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Chris Moran has been awarded a three year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held in PAIS. The title of the project is ‘Politics, Partnership and Paranoia: Nixon, Kissinger and the US Intelligence Community’.

This is a superb achievement. The British Academy received over 800 applications, only put forward around 100 to the second round and awarded just a total of 47 fellowships across the whole of the UK. Chris’ award is the only one in entire University for this year.

The award is a recognition of the excellence of Chris’s work, and once again demonstrating the quality of PAIS and its postdoctoral programme.

Richard Aldrich has been awarded a 12 month extension to his AHRC 'Landscapes of Secrecy'. The original project was £580k and this extension adds a further £41k.

The follow on is entitled: 'Enhancing Openness and Explaining Secrecy: Policy Lessons from the Declassification and Management of US Intelligence and Security Records'. 

This is a very interesting follow on project because it is designed solely for impact, and will involve engagement with the Cabinet Office and six NGO partners.

The funding will be used to distil the policy lessons of the original project and then launch a 'roadshow' for practitioners in London, The Hague and Geneva.

Congratulations to Richard for this innovative follow on award.

CSGR and PAIS would like to welcome Toni Haastrup, who will be starting as a Research Fellow working on GR:EEN on 1^st June.

Toni recently completed her doctoral degree at the University of Edinburgh, where she was a Tutor and Research Assistant. Prior to Edinburgh, she was a Junior Researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. Her current research focuses on the intersection between security and development in EU external relations and the EU?s role in international affairs. Toni is particularly interested in the interregional cooperation especially EU-Africa relations, and has published on EU-Africa security cooperation'.

Toni is very excited to be working on GR:EEN and at 果冻传媒, PAIS in general and looks forward to meeting colleagues in June. 

Dr Ted Svensson, who finished his PAIS Phd last year, has won the Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in International Relations/Comparative Studies for 2010.

The judges said :

This dissertation provides a theoretically rich and empirically informed examination of the complex processes that shaped the production of national independence and citizenship in India and Pakistan. By judiciously deploying critical social theory and skilfully interpreting extensive archival material, it is able to map the mythologies of state formation in political theory and the formation of state mythologies during the independence and partition processes on the sub-continent. The analysis of dynamics such as communal violence, diaspora networks, internal migration, class antagonisms, religious affiliation, and caste marginalisation reveal the ways that dominant mythologies shape the very limits of political possibility and representation within any nation-state. In doing so, this dissertation engages with vital questions about power, identity, authority, and authenticity in the mutually constitutive development of political structures and political identities. Moreover, at a time when the potential for dramatic constitutional change and socio-political transformation is once again emerging globally, one of the key implications of this study is to remind us of how any period of political transition produces opportunities and foreclosures, certainties and uncertainties, traditions and novelties, and practices of memorialisation and wilful forgetting. All are deployed in order to discipline the ambiguities of ‘foundational’ moments in politics, lest the radical contingency of constitutions, national identities, and the forms of authority they enable be revealed.

Congratulations, Ted!

Dear All,

I am delighted to be able to inform you that the has recently conferred the title of Academician upon Wyn Grant.

This is, of course, recognition of Wyn's highly distinguished scholarship and contribution to the Politics discipline, and especially through the .

I am sure you will join me in congratulating Wyn on this very prestigious achievement.

Chris

Christopher W. Hughes
Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies
Head of Department, Politics and International Studies