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department newswire Michaelmas Term

DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 1

Head of Department’s welcome 2

People 3

Project Announcement 5

Oxford Spring School 6

Blog Relaunch : OxPol 7

Profile - Teresa Bejan 9

Profile - Katarina Buehling 10

Profile - Pauline Zanetto 11

Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order 12

Oxford Alumni Travellers 13

Research Bulletin Board 15

Recent Publications 21

Noticeboard 22

DPIR Publicity 24

Contents

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Head of Department’s welcome

Dear Colleagues

Welcome back! I hope you had

an enjoyable, refreshing and

productive summer and are now

feeling ready for the start of a new

academic year.

I would like to take this opportunity

to wish a very warm welcome

to those who are joining us for

the new year – both our new

academic staff, who will I’m sure

bring new perspectives and energy

to our research community, and

administrative staff who will

further bolster the excellent

support of that research.

With the new academic year comes

a new look for the department’s

blog, which is being relaunched

as OxPol: The Oxford University

Politics Blog. We felt the time was

right to bring our new website

together with our blog, aligning

our online publishing activity with

our departmental research outputs,

engagement and news offerings.

The blog goes live this week, and

features an attractive magazine

format – for more details please

see page 7. We hope that you will

continue to use the blog to publicise

your research and comment on

current issues. Submissions can be

emailed to blog.editorial@politics.

ox.ac.uk.

We are also relaunching the Oxford

Spring School in Advanced Research

Methods. Elias Dinas, Ezequiel

Gonzáles and Andrea Ruggeri have

been appointed as directors, and

the course will take place in April.

This is an exciting development,

offering the opportunity for

the department to showcase its

expertise. You can read more about

the programme on page 6.

I hope that you enjoy reading this

Newswire, and wish you all the best

for the year to come.

“I hope you had an enjoyable, refreshIng and produCtIve summer and are now feelIng ready for the start of a new aCademIC year.”

Welcoming our new graduate students (Photo by Aoife Dudley)

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


Peoplethe department would lIke to welCome the followIng new staff:

• Teresa Bejan (Associate Professor of Political

Theory)

• Janette Chow (Research Fellow)

• Alessio Cornia (Research Fellow)

• Rogier Creemers (Departmental Lecturer in the

Politics and History of China)

• Aoife Dudley (MPhil/MSc Coordinator)

• Rebecca Edwards (Project Administrator - Digital

News Media)

• Sarah Ganter (Research Fellow)

• Robin Harding (Associate Professor of Government

- Quantitative Methods)

• Félix Krawatzek (BA Postdoctoral Fellow in Political

Theory)

• Jonathan Leader Maynard (Career Development

Fellow and Department Lecturer in International

Relations)

• Hannah Marsh (RISJ Marketing and

Communications Officer)

• Carlotta Minella (Departmental Lecturer in

International Relations)

• Harpreet Paul (RISJ Events and Fellowship Officer)

• Annika Sehl (RISJ Research Fellow)

• Shaina Western (Departmental Lecturer in

International Relations)

• Pauline Zanetto (Personnel Assistant)

we wIsh the followIng leavers well:

• Tara Bailey

• Dina Bishara

• JanaLee Cherneski

• Janina Dill

• Genevieve Garrido

• Issar Sukriti

• Yuen Foong Khong

• Jody LaPorte

• Nicola Leveringhaus

• Tristen Naylor

• Julie Page

• Margaret Prewitt

• Camilla Prince

• Monique Ricketts

• Armando Roman Zozaya


PeopleContInued...

new arrIval!

Congratulations to Zosia

Stemplowska and Ben Jackson on

the birth of Hania Stemplowska

Jackson, who was born on 2

September!

the department would lIke to welCome the followIng new vIsItors:

• Dr Sergio Aguilar – The State University of Sao

Paulo (Visiting Research Fellow (VRF))

• Dr Francesca Artioli – Sciences PO (VRF)

• Mr Tomohito Baji – The University of Cambridge

(VRF)

• Professor Henrikas Bartusevicius – Aarhus

University (VRF)

• Dr Adam Leong – The National Defence University

of Malaysia (VRF)

• Dr Marta Regalia – The University of Bologna

(VRF)

• Mr Darian Heim – Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(Visiting Doctoral Student (VDS))

• Mr Roman Liesch – The University of St. Gallen

(VDS)

• Mr Tom O’Grady – Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (VDS)

• Mr Eduardo Rios – Sciences PO (VDS)

• Mr Wang Zhongyuan – Leiden University (VDS)


Project Announcementgoogle and reuters InstItute agree grant for major expansIon of dIgItal news report’s Coverage of europe

Further to the announcement by

Google in April of their Digital News

Initiative and the increased support

that would involve for the Reuters

Institute Digital News Report,

Oxford University and Google have

now agreed the details of the new

grant.

Google’s increased funding over

the next three years will allow the

Reuters Institute for the Study of

Journalism (RISJ) to extend the

report’s coverage of Europe to 20

countries in 2016 with the aim of

moving to 30 in 2017/18. The

new countries to be included in

the main report from 2016 are

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,

Greece, Hungary, Netherlands,

Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden,

Switzerland and Turkey. These

will be added to the 12 countries

already covered in the main 2015

report; UK, Denmark, Finland,

France, Germany, Italy, Ireland,

Spain, together with Australia,

Brazil, Japan and the US.

RISJ Director Dr David Levy said:

“The annual Reuters Institute

Digital News Report has become

an indispensable resource to better

understanding trends in news

consumption internationally. It is a

key element in the RISJ’s mission

to produce rigorous independent

research of relevance to some of

the most pressing issues facing

journalism and our 2015 report

received more attention than ever

before.

“We are delighted that Google’s

increased funding for the 2016-

18 reports will enable us to vastly

expand the coverage and depth

of the Digital News Report within

Europe and produce a range of

accompanying publications.

“At a time of unprecedented

change, Google’s support for this

expansion within Europe, along with

those of our many other partners

and sponsors on the report, will

allow us to develop the definitive

study tracking the transition to

digital news, greatly increasing the

accessibility of the data and results

and creating an invaluable resource

for industry leaders, journalists, and

researchers”.

The Reuters Institute Digital News

Report is based on the largest

international comparative survey

of the major trends in digital

news consumption. This unique

independent academic report

has been supported by a wide

range of academic and industry

partners, since its creation in 2012.

From 2016 onwards the Reuters

Institute will continue to work with

a very wide range of sponsors and

partners within Europe and beyond.

The sponsors of the 2015 report

were; the BBC, Ofcom, The

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland

http://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/http://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/


Project AnnouncementContInued...

(BIA), France Télévisions, L’Espresso

group in Italy, the Media Industry

Research Foundation of Finland,

Edelman UK, Roskilde University,

the Hans Bredow Institute, the

University of Navarra, the Tow

Center at Columbia University’s

Graduate School of Journalism and

the University of Canberra as well

as Google, who have been a funder

since 2013.

The financial value of Google’s

Agreement with Oxford University

is c. £5m for the grant period of

August 2015- December 2018.

Oxford Spring Schoolmethods traInIng for students from aCross the uk

Following the appointment of

three new directors, the Oxford

Spring School in Advanced Research

Methods re-opens its doors to

students in April 2016, offering

the opportunity to learn cutting

edge methods for social scientists.

The School plans to attract

students from across the UK and

beyond, with a variety of advanced

courses which place the different

data analysis techniques within

broader disciplinary trends towards

mixed-methods research designs.

The course has been designed

to appeal to researchers using

both quantitative and qualitative

methodology.

The five day course will offer a

variety of options, including a

choice between sets of increasingly

popular and influential methods/

techniques in the discipline:

“Computerised Text Analysis” and

“Causal Inference.” The other

courses will be “Process Tracing,”

“Survey Design,” “Spatial Data

Analysis” and “Data Visualization.”

Participants will be able to take

a total of up to three different

methods courses in one week, as

well as two masterclass sessions

on how to design and implement a

research project and how to publish

your research in social sciences

journals. “Tutors will emphasise

the mixed-methods philosophy

underlying these courses, and the

use of these techniques in different

types of research designs,” Spring

School Directors say, “This is an

exciting opportunity for Oxford

to showcase its expertise in

the training of quantitative and

qualitative research methods,

and we welcome applications

from a wide field of researchers

in social sciences, especially in

Political Science and International

Relations.”

The Spring School’s website

will launch in November In the

meantime, please direct any queries

to [email protected].

Please encourage your doctoral

students to apply.

Elias Dinas, Ezequiel González

Ocantos and Andrea Ruggeri

Oxford Spring School Directors

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Blog Relaunch‘polItICs In spIres’ has beCome ‘oxpol: the oxford unIversIty polItICs blog’

The DPIR will soon be re-launching

our blog as OxPol: The Oxford

University Politics Blog. The new

blog will take the place of Politics

in Spires (all existing content

will be continue to be available

at OxPol). The blog was a great

success, with material often posted

elsewhere and our authors quoted

in The Guardian, New Statesman,

Spectator, BBC and the Financial

Times.

After DPIR’s five-year collaboration

with POLIS, Cambridge, the blog

has a built a loyal readership

and strong track record. The

relaunched OxPol blogsite will

provide the department with an

important and growing online

platform. As such, it will offer

you the opportunity to contribute

topical posts, opinion pieces, book

reviews and to curate special

themed series. We are planning a

more attractive magazine style

format, with more content on the

front page including simple access

to videos, podcasts and other forms

of departmental research outputs.

“we belIeve that aCademIa must extend the reaCh of Its output... In order to demonstrate Its relevanCe to the understandIng of polItICs and what It Is for.”


about oxpol

The Oxford University Politics Blog

aims to promote academic research

and commentary to readers in and

outside the university. We believe

that academia must extend the

reach of its output, in clear prose, in

order to demonstrate its relevance

to the understanding of politics

and what it is for. Along with

opinion, research and audio/video,

we also host a number of special

series dedicated to a particular

topic in political science. OxPol

promotes the work of department

academics and graduate students,

as well as providing a platform for

commentary on current affairs.

We encourage posts on a range of

topics in the world of politics, as

long as they contribute academic

analysis to understanding political

questions.

ContrIbute to oxpol

The OxPol blog will

be your platform, and new

contributors are most welcome.

Please let us or the blog editorial

team know at blog.editorial@

politics.ox.ac.uk whenever

you publish an article or book,

contribute evidence or comment in

the media; if you post on other blog

platforms, let the team know and

we can often cross-post. We also

welcome ideas about new content

or format. Please visit http://blog.

politics.ox.ac.uk to learn more.

new speCIal serIes on the eu referendum: brexIt

Starting next week, OxPol will

be hosting a new special series

on the UK referendum on EU

membership. The referendum

raises many important questions

for the United Kingdom. Will Prime

Minister David Cameron be able

to negotiate a “New Deal” for his

country? How will his diplomacy

affect Britain’s relationship with its

European partners? Is a referendum

of this kind democratic? And, what

would a British exit from the EU—a

“Brexit”—look like? We welcome

submissions from academic staff

and students in the DPIR. Please

visit www.blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/

submit to learn more.

Niels Goet and Blake Ewing - Blog

editors

Blog RelaunchContInued...

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Profile - Teresa BejanI joined DPIR in September and

am hugely excited to be part

of its vibrant community of

political theorists and a Fellow of

Oriel College. Before coming to

Oxford, I taught as an Assistant

Professor of Political Science at the

University of Toronto. I received

my Ph.D. in Political Theory with

distinction from Yale in 2013

and spent the following year as a

Fellow in the Society of Fellows

in the Humanities at Columbia

University. Additionally, I hold

an MPhil in Political Thought and

Intellectual History from Cambridge

and a BA in Fundamentals: Issues

and Texts from the University of

Chicago.

My research brings historical

perspectives from early modern

English and American political

thought to bear on questions in

contemporary political theory. I

recently completed a book

manuscript for Harvard University

Press based on my doctoral

dissertation. Entitled Mere Civility:

Tolerating Disagreement in Early

Modern England and America, the

book examines modern calls for

civility in light of seventeenth-

century debates about religious

toleration. Indeed, many of the

pressing problems facing modern

liberal democracies—such as

what the proper scope of religious

liberty should be, or how to handle

partisanship and hate speech—

closely recall early modern concerns

about the limits of toleration and

the dangers of sectarianism and

so-called “persecution of the

tongue.” The book traces the

competing conceptions of civility

and toleration developed by early

modern writers like Hobbes, Locke,

and Roger Williams and argues that

these were not superficial calls for

politeness, but rather sophisticated

efforts to think through what

coexistence between people

divided in their most fundamental

commitments requires.

My work has been published

in The Journal of Politics, History

of European Ideas, and the Oxford

Review of Education, and I have

articles forthcoming on Locke

and Hobbes in History of Political

Thought and the Review of

Politics, respectively. In Hilary

term, I will be on leave from

Oxford as the Balzan-Skinner

Fellow in Modern Intellectual

History at Cambridge. While

there, I will give a public lecture

related to my new book project on

theories and practices of equality

in 17th-century English political

thought. Called “Acknowledging

Equality,” the lecture will focus on

the determination of early Quakers

to put the Biblical declaration that

“God is no respecter of persons”

into practice by deploying a

strategic—and highly disruptive—

politics of contempt against the

spiritual, social, and political

hierarchies of their day.

assoCIate professor or polItICal theory

“[m]any of the pressIng problems faCIng modern lIberal demoCraCIes... Closely reCall early modern ConCerns about the lImIts of toleratIon and the dangers of seCtarIanIsm and so-Called “perseCutIon of the tongue.””


Profile - Katarina Buehlingpersonnel offICer

With two years spent at DPIR I

am no longer a novice, yet my

role as Personnel Officer throws

new challenges at me on a daily

basis. This along with the vibrant

multicultural setting, creates such

exciting working atmosphere (not

to mention the departmental coffee

facilities and Friday cake rotas,

which I have had to regrettably skip

all too often).

At work I am responsible for the

operational side of recruitment,

inductions, employment life cycle

and, together with my new team

colleague, Pauline Zanetto, we are

looking forward to answering your

queries, or pointing you in the right

direction.

I would never have imagined that I

would be working and conducting

postgraduate research at Oxford.

Though I happen to have completed

a BA degree in HR and Political

Sciences in a post-communist

Poland, I undertook the latter

studies to rediscover the world’s

history (which I wasn’t meant to

learn as a child in Eastern Europe)

rather than as an academic career.

Whilst my country was becoming

awash with fast-food places and

commodities, I materialised my

persistent intercultural curiosity,

vintage nostalgia and a growing

interest in the HR profession by

moving to Germany, close to the

remains of the Berlin Wall, and

getting my first professional job

in HR administration at a very

conservative bank. More recently,

my journey brought me to Oxford

via Cambridge, taking up a Masters

in HR Management at Brookes.

Having finally bound my thesis

about women in Political Sciences

academia in the proud Oxford

blue only few days ago, I am now

recharging my batteries, so that I

can continue to contribute to the

professional and academic journeys

of others - including those who

may still consider that they are not

yet ready for Oxford.

“though I happen to have Completed a ba degree In hr and polItICal sCIenCes In a post-CommunIst poland, I undertook the latter studIes to redIsCover the world’s hIstory (whICh I wasn’t meant to learn as a ChIld In eastern europe)rather than as an aCademIC Career”

Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger (www.oxfordlight.co.uk)

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Profile - Pauline Zanettopersonnel assIstant

I am thrilled to be joining Oxford

University, and becoming part of

this stimulating and energising

environment. Having grown up in

France and lived in Hong Kong for

three years I feel very much at

home in international, cosmopolitan

places and Oxford certainly seems

to tick that box!

I recently joined the department

at the beginning of September as

a Personnel Assistant. I graduated

two years ago from Oxford

Brookes University with a Business

Management and Psychology

degree, and then took a years’

internship in the Human Resources

(HR) Directorate at Oxford Brookes

University, where I got the chance

to explore key aspects of HR,

such as recruitment, training &

development, and marketing.

Outside of university life, I have

worked as a Workshop Facilitator

& Cultural Ambassador for a social

project in Uruguay and supervised

many youth summer camps in

France. I have also done a lot of

volunteering work here in the UK

and abroad in the Philippines and

Hong Kong.

My current role covers recruitment

administration as well as broader

personnel administration. The

personnel team is always happy

to help with any personnel related

queries, so please do not hesitate to

contact me when needed.

“havIng grown up In franCe and lIved In hong kong for three years I feel very muCh at home In InternatIonal, CosmopolItan plaCes and oxford CertaInly seems to tICk that box!”

Image: Eric Haney


Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order event report

For most of the post-Cold War

period questions of nuclear order

and nuclear governance were the

preserve of a community of nuclear

specialists and focused on a series

of discrete policy challenges such

as the dangers posed by individual

‘rogue states’; questions of nuclear

security; and the risks of non-state

actors acquiring nuclear materials.

Yet such an approach is more and

more inadequate given the return

of geopolitics, the increasingly

important role of nuclear weapons

within the international relations

of major regions of the world, and

the degree to which many of the

analytical and policy techniques

of recent years have all too

clearly reflected a particular set

of historical circumstances and

nationally-bound ways of thinking.

The Department of Politics and

International Relations joined

with Stanford University and the

American Academy of Arts and

Sciences to debate these questions

and to open up a new agenda for

re-thinking the global nuclear

order. The conference took place in

Nuffield College from 21st to 22nd

September. It was organised by

Andrew Hurrell from Oxford, David

Holloway from Stanford, and Scott

Sagan and Francesca Giovannini

from the American Academy, which

sponsored the meeting.

The conference was opened by

Dr Jonathan Fanton, the President

of the American Academy and

brought together an extraordinarily

impressive range of figures from

the academic and policy worlds,

including Lawrence Freedman, Kanti

Bajpai, Jeff Legro, Leopoldo Nutti,

William Walker, Gabrielle Hecht,

Vinod Kumar, Jonathan Hunt, Avner

Cohen, Steven Miller, Ambassador

Alexander Kmentt, Matias Spektor,

Frank Gavin, Emma Belcher, Malfrid

Braut-Hegghammer, Benoit

Pelopidas, Jeffrey Knopf, Nicola

Leveringhaus, Kate Sullivan, Patricia

Lewis, Itty Abraham, Alexander

Savelyev, Etel Solingen and William

Potter.

The core goal was certainly

achieved, namely to bring together

historians, international theorists

and nuclear specialists from

western and non-western countries

to examine the changing interaction

between the international system

and the global nuclear order.

Speakers examined the various

ideas, institutions, norms and

practices that comprise the global

nuclear order and identified the

changing historical conditions

within the international system

that either prevented or facilitated

their realisation. The meeting took

stock of recent research in nuclear

history but sought to explore what

lessons this work has for current

policy dilemmas. Over three days

of intense debate, conference

participants sought to lay out

how we might understand better

the kinds of major state political

bargains and practices of social

legitimacy that will be needed to

sustain the dense and complex, but

highly fragile, set of governance

arrangements that comprise the

global nuclear order.

Professor Andrew Hurrell

All images by Eric Haney


Oxford Alumni Travellers have you ConsIdered ImpartIng your expertIse to a group of oxonIans on an aCademIC tour?

Over the 15 years that the Oxford

Alumni Travellers’ programme

has been running, Oxford

academics have led alumni groups

to a wide range of captivating

destinations around the planet.

The University Alumni Office runs

these educational, small-group

trips with itineraries designed

especially for alumni. Every journey

is accompanied by an expert trip

scholar, whose role is to share their

academic knowledge relating to the

theme and the destination.

Offering a chance for alumni to

revisit the intellectual life that

they experienced during their

time studying at Oxford, the

journeys are a unique opportunity

for Oxonians. The role of the trip

scholar is to feed the intellectual

curiosity of travellers.

“The energy and enthusiasm of

the participants in last year’s trip

to Egypt were inspiring. Several

had lived for prolonged periods in

different parts of Africa, Asia, and

Europe, and so possessed a wealth

of experience of different cultures

and ways of life. In my view, their

insights and observations greatly

enhanced our appreciation and

understanding of what we saw,”

commented Professor Mark

Smith, Lady Wallis Budge Fellow at

University College.

Groups are small, typically around

20 participants, and it is usually a

convivial and interesting group of

people with which to travel. Trip

scholars enjoy the opportunity

to discuss their current research

with a group of interested alumni,

who enjoy hearing about the latest

developments at Oxford.

Alumni tour to Washington DC, 2 – 7 2016

“the requIrements for a trIp sCholar are relatIvely sImple: a CongenIal personalIty and the abIlIty to gIve talks to a well-eduCated lay audIenCe”


Compared with many packaged

tours, Oxford Alumni Travellers

journeys offer exceptional value for

alumni. In addition to high-quality

accommodation, trip prices include

best-available transportation,

group transfers, and most meals.

Most notably, the programmes

provide world-class academic

components, behind-the-scenes

visits, and private access to sites

which are normally off-limits to the

public. In the words of Dr Peter

Collins, Senior Research Fellow at

St Edmund Hall, and a trip scholar

for several successful trips, “the

aim is not gourmet luxury but great

delight.”

The requirements for a trip scholar

are relatively simple: a congenial

personality and the ability to

give talks to a well-educated lay

audience, either lecture-style with

slides or during a field experience

or site tour.

Trip scholars are invited to travel

free of charge and for some trips,

scholars can bring a partner, friend

or family member. Some academics

like to add their own research (or

holiday) onto the beginning or end

of the group trip.

New trip scholars are currently

being recruited and Denise Gogarty,

who runs the Oxford Alumni Travel

Programme, is always keen to

hear from Oxford academics who

have ideas for new educational

programmes. Bespoke itineraries

can be designed to include areas of

particular interest to a trip scholar,

and alumni particularly enjoy when

scholars can enhance trips to

include private visits and behind-

the-scenes tours.

The 2016 programme covers

a wide range of destinations,

including an alumni tour to

Washington DC , preceding the

Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend

in North America. Other journeys

include the Mysteries of Persia,

Britain’s Secret War, The Russian

North, and Walks in South China.

Themes include international

relations and politics, history,

archaeology and natural history.

For more information on becoming

a trip scholar, please contact:

Denise Gogarty

Alumni Travel and Learning

Manager

[email protected]

For details on the travel

programme, visit

www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel

Oxford Alumni Travellers ContInued...

travellIng abroad? - ConneCt wIth oxford’s global alumnI

If you are travelling abroad as part of your work, please consider contacting one of Oxford’s global network

of alumni groups - they are always keen to hear from Oxford academics, and you will be assured of a warm

welcome and an engaged audience.

Our groups act as regional ambassadors and trusted advocates, support current and prospective students

and keep Oxonians connected with the University wherever they may reside. A full list of our alumni groups

together with their contact details can be found in the Groups section of the Alumni website:

www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni-groups

The alumni office are particularly keen to recruit speakers for alumni groups in the Netherlands or the United

Arab Emirates, both of which have very active groups. For more information about Oxford’s alumni groups,

contact [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travelwww.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni-groupsmailto:jackie.hruby%40alumni.ox.ac.uk?subject=


Research Bulletin Board

• Reuters Institute and World Press Photo announce first annual survey on photojournalism

• Call for applications for new Google Digital News Journalist Fellowship

• The Reuters Institute at the Paris Climate Change Summit

The Reuters Institute welcomes the following new

visitors:

• Dr Christine Finn – Freelance Journalist (Visiting

Research Fellow)

• Professor Suzanne Franks – City University (VRF)

• Mr Charles Lewis – The American University

School of Communication Investigative Reporting

Workshop (VRF)

• Dr Bruno Patino – School of Journalism, Sciences

PO (VRF)

updates from the dpIr researCh Centres, networks and programmes

hIstory of polItICal thought researCh network

Coordinator: David Leopold

History of Political Thought Research Network website

reuters InstItute for the study of journalIsm (rIsj)

Director: David Levy

Director of Research: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

RISJ Website

oxford polItICal theory network

Coordinators: Elizabeth Frazer; Zofia Stemplowska (currently on maternity leave)

Research Network in Political Theory website

researCh network In polItICs and government

Coordinator: David Rueda

Research Network in Politics and Government website

http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/political-thought-network.htmlhttps://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/political-theory-network.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/politics-and-government/research-network-in-politics-and-government-people.html%3Fcenid%3D381


Research Bulletin BoardContInued...

• Appointment of Florian Egloff and Max Smeets as Cyber Studies Programme Research Affiliates. Florian is a Clarendon Scholar and a DPhil Candidate in Cyber Security at the Centre for

Doctoral Training in Cyber Security and at DPIR;

Max is a DPhil Candidate in International Relations

at DPIR. The appointments recognise their support

and contributions to the Programme’s research

activities.

• Launching of a Public Data Repository. The Programme has launched a public data repository

in collaboration with the Oxford University

Research Archive (ORA) of the Bodleian Libraries.

At present, the repository consists of an initial set

of qualitative data pertaining to cybersecurity and

e-government practices in Estonia. The files are

official public domain government documents.

More data categories and data will be added in

future.

• Cyber Lunch Seminars. The kick-off event of this seminar series is scheduled for Wednesday

21 October 2015, 12:30-13:45, in Seminar

Room E, Manor Road Building. Our speaker is Mr

Andres Kütt, the Chief Architect of the Estonian

Information System Authority. Andres will discuss

the principles and functions of Estonia’s pioneering

state information system. Lunch will be provided.

Registration details will be available on the

Programme’s website.

• Conferences. On 16 September 2015, the Programme Director Dr Lucas Kello participated

in a panel discussion on international cyber issues

with Professor Thomas Rid at the Royal United

Services Institute for Security and Defence

Studies. Also, on 18 September, Dr Kello chaired a

panel discussion titled “Data Breach: The Struggle

for Supremacy in the Cyber Domain” at Christ

Church, Oxford. The event was sponsored by

Oxford Analytica Ltd and included former director

of GCHQ Sir David Omand.

• Oxford Training Sessions on the Modern Information Society. On 4-6 September 2015, the Cyber Studies Programme conducted

a three-day training session for over 500

university students as well as public and private

sector practitioners at the Tallinn University of

Technology in Tallinn, Estonia. The event was

funded by the European Social Fund and the

Estonian Government. The theme of the course

was “Government, Security, and Conflict in the

Cyber Age.”

The Cyber Studies Programme welcomes the following

new visitor:

• Mr Dedy Permadi – The National University of

Singapore (Visiting Doctoral Student)

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Cyber studIes programme

Director: Lucas Kello

Cyber Studies Programme Website

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Recent Events:

• Fixed-Term Parliaments Act Conference. Professor John Curtice (Strathclyde) delivered

the keynote address at this conference titled ‘The

Fixed-Term Parliaments Act: Quiet Revolution

or Mere Technical Detail?’ Participants included

Andrew Blick (King’s College London); Philip

Cowley (Nottingham), Oonagh Gay (House of

Commons Library), Roger Mortimore (Ipsos

MORI), Lord Norton of Louth and Lord Wallace

of Tankerness. The podcast from this event is

available online.

• ‘Broken Constitutions’ Workshop. Keynote address by Professor Sanford Levinson (University

of Texas at Austin). This conference strategic

partnership between Sciences Po and Oxford’s

DPIR through the OXPO research network. There

will be five more workshops over a period of three

years, including one hosted by the University of

Texas at Austin.

• Joint Event with the Law Faculty. Stephen Sachs, Duke University Law School, delivered a paper

titled ‘Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change’ at

an event jointly sponsored by the Constitutional

Studies Programme and the law faculty’s

Jurisprudence Discussion Group and Public Law

Discussion Group.

• Lunchtime Seminar Series. Papers were given by Mikolaj Barczentewicz (Faculty of Law); Sukriti

Issar (DPIR); Cristina Parau (Socio-Legal Studies);

Valentin Jeutner (Faculty of Law); Veronika Fikfak

(Law, Cambridge University); Hayley Hooper (Law,

Cambridge University); Farah Ahmed (Melbourne

Law School); and Adam Perry (Law, Queen Mary

University London).

CSSJ welcomes the following new visitors:

• Dr Adina Preda – The University of Limerick (Visiting Research Fellow)

• Ms Li Liu – Tsinghua University (Visiting Doctoral Student)

ConstItutIonal studIes programme

Director: Scot Peterson

Constitutional Studies Programme website

Centre for the study of soCIal justICe (Cssj)

Director: Daniel Butt

Centre for the Study of Social Justice website

http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/the-fixed-term-parliaments-act-quiet-revolution-or-mere-technical-detail.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/the-fixed-term-parliaments-act-quiet-revolution-or-mere-technical-detail.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/constitutional-studies-unit.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/centre-for-the-study-of-social-justice.html



• On 15 and 16 July 2015, ELAC hosted the

‘Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and

Armed Conflict’. For the third time, it brought

together senior government officials, senior

military with leading and emerging academics from

the UK, continental Europe, North America and

Israel in order to discuss International Law in armed

Conflict. It was organised in partnership with the

Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for

Future Generations Programme; the International

Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); the Robert

S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law

at the University of Texas; and the South Texas

College of Law, Houston.

• The ELAC Sixth Annual Workshop was hosted by

the Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and

Peace on 28 and 29 August 2015. This year’s

workshop focused on ‘Legitimate Authority and

Political Violence’. This annual workshop brings

together the best scholars working on the ethics

of war from philosophical, legal, political and

practitioner backgrounds.

ELAC welcomes the following new visitors:

• Dr Joanna Harrington – The University of Alberta

(Visiting Research Fellow)

• Dr Matt Sleat – The University of Sheffield (VRF)

• Professor Siobhan Wills – Ulster University (VRF)

A report on the recent CIS event “Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order” is on page 12 of this Newswire.

The Centre for International Studies welcomes the following new visitors:

• Mr Phyo Wai – The Global New Light of Myanmar Daily (Visiting Research Fellow)

• Mr Martin Duchac – The University of Trento (Visiting Doctoral Student)

Centre for InternatIonal studIes (CIs)

Acting Director: Professor Andrew Hurrell

Centre for International Studies website

oxford InstItute for ethICs, law and armed ConflICt (elaC)

Director for 2015-16: Cécile Fabre

Co-Directors: Professor Jennifer Welsh, Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law)

Dr David Rodin

ELAC webpage

http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/events/http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/events/http://stockholmcentre.org/event/elac-conference-2015-legitimate-authority-and-political-violence/http://stockholmcentre.org/event/elac-conference-2015-legitimate-authority-and-political-violence/http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/


OxPo welcomes the following visitors to Oxford:

• Imola Streho (Sciences Po CEE/

Law): www.cee.sciences-po.

fr/en/le-centre/associate-

researchers/490-imola-streho.html

Imola Streho will be the OxPo

Sciences Po Fellow in Nuffield College during the

Michaelmas Term. Imola is currently working on a

book on the European Court of justice (co-written

in French with a colleague), the title of which can

translate into ‘The European Court of Justice: Inside

Out’.

Imola Streho holds a PhD in Law from the

University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) and LLM

from the College of Europe. She is Associate

Professor at the Law school and Associate Scholar

at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po,

Paris, where she has been the Programme Director

of the Master in European Affairs since 2008.

• Francesca Artioli (Sciences Po, CEE): www.cee.

sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-

francesca-artioli.html

Francesca Artioli will be the OxPo

Sciences Po Post-doctoral Fellow

during the 2015-16 academic

year, and she has an office in DPIR

for the duration of her stay (Room

183). She can be contacted on francesca.artioli@

sciencespo.fr.

Francesca Artioli holds a PhD in political science

from Sciences Po Paris/CEE (December 2014)

and she has been a fixed-term lecturer (ATER) at

Sciences Po Bordeaux. The bulk of her research

concerns urban policies, central and local

governments’ relations and public sector reforms.

Her PhD dissertation was a comparative study of

the territorial retrenchment of armed forces and of

urban policies for reconversion in French and Italian

cities. Through studying the military, it sheds light

on the interplay between public sector reforms

and territorial politics. As a post-doc in Oxford,

Francesca will mainly engage in a new research on

the “smart cities”, by studying the inclusion of new

information and communication technologies into

the provision of urban public services in Europe.

Francesca has discussed her research in

an interview for the Sciences Po website:

www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/power-

cities-0/1551


oxford-sCIenCes po researCh group In the soCIal sCIenCes (oxpo)

Director: Florence Faucher

OxPo Website

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• Eduardo Rios (Sciences Po, CERI):

www.sciencespo.academia.edu/

EduardoRios

Eduardo Rios will be visiting Oxford

during the 2015-16 academic year,

and will be based in DPIR.

At Oxford, Eduardo plans to finish his dissertation

on the strategies of economic elites in Hugo

Chávez’ Venezuela. Also, he would like to engage

with DPIR’s academic staff and students on

methods of quantifying qualitative data (MCA,

Network Analysis, Sequence Analysis, etc.)

and on how states constrain or incentivise big

corporations’ economic action.

• Yoel Mitrani (Sciences Po, Cevipof):

www.ceri-sciences-po.academia.edu/

YoelMitrani

Yoel Mitrani will be the second OxPo

Sciences Po Doctoral Student visiting

Oxford during the 2015-16 academic

year, based in the Faculty of History.

Yoel’s primary research interests lie in the history

of modern political thought and the history of

concepts. At Oxford, Yoel plans to continue the

work on his doctoral thesis which explores the

history of the concept of ‘Genius’. The thesis will

focus on the usage of the concept in mid-18th

century debates concerning politics, natural

philosophy and art criticism in Britain and France.

Upcoming Events:

• party posItIon, salIenCe and polItICal outComes

October 16 (Friday, 09:30-18:00)

Sciences Po, Paris. H206 at 28 rue des Saints-Pères,

75007, Paris.

Convenors:

Jan Rovy (Sciences Po)

Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College, Oxford)

This is a closed event but it is possible to contact Jan

Rovny for permission to attend:

[email protected]

• ConstItutIons under stress

December 17-18 (Thursday, 13:30-17:00; Friday

09:30-16:30)

Sciences Po Centre d’Histoire

Convenors:

Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences Po)

Scot Peterson (Balliol College, Oxford)

ContInued..

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Recent Publicationshow the frenCh thInk: an

affeCtIonate portraIt of an IntelleCtual people

sudhIr hazareesIngh - (alan lane)

Sudhir Hazareesingh’s How the

French Think is a warm yet incisive

exploration of the French intellectual

tradition, and its exceptional place in

a nation’s identity and lifestyle.

The French: orderly and anarchic,

rational and mystical, arrogant and

anxious, charming and exasperating,

serious and frivolous, pessimistic,

pleasure-loving - and perhaps more

than any other people, intellectual.

In this original and entertaining

approach to France and the French,

Sudhir Hazareesingh describes how

the French ways of thought and

life connect to make them such a

distinctive nation.

One of the purposes of How The

French Think is to convey the ideas

of some of the most influential

French thinkers of the past 400

years - Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo

and Michelet, Camus and Sartre,

Lévi-Strauss and Foucault. Sudhir

Hazareesingh is able to show how

bold, imaginative and sweeping

French thought is, how greatly it

values high culture (in contrast to

the English) and how it has given

an almost sacred role to the writer

- hence the prominent role of

intellectuals in French collective life,

and the intensity with which ideas

are debated.

The book explores the French

commitment to rationalism and

ideology, their belief in the State, their

cult of heroes and their contempt

for materialism. It describes their

stylistic fetishes, their fondness

for general notions, their love of

paradoxes, their current fixations

with the nation and collective

memory, their messianic instincts

and their devotion to universalism.

(‘France’, claimed the historian

Ernest Lavisse without a trace of

irony, ‘is charged with representing

the cause of humanity’.)

How The French Think ranges from

Descartes to Derrida, and from big

moral and philosophical issues to the

symbolic significance of Astérix and

the survival of the French language

in a globalised world. Drawing on

a colourful range of sources, and

written with warmth and humour, it

will appeal to all lovers of France and

of French culture.

Dr Angela

Cummine has

had a chapter

published in

Making Sovereign

Financing and Human Rights Work,

edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and

Jernej Letnar Cernic. The chapter is

entitled ‘Ethical Sovereign Investors:

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Human

Rights’.

Poor public resource management

and the global financial crisis curbing

fundamental fiscal space, millions

thrown into poverty, and authoritarian

regimes running successful criminal

campaigns with the help of financial

assistance are all phenomena that raise

fundamental questions around finance

and human rights. They also highlight

the urgent need for more systematic

and robust legal and economic thinking

about sovereign finance and human

rights.

This edited collection aims to contribute

to filling this gap by introducing novel

legal theories and analyses of the links

between sovereign debt and human

rights from a variety of perspectives.

ethICal sovereIgn Investors: sovereIgn

wealth funds and human rIghts

dr angela

CummIne

(hart publIshIng)

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There are new courses each week and the option to

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lynda.com sits alongside our classroom-based

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Coffee maChIne rotaproblems wIth the Coffee maChIne? here Is who to ContaCt:

ourtopIa: Co-CreatIng tomorrow together today

On 30 May 2015 Rama Mani, CIS Senior Research

Associate, performed at The TedXWomen Covent Garden on the theme of Momentum, which was held at the London Museum. Rama’s performance-

presentation entitled: ‘OURtopia: Co-Creating

Tomorrow Together Today’ “unveiled the power of

collective action to transform ourselves, our

societies and our world, at this critical juncture in

human history, as the UN marks its 70th

anniversary.”

To view the performance please see

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxeOacr7e8

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NoticeboardIIss pallIser essay prIze 2015

An annual prize in honour of Sir Michael Palliser (1922–2012), former Chairman of the Council and Vice-President of the IISS

The International Institute for Strategic Studies

has established the Palliser Prize for the best essay

submitted to Survival on an aspect of European

international relations, politics, economics or

strategy by an author under the age of 40.

The winner of the 2015 prize will receive £2,500,

and his or her essay will be published in Survival with

a special mention of the award.

For more information, please visit: www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/about-s-survival/palliser-

s-essay-s-prize-s-2015

Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2015 For submissions or queries: [email protected]

gender bIas In Ir syllabI

Nancy Bermeo has highlighted this interesting

article from the US on gender bias on International

Relations syllabi - how would our own compare?

www.duckofminerva.com/2015/08/new-

evidence-on-gender-bias-in-ir-syllabi.html

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OxWiP is an Oxford University organisation that aims

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notICes or

suggestIons for

edItorIal pIeCes

for any of the

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ContaCt CharlIe

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Theravada Budd

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Comparative Pe

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Theravada B

uddhism has

provided a

religious, so

cial, politica

l and cultura

l

foundation f

or most of t

he countries

of

mainland Sou

theast Asia a

nd across th

e Bay

of Bengal in

Sri Lanka. His

torically the

se

countries ha

ve had close

religious ties

; the

Theravada t

radition was

transplanted

to

Southeast A

sia from Sri

Lanka and t

here

have been oc

casional mov

ements of

doctrinal rej

uvenation b

etween the

regions.

Recently, int

ra-Theravada

connections

have

decreased, w

ith only occ

asional educ

ational

ties (althoug

h emerging

anti-Muslim

movements in

several The

ravada count

ries

are increasin

gly in comm

unication wi

th one

another). Th

e last promi

nent pan-Th

eravada

moment was

probably th

e convening

of the

Sixth Buddh

ist Council i

n Burma by U

Nu

from 1954-5

6.

Recent scho

larship has al

so asked the

question “Ho

w Theravada

is Theravada

?”,

drawing atte

ntion to the

fact that, d

espite

a common c

ore textual t

radition of th

e Pali

scriptures an

d commenta

ries and broa

dly

similar doctr

inal tenets, t

here are dee

p

variations in

practice an

d belief amo

ng

those identif

ied as Thera

vada Buddhis

ts,

even deep va

riations with

in countries

.

While there

has been som

e comparati

ve

scholarship o

n these trad

itions of pra

ctice

in different

locations, the

field of Ther

avada

Buddhist pol

itical though

t remains rel

atively

unexplored.

Contempora

ry movemen

ts within

Theravada s

ocieties refle

ct both this

common her

itage and the

range of

interpretatio

ns of central

concepts.

Buddhist nat

ionalist grou

ps in Myanma

r

and Sri Lank

a appear to d

raw on simila

r

logic regard

ing the need

to protect th

e

Buddhist com

munity, a lo

gic that is roo

ted

more in trad

ition and ide

ntity than in

text

or doctrine.

On the other

hand, the T

hai

movements o

f Dhammakay

a and Santi

Asoke begin

from a com

mon traditio

n but

come to rad

ically differen

t conclusion

s a Mon

K Rests aFteR

paRticipat

ing in an enviR

onMental pR

otest, caMB

oDia.

iMage cReDit

: luc FoRsy

th / FlicKR (c

c By-nc 2.0

)

Resea

Rch

Theravada Budd

hist Political Th

ought in

Comparative Pe

rspective

DR Matthew

J walton, a

ung san suu K

yi senioR Resea

Rch Fellow in

MoDeRn

BuRMese stuD

ies, st antony

’s college, un

iveRsity oF o

xFoRD.

Theravada B

uddhism has

provided a

religious, so

cial, politica

l and cultura

l

foundation f

or most of t

he countries

of

mainland Sou

theast Asia a

nd across th

e Bay

of Bengal in

Sri Lanka. His

torically the

se

countries ha

ve had close

religious ties

; the

Theravada t

radition was

transplanted

to

Southeast A

sia from Sri

Lanka and t

here

have been oc

casional mov

ements of

doctrinal rej

uvenation b

etween the

regions.

Recently, int

ra-Theravada

connections

have

decreased, w

ith only occ

asional educ

ational

ties (althoug

h emerging

anti-Muslim

movements in

several The

ravada count

ries

are increasin

gly in comm

unication wi

th one

another). Th

e last promi

nent pan-Th

eravada

moment was

probably th

e convening

of the

Sixth Buddh

ist Council i

n Burma by U

Nu

from 1954-5

6.

Recent scho

larship has al

so asked the

question “Ho

w Theravada

is Theravada

?”,

drawing atte

ntion to the

fact that, d

espite

a common c

ore textual t

radition of th

e Pali

scriptures an

d commenta

ries and broa

dly

similar doctr

inal tenets, t

here are dee

p

variations in

practice an

d belief amo

ng

those identif

ied as Thera

vada Buddhis

ts,

even deep va

riations with

in countries

.

While there

has been som

e comparati

ve

scholarship o

n these trad

itions of pra

ctice

in different

locations, the

field of Ther

avada

Buddhist pol

itical though

t remains rel

atively

unexplored.

Contempora

ry movemen

ts within

Theravada s

ocieties refle

ct both this

common her

itage and the

range of

interpretatio

ns of central

concepts.

Buddhist nat

ionalist grou

ps in Myanma

r

and Sri Lank

a appear to d

raw on simila

r

logic regard

ing the need

to protect th

e

Buddhist com

munity, a lo

gic that is roo

ted

more in trad

ition and ide

ntity than in

text

or doctrine.

On the other

hand, the T

hai

movements o

f Dhammakay

a and Santi

Asoke begin

from a com

mon traditio

n but

come to rad

ically differen

t conclusion

s a Mon

K Rests aFteR

paRticipat

ing in an enviR

onMental pR

otest, caMB

oDia.

iMage cReDit

: luc FoRsy

th / FlicKR (c

c By-nc 2.0

)

Resea

Rch

Theravada Budd

hist Political Th

ought in

Comparative Pe

rspective

DR Matthew

J walton, a

ung san suu K

yi senioR Resea

Rch Fellow in

MoDeRn

BuRMese stuD

ies, st antony

’s college, un

iveRsity oF o

xFoRD.

Theravada B

uddhism has

provided a

religious, so

cial, politica

l and cultura

l

foundation f

or most of t

he countries

of

mainland Sou

theast Asia a

nd across th

e Bay

of Bengal in

Sri Lanka. His

torically the

se

countries ha

ve had close

religious ties

; the

Theravada t

radition was

transplanted

to

Southeast A

sia from Sri

Lanka and t

here

have been oc

casional mov

ements of

doctrinal rej

uvenation b

etween the

regions.

Recently, int

ra-Theravada

connections

have

decreased, w

ith only occ

asional educ

ational

ties (althoug

h emerging

anti-Muslim

movements in

several The

ravada count

ries

are increasin

gly in comm

unication wi

th one

another). Th

e last promi

nent pan-Th

eravada

moment was

probably th

e convening

of the

Sixth Buddh

ist Council i

n Burma by U

Nu

from 1954-5

6.

Recent scho

larship has al

so asked the

question “Ho

w Theravada

is Theravada

?”,

drawing atte

ntion to the

fact that, d

espite

a common c

ore textual t

radition of th

e Pali

scriptures an

d commenta

ries and broa

dly

similar doctr

inal tenets, t

here are dee

p

variations in

practice an

d belief amo

ng

those identif

ied as Thera

vada Buddhis

ts,

even deep va

riations with

in countries

.

While there

has been som

e comparati

ve

scholarship o

n these trad

itions of pra

ctice

in different

locations, the

field of Ther

avada

Buddhist pol

itical though

t remains rel

atively

unexplored.

Contempora

ry movemen

ts within

Theravada s

ocieties refle

ct both this

common her

itage and the

range of

interpretatio

ns of central

concepts.

Buddhist nat

ionalist grou

ps in Myanma

r

and Sri Lank

a appear to d

raw on simila

r

logic regard

ing the need

to protect th

e

Buddhist com

munity, a lo

gic that is roo

ted

more in trad

ition and ide

ntity than in

text

or doctrine.

On the other

hand, the T

hai

movements o

f Dhammakay

a and Santi

Asoke begin

from a com

mon traditio

n but

come to rad

ically differen

t conclusion

s a Mon

K Rests aFteR

paRticipat

ing in an enviR

onMental pR

otest, caMB

oDia.

iMage cReDit

: luc FoRsy

th / FlicKR (c

c By-nc 2.0

)

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