30.11.08

CfA PhD Programme Transnational Studies‏

PHD PROGRAMME IN TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE BERLIN GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES
Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
Scholarships: 9 Doctoral Scholarships
Date: 3 year full-time
PhD programme starting September 2009
Starting date for Applications: 1 December, 2008
Deadline for Applications: 1 February, 2009
Online application: www.transnationalstudies.eu
The Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS), a joint endeavour of the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG) and the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB), announces its next call for applications for its full-time PhD programme. All three are leading institutions in the field of political science and its neighbouring disciplines. The programme draws upon their faculty, research projects, facilities and services.
The three-year English language doctoral programme is designed for exceptionally talented and motivated graduate students. It offers state-of-the-art survey classes, a strong training in research methods and research design, skills courses and individualized supervision. While the courses and training present an important part of the curriculum, the bulk of the workload for the PhD candidates in the programme will be in the form of independent research for their dissertations.
The successful applicants will be informed in the first half of April 2009 in order to enter to the doctoral programme in September of the same year. The three-year programme has a strong focus on social science theories and methods but also welcomes applications from adjacent disciplines like economics, history, law, and area studies. Dissertation topics should refer to one of the following three areas of concentration broadly defined:
§ The analysis of national and transnational causes and consequences of political, societal and cultural globalization.
§ The challenges to governance in international and transnational settings including issues of politization and legitimacy, as well as in areas of limited statehood.
§ The comparative study of regional cooperation, including the EU.
The application requirements for the programme are:
. An exceptionally strong completed university degree qualifying for PhD studies in political science, international relations, sociology, economics, law or adjacent disciplines.
. Proof of C1 level English language skills or the equivalent.
. CV
. A short letter of motivation (600 words maximum)
. A research proposal (5000 words maximum
. Two letters of reference from faculty members
The deadline for applications to the doctoral programme is 1 February 2009. Applicants are required to apply online. The respective website will be available from 1 December 2008 at www.transnationalstudies.eu.

ΥΠΟΤΡΟΦΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΡΕΥΝΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΓΓΛΙΑ

AHRC Postgraduate Studentships 2009
University of Cambridge
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/ZK945/

European Studies Research Institute: Graduate Teaching Assistantships 2009 University of Salford http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/VB653/

Research Postgraduate Scholarships for 2009 Entry Sociology/Social Policy/Social Work/Public Administration & Management/Public Policy School of Sociology & Social Policy University of Nottingham http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/BN543/

Research Postgraduate Scholarships for 2009 Entry Public Administration (DPA) & Professional Doctorate in Public Policy (DPP) School of Sociology & Social Policy University of Nottingham http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/BN544/

Teaching Fellow
Department of Government
University of Essex
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/YB294/

29.11.08

Human Security Conference, Belfast 2009‏

Human Security Conference
15th - 17th April, Belfast 2009
Call for Papers Now Open
Please visit http://www.humansecurity2009.com
For further information please contact Jaime Bennett on jaime@happen.co.uk

The Politics of Radical Democracy‏

'The Politics of Radical Democracy', edited by Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd.
This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democracy taken by a number of contemporary theorists and political commentators, including Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, William Connolly, Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, and Giorgio Agamben. By examining critically the accounts of democracy advanced by these theorists, this volume explores how a more radically conceived theory of democracy might be extended in a more egalitarian and inclusive direction.
The Politics of Radical Democracy
edited by Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd
November 2008
240pp
ISBN 978 0 7486 3399 9 £55.00
For more information, visit: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748633999
Anna Glazier
Marketing Manager
Edinburgh University Press
22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF
tel 0131 650 4223

CfP - Militarism: Political Economy, Security, Theory‏

Call for Papers: "Militarism: Political economy, security, theory."
Conference at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex; 14-15 May 2009.
Militarism and militarisation - the social processes associated with the production and valorisation of organised violence - have long been central issues on the International Relations agenda. Cold War concerns over arms races, military expenditure, vast numbers of people under arms, arms sales to the Third World, and militaristic attitudes and practices that promote organised violence, were all topics hotly debated in the literature. With the end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the USSR, a drop in military budgets, and the rise of discourses around human rights and humanitarian intervention, concerns around militarisation were relegated to the sidelines. The militarised US-led response to 9/11, characterised by the war in Iraq and rising military budgets around the world but especially in the USA, has signalled a return to centre stage of military force as an arbiter of international relations and prompted a resurgence in the literature on militarism and militarisation.
Associated with the broadening of the IR agenda in the post-Cold War era, there is growing recognition that militarism and militarisation cannot only be thought of in terms of the traditional distinction between internal and external security. They have spread into the internal realm through the intensification of surveillance, the creation of new bodies of control, and the reform of the legal and institutional context through which states administer their internal security affairs. Feminist scholars are examining masculinities and the role of gender relations in promoting militaristic attitudes, policies and practices, and the racialised nature of coercion and control is increasingly being recognised. Cold War concerns over the militarisation of civil institutions such as the university, fields such as space, and various geographical regions, have returned, albeit in a seemingly radically new context. Along the way, the literature from the 1980s seems to have been sidelined, cast aside as out of date, given its backdrop of superpower competition and a bipolar world.
The Centre for Global Political Economy (CGPE) in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex aims to bring together scholars, practitioners and activists working on militarism and militarisation from a diverse range of theoretical approaches in a two-day conference. The guiding ethos of the conference asks what the current state of play is in the literature on militarism, what we can learn from old debates and what newer debates can contribute; how the phenomenon of militarism can be theoretically, empirically and practically located at the crossroads between international political economy, security studies and international relations; and how academics, practitioners and activists can learn from each other.
We welcome papers on themes including, but not limited to:
* old and new theories of militarisation and militarism;
* discourses and ideologies of militarisation;
* class, arms production and the military-industrial complex;
* gender dynamics and the (re)production of militarism;
* the racialised nature and effects of militarism;
* North-South relations, domination and resistance in processes of militarisation;
* the militarisation of internal security practices;
* regional, inter- and transnational institutions, agents, policies and mechanisms of militarisation;
* the international relations of militarism;
* the relationship between academic and practitioner research on militarism.
The organisers welcome the submission of proposals for both panels and papers. Please send a short abstract to Dr. Anna Stavrianakis and Dr. Iraklis Oikonomou at militarismconference@gmail.com by 23rd January 2009.
A provisional conference programme will be announced on 1st March 2009.
Papers should be sent by 30th April 2009.
Dr. Anna Stavrianakis
Lecturer in International Relations
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9SJ
http://eprints.sussex.ac.uk/view/people/Stavrianakis,_Anna.html

PhD studentships for leverhulme-funded project on 'The Liberal Way of War', University of Reading‏

Reading University Leverhulme Programme on The Liberal Way of War
Nine Studentships
Applications are invited for nine three-year studentships (to cover Home/EU fees and full maintenance) to study for a PhD in Politics, Law, History, or Languages and European Studies' as part of the University of Reading's Leverhulme-funded Programme to investigate The Liberal Way of War: strategy, ideology, representations (http://www.reading.ac.uk/spirs/research/spirs-leverhulme.asp).
Successful candidates will be Associates of the Programme, will play a part in all of its events, and may contribute to its publications.
The Programme will study the ways in which liberal states have reconciled themselves to fighting wars. Such states can only sustain the will to fight if they can represent what they are doing as being consistent with their liberal values. One well-established way of doing this is to treat the zone of conflict as a kind of privileged space in which the usual rules do not apply. But technological developments (instantaneous communication) and ideological shifts (the spread of belief in a global rights-based order) are making it hard to preserve the old distinction between the zone of conflict and the home society.
Additional problems are caused by situations in which there is (or seems to be) an enemy within to be resisted.
The Programme brings together military strategists, political and cultural historians, political scientists and theorists, and international lawyers to look at various aspects of this development. Enquiries are welcome from students in any discipline who wish to join the team or to work alongside it under the supervision of one of its members. Possible topics might include historical/cultural case studies of episodes of conflict (and subsequent peace-building efforts) from 1920 to the present day, studies of military strategy and tactics (including counter-intelligence and surveillance), international relations theory (with special reference to the 'liberal peace'), doctrinal or historical accounts of human rights law, and projects in relevant fields of political theory. For further information and application forms, please email e.j.joyce@rdg.ac.uk, briefly stating your likely area of study. The closing date, which will be strictly enforced, is 28 January 2009.
Dr Dominik Zaum
Lecturer in International Relations
University of Reading
Whiteknights
PO Box 218
Reading, RG6 6AA
Phone: +44 118 378 6108
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780199207435

Global Discourse: Call for Papers and Reviews‏

Global Discourse: A Developmental Journal of Research in Politics and International Relations
global-discourse.com
About the Title
Global Discourse is an international collaboration between postgraduate students and young academics seeking to develop a well-read, high-quality journal publishing work on all areas of politics and international relations.
With an international network of editors, referees, and contributors in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US, West Indies and Continental Europe, Global Discourse is a conglomeration of individuals, schools and postgraduate journals seeking to develop a forum for the expression and development of distinctive research projects - particularly those which transcend disciplinary boundaries. The journal accepts high quality submissions from any theoretical and methodological perspective and encourages debate between paradigms and schemas.
Aims
Global Discourse aims to draw individuals, schools, organisations, and existing politics and international relations postgraduate journals, into an overarching collaborative forum which re-engages discourse between author and reader. As a fully peer-reviewed, online journal, Global Discourse seeks to provide a critical, developmental forum for postgraduates and young academics.
The journal aims to review its own content by publishing 1-2,000 word formal reviews and replies to each published article as well as encouraging less formal dialogue through moderated discussion boards.
By enabling authors to retain copyright and to withdraw contributions following a full four month period of issue, the journal aims to encourage the development of papers for submission to more established publications. Nothing is lost, but much can be gained, by submitting work for publication in Global Discourse.
The journal also aims to develop a more dynamic book review section, with intensive discussion of a single text by several reviewers published alongside replies from the author/s.
Call for Papers
Global Discourse accepts high quality submissions from any theoretical and methodological perspective and encourages debate between paradigms and schemas. As such, we encourage contributions from such disciplines as anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, law, media studies, philosophy, psychology, social policy and sociology.
Global Discourse accepts a wide range of contributions, from short research notes of 2-4,000 words to full-length articles of up to 9,000 words including all notes and references.
Please submit papers for review to Martyn Griffin (M.A.Griffin@newcastle.ac.uk) or Elliott Johnson (E.A.Johson@ncl.ac.uk).
Full information for authors can be found at:
http://global-discourse.com/information-for-authors-and-contributors/
The First Issue
For the first issue, we have a full statement of intent by Martin Weber, University of Queensland, and an article on power within court societies by Jeremy Paterson, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.
We have a book review symposium on Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence, with replies from the author, Levi R.Byrant, Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, Texas.
Future reviews include Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth and Chasing Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada by Kyle Grayson.
Please visit our website, global-discourse.com or contact M.D.Edward@ncl.ac.uk for further details

Call for Papers - 2009 ECPR Annual Conference - Panel on the Salience of Foreign and Security Policy‏

Call for Papers
ECPR General Conference, Potsdam
10-12 September 2009

Panel on the Salience of Foreign and Security Policy

At next year’s ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, we are organizing a panel on the ‘Salience of Foreign and Security Policy’ to national publics, the mass media, political parties and members of parliaments.
The panel will focus on, but is not restricted to the domestic salience of foreign affairs in Britain, France, Germany and the US. For a synopsis of the panel, see http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=241.

On the occasion of this panel, we would like to invite paper proposals dealing with

- theoretical perspectives on the domestic salience of foreign affairs,
- methodological approaches to measuring domestic issue salience,
- empirical analyses on the salience of foreign and security policy (incl. European policy) to national publics or the media either in single countries or in a comparative perspective,
- empirical analyses on the salience of foreign and security policy (incl. European policy) to political parties or members of national parliaments either in single countries or in a comparative perspective.

Abstracts of the proposed papers should contain a maximum of 300 words. The proposals should be submitted via the ECPR’s online paper submission form: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/potsdam/panel_details.asp?panelID=241. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 February 2009. If accepted, papers must be uploaded until 15 August 2009.

Should you have any further questions on the panel or on your paper proposal, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us:
kai.oppermann@uni-koeln.de
henrike.viehrig@uni-koeln.de

We are looking forward to your proposals, and we hope that we can put together an interesting panel for the conference.

Best regards,
Kai Oppermann, University of Cologne, Germany
Henrike Viehrig, University of Cologne, Germany

Dr. Kai Oppermann
- Akademischer Rat –
Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politik und Außenpolitik
Universität zu Köln
Tel.: 0221-470-2854; Fax: 0221-470-6732
http://www.jaeger.uni-koeln.de/oppermann.html

6.11.08

ΧΑΙΡΕΤΙΣΜΟΣ ΔΙΕΥΘΥΝΤΗ ΠΜΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΦΟΙΤΗΤΕΣ

Αγαπητοί φοιτητές του ΠΜΣ του Τμήματος Βαλκανικών Σπουδών

με την ευκαιρία της έναρξης των μαθημάτων του ΠΜΣ «Οικονομική και Πολιτική Διακυβέρνηση στη ΝΑ Ευρώπη» την επόμενη εβδομάδα και σε συνδυασμό με τη λειτουργία σχετικού ιστολογίου για τις εκπαιδευτικές και διοικητικές ανάγκες του ΠΜΣ, θα ήθελα να καλωσορίσω τους πρωτοετείς φοιτητές, αλλά και τους φοιτητές των άλλων εξαμήνων και να σας ευχηθώ καλή ακαδημαϊκή χρονιά. Οι βάσεις για την επιτυχημένη αναβάθμιση του ΠΜΣ τέθηκαν ήδη από την προηγούμενη χρονιά με τη θετική συμβολή όλων των παραγόντων, διδασκόντων, διδασκομένων και διοικητικών υπαλλήλων. Ελπίζουμε ότι η προσπάθεια αυτή θα συνεχισθεί με την ίδια επιτυχία και στη νέα χρονιά, ώστε το ΠΜΣ να αποτελεί εστία γνώσης και προόδου για το Τμήμα Βαλκανικών Σπουδών και το Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας.

Ο Διευθυντής του ΠΜΣ
Κυριάκος Κεντρωτής
Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής ΤΒΣ

Καλώς ήλθατε!

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