The third IBEI Barcelona Summer School in International Politics will take place from 30 June to 11 July 2008.  It will be taught by authorities such as Professor Stephen Walt, Professor Ronald Rogowski, Professor Simon Hix, Professor Carles Boix and Professor Fred Halliday.

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*Theory and Policy in International Relations (Prof. Stephen Walt, Harvard University)
*Trade, Inequality, and Politics (Prof. Ronald Rogowski, University of Califonia)
*Democratization in an Interdependent World (Carles Boix, Princeton University-IBEI)
*The Middle East at the Crossroads (Fred Halliday, IBEI)
*Institutions and Politics in the European Union (Prof. Simon Hix, London School of Economics)

IBEI is taking part in the EU Seventh Framework Program after the Commission approved the project “Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling?” (CONSENSUS). IBEI is part of the consortium that includes Universität Konstanz (Germany), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Aarhus Universitet (Denmark), and European University Institute (Italy).

Several students who completed the Masters in International Relations with IBEI in 2007 are undertaking internships in different companies and institutions. Among them are those in the Microeconomic Department in Banc de Sabadell; at CIDOB Foundation, giving support to the Mediterranean, Migrations and Europe Programmes; at the Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya; at the Asociación para las Naciones Unidas en España giving support to the communication department; and at the Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ministry, in the General Subdirectorate for International Technical Department in the General Consulate in Boston.

IBEI’s Annual Report 2007 is now available. It provides details of the activities of the Institute during 2007, the research it has undertaken so far, the characteristics of the Masters programme offered at IBEI, and the main aspects of its budget. It also highlights the evolution of IBEI’s research team (Junior Professors, Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Visiting Professors) and the new Academic Programme of the Masters in International Relations.

IBEI Working Papers #13 Explaining Variation in Organizational Change:The Reform of Human Resource Management in the EU&OECD, by C hristoph Knill and Tim Balint, is available from IBEI’s website (research section)

On 12 March IBEI hosted an information session presented by Prof. Fred Halliday, ICREA – IBEI research professor. Prof. Halliday spoke on the evolution and the current state of international relations. Prospective students attending this session were informed about IBEI’s Master in International Relations and the admissions process for both the full-time and the part-time programme. A new information session will take place in May 20.