personal influence Philp (DPIR) and Professor Victoria Myers (Pepperdine of Gavin on the careers and lives of his students and University). colleagues, including colourful anecdotes about Gavin’s For further details see http://godwindiary.politics. exhortations to ‘read Weber for breakfast’! A number ox.ac.uk A fully searchable website with an edited of speakers also noted the on-going relevance of transcription of the diary and digitised scans of the Gavin’s research in light of new empirical information, original will be hosted on the Bodleian Library website finding that his insights had much to contribute to an from October 2010. explanation of the puzzles they confronted in their own research. At an excellent concluding dinner at St Peter’s College, Professor Barbara Harriss-White summarised Gavin’s great importance as a scholar-activist, teacher, researcher, and friend. The standing ovation in appreciation of Gavin that followed demonstrated the extent to which the sentiments so eloquently voiced by Photo (From left to right): David Fallon, Kate Barush, Susan Manley, Matthew Grenby Barbara were shared by all those present.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 8 20/09/2010 14:43 P srofes or Vernon Bogdanor retires Maxim Kantor (by Dr David Butler) Department artist-in-residence, 2009-11 Not many dons survive 44 Russian artist, novelist, and playwright Maxim Kantor, years as a College tutor, and artist-in-residence at the Department of Politics and even fewer preserve to the International Relations, held an exhibition of prints and end the explosive vitality oils at the Manor Road Building from 26 April – 10 May of youth. Vernon was a 2010 entitled ‘Misteria of Politics Nowadays’. Please see theorist when he became the artist’s website at http://www.maximkantor.com. Brasenose’s first Politics Maxim Kantor delivered a lecture, ‘Artist as Politician’ Fellow in 1966. But he in May 2010. To listen to the podcast, please visit the soon turned to institutions University of Oxford’s iTunes U site (Social Sciences/ and for generations he has Department of Politics and International Relations/track produced a flood of books 10). and articles. He has lectured Professor Vernon Bogdanor widely and presided over dynamic seminars. He has advised governments and parliamentary committees and he has become a widely read political commentator, always full of new and combative ideas. His scholarship is based on an extraordinarily wide range of reading and a formidable memory for quotations and anecdotes. His books cover constitutional issues, local government, devolution, elections and recent history; he has 50 entries in the Bodleian catalogue. He has always expressed strong views on almost everything, often annoying even his admirers. He makes predictions that are, not infrequently, wrong. But he is never boring and, as a Newspaper oil/canvas long-time collaborator, I can testify to the precision and learning of his writing, whatever new subject he takes up. He may be moving from Oxford to Hampstead - but we certainly haven’t heard the last of him. He describes his recreations as ‘music, walking, talking’. One could add ‘writing and provoking’. All these will certainly continue. He is not of a retiring disposition.

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Undergraduate Teaching by two Graduate Studies Committees (GSCs) – one in International Relations, chaired by my colleague Professor Jennifer Welsh; and one in Politics, chaired Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is the by me. The Committees’ work is supported by Amber Department’s largest undergraduate joint degree, Prime, the Graduate Studies Assistant in the Social with an intake of 240 students in 2009-10. It remains Sciences Division, and much preparatory and follow- hugely popular with applicants, both within the UK and up work for the Politics GSC is done by Andrew Melling, increasingly internationally, despite fierce competition Politics Graduate Studies Secretary, and Maria Moreno, for places (only 18% of applicants were successful in Courses Manager, upon both of whom I depend for 2009-10). Politics remains a core part of the degree, and first-class advice and guidance. To these three superb in summer 2010 approximately 90% of Finals students colleagues, I record my grateful thanks. chose to offer Politics options in their exams. This year Although subject to the overarching authority of the two new papers were offered inE uropean Politics. Department’s General Purposes Committee, and the In the past, the Department has taken an sovereign body of the Politics Sub-faculty, each GSC administrative lead in the provision of the PPE degree. has substantial operational autonomy within its own The appointment of a PPE Administrator in December jurisdiction. A review of the Politics GSC’s agenda and 2009 has strengthened administrative support for reports in 2009-10 gives a good indication of the flow the three subjects and provided a central point of of policy-making, implementation, and oversight. In coordination. The PPE Administrator role is based in each meeting, the Committee reviewed applications the Department and is combined with the Politics from graduate students for transfer and confirmation Undergraduate Studies Secretary role. This year PPE of status; received reports from assessors of previous held its first Open Days for prospective students: 400 such applications; received reports of Examination - 500 visitors attended each of the two days, which Boards for the MPhil and MSc degree examinations included presentations by course tutors and the and for the first-year Qualifying Tests, and considered opportunity to meet both with current students and their implications for teaching and assessment; recent graduates of PPE. approved the appointment of examiners for DPhil viva The Department’s second undergraduate joint voce examinations, and received reports from DPhil degree, History and Politics, had an intake of 57 in 2009- examiners. In most cases, these items of business are 10. The degree continues to be a popular choice for straightforward. But some generate wider questions of applicants, with the total number of applicants rising policy which demand – and receive – the Committee’s year on year for the past three years. attention and which sometimes generate wider discussion and consideration within the Department, especially with Dr Nicholas Owen in his capacity as Deputy Head of Department. Among these larger questions in 2009-10 have been those of the bid for the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, and the Department’s policy towards graduate funding – two major strategic questions for the Department and for its graduate community. Much the most pleasurable aspect of my work in chairing meetings of the GSC is to receive reports – PPE Open Day: PPE students welcoming a prospective student, frequently warmly praising reports – from examiners overseen by Suke Wolton, PPE Admissions Tutor who have examined DPhil candidates. During 2009- 10, the Politics GSC has had the pleasure of approving reports on the astonishingly wide intellectual range of Graduate Teaching theses listed below. As Chairman of the Politics GSC, I thank these formidable scholars for their intellectual Report from the Director of Graduate Studies in Politics: contributions to the Department and to the academic Dr Nigel Bowles profession, congratulate them upon their remarkable The Department’s policy for graduate education, achievements, and also record the Department’s training, and supervision is implemented and overseen gratitude to their supervisors:

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 10 20/09/2010 14:43 Sara Ababneh, Islamic Political Parties as a means of Thinethavone Soutphommasane, Patriotism and Women’s Empowerment? The Case of Hamas and the National Culture Islamic Action Front Juan Ruiz Vasquez, Colombian Police Policy: Police and Ayelet Banai, Drawing Boundaries: Nations, States and Urban Policing, 1991 - 2006 Self-Determination Nicholas Vrousalis, Equality, Ownership, and Time: On the Brian Brennan, Democracy without Elections: Content and Structure of Intergenerational Justice Understanding the Cancellation Phenomenon in Alexa Zellentin, Neutrality in Political Decision Making California’s Special District Elections Zahler Bryan, Displacing Imminence: A Reconsideration of Report from the Director of Studies in International Jus Ad Bellum Relations: Professor Jennifer Welsh Lucie Cerna, The Governance of High-Skilled Labour International Relations remains an extremely popular Immigration in Advanced Industrial Countries subject for graduate work within the University of Mason Chamie, Political Theorists and Public Intellectuals: Oxford, attracting high-quality students from around Strauss, Hayek and the Post-War American Conservative the world. This past year, we had over 350 applications Movement for our signature two-year Masters degree, the Master Betsy Cooper, New Tactics in the War on Terror? The Impact of Philosophy in International Relations (we accept of Terrorism on Refugee and Immigrant Intergration roughly 20-25 students each year) and almost 200 Policies applications for the doctoral programme (we accept Jeremy Farris, Authority, Philosophical Anarchism, and roughly 10-12 per year). This past academic year in Legitimacy International Relations, we had 41 Masters students and John Filling, Freedom as Self-Actualisation in Hegel and 100 doctoral students. These two streams of graduate Marx work are overseen by Dr Karma Nabulsi, MPhil Course Jonathan Floyd, The Impossibility Thesis: A Methodological Director, and Dr Edward Keene, Director of Research Explanation of Interminability in Contemporary Political Training. I am extremely grateful to both of these Philosophy colleagues for their superb work in overseeing the Sarah Fine, Immigration and the Right to Exclude intellectual content and direction of these courses. My Lluis Orriols Galve, Social Policies and Vote choice in OECD thanks as well to Maria Moreno, Courses Manager, and Democracies Marga Lyall, International Relations Secretary, for their Armen Hakhverdian, Political Representation and its advice, guidance and general support. Mechanisms: A Dynamic Left-Right Approach for the As Chair of the International Relations Graduate United Kingdom Studies Committee, I must also thank my colleagues Shadi Hamid, Democrats Without Democracy: The who sit on the Committee for both their ideas and Unlikely Moderation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt judgment on how to improve our graduate teaching and Jordan and respond to opportunities for innovation, and their Jennifer Heyward, Environment and Cultural Identity: A diligent work in serving as assessors on transfers of New Dimension of Climate Justice status and confirmation of status. There were, as ever, Timothy Hicks, Strategic Partisan Policy Seekers a number of interesting issues of policy to come before Robert Jubb, Contractualism and Agency: A Defence the committee, including in 2009-10 the question of Jessica Kimpell, Order, Stability and Freedom in the the Department’s role in the bid for an ESRC doctoral Republic: A Critique of Neo-Republican Political Thought training centre. It is also the IR GSC’s role to respond Francisco Lloreda, Public Policies for Reducing Violence, to the concerns and constructive feedback from our with particular reference to Youth Violence in Colombia graduate students, through their representatives on the Maria Mexi, Elders and Strangers: The Many Faces of Soft Graduate Joint Consultative Committee. Europeanisation We continue to believe that our approach to Anna Oldmeadow, Judging the ‘War on Terror’: Law, International Relations, which embraces both a Politics and the Power to Decide plurality of research methods and an interdisciplinary Emre Ozcan, What Constitutes a Democratic People? perspective (including politics, law, history and political Christian Schemmel, Social Justice as Relational Equality economy), puts us at the forefront of graduate teaching Raymond Sontag, Instruments of Control: A Principal- in the subject worldwide. In addition to our core courses Agent Study of the Russian Presidential Administration in history and theory, our Masters degree offers a wide and its Involvement in Regional Relations 1991 - 2008 range of optional subjects, including: The International

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 11 20/09/2010 14:43 Relations of the Developing World, Strategic Studies, Jean-Marc Rickli, The Evolution of the Military Policies of Global Institutional Design, International Normative European Neutral and Non-Allied States after the Cold Theory, and a number of region-specific subjects. War, 1989 – 2004 Combined with our programme of research methods, Daniel C Twining, From Preponderance to Balance of these courses give students a solid grounding in the Power: U.S. Security Strategy in Asia, 1991 – 2008 academic discipline of international relations, and prepare them for either further graduate work, or Graduate Intake 2009-10 careers in policy-making, journalism, business, and the MPhil International Relations 20 non-profit sector. We continue to take great pride in the trajectory of our alumni, which currently includes two MPhil Comparative Government 18 high-ranking members of the Obama Administration! MPhil European Politics and Society 14 One of the most enjoyable aspects of the job MPhil Political Theory 14 of Director of Graduate Studies is reviewing the MSc Political Research 2 outstanding performance of our students on their MSc Political Research Theory 2 courses. For this, I would like to express particular DPhil International Relations 24 thanks to colleagues who act as supervisors. This past year, there were 3 Distinctions on our MPhil course DPhil Politics 45 (a demanding achievement). The top-performing thesis, and winner of the Malone Prize in International Student and Alumni Awards, Fellowships and Prizes Relations, was Henning Tamm, Explaining Alignments in have included the following: the Congo Wars, 1996-2009: Governments, Rebel Groups, and Power Politics in Central Africa. David Blagden, DPhil candidate in International In terms of the doctoral programme, the IR GSC Relations, was awarded the Royal United Services received many glowing reports on successful theses. In Institute for Defence and Security Studies’ 2009 2009-10 the titles of these included: Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize for original writing on Marton Benedek, Conditionality and Kinship: Hungarian contemporary national and international defence and Neighbourhood Policy, 1990-2004 security issues. Megan E Bradley, Just Return: Redress for Refugees and the Responsibilities of States Alexander Hamilton, DPhil candidate in Politics, was Patty Chang, The Demand for Small Arms and Light named Bernard Marcus Fellow by the Institute for Weapons in Senegal Humane Studies in recognition of his promising academic Alexander R de Costa, The International Causes of African research in the Political Economy of Public Policy and Underdevelopment 1960 – 2007 applied work in Comparative Public Policy. Aleksandra Dier, The Europeanisation of National Defence? Military Reform in Germany and Poland 1999-2009 Seth Lazar was awarded the biennial 2011 American Jean-Francois Drolet, American Neoconservatism and the Philosophical Association Frank Chapman Sharp Prize Politics of Liberal Modernity for the best unpublished monograph on the philosophy Par O Engstrom, Transnational Human Rights and of war and peace. This award was for his thesis, War and Democratization: Argentina and the Inter-American Associative Duties. Human Rights System (1976-2007) Alastair S Fraser, Prefab Politics: PRSPs and the Limits of Andrew March’s book Islam and Liberal Citizenship (OUP, Donor-Built Civil Society in Zambia, 1999-2009 2009), which was based on his Oxford DPhil thesis, won Carolyn Haggis, The African Union and Intervention: The the 2009 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion Origins and Implications of Article 4(H) of the 2001 from the American Academy of Religion (Constructive- Constitutive Act Reflective Studies Category). Andrew March is currently Andrew Kim, Focusing the Spotlight: The Effects of an Assistant Professor at Yale University, having gained Transnational Advocacy Networks on State Response to his DPhil in Politics in 2006. Conflict-Related Crises Liat S Radcliffe Ross, Muslim Pressure Groups and Foreign Please see details of our courses at Policy in the United States, Canada, and the United http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/prospective Kingdom: Identity, Interests and Action

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DARTE EP M NTAL BURSARIES, ESRC Studentships 2009-10 David Blagden Neal Carrier Adam Freeman Nikia Clarke Christopher Kowol Juliette Gerstein Gavin Jacobson CEELBAS ESRC STUDENTSHIPS Ben Jasper Alison Smith Cetta Mainwaring Joanna Szostek Zoe McCallum Kristina Mikulova ESRC-funded Studentships Yael Peled on ‘Equity and Climate Klem Ryan Change’ Luke Tomlinson DEPARTMENTAL STUDENTSHIPS, 2009-10 RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS Alexander Barker Rakim Brooks Neal Carrier Nina Hall Zoe Marks Scott Hugo John Marshall Amy King Kristina Mikulova Sarah Kleinman Shany Mor Jannis Paehler vor der Holte Maximillian Thompson CLARENDON AWARDS AHRC Doctoral Awards Daniel Asher Iason Gabriel Patrick Barron Alice MacGregor David Edelman Zoe Sullivan Caleb Yong

AHRC Research Preparation Masters Awards Heather Garlick John Halstead

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he Department’s research activities continue to the Department is pleased that the Thomson Reuters Tgrow and develop. Highlights from our activities Foundation has awarded a further three years of this year are summarised below. funding Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism to enable the Institute to maintain its activities until 2013. In particular, several externally-funded programmes Research Funding of research got underway this academic year on a wide The Research Support Team has been involved in range of topics, including those in the table below. supporting a number of exciting grant applications Internal University funds, such as the OUP John Fell to major funding schemes. The level of applications Research Fund, remain a valuable source of funding for rose sharply and, although the outcome of many of early-career researchers and for pilot projects which them is not yet known, colleagues in the Department we hope will lead to larger externally-funded research have continued to win funding from a wide range of projects. sources. This funding enables collaborative research, Post-doctoral fellowship applications continue to be larger-scale projects, and other opportunities for a large part of the Department’s activities, providing exchange, including conferences and workshops, career development opportunities for finishing that could not otherwise take place. Several funded graduate students. This year, the Department has projects have generated follow-on funding from their hosted several post-doctoral fellows both from within current sponsors as well as other sources. In particular, the Department and from other institutions. Along

Project Title Principal Investigator Funding body Duration International News: Provision, David Levy British Broadcasting 16 months Trust and Consumption in a Corporation, Carnegie Rapidly Changing Broadcasting Corporation, France 24 Environment Threats and Opportunities to the David Levy Green Templeton College, 36 months Business of Journalism and its Role Open Society Institute in Democracy ELECDEM: Training Network in Sara Hobolt European Commission 48 months Electoral Democracy Democratic Accountability, Petra Schleiter British Academy 20 months Party Systems and Corruption in Democracies around the World Peace Dividend, Angola-style: The Ricardo Soares de Oliveira British Academy 15 months New Business Class and the State after the Civil War Knots of Ungovernability: Mapping Patricia Thornton British Academy 9 months Popular Contention in China over Time and Space The Theory and Practice of Fostering Varun Uberoi Economic and Social 12 months Unity Amongst the Culturally Research Council Diverse Citizens of Modern Polities The Responsibility to Prevent – Jennifer Welsh Australian Responsibility 24 months Developing Ad hoc and Systemic to Protect Fund Strategies Media and Democracy in Central Jan Zielonka European Research 48 months and Eastern Europe: Qualities of Council Media, Qualities of Democracy

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

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 14 20/09/2010 14:43 with a large number of externally-funded research staff, E svent they bring a constant flow of enthusiastic early-career The Department hosted and/or organised over 30 researchers who substantially enrich the intellectual conferences, workshops and training programmes environment and make a valuable contribution to covering a wide variety of research interests over the the graduate programme. We also benefit greatly last year. These events are a valuable strand of the from the contributions of visitors to the centres and Department’s activities, enhancing the profile of the programmes, including academics at all career stages Department and providing opportunities for exchange and practitioners from the policy world and public among academics, graduate students, practitioners and services. policy-makers from Oxford, the UK and the world.

Grant applications 1 August 2009 - 31 July 2010 Research Centres and Programmes No. of Amount Applied for The research centres and programmes continue to Applications (GBP) showcase the diversity of the Department’s research External funding 77 £18,930,662 through their seminars, workshops and collaborative applications projects, as will be seen in the following pages. Internal funding 11 £727,424 Please see page 34 for a list of visitors to Department applications Research Centres and Programmes.

Grant applications by Sponsor Type 1 August 2009 - 31 July 2010 Centre for 1% International 2% Studies (CIS)

9% http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk

Director: Professor Richard Caplan

29% Established in 1992, CIS exists to promote and advance 29% research in International Relations in Oxford. CIS sponsors externally-funded research projects, convenes conferences and seminars, and hosts visiting scholars. The work of CIS involves close association with two major research programmes — the Global Economic 13% 17% Governance Programme (GEG) and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) — a range of smaller research projects, and the individual research of faculty and post-doctoral fellows.

Highlights of Events UK Research Councils 2%2% Workshops and conferences Overseas Sponsors • ‘Orientalism at War’, 17-19 June 2010 Internal University Funding • ‘Prospects for the Caucasus’, 3 May 2010 • ‘Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in the South’, 15 British Academy 7% 6% January 2010 UK Charity • ‘EffectiveM ultilateralisms: Cross-regional Perspectives’, UK Government European Commission 17 December 2009 UK Public Sector Overseas Charity • ‘Pakistan’s North West and India’s North East: Colonial Overseas Government Frontiers and Post-colonial Conflicts’,25 November 2009 Overseas Other

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 15 20/09/2010 14:43 • ‘EffectiveM ultilateralism: Through the Looking Glass of External Relations East Asia’, 23 October 2009 CIS researchers are engaged in collaborative research with a wide range of institutions, including the Centre for Seminar Series International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa; • ‘Stalin: A Prophet Armed or a Tsar Reincarnated’, Trinity the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI); Term 2010 the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect, City • ‘Post-Conflict State-Building: Practitioners’ University of New York’s Graduate Center; the Woodrow Perspectives’, Michaelmas Term 2009 Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and the School of International Lectures Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. • ‘India’s Foreign Policy and the Global Order’, Ms Nirupama Rao (Foreign Secretary of India) • ‘Enemies into Friends: How Peace Breaks Out’, Dr G lobal Economic Charles Kupchan (Georgetown University) Governance • ‘Global Institutional Architecture for Strategic, Economic and International Relations’, Dr David Programme (GEG) Malone (International Development Research Centre) • ‘Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew’s Mission www.globaleconomic India’, Ms Sunanda K Datta-Ray (Journalist) governance.org • ‘Post-Conflict Diplomacy: Finding a Way Forward in Basra’, Ms Alice Walpole (HM Consul-General, Basra, Iraq) Director: • ‘Can Nuclear Weapons be Abolished?’, Professor Aron Professor Ngaire Woods Bernstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) • ‘Security Architecture and Asia’s Changing Regional The Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG) Order’, Associate Professor Nick Bisley (La Trobe fills an important niche in global scholarship and policy University, Australia) by critically examining institutions of global governance • ‘Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding’, Professor Oliver from the perspective of developing country needs and Richmond (University of St Andrews) interests, by shaping academic debates through this • ‘Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power’, analysis, and by generating evidence-based ideas and Professor Robert Ayson (Australian National University) possible solutions to problems of global governance. The fallout from the global financial crisis has cut across Highlights of Research Activities all our research projects in the past year, and we have New research projects tracked its implications for the world’s poorest with • ‘UN Governance and Reform’, directed by Mr Sam Daws, respect to finance, trade, development, climate change CIS Senior Research Associate and former Executive and public health. At the same time, the crisis has given Director of the United Nations Association of the UK new seats at the international table to emerging and • ‘China, the United States, and Global Order’, directed by developing economies, most evident in the emergence Professor Rosemary Foot (DPIR) and Dr Andrew Walter of the G20 as a global leading forum. These shifts (LSE) have given renewed impetus to our work on global regulation and cooperation, and we have plugged our New books academic research into relevant policy debates through • P rotection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in written briefings, presentations, and meetings with the Refugee Regime, Alexander Betts, (Cornell, 2009) leaders and policy-makers. Our research programmes • T he Politics of Global Regulation, Walter Mattli and on global migration, intellectual property and financing Ngaire Woods (eds.), (Princeton, 2009) for public health have been particularly prolific this • Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of year, reflected in both published outputs and the active Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Adam engagement of GEG researchers in global academic and Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, (Oxford University policy networks. During this period, GEG researchers Press, 2009) have produced two books, nine refereed articles, five policy briefs and ten working papers.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 16 20/09/2010 14:43 H ighlights of Events Strengthening Multilateralism: A Mapping Of Proposals • ‘Why we need a new global economic order: Brazil, the On WTO Reform And Global Trade Governance, a new BRICs and the world economy’, GEG Annual Lecture, Mr study of WTO reform since 1995 by Carolyn Deere- Henrique Meirelles (Governor of Brazil’s Central Bank) Birkbeck (GEG) and Catherine Monagle (GEG). • ‘The UN’s Role in Overcoming Development Challenges’, GEG Special Lecture, co-sponsored by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Rt Hon Helen Clark (Administrator, United Nations O xford-Princeton Development Programme) Global Leaders Fellowship • ‘Governing Climate Change After Copenhagen’, GEG high-profile debate with Professor Dieter HelmE CB Programme (Oxford), Dr Cameron Hepburn (Oxford), Professor Sir David King (Oxford), Professor Ngaire Woods (GEG) and http://glf.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Dr Arunabha Ghosh (GEG) • ‘The International Community’s Response to Haiti’, The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship GEG-convened panel of experts including Professor Programme seeks to create and nurture a global network Paul Sherlock (Oxfam), Mr John Mitchell (Director, of scholar-practitioners across the developing world. It Active Learning Network for Accountability and selects up to six developing country scholars each year Performance in Humanitarian Action) and Mr Laurence to conduct two years of post-doctoral research on global Whitehead (DPIR) economic governance. Fellows spend their first year • ‘The post-crisis politics of financial reform: business as at Oxford (at GEG) and their second year at Princeton usual or new global order?’, GEG Special Lecture, Mr (at the Woodrow Wilson School). The Programme has Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (President, European Socialist built a supporting network of senior mentors across Party, and former Prime Minister of Denmark) developing and developed countries to help both with recruitment, and - more importantly – with re-insertion GEG continued to collaborate with other Oxford back in home countries of the fellows. The Programme research centres to co-sponsor events, including the also features a `returning with ideas fund’ to provide an Latin American Centre, the Department of Public Health, incentive (through material support for specific projects the Department of International Development and the or needs) for scholars – after their post-doctoral period - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. to return home to contribute to strengthening capacity within developing countries. Highlights of Research Activities GEG welcomed the second cohort of Global Leaders • GEG launched a new project on the governance of fellows this year: Dr Le Thanh Forsberg (Vietnam), Dr global intellectual property, led by Dr Carolyn Deere- Leany Lemos (Brazil), Dr Dima Sarbo (Ethiopia), and Birkbeck (GEG). Amid continuing calls for the reform of Dr Abdourahmane Idrissa (Niger). We are eagerly global intellectual property rules, GEG has convened anticipating the arrival of the third group in 2010-11, an Expert Taskforce on Global Knowledge Governance which includes scholars from China, Brazil, Burkina Faso to propose a set of principles and options for the future and Nigeria. At the 2010 GLF Annual Colloquium, held of the global knowledge regime. this year in Princeton, the significance of the Fellowship • The 2010 Levine Prize committee awarded Special was evident as fellows from all three years participated Recognition to The Politics of Global Regulation, edited in a dynamic conference which highlighted the need for by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods. new approaches to studying issues of global governance • GEG’s expertise was sought by international policy- from the perspective of developing countries. makers seeking to address the global financial crisis, including the European Parliament, who requested briefings on the reform of the international financial and aid architecture (Ngaire Woods) and the implications for climate change and international trade (Arunabha Ghosh). • GEG and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) published

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 17 20/09/2010 14:43 H ighlights of Research Activities O xford Institute for • ‘The Responsibility to Prevent (R2P) – Developing Ad hoc Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and Systemic Strategies’: this project aims to better understand prevention of mass atrocities in the context (ELAC) of R2P. Now fully underway, with research papers from ELAC and partners in Canada, Norway and Singapore, http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk fieldwork will shortly commence in Kenya, which saw violence following the contested election of 2007. Directors: • ‘Review Conference of the Rome Statute’. As States Professor Jennifer Welsh, Mr Dapo Akande (Faculty of met in Kampala in May 2010 to take stock of the ICC, Law) and Dr David Rodin Mr Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law) produced a working paper ‘Prosecuting Aggression: The Consent Problem ELAC is an interdisciplinary research programme that and the Role of the Security Council’ to inform these spans law, philosophy, politics and international relations. discussions. Funded by the James Martin 21st Century School, its • ‘Code of Professional Military Ethics’: Dr David Rodin central aim is to strengthen law, norms and institutions (DPIR) will advise the US Army on this first formal code, to restrain, regulate and prevent armed conflict. to apply to over one million soldiers. • Dr Seth Lazar (DPIR) was awarded an American Highlights of Events Philosophical Association Prize. Please see page 12 • ‘Killing in War Conference 2009’: this conference for details. Seth has also published papers in Ethics, explored themes from Professor Jeff McMahan’s Philosophy and Public Affairs, and will contribute to the (Rutgers University) book, Killing in War, bringing Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopaedia of Ethics, together leading moral, political and legal philosophers, and Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of War. now meeting annually as The Oxford War Group. • ‘Getting to Zero’: in 2009 ELAC hosted seminars with ELAC welcomed Dr Serena Sharma in February 2010 the 21st Century School exploring the concept of as Co-Investigator on the R2P project. Lucy Crittenden ‘global zero’ as it relates to the aims of eliminating also joined as temporary Administrator. ELAC hosted nuclear weapons, disease and poverty. a number of Visiting Fellows, including Dr Hugo Slim, • ‘ELAC/CCW Lunchtime Seminars’: ELAC co-hosted a a leading practitioner and scholar in humanitarian popular series of seminars in 2010 with the Changing studies. Character of War Programme (CCW), Faculty of History. Speakers included Professor Michael Doyle (Columbia University) and Professor Jane Stromseth (Georgetown University). Centre for Political • ‘Peace and Diplomacy’ Lecture Series: in November Ideologies (CPI) 2009 Mr Martin Griffiths (HD Centre) spoke on ‘Private Diplomacy: Public Peace’. In March 2010, lawyer and mediator Mr Jeremy Lack and Baroness Professor Susan http://cpi.politics.ox.ac.uk Greenfield explored the contribution of neuroscience to conflict resolution in ‘Understanding the Mind in Director: Peace Negotiations’. Professor Michael Freeden • ‘Ethics Under Fire’: in June 2010 ELAC and CCW screened the Wikileaks footage of an US Apache The CPI aims to modify the research culture in political helicopter attack on suspected insurgents in Bagdad, theory by filling a crucial substantive and methodological later discovered to include journalists and children. gap in the study of political thought, and to advance Wing Commander Ashley Mitchell gave commentary alternative approaches to the study and teaching of on the military context, followed by a discussion on the political thought in universities. A serious analytical moral and legal issues. focus on the actual political thinking produced in • ‘Eliminative and Manipulative Agency’: ELAC hosted a given societies at various levels of articulation has been successful workshop in June 2010 on the ethics of self- almost absent from the research agenda of political defence with leading philosophers. theorists internationally. The CPI is the first centre in the

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 18 20/09/2010 14:43 world to be dedicated entirely to that aspect of political - ‘The Struggle for EU Legitimacy’, Dr Claudia Schrag thinking and therefore operates at the cutting edge (St Hugh’s College, Oxford) of a significant area of research in political thought. It - ‘The Pro-Soviet Variant of Labour Socialism’, aspires to develop the theory of studying ideologies as Professor John Callaghan (University of Salford) well as focusing on concrete ideological manifestations. - ‘The Sources of Post-Colonialism’, Dr Rahul Rao (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Highlights of Events London) Conferences • ‘New Directions in the History of Concepts’, 12th Lectures Annual Conference on the History of Concepts, final • ‘Comparative Political Thought’, February-May 2010 session, September 2009 - ‘How western is Italy? Interpretations of the Italian Republic, 1950s-1970s’, Associate Professor Seminar Series, Workshops and Roundtables Giovanni Orsina (LUISS Guido Carli) • ‘Comparative Liberalisms’, CPI co-organised two - ‘Political secularism: Exclusion of religion or workshops supported by AHRC in Delhi and Beijing, principled distance?’, Professor Rajeev Bhargava September 2009 and February 2010 (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) • ‘History and Political Theory’, one-day workshop, - ‘Islam: Speech and the Sacred: Pain, Pluralism, September 2009 Public Reason’, Associate Professor Andrew March • ‘History of Political Thought’ seminar, co-convened by (Yale University) Dr Marc Stears (DPIR) and Dr Ben Jackson (Faculty of • ‘Rousseau: Language, Music and Political Freedom’, History, Oxford), Michaelmas 2009 Professor Tracy Strong (University of California, San - Dr Marc Mulholland (Faculty of History, Oxford) Diego), May 2010 - Dr Michael Drolet (Lady Margaret Hall) • Weekly CPI Thursday lunchtime meetings through the - Professor John Keane (University of Sydney, academic year Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin) - Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of Highlights of Research Activities London) Research developments - Dr Lea Ypi (Nuffield College, Oxford) • ‘The Comparative Study of Political Thought’: Dr Carlo - Dr Richard Sheldon (Bristol University) Bonura, Research Officer of the project, obtained a - Dr Mark Philp (DPIR) Fell Fund grant for research in Leiden on South Asia. • Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search Continuing collaboration with SOAS was reflected in a of a New Politics, (Princeton, 2010), roundtable on Dr PSA panel in April. Professor Michael Freeden attended a Marc Stears’ book, January 2010 conference on CPT methodology at Princeton University. • ‘Language, Politics and Ideology’, workshop organised • ‘Conceptual History Programme’: Michael Freeden is by Yael Peled (DPhil candidate, DPIR), February 2010 on the steering committee of a project on European • ‘Political Ideologies’, co-convened by Professor Michael conceptual history, and attended a conference in Freeden and Dr Marc Stears, Hilary 2010 Bielefeld and a meeting in Berlin on the topic. - ‘Cosmopolitanism and Emotions’ , Associate • Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies: In preparation Professor Olivier Remaud (Centre d’Études co-edited by Michael Freeden, Marc Stears and Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond-Aron) Professor Lyman Tower Sargent (University of Missouri- - ‘Interpreting the Concept of Politics: 1900 and St Louis) former CPI visiting Fellow. now’, Professor Michael Freeden (DPIR) - ‘A Liberalism Betrayed? American Neoconservatism External Relations and the Theory of International Relations’, Dr Jean- • Collaboration with the CPI at the University of Sheffield Francois Drolet (City University, London) • Joint workshops with SOAS - ‘Agonistic Democracy between Ethics and • Rolling programme of visiting scholars from the UK Politics’, Professor Chantal Mouffe (University of and abroad - please see details on page 34 Westminster, London) - ‘Arendt’s Political Ethics: New Machiavellianism’, Dr Steve Buckler (University of Birmingham)

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 19 20/09/2010 14:43 • ‘Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Centre for Democracy in the European Union’ (PIREDEU). As Research Methods in Deputy Chair, Dr Sara Hobolt was responsible for coordinating and integrating the data collection the Social Sciences efforts in the context of elections to the European (ReMiSS) Parliament in June 2009. The aim of PIREDEU – funded by the EU Commission’s 7th Framework Programme - http://remiss.politics.ox.ac.uk/ is to assess the feasibility of providing an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation Director: Dr GeoffreyE vans and electoral democracy in the European Union that will provide the scientific community with the most The Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences essential information required for a recurrent audit of is intended to develop rigorous advanced and the key aspects of electoral democracy in the EU. To appropriate techniques and methods for application achieve the objective, the PIREDEU team collected to research across the social sciences, particularly in the data on all the main actors involved in the electoral area of quantitative methods, and to provide teaching process: the parties (manifesto study) and their and advice to students and researchers in all of the electoral candidates for office (candidate study), the Social Sciences at Oxford with the exception of the mass media (media study) and the electorate (voter Department of Economics. study) in all 27 member states. Sara has also edited a The Centre’s remit involves the coordination and Special Issue on ‘Electoral Democracy in the European planning of graduate teaching in research methods, Union’ (currently under review) with a collection of the provision of doctoral supervision, the development papers that analyse the PIREDEU data to evaluate the of collaborative projects with members of social state of democracy and representation in the EU. science departments engaged in quantitative teaching and research, and the provision of technical and ReMiSS hosts two units: expert advice and consultancy. Several members of the Department have international reputations in O xford Spring School in quantitative political science, and this is an area that has been developed strongly in recent years. Quantitative Methods for Social Research Highlights of Research Activities • ‘Perceptions of Power: Voter Attribution of Responsibility http://springschool.politics.ox.ac.uk within the European Union’, directed by Dr Sara Hobolt. The aim of the project is to examine voters’ Director: Dr GeoffreyE vans perceptions of governmental responsibility in the context of European Parliament elections. A UK-based The Oxford Spring School, hosted by the Centre for online survey experiment and a large-scale cross- Research Methods in the Social Sciences (ReMiSS), national survey were carried out in 2009. The survey is a week of events targeted at political and social was conducted in all 27 EU member states as a part of science researchers, who already have training in and the 2009 European Election Studies. The results of the experience of quantitative research, and are seeking to survey experiment will be published next year: extend and broaden their skills. - James Tilley and Sara Hobolt (forthcoming 2011) The annual week of Spring School courses, which ‘Is the government to blame? An experimental took place on 15-19 March 2010, proved very popular, test of how partisanship shapes perceptions of the theme being ‘Modern Regression’. Topics included: performance and responsibility’, The Journal of graphical diagnostics for the linear model, generalised Politics linear models for categorical dependent variables, • S ara and the other project co-investigators have also generalised additive models for nonlinear relationships, written several other working papers based on the robust regression to accommodate influential outliers, survey data. These papers have been presented at mixed (or multilevel) models for grouped data various conferences in 2010, including ECPR, MPSA (including panel data as well as geographical and other and APSA. groupings). Course instructors were Professor David

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 20 20/09/2010 14:43 Armstrong (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and • ‘The Economic Crisis in Greece and its repercussions in Professor Robert Andersen (University of Toronto). Southern Europe and the Eurozone’, 10 May 2010 • ‘Comparative Responses to the Economic Crisis in Short Course Advanced Industrial States’, Princeton University, 27-28 • ‘Generalised Linear Latent and Mixed Models’, Professor March 2010 Andrew Pickles, in association with the Equalsoc • ‘Comparative Presidential-Legislative Relations’, Network of Excellence, 23-24 June 2010 University of Oxford, 13 November 2009 • ‘Portugal, Southern Europe and the European Union in Perspective’, University of Oxford, 31 October 2009 Centre for Statistics in the Social Sciences Seminars OCSID sponsored an active programme of lunchtime (Statistics Unit) Faculty Seminars in Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity terms, in which Oxford scholars shared work-in-progress with their peers. Outside speakers included: The Statistics Unit, joint with the Department of Statistics • Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar (Former Indian Minister) and supported initially by the University’s Restructuring • Mr Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment for and Investment Fund and the Department, is responsible International Peace) for the provision of teaching in quantitative methods • Dr Wolfgang Merkel (Humboldt University) in social science to students in the social sciences, and • Mr Olukunle Owolabi (University of Notre Dame) beyond. • Dr Thomas Pepinksy (Cornell University) • Dr Alan Renwick (University of Reading) • Professor Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University) O xford Centre for the • Dr Michael Woolcock (World Bank) Study of Inequality (OCSID) In association with Nuffield College, the Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Studies, and the Political http://ocsid.politics.ox.ac.uk Economy Seminar Series hosted by Professor Pablo Beramendi (DPIR) and Dr Johannes Lindvall (DPIR), Director: OCSID also hosted a number of seminars given by Professor Nancy Bermeo outside faculty, including: • Dr Ben Ansell (University of Minnesota) The Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and • Professor Karen Jusko (Stanford University) Democracy is aimed at promoting both independent • Dr Marco Simoni (London School of Economics) and collaborative research among the diverse • Associate Professor Erik Wibbels (Duke University) community of comparative politics specialists at Oxford – convening seminars and conferences, hosting visiting External Relations scholars, and organising externally funded research To develop intellectual and financial ties with projects. The Centre seeks to be a focal point for universities abroad, as well as to foster collaborative Comparative Politics research and foster the analysis of research, OCSID has forged formal links with a number a broad range of issues and institutions in established of outside universities. These include the following democracies as well as the analysis of economic and topics and institutions: political inequalities in regimes of any type. • ‘D ebating History, Democracy, Development, and Education in Conflicted Societies’ (Stanford University) Highlights of Events: •  conomic Crisis, Public Policy and Inequality’ (Princeton Workshops and Conferences ‘E The Centre planned and hosted an active schedule of University) roundtables, conferences, workshops and research • ‘P erceptions of Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies’ projects among Oxford faculty and outside scholars. (Sciences Po) Workshops co-hosted included: • ‘Clientelism, Democracy and Redistribution’ (Cornell University)

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 21 20/09/2010 14:43 Lewis, Herbert Oblinger, and Christopher Pierson, Public Policy Unit eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (Oxford, (PPU) Oxford University Press, 2010), pp.19-31 • ‘The future left: red, green and republican?’, Red Pepper 170, February/March 2010, pp. 34-38 http://ppu.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Activities Both Iain Mclean and Stuart White were involved in an Director: advisory capacity in the passage of section 202 of the Dr Stuart White, Jesus College Equality Act 2010 concerning the right of religious groups Research Director: to register civil partnerships on their own premises. Professor Iain McLean, Nuffield College The Director has been involved in planning activities for next year and putting together a distinguished group The centre’s aims and objectives are to undertake of Visiting Fellows to contribute to these activities. policy-relevant academic research and provide a bridge between academic research and policy-making by External Relations means of events which bring academics and policy- PPU retains strong links with a number of UK think-tanks makers into discussion of policy-relevant academic including ippr, Demos, and the Fabian Society, as well as research. with the US think-tank, the New America Foundation. Over the past year it has developed a relationship Highlights of Events with the openDemocracy web magazine and its UK- In 2009-10 PPU continued its activities in its established focused site, OurKingdom; with the Centre for Faith and areas of research such as constitutional reform, religion Citizenship, headed by Dr Maurice Glasman, at London and the state and the politics of ownership (see Metropolitan University; and with the organisation, publications below). Save Child Savings. Future events will help develop new relationships with Policy Exchange and Civitas. Seminars • Dr Stuart White gave seminars at University of Wisconsin-Madison and in London and Oxford on issues related to widening asset ownership. ESRC Book launch Public Services • The PPU hosted a launch for Professor Iain McLean’s Programme book, What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? http://www.publicservices. Selected Publications ac.uk/index.php Iain Mclean has recently published: • What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? (Oxford Director: University Press, 2009) Professor Christopher Hood • Choosing an Electoral System (London, British Academy, 2010), with Simon Hix, Ron Johnston and Angela The Programme aimed to examine performance Cummine in public services, using the whole range of social • Drawing a New Constituency Map for the United Kingdom science methods and approaches - to find out how (London, British Academy, 2010) with Michel Balinski, performance is conceived and measured; to establish Ron Johnston, Peyton Young and Angela Cummine the determinants of better or worse performance as well as the consequences of good or bad performance. Stuart White has recently published: Under the leadership of the Programme Director and • ‘A Modest Proposal? Basic Capital vs. Higher Education with the assistance of the programme support team, 41 Subsidies’, British Journal of Politics and International research projects and six fellowships were commissioned Relations 12 (1), 2010, pp. 37-55 in three calls, bringing together a community of over • ‘Ethics’, in Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane 100 researchers from the UK and beyond, across the

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 22 20/09/2010 14:43 spectrum of social science disciplines, to explore aspects The Programme has successfully completed its five-year of public sector performance across different domains. lifespan, holding over 100 meetings and workshops. 11 books and well over 100 journal articles, book chapters Highlights of Events and discussion papers have been published. It lives • Conference, ‘Public Services in the 2010s: Prosperity, on in the research and policy publications that it has Austerity and Recovery’: on 11 December 2009 the produced and in the networks of researchers that have Programme staged a major conference at the Queen been set up. Please see a full report on page 5. Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. The event drew on what had been learned from the Programme’s research and there was a lively discussion as to how this knowledge can be applied to the challenges of Centre for the managing public service performance in the 2010s. Study of Social Keynote speakers included Sir Gus O’Donnell (UK Cabinet Secretary) and Dr Martin Weale (Director of the Justice National Institute of Economic and Social Research). • Roundtable, ‘Regulating Medical Performance: An http://social-justice.politics. ESRC and GMC collaborative research Programme’: ox.ac.uk the Programme collaborated with the General Medical Council to scope and commission exploratory research Director: on the subject of medical performance that fitted both Professor David Miller the Programme’s focus on public service performance and the GMC’s developing research initiative to inform The Centre’s aim continues to be that of providing its policy development. The result was a pioneering set a forum that brings together Oxford’s large group of 11 complementary research projects designed to of political theorists with an interest in problems of develop the research field and throw light on some key social justice, broadly conceived. Its core membership contested issues in medical regulation and performance. comes mainly from the Department of Politics and On 23 February 2010 a roundtable event was held to International Relations, but also includes colleagues in present the findings to stakeholders, including the MG C. Philosophy, Law and Economics. Through its fortnightly • ‘Researching Public Management and Public Services lunchtime seminars it provides a focus and a point of Delivery: Taking Stock of the Methodological contact for post-doctoral fellows in political theory, as Repertoire’: Professor Christopher Hood and Professor well as for academic visitors to Oxford associated with Stephen Osborne (Public Policy Network) convened a the Centre. It also sponsors conferences and workshops panel at the International Research Society for Public organised by its members on relevant topics. Management conference in Bern on 9 April 2010, to draw out what can be learnt from the Programme’s Highlights of Events multi-method approach to analysing public service • In February 2010 several members of the Centre performance. Papers will form the basis of a forthcoming travelled to Frankfurt to take part in the launch special issue of Public Management Review. conference of the Justice Amplificata Centre at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and we hope to Highlights of Activities continue our association with this Centre in future • Professor Christopher Hood and Professor George meetings. Boyne (Cardiff Business School) edited a special issue in the leading public administration journal, The The Director successfully appealed to the John Fell Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory on OUP Research Fund committee to retain the money ‘Incentives, Sanctions and Performance Management remaining from its original grant for one further year, in Public Services’, Vol. 20 (Suppl. 2), July 2010. but in the year ahead the Centre must consider how to The issue showcased the Programme’s innovative obtain a secure source of funding to enable it to support methods and approaches, and the collection includes conferences and workshops as it has been able to do in a paper on the political payoffs of ranking systems the past. by Christopher Hood and Dr Ruth Dixon (ESRC Public Services Programme).

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 23 20/09/2010 14:43 • ‘The Surreptitious Recentralisation of France: the new O xford-Sciences law on regional & local government reorganisation, Po Research Group in intentions & consequences’, Professor Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po), 3 March 2010 the Social Sciences • ‘The French Communist Party & the Working Class (1930s-1980s): Communist activism, the view from the http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk grass roots’, Dr Julian Mischi (Joint Research Unit for Agricultural Economics and Sociology, Dijon), 12 May Director: Dr Sophie Duchesne 2010

OXPO is a meeting point for social science scholars in Book launches Oxford and at Sciences Po, who work on the comparative • The Sociology of Elite Distinction: From Theoretical analysis of the evolution of political systems and to Comparative Perspectives, Jean-Pascal Daloz, 25 societies, in Europe and beyond. It coordinates various January 2010: a major new contribution to the study comparative research projects that contribute toward of consumption examines how dominant groups this goal and offers opportunities to develop new express and display their sense of superiority through collaborations. material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across Highlights of Events historical periods, challenge current understandings Workshops and conferences of elite distinction. • ‘Dualisation’, project workshop convened by Professor Bruno Palier (Sciences Po) and Professor Martin Seeleib- Highlights of Research Activities Kaiser (Oxford), 14-16 January 2010 • OXPO runs a successful visitors programme between • ‘The Distinction of Elites: Case studies’, organised by Oxford and Sciences Po. In 2009-10, Professor Jérôme Dr Jean-Pascal Daloz (DPIR) for graduate students, 21 Sgard, Dr Laurent Martin, Dr Neil Martin, Mr Simon Paye, January 2010 Dr Hélène Thiollet (all from Sciences Po), and Professor • ‘The European Union in International Security’, Sabine Saurugger (Institut d’études politiques de conference organised by Dr Christopher Bickerton Grenoble) visited Oxford; and Dr Lucie Cerna (DPIR), (DPIR) and Dr Bastien Irondelle (Sciences Po), 26 Professor Anne Deighton (DPIR) and Dr Gwendolyn February 2010. The papers will be published as a Sasse (DPIR/SIAS) visited Sciences Po, Paris. special issue in the Journal of Common Market Studies • OXPO has introduced a working paper series to gather in Autumn 2010 together papers written by its visitors. The papers by • ‘The Results of the French Regional Elections and their visitors in 2008-09 were put online this year (http:// Political Consequences’, a conference with Professor oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/working_papers/index.asp) Pascal Perrineau (Sciences Po) and Professor Anne and many of these will be published shortly. The 2009- Muxel (Sciences Po), 30 April 2010 10 series is in preparation. • ‘Dealing with Religious Dissension: Historical and contemporary models’, a conference organised by Dr External Relations Jean-Pascal Daloz, 28-29 May 2010 OXPO brings together scholars from the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Department of Seminars Sociology and Nuffield College at Oxford University, the • ‘Bankruptcy, Renegotiation and Private Ordering in Maison Française d’Oxford and several research centres England and France’, Professor Jérôme Sgard (Sciences within Sciences Po (such as CERI, CEVIPOF, OSC) to Po) with Dr Perry Gauci (Faculty of History), 3 December collaborate on research projects. More details about our 2009 research projects can be found at: http://oxpo.politics. • ‘The Dynamics of Politics and Inequalities’, OXPO Joint ox.ac.uk/projects/index.asp. Doctoral Seminar, convened by Professor Louis Chauvel (Sciences Po), Professor Nonna Mayer (Sciences Po), Professor Marie Duru-Bellat (Sciences Po), Dr Tak Wing Chan (Department of Sociology, Oxford) and Professor Nancy Bermeo (DPIR), 9 December 2009

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 24 20/09/2010 14:43 - Dr Miles Larmer (University of Sheffield) O xford Research Network - Professor James Fairhead (University of Sussex) and on Government in Africa Thandika Mkandawire (DESTIN, LSE) (OReNGA) OReNGA continues to contribute to consolidating Oxford as the leading centre in the UK for the study of Africa, http://orenga.politics.ox.ac.uk and significantly of Lusophone Africa, and to extending research networks to African and European scholars. OReNGA is an interdisciplinary research network that coordinates and facilitates research on the politics and modern history of government in Africa. The network’s members are drawn primarily from the Department Reuters Institute of Politics and International Relations, the Oxford for the Study of Department of International Development (ODID) and Journalism (RISJ) the Faculty of History. http://reutersinstitute. Highlights of Events politics.ox.ac.uk Special Lectures • The OReNGA Special Lecture 2010 ‘Nigeria: Ten Years Director: Dr David Levy of Democracy’, General Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria’s former Head of State and currently one of the leading RISJ was established in autumn 2006 and is based at the members of the opposition), 10 May 2010 Department. Its core funding comes from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Conferences The Institute marks Oxford University’s commitment • ‘Celebrating Gavin Williams’, organised by a committee to create an international research centre in the comprising representatives from OReNGA, the comparative study of journalism. The Institute aims to University of Oxford Instituto Camões Centre for serve as the leading forum for a productive engagement Portuguese Language, DPIR, ODID, and the Centre for between scholars from a wide range of disciplines and African Studies, 9-10 July 2010. See page 8 for further the practitioners of journalism. It brings the depth and information. rigour of academic scholarship of the highest standards to major issues of relevance to the world of practice of Inter-departmental Lectures news media. It is global in its perspective and in the • ‘African History and Politics’, convened by Dr Abdul content of its activities. Raufu Mustapha and Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. The lectures are delivered by colleagues across the Highlights of Events University and in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Seminars Africa. In 2009-10, they included: • RISJ Wednesday seminars (Green Templeton College) - Dr Daniel Volman (Africa Security Research Project, • Media and Politics (Nuffield College) Washington DC) - John Githongo (Kenya’s former anti-corruption Conferences and workshops Czar) • ‘Facing the Challenge of the Internet: Policy and Press - Associate Professor Christian Højbjerg (Aarhus Responses in Britain and France’ University, Denmark) • ‘The Changing Business of Journalism & its Impact on - Dr Adrian Hadland (Democracy & Governance Democracy’ Programme, HSRC, Pretoria) • ‘Media and the Environment: Reporting Climate - Associate Professor Stephen Brown (School of Change’ Political Studies, University of Ottawa) • ‘Tablets – a second life for Newspapers?’ - Dr Christian von Soest (Institute of African Affairs, • ‘Photojournalism’ GIGA, Berlin) - Pierre Sane (Assistant Director-General, UNESCO, Paris)

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 25 20/09/2010 14:43 L ectures, panels and launches Group established by the Department for Business, • ‘Red Kayaks and Hidden Gold: the Rise, Challenges and Innovation and Skills. He is also on the Scientific Value of Citizen Journalism’ Committee of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and is • Reuters Memorial Lecture – ‘Newspapers and on the board of France 24. Democracy in the Internet Era: The Italian Case’ • ‘The Reconstruction of American Journalism’ • ‘What Next for Climate Change Reporting?’ Media and • ‘The Future of News: Perspectives from the US, Europe Democracy in and Emerging Economies’ • ‘#UKelection2010, Mainstream Media and the Role of Central and Eastern the Internet: How Social and Digital Media Affected the Europe (MDCEE) Business of Politics and Journalism’ http://www.mde.politics. Highlights of Research Activities ox.ac.uk/ • ‘The Business of Journalism and its Role in Democracy’: a comparative project which will analyse the impact Director: Professor Jan Zielonka of the internet and the recession on commercially- supported journalism across the world, differing policy MDCEE is an interdisciplinary research project which responses and the implications of these for democracy aims to investigate the often troublesome and poorly and accountability in both developed western understood relationship between democracy and the democracies like Finland, Germany, UK and USA and media in Central and Eastern Europe, but our findings emerging economies like Brazil and India. should be more broadly applicable to consolidating • ‘International News: Provision, Trust and Consumption in democracies worldwide. We take a novel approach, a Rapidly Changing Broadcast Environment’: the project focusing on the quality of the media as a function of the addresses the key issue of the role of international quality of democracy, and ask: what kind of democracy media and news flows in globalisation through is necessary for the media to perform its statutory mapping the changing provision of international news functions? in six African countries as well as in India and Pakistan. Our research is based on a comparative study It assesses and reviews the evidence for patterns of of the ten Central and Eastern countries that have consumption, reviewing how attitudes to trust in joined the EU since 2004 (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, global media sources may be changing. Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, • ‘The Axess Programme on European Journalism’: the Slovakia and Slovenia) and our analysis focuses on aims of this three-year project were to comparatively news media, including both ‘old media’ (broadcast analyse the journalistic cultures of Europe, to and print) and the ‘new media’ of the internet. Our investigate the emergence of a “European” journalism empirical research is divided into three pillars, each and to determine whether there is a dominant model headed by one of our Senior Research Fellows: Media of journalism in Europe. ownership and commercial pressures (Dr Václav • ‘Can it Tweet its way to Democracy?’: this study aims to šttěka); Media regulation and political pressures (Dr show how the internet is democratising public spheres Péter Bajomi-Lázár); and Journalistic autonomy and and political cultures in authoritarian regimes without professionalisation (Dr Henrik Örnebring). necessarily threatening the regimes’ power in the The project is funded by the European Research short-term. Target countries include Ethiopia, Egypt, Council and was launched in October 2009. It is Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Eritrea and Rwanda. managed through the Department with our core research team based at St Antony’s College, University External Relations of Oxford, and at the London School of Economics Over the past year RISJ has collaborated with the and Political Science (LSE). We are also working with a Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University range of Visiting Fellows who specialise in media and and was commissioned by Ofcom to write two working democracy Central and Eastern Europe. papers examining local news, both of which were published in September 2009. RISJ Director Dr David Levy has been appointed to the Science and Media

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 26 20/09/2010 14:43 H ighlights of Events team in Oxford: please see details on page 34. Professor Seminars Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia and Fondazione • ‘Public Service Broadcasting as a Vehicle for Democracy: Monte dei Paschi Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College) Comparing the Mediterranean and East Central was also closely associated with MDCEE in 2009-10. Europe’, International Seminar, St Antony’s College, • An Advisory Committee to the MDCEE project has Oxford, 12-13 March 2010. The seminar brought been appointed, with fourteen members drawn from together academics and media practitioners from over across the region and disciplines. fifteen countries to debate the relationship between • Initial fieldwork (interviews with key actors in the media public service broadcasting and politics in Europe, field) has been undertaken in Estonia, Hungary and focusing particularly on the similarities and differences the Czech Republic, with further interviews scheduled between the countries of the Mediterranean and East in Lativa, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Central Europe. It incorporated the Fondazione Monte Slovenia in early autumn 2010. dei Paschi Annual Public Lecture entitled ‘Media • Project visits to Thomson Reuters (18 November 2009) Challenges Today and the Future of Journalism: the and the BBC (11 March 2010). View from Italy’ by Mr Paolo Garimberti, President of the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. Our first year of operation focused on establishing and • ‘The Uses and Misuses of Comparative Transnational starting to implement our media research agenda and Research in Social Sciences’: a seminar on comparative data-gathering; the second year will focus on aspects transnational research, with speakers including of democracy. We will continue to extend and deepen Emeritus Professor Jean Blondel (European University our network of partners in both eastern and Western Institute in Florence), Professor Sonia Livingstone (LSE) Europe, with publication of our results scheduled to and Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia), begin in year three of the project. held at the LSE, 3 February 2010.

Highlights of Research Activities • Two distinguished Visiting Fellows were sponsored by the project in 2009-10 and worked with the project

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ACADEMIC STAFF Professor Geoffrey Evans was awarded the UK Political Studies Association Harrison Prize for the best paper Professor Vernon Bogdanor was awarded the Légion published in Political Studies in 2009: Paul Mitchell, d’Honneur by the French government in November Geoffrey Evans and Brendan O’Leary, ‘Extremist 2009. Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, honoured Outbidding in Ethnic Party Systems is Not Inevitable: Professor Bogdanor for his work on the law and history Tribune Parties in Northern Ireland’, Political Studies vol. of Britain and France. 57, issue 2, pp. 397-421.

Dr Carlo Bonura was awarded a John Fell OUP Dr Jonathan Floyd was awarded a British Academy Research Fund Small Grant for his project ‘Comparing Post-doctoral Fellowship for ‘From Was to Ought? A Islamic Conceptualisations of Civil Society in Indonesia philosophical study in historical lessons’. The three-year and Malaysia’, which ran from January to February 2010. fellowship will begin in September 2010.

Dr Sarmila Bose was awarded a John Fell OUP Research Professor Christopher Hood was awarded a Fund Small Grant to fund a workshop on ‘Pakistan’s North Leverhulme Trust Project Grant for ‘Yesterday’s West and India’s North East: Comparing Colonial Frontiers Tomorrows: What Happened to the Future of and Post-Colonial Conflicts’, held in November 2009. Government?’ The project will run from October 2010 to September 2013. Dr David Hine and Dr Mark Philp were awarded a John Fell OUP Research Fund Main Award grant for ‘Political Dr Seth Lazar was awarded a John Fell OUP Research Conduct Strategies of First-time MPs’, which runs from Fund Small Grant for a conference entitled ‘Why we July to December 2010. fight: the purposes of military force in the twenty-first century’, to take place in October 2010. Dr Sara Hobolt, in conjunction with Aarhus University, was awarded funding from the Carlsberg Foundation Dr Philip Roessler was awarded a John Fell OUP for ‘Ministerial structure and partisan competition for Research Fund Small Grant for his project on ‘The attention’. This is a joint project with Christoffer Green- Effects of the Southern Sudan Independence Referendum Pedersen and Peter B Mortensen at the University of in Identity and Citizenship in Khartoum’, which runs Aarhus and Robert Klemmensen at the University of from January to December 2010. Dr Roessler was also Southern Denmark, running from January 2009 to awarded a British Academy Research Development December 2011. Dr Hobolt was also awarded a British Award for ‘Identity, Citizenship and Trust in a Dividing Academy Small Research Grant for ‘The Emotional Voter. State: The Case of Sudan’, running from July 2010 to July An Experimental Test of the Impact of Emotions on British 2011. Electoral Behaviour’. The project will run from September 2010 to January 2012. Dr Meredith Rolfe (Saïd Business School) was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Measuring Professor Giovanni Capoccia was awarded the Prize Social Networks and Political Influence’. The project runs for the Best Paper in Comparative Democratisation from August 2010 to July 2012. presented at the American Political Science Association in 2009. The paper, co-authored with Associate Professor Dr Gwendolyn Sasse was awarded a British Academy Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University), will be published as Small Research Grant for ‘Understanding Political Voices the introductory article of a special double issue of the from Abroad: Polish Migrants in the UK’. The project runs journal Comparative Political Studies. from July 2010 to June 2012.

Dr Petra Schleiter was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Democratic Accountability, Party Systems and Corruption in Democracies around the World’, covering the period March 2010 to November 2011.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 28 20/09/2010 14:43 Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira was awarded a British The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Peace Dividend, (RISJ) received a renewal and increase in its core Angola-style: The New Business Class and the State after funding award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. the Civil War’. The project runs for over 2 years from 1 July The Thomson Reuters Foundation granted a total of 2009. In addition Dr Soares de Oliveira, in conjunction £1,250,000 from January 2011 to December 2013 to RISJ. with graduate students Nikia Clarke, Harry Verhoeven, The award is an increase of £200,000 over a three-year and Marian Urbina, was awarded an ESRC Knowledge period, compared with the current level of funding. RISJ Exchange Small Grant for the Oxford University China- also received further funding from the Atkin Charitable Africa Network (OUCAN) Global Connect Project on Foundation to support the Institute’s work on different Chinese Investment and African Agency. The project aspects of the future of journalism, led by Mr John Lloyd, runs from July 2010 to June 2011. Director of Journalism. The grant is for three years (from April 2009) and enables John to continue his role at RISJ. Dr Patricia Thornton was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Knots of Ungovernability: RISJ was funding for several programmes of research, Mapping Popular Contention in China over Time and led by Dr David Levy: Space’, for the period March to November 2010. • The Open Society Institute awarded funding for the project ‘Can It Tweet its way to Democracy? The Dr Maya Tudor received the American Political promise of Participatory Media in Africa’, running Science Association’s 2010 Gabriel A Almond prize from April to October 2010. for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics. Dr • Green Templeton College, Oxford and the Open Tudor’s dissertation, entitled ‘Twin Births, Divergent Society Institute granted funding for the project Democracies: The Social and Institutional Origins of ‘Threats and Opportunities to the Business of Regime Outcomes in India and Pakistan’, also received Journalism and Its Role in Democracy’, running from an Honourable Mention for APSA’s 2010 Walter Burnham October 2009 to September 2012. Award for the best dissertation in Politics and History. • The British Broadcasting Corporation, the Carnegie Corporation, and France 24 granted funding for Dr Adam Ziegfeld (Nuffield College) was awarded a research on ‘International News: Provision, Trust and British Academy Small Research Grant for ‘Understanding Consumption in a Rapidly Changing Broadcasting Vote Choice in India: A new dataset on candidates for Environment’, for the period October 2009 to legislative office’. The project will run from September January 2011. 2010 to March 2011. • The Italian research institute, Isimm Ricerche, granted funding for research into ‘Coverage of The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Major Infrastructure Projects in Britain and France’, for Conflict (ELAC) was awarded a grant of just under the period July to December 2010. £100,000 by the Australian Responsibility to Protect Fund. The grant will enable ELAC to undertake a new research project entitled ‘The Responsibility to Prevent: Developing Ad hoc and Systemic Strategies’. The project, which runs from January 2010 until December 2011, is led by Professor Jennifer Welsh (Co-Director, ELAC).

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He DePARTmeNT’S administration had another In December, a new post of Tbusy and challenging year. In particular, the PPe Administrator was fi lled Research Support Team and the Courses Team by Liz Griffi th. This post, based experienced increased volume of activity as the level in the Department, provides of research applications and graduate admissions dedicated administrative rose from previous years. Although it was a quiet year support and co-ordination for for academic recruitment, the Personnel Team was the PPe teaching programme kept busy with over 20 research and administrative across the three partner units recruitment exercises in addition to the general (DPIR, Faculty of Philosophy personnel administration for the Department. and the Department of During the year the core administrative teams in Liz Griffi th economics). Courses, Finance, Personnel and Research Support worked closely with the administrative staff supporting The Department welcomed new members of the the Department’s research centres and programmes administration during the year: and with colleagues in the Social Sciences Division and • Courses Team: Samantha Rainbird, Administrative central University offi ces. The Department’s ten bursary Offi cer (maternity leave cover) students (see page13) provided valuable support to the • Research Support Team: margo Kirk, Research administration ranging from helping the Finance team Support Offi cer and James Baldwin, Research with year-end work to recording and editing podcasts Support Administrative Assistant and providing conference assistance to the Research • Institute for ethics, Law and Armed Confl ict (eLAC): Support Team. Lucy Crittenden, Institute Administrator (maternity In addition to its usual business, the Department leave cover) benefi ted from two internal audits. These were a Health • media and Democracy in Central and eastern europe and Safety management Profi le audit conducted by the (eRC research programme): Nicola Shepard, Project University Safety Offi ce and a Finance audit conducted Administrator by the internal auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers. • Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Both proved most useful exercises for the Department, Sara Kalim, Institute Administrator and Amanda giving valuable feedback on processes and controls Armstrong, Administrative Assistant and confi rming good practice in many areas. It was also good to know that our systems and processes are robust. During the year the Department reviewed its communication and publicity activities resulting in a number of planned projects for 2010 - 11. Work also steadily progressed on a new Departmental website to be launched in October 2010. Improving information management within the Department remained a priority and we progressed with implementation of the Divisional DAISY database, which has been developed to meet information needs on academic activity in DPIR Income 2009-10 research and teaching.

Donation/other Trust Fund Income 5% 3% Research Overheads Joint Resource 4% Allocation Model 59% Research Income 22%

Other Student Fees 5%

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espite facing financial challenges in 2009/10, the by 1%. Overall, the department maintained its planned Ddepartment’s income grew 6% to £9.307 million. operating deficit for 2009/10 with a healthy reserves Students benefited from this increased income as carry forward of £1.057 million. Anticipated decreases the department awarded additional student funding in HEFCE and other funding may adversely affect the of £50k on top of the annual allocation of £125k in department’s 2010/11 forecast of a modest surplus. studentships and bursaries. As forecasted last year, These are some of the challenges that the department research income reached a plateau at £2.007 million. will face as it seeks to diversify its income portfolio. Expenditure was tightly controlled and only increased

Income and expenditure summary For the year ended 31 July 2010 Year ended Year ended 31 July 2010 31 July 2009 Income £000 £000 Joint Resources Allocation Model (JRAM) 5,493 5,157 Student/Other Fees 499 492 Research Income 2,007 2,344 Research Overheads 344 371 Trust Fund Income 297 427 Donations/Other 667 475 Total Income 9,307 9,266

Expenditure Pay 5,948 5,865 Non-Pay 1,553 1,639 Infrastructure and Capital Charges 2,020 1,905 Total Expenditure 9,521 9,409

Surplus/(Deficit) (214) (143)

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

DPIR DPIRIncome INCO 2009-10ME 2009-2010 DPIR EXPENDITURE 2009-2010 DPIR Expenditure 2009-10

Donation/other Infrastructure & Trust Fund Income 5% Capital Charges 3% 21% Research Overheads Joint Resource Pay 4% Allocation Model 63% 59% Research Income 22%

Non-Pay 16% Other Student Fees 5%

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* Indicates leavers (01/08/2009 – 31/07/2010) ** Indicates starters (01/08/2009 – 31/07/2010)

Academic Staff Professor David Rueda Dr Florence Faucher-King Professor David Anderson Dr Gwendolyn Sasse Dr Caroline Fehl * Dr Katrin Auel * Dr Petra Schleiter Dr Le Thanh Forsberg** Professor Kanti Bajpai * Professor Avi Shlaim Dr George Georgiadis* Professor Pablo Beremendi** Professor Cindy Skach Dr Anne Geniets ** Professor Nancy Bermeo Professor Tom Snijders Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill Dr Christopher Bickerton * Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Dr George Gray-Molina * Professor Vernon Bogdanor Professor David Soskice Dr Adam Humphreys Dr Nigel Bowles Dr Marc Stears Dr Indridi Indridason * Professor Simon Caney Dr Adam Swift Dr Abdourahmane Idrissa** Professor Richard Caplan Dr Patricia Thornton Dr Michelle Jackson Professor Giovanni Capoccia Dr James Tilley Dr Kerem Ozan Kalkan ** Professor Martin Ceadel Professor Alan Ware Ms Esra Kaytaz Dr Paul Chaisty Professor Jennifer Welsh Mr Csaba Zsolt Kiss ** Dr Nicholas Cheeseman Dr Stuart White Dr Johan Koskinen Professor Anne Deighton Professor Stephen Whitefield Dr Seth Lazar Dr Raymond Duch Dr Stewart Wood Dr Adrienne LeBas* Dr Louise Fawcett Professor Ngaire Woods Dr Hartmut Lenz * Professor Joe Foweraker Professor Jan Zielonka Dr David Leopold * Professor Rosemary Foot Dr Radoslaw Zubek** Dr Leany Lemos ** Dr Elizabeth Frazer Dr Brigitte Leucht ** Professor Michael Freeden Nuffield Official Fellows Dr David Levy Dr Michael Hart Professor Geoffrey Evans Dr Johannes Lindvall* Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh Professor Iain McLean Mr John Lloyd Dr David Hine Professor David Miller Dr Matthew Loveless * Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt Mr Laurence Whitehead Dr Reidar Maliks ** Professor Christopher Hood Dr Omar McDoom * Professor Andy Hurrell Research Fellows Mr Abiye Megenta ** Dr Edward Keene ** Dr Othon Anastasakis Dr Edward Morgan-Jones* Dr Yuen Foong Khong Dr Ioannis Armakolas * Dr Scott Moser Professor Desmond King Mr David Armstrong * Dr Rasmus Nielson** Professor Neil MacFarlane Ms Elena Avetova* Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou Dr Paul Martin Dr Peter Bajomi-Lazar Dr Henrik Ornebring Professor Walter Mattli Dr Dimitar Bechev Dr David O’Shaughnessy Dr Daniel McDermott Dr Alexander Betts Dr Jochen Prantl Professor Lois McNay Dr Scott Blinder* Dr James Reilly Professor Rana Mitter Dr Carlo Bonura* Dr Ruth Ripley Dr Karma Nabulsi Dr Sarmila Bose Dr Philip Roessler Professor Ian Neary Dr Alia Brahimi * Dr David Rodin Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis Dr Jorge Bravo* Dr Brian Rotheray ** * Dr Nicholas Owen Dr Elisabetta Brighi* Dr Shahira Samy Mr James Panton Dr Christopher Brooke * Dr Sibylle Scheipers * Miss Gillian Peele Dr Lucie Cerna Dr Serena Sharma Dr Sarah Percy Dr Elena Chebankova* Dr Devi Sridhar Dr Mark Philp Dr Adam Coutts * Dr Vaclav Stetka Dr Timothy Power Dr Eline De Rooij * Dr Jennifer Tobin* Dr Alex Pravda Dr Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck Dr Maya Tudor Professor David Robertson Dr Ruth Dixon Dr Laura Valentini Dr Philip Robins Dr Sophie Duchesne Dr Varun Uberoi

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 32 20/09/2010 14:43 Ms Gil-li Vardi * Departmental Mrs Traci Wilson Administrators Dr Jill Wittrock* Janice French Dr Desislava Zagorcheva * Dr Radoslaw Zubek Support staff James Baldwin ** College Posts Pat Boreham Mr Roham Alvandi Esther Byrom Dr Richard Coggins Kate Candy Finance Team From left to right: Genevieve J Dr Michael Drolet Sophie Forsey Garrido, Pat Boreham Ms Sarah Fine* Genevieve J Garrido Mr Matthew Johnson Elizabeth Griffiths** Mr Tom Lubbock Phil Handyside ** * Mr Emre Ozcan* Alison Hunt Mr Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds Mat Kladney** * Mr Patrick Travers Margo Kirk** Dr Suke Wolton Marga Lyall Andrew Melling Associate Members Sarah Mills* Professor Jocelyn Alexander Maria Moreno Rsearch e Support Team Professor William Beinart Samantha Rainbird** From left to right: James Baldwin, Professor Sir Ivor Crewe Christine Raybould Esther Byrom, Sarah Travis, Kate Dr Jean-Pascal Daloz Gemma Roche Candy, Margo Kirk Dr Raffaella Del Sarto Sarah Travis Dr Stephen Fisher Hanna Winiarska ** * Dr Matthew Gibney Dr Nandini Gooptu Research Programme Professor Anthony Heath Support Staff Professor Margaret MacMillan Amanda Armstrong** Professor Helen Margetts Lucy Crittenden ** Dr Hartmut Mayer Bryony Gill * Professor Sir Adam Roberts Kate Hanneford-Smith CsesTour eam Sir Ivor Roberts Dr Angela Julian * From left to right: Marga Lyall, Professor Alan Ryan Sara Kalim ** Samantha Rainbird, Maria Professor Henry Shue James Painter** Moreno, Liz Griffith, Andrew Professor Vivienne Shue Alex Reid Melling Professor Hew Strachan Dr Gail Savage ** * Dr Steve Tsang Nicola Shephard ** Dr Dominic Zaum* Jennifer Wilkinson Dr Deborah Wilson* Emeritus Fellows Mr Alan Angell Professor Archie Brown Dr David Butler Mr John Dunbabin Dr David Goldey Prsonle n e Team From left to right: Christine Professor Sir Adam Roberts Raybould, Sophie Forsey, Alison Professor Henry Shue Hunt

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 33 20/09/2010 14:44 Academic Visitors 2009-10

h arte Dep ment’s academic visitor programme Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan: Tcontinues to be very active. Our Research Strategy established in 2008, the scheme sponsors one scholar or underlines the need to sustain and develop a vital practitioner from Pakistan at the Centre for International research culture through activities, facilities and Studies for one term. exchange to enhance the research environment for staff – Mr Muhammad Idrees Khawaja (Pakistan Institute and graduate students. The visitor programme plays an of Development Economics) important role in achieving this aim as visitors have the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of activities organised within the Department and participate in and Centre for Political Ideologies contribute to the collaborative research culture of the Senior Visiting Research Fellow Department. The Department welcomes applications – Professor Lyman Tower Sargent (University of from academics and practitioners in the UK and overseas, Missouri) and those with a relevant professional or academic interest, who wish to contribute to, and participate in, the Visiting Research Fellows work of the Department as visitors or associates. – Dr Jonathan Floyd (freelance) – Miss Sophie Heine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

In the academic year 2009-10 the Department has Visiting Doctoral Student hosted the following visitors (grouped by centre or – M r Martin Beckstein (University of St Gallen) programme affiliation):

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Centre for Research Methods in the Social Senior Visiting Research Fellow: Sciences – Professor Christopher Hill (Cambridge University) Post-doctoral Visiting Research Fellow – Dr Djordje Stefanovic (University of Toronto) Visiting Research Fellows – Professor Aron Bernstein (MIT) – Mr Sam Daws (United Nations Association of the UK) Centre for the Study of Social Justice – Dr Nora Fisher Onar (Bahcesehir University) Visiting Research Fellows – Dr Lars Hoffmann (University of Tilburg) – Dr Geoffrey Levey (University of New South Wales) – Professor Oliver Richmond (University of St – D r Zofia Stemplowska (University of Manchester) Andrews)

Research Associates Department – Dr Jane Boulden (Queen’s University, Ontario) – Dr Alia Brahimi (London School of Economics) Visiting Professor – Dr Audrey Cronin (National War College, Washington – Professor Joseph Nye (Harvard University) DC) – Dr Evelyn Goh (Royal Holloway, University of London) Senior Visiting Research Fellow – Dr Rama Mani (author, practitioner and policy analyst – P rofessor Timothy Colton (Harvard University) specialising in peace, justice and human security) – Dr Monica Serrano (El Colegio de Mexico) Visiting Research Fellows – Dr Ioannis Armakolas Visiting Doctoral Student – M r Johannes Burgers (Australian National University) – Ms Melanie Hanif (German Institute of Global and – P rofessor Robert Elgie (Dublin City University) Area Studies, Hamburg) – Dr Helen Fawcett (University of Strathclyde) – D r Benedikt Franke (World Security Network) – Professor Jose Manuel Gutierrez (University of Salamanca) – Mr Maxim Kantor (freelance artist) – artist in residence

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 34 20/09/2010 14:44 – Ms Sandra Leon Alfonso (Centre for Political and Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group in the Constitutional Studies, Madrid) Social Sciences (formerly the European Research – Dr Katya Long (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Group) – Ms Maarja Luhiste (University of Exeter) Visiting Research Fellow – D r Jérôme Sgard (Sciences Po) Visiting Doctoral Students – Ms Eleanor Gao (University of Michigan) Post-doctoral Visiting Research Fellows – Mr Labinot Greicevci (Ghent University) – D r Neil Martin (Sciences Po) – Mr Pengcheng He (Central Committee Party School – D r Hélène Thiollet (Sciences Po) of the CPC, Beijing) – Miss Jesse Tomalty (University of St Andrews) Public Policy Unit Senior Visiting Research Fellow Leverhulme Changing Character of War – P rofessor Colin Thain (University of Ulster) Programme Visiting Research Fellows Visiting Research Fellows – D r Andrew Godefroy (Department of National – Mr Philip Collins (The Times and Demos) Defence, Canadian Army; Royal Military College of – M r Patrick Diamond (Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street) Canada) – M r Guy Lodge (Institute for Public Policy Research, – Dr Major Haldun Yalcinkaya (Turkish Military London) Academy)

Senior Visiting Research Fellow Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism – Sir Robert Fry (Hewlett Packard) Visiting Research Fellows – Professor Jim Detjen (Michigan State University) – Dr Adrian Hadland (Human Sciences Research Media and Democracy in Central and Council, South Africa) Eastern Europe – Professor Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary University Visiting Research Fellows of London) – Professor Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Hertie School of – Mr Geert Linnebank (ITN) Governance, Berlin) – Professor Laurence Lustgarten (retired from – Dr Inka Salovaara-Moring (University of Helsinki) University of Southampton) – Ms Tran Le Thuy (Tuoi Tre Newspaper) – D r Donald Matheson (University of Canterbury, New Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality Zealand) and Democracy – D r Martin Moore (Media Standards Trust) Visiting Research Fellow – M r Nic Newman (Digital Media and Journalism – Dr Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser (Wissenschaftsz Consultant) entrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung) – P rofessor Robert Picard (Jönköping University) – M r Richard Sambrook (BBC) – M r Juan Señor (Innovation Media Consulting Group) Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and – D r Damian Tambini (London School of Economics) Armed Conflict Visiting Research Fellows – Ms Treasa Dunworth (University of Auckland) – D r Elisa Kaczynska-Nay (lawyer and independent researcher and author) – D r Hugo Slim (Corporates for Crisis)

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Three visitors in 2009-10, Timothy Colton (Harvard University), Sophie Heine (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Muhammad Idrees Khawaja (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics) describe their experiences:

Timothy Colton Sophie Heine Muhammad Idrees Khawaja

wasucky l enough to have h rnde yea a a half I spent wast selec ed by the Centre Ia fully funded sabbatical year Tas an academic visitor in Ifor International Studies (CIS) as in academic year 2010–11. My the Department of Politics and the first recipient of the Charles project is on ‘Russia and the Rest: International Relations was an Wallace Visiting Fellowship, with Conflict and Accommodation in extremely enriching experience. tenure from October 2009 to the Post-Soviet Space’. I am trying The time gave me the opportunity March 2010. The Department’s to understand the determinants to participate in numerous collaborative environment and of Russian influence in its seminars and conferences, the Bodleian Library’s invaluable former imperial domain and the particularly those organised by archival material greatly assisted conditions, if any, under which it the Centre for Political Ideologies my research which examines develops cooperative relations and the Centre for the Study of contemporary educational with the states around it. Oxford Social Justice. The friendly and outcomes in Pakistan with University, St Antony’s, and studious atmosphere of the reference to the country’s colonial especially the Department were Department and the extensive history. The CIS seminars and a friendly and supportive base for resources available through the accompanying interaction with the research activity, which also University’s libraries provided an other researchers, in particular took me on trips to Russia, Ukraine, ideal environment to develop Sarmila Bose and Richard Georgia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and and discuss my research project, Caplan, significantly aided the Moldova. I am most grateful for ‘The Analysis and Development of development of this project. I also the use of facilities and access to Concepts for Progressives Politics’. received excellent support and so accomplished and diverse an My experience as an academic assistance from the Department’s academic community. visitor has been so positive I have staff includingM atthew Kladney applied to be become an associate and Alison Hunt, who was member of the University. especially helpful during my first days in Oxford. The Fellowship has been an extremely rewarding experience and has provided excellent career development.

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Annual_Report_10th_2010_v2.indd 36 20/09/2010 14:44 Acknowledgements

The Department would like to thank the following Office Holders for their valuable contribution to teaching administration and management over the past year:

Dr Nicholas Owen, Deputy Head of Department with Dr James Tilley, Course Director, MPhil Comparative responsibility for teaching Government

Dr Nigel Bowles, Director of Graduate Studies (Politics) Professor Jennifer Welsh, Director of Graduate Studies (International Relations) Professor Anne Deighton, Course Director, MPhil European Politics and Society Dr Edward Keene, Director of Methods Training (International Relations) Dr Elizabeth Frazer, Director of Methods training (Politics) Dr Karma Nabulsi, Course Director, MPhil International Relations Professor Lois McNay, Course Director, MPhil Political Theory Professor David Robertson, Director of Undergraduate Studies

The Department would also like to thank the following faculty:

Dr Elizabeth Frazer for having served as Co-chair of the Dr Sarah Percy for having served as Undergraduate Nominations Committee 2008-10 Subject Panel Chair in International Relations 2009-10

Professor Neil MacFarlane for having served as Head Professor David Robertson for having served of Department and Chair of the General Purposes as Director of Undergraduate Studies, member of Committee 2005-10 and as Research Director in the General Purposes Committee and Chair of the Michaelmas Term 2009 and Hilary Term 2010 Nominations Committee 2008-10

Professor Lois McNay for having served as Course Director for the MPhil in Political Theory and Harassment Officer 2007-10

Images: Cover, pp. 3,8,10,15,18,20,25 courtesy of Sue Srawley, [email protected]

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