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centre newsletter
October 2008
Read about our current projects and publications as well as recent awards for new initiatives that will develop over the coming year in our bi-annual newsletter.
we are looking for
2 project interns
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE is looking for two interns to work on the Global Civil Society Project during Autumn 2008.
This innovative project, which comprises postgraduate teaching, research and dissemination, offers interesting and varied voluntary work on events organization, communications and publicity, as well as assistance with a major new photography initiative.
Postgraduate and undergraduate students are invited to apply. Interns will be required to work one day a week, sometimes flexibly, from early October 2008 until early December. There is a possibility of extension in the Spring 2009 term.
For further information, please see ‘Specification for GCS Project Interns’. To apply, please email your CV (2 pages max) and a covering letter, explaining why you want to intern on the GCS Project and what you would bring to the position (500 words max). Please send applications to f.c.holland@lse.ac.uk by 4 October 2008. Interviews at CSGG will be held in the week beginning 6 October 2008.
Please note that internships are unpaid.
Read specifications here
vacancy
deadline for receipt of
applications: 30-Sept-2008
Centre Administrator
Fixed Term for 18 Months (in the first instance)
Salary: £22,401 - £25,197 pa inclusive
You will be an experienced and dedicated
administrator able to provide PA to support to two
directors in all aspects of their work, and support
Centre staff in day to day office duties. The Centre
is a leading international institution dedicated to
research, analysis and dissemination about global
governance.
You should have strong communication and excellent planning and organisational skills and a willingness to support the Directors in achieving their objectives.
In addition to a good salary the benefits that come with this job are a final salary pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities
For a full application pack please visit the LSE Human Resources web pages and view current vacancies. If you cannot download the pack, e-mail hr.recruit.support@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6183 quoting reference JSR/07/155
Closing date for receipt of applications: 30 September 2008
viewing restricted exhibition
21-July-2009
The commissions for Viewing Restricted** have been awarded
call for papers
31-Mar - 02-Apr-2009
Nationalism and Globalisation
Deadline: 01-Nov-2008
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding its 19th Annual Conference, entitled “Nationalism and Globalisation”, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 31st March - 2nd April 2009, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
photographers wanted
May 2008
Deadline: 16 June 2008
Expressions of interest are invited for an LSE photography initiative on poverty and its representation, past and present. Ideas are welcome from photographers in the following cities: London, Kinshasa, Mumbai, Istanbul, New York, Jakarta, Cairo and Shanghai. Your work will be exhibited publicly at LSE and published in Global Civil Society 2009
centre newsletter
April 2008
Read about our current projects and publications as well as recent awards for new initiatives that will develop over the coming year in our bi-annual newsletter.
website launch
28-Feb-2008
The Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance
and Globalisation in the Gulf States
The Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States launched its website on 28 February 2008.
The Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States is a ten year multidisciplinary global programme. It focuses on topics such as globalisation, economic development, diversification of and challenges facing resource rich economies, trade relations between the Gulf States and major trading partners, energy trading, security and migration.
The Programme is hosted in LSE’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Governance, and led by Professor David Held, co-director of the Centre. It will support post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, develop academic networks between LSE and Gulf institutions, and host a regular seminar series as well as five major biennial conferences.
Visit the LSEKP website
part time research
support
assistant
February 2008The Centre for the Study of Global Governance have an opening for a part time Research Support Assistant that will suit a PhD student. Could you please forward this email to students in your departments and others who you think might be interested. I attach the Job Description and Person Specification. This will be advertised internally only.
Deadline for submissions is Wednesday 20th February at 5pm. Applicants should send a CV and brief cover letter, it would be helpful if candidates could refer to the job description and person specification when responding. Interviews are likely to take place in the following week, and candidates will be contacted soon after the closing date.
Duration of the appointment is up to three years, for the duration of the funding. Start date is immediate. Salary to be confirmed and will be pro rata to 2 days per week or 50% full time equivalent. Flexible working hours are possible.
Applications to be submitted to Harriet Gallagher by email h.c.gallagher@lse.ac.uk
Read job description
Read person specification
launch
08-Nov-2007, Madrid
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A European Way of Security.
The Madrid Report of the Human
Security Study Group
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The Human Security Study Group, under the direction of Professor Mary Kaldor, professor of global governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE, launched its report A European Way of Security: The Madrid Report of the Human on 8 November 2007 in the presence of the EU High Representative Javier Solana in Madrid. The report is based on a year-long review of ESDP and human security, undertaken at the request of the 2006 Finnish presidency of the European Union.
centre newsletter
October 2007
In October 2007 we launched our bi-annual newsletter which highlights some of our current projects and publications as well as recent awards for exciting new initiatives that will develop over the coming year.
new publication
October 2007
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Kaldor, Mary (2007)
Human Security: Reflections on Globalization and Intervention,
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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There is a real security gap in the world to-day. Millions of people in regions like the Middle East or East and Central Africa or Central Asia where new wars are taking place live in daily fear of violence. Moreover new wars are increasingly intertwined with other global risks the spread of disease, vulnerability to natural disasters, poverty and homelessness. Yet our security conceptions, drawn from the dominant experience of World War II and based on the use of conventional military force, do not reduce that insecurity; rather they make it worse.
new publication
September 2007
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Held, David and Anthony McGrew (2007)
Globalization/Anti-Globalization.
2nd edition,
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization – are these the right terms to describe the current global order? The second edition of this highly successful book tests the claims of those who dismiss the continuing significance of globalization through a comprehensive assessment of contemporary global trends.
new publication
August 2007
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Held, David and David Mepham (eds) (2007)
Progressive Foreign Policy: new directions for the UK
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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In May 1997, the then UK foreign secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have ‘an ethical dimension’, and that the Labour Government would ‘put human rights at the heart of foreign policy’. Although not described in these terms, these assertions were an attempt to articulate a ‘progressive’ conception of foreign policy for the UK.
But how does the foreign policy record of the Labour government stand when set against these declared principles? What role have ethics really played in Labour’s foreign policy? Why has Labour been so interventionist, from Kosovo to Iraq? What does this record tell us about the limits and the possibilities of progressive foreign policy? What does it tell us about the strengths and failures of Labour’s foreign policy?
new publication
July 2007
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Seckinelgin, Hakan (2007)
The International Politics of HIV/AIDS: global disease - local pain
London: Routledge.
Routledge
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This is the first book to offer an intelligent and critical analysis of the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It interrogates the role of this international system and provides a comparative regional analysis looking at the global debate from a holistic perspective. Hakan Seckinelgin addresses a range of key issues, including: the emergence of a global disease; its history and background; international governance; and medicalisation.
The geographical focus is Sub-Saharan Africa since the region has been at the forefront of these global interventions. It provides an innovative way for discussing the role of people living in the context of the disease in relation to policy frameworks.
A substantial contribution to the understanding of the problems in HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book will be invaluable to students and researchers of health, international politics and development.
CALL FOR PAPERS
31-Jan - 2-Feb-2008, LSE
Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond: An International Conference
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance in association with the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) at the LSE and Free University of Amsterdam will host an international conference titled ‘Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond’.
The objective of this conference is to discuss and highlight the significance of peace movements during the Cold War era in order to draw conclusions for the analysis of contemporary socio-political reality and the evaluation and resolution of its conflicts and to encourage research and teaching on the history of peace movements. Traditional interpretations of the Cold War focus on nation-states and governments. An examination of the role and impact of citizen movements in both East and West is important not only for the depth it provides to the historical records of the Cold War, but also because it exposes the impact and significance of civil society in the resolution of conflicts more generally. It challenges the belief in the utility of ‘traditional’ military buildups and coercive pressure.
BBC Radio 4
07-May-2007
Mary Kaldor in 'Start the Week' with Andrew Marr
Mary Kaldor joined Simon Sebag Montefiore, Robert Service and Timothy Phillips in a BBC Radio 4 discussion on 'Russia Old and New'.
Listen to the programme
More about the Centre's research on Oil and Conflicts
new publication
February 2007
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Moore, Henrietta L. (2007)
The Subject of Anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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This ambitious new book by one of the leading theorists of gender and social anthropology draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Professor Moore brings a fresh and innovative treatment of the relationship of psychoanalysis to anthropology.
Clear, accessible and beautifully written, this book will appeal to students and scholars alike and is the most powerful and persuasive assessment to date of what anthropology has to contribute to these debates now and in the future.
new online
February 2007
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'Evaluation of UNDP Support for Conflict Affected Countries.'
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In 2006, the UNDP Executive Board requested the
Evaluation Office to conduct an independent
evaluation of UNDP assistance to conflict affected
countries. The evaluation was led by Professor Mary Kaldor and the report was presented at the beginning fo 2007.
The analysis of UNDP assistance to conflict affected
countries since 2000 is based on
detailed case studies of six Security Council mandated
countries (Afghanistan, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Haiti,
Sierra Leone and Tajikistan). This was
supplemented by a survey of 24 countries
receiving support from the UNDP Bureau
for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
The evaluation documents the changing
character of conflict in the past few
decades, underlining that violations of
human rights and human security are not
a side effect but a central methodology of
current violent conflicts. The report concludes
that while the international community has
succeeded in stabilizing conflicts, it has not
adequately addressed the structural conditions
conducive to conflict. The response needs to
be more coherent, integrating humanitarian
and development concerns into peacebuilding
efforts. A strategy to prevent
conflict must address the conditions that
are conducive to violent conflict and be
bound up integrally with improving human
security. For this reason, the report uses the
analytical framework of human security to
capture the sustainability and effectiveness
of UNDP assistance to prevent conflict
and build peace.
Visit UNDP
new publication
February 2007
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Held, David and Anthony McGrew (eds) (2007).
Globalization Theory: approaches and controversies. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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Globalization Theory is the fourth volume in the highly acclaimed Global Transformations series. It follows in the footsteps of Global Transformations, the Global Transformations Reader and Governing Globalization. All these volumes have been widely adopted in courses on globalisation and global governance across the world.
This book focuses on elucidating leading theoretical approaches to understanding and explaining globalisation, both in its current form and potential future shapes. It is divided into two parts: the first examines competing explanatory theories of globalisation in its contemporary form and the second looks at competing prescriptions for the future of globalisation.
The book's contributors are world renowned experts in their field, including G John Ikenberry, Michael Doyle, Layna Mosley, Alex Callinicos, Anthony McGrew, Thomas Risse, Roland Robertson, John Thomlinson, Saskia Sassen, David Held, Thomas Pogge, Chris Brown and Andrew Kuper.
More about Professor David Held
'the guardian'
15-Feb-2007
'Violent past plagues Pristina's ambition' analysis by Mark Tran
Read Mark Tran's article on the negotiations over the possible independence of Kosovo and his reference to Denisa Kostovicova's comments on
'European zones of human security' as it was developed in a paper at the
Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.
Kostovicova, Denisa (2007). 'European Zones of Human Security: A Proposal for the European Union' Paper prepared for the Study Group on Human Security, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
More about the Study Group on Human Security
CALL FOR PAPERS
17/18-June-2007, LSE
Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) will host a 2 day interdisciplinary workshop which aims to bring together 15-20 researchers from all academic discourses researching collective memory and collective knowledge in a ‘global age’. The workshop will provide an opportunity for an exciting and challenging discussion of the issue that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
new publication
November 2006
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Kaldor, Mary (2006).
New and Old Wars: Organized Violence
in a Global Era. 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Polity Press
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This second edition of Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era has been fully revised and updated to deal fully with the implications of ‘the new wars’ in the post 9-11 world. In a new chapter, Kaldor shows how old war thinking in Iraq has has greatly exacerbated what is, in many ways, the archetypal new war – with insurgency, chaos and the occupying forces’ lack of direction prescient of a different kind of conflict now emerging in the 21st Century.
More about Professor Mary Kaldor
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audio files
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kuwait research programme
Visit the website of the newly launched Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States.
your feedback
We are interested in your opinion. Please have a look at our online Global Civil Society yearbook questionnaire.
General questions
For general questions concerning the Centre
please contact Harriet Gallagher, centre manager
phone: 020 7955 7583
h.c.gallagher@lse.ac.uk
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