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| Master’s Graduation Ceremony |
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| On 30 January 2009 the Graduation Ceremony of the Master in International Relations (academic years 2006-07 / 2007-08) took place. The event was crowned by the graduation lecture “The Global Strategic Context: Risks, Threats and Security Policy”. delivered by the Minister of Defence, Mrs Carme Chacón. The rector of Universitat de Barcelona and the vice-rectors of the other universities that issue the Master’s Certificate (UAB and UPF) awarded the certificates to all IBEI graduates. |
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CURRENT AFFAIRS |
| New Research Program at IBEI |
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| IBEI is pleased to announce the launch of a new research program, directed by Professor Esther Barbé. The new program, called “Security, Power and Multilateralism in a Global World", has been possible thanks to the framework agreement that IBEI and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) signed in late November 2008, which determines the formula of incorporation of UAB academia at IBEI. This new program joins an existing one on “Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy”, coordinated by UB Professor Juan Díez Medrano. |
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| IBEI Director Plan |
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| IBEI is currently working on a new 2009-2014 Director Plan with the objective of orienting the growing activities of the Institute in forthcoming years and reviewing the main strategic guidelines adopted since the Institute was set up. In December 2008 the Board agreed to open discussions within IBEI’s constituent bodies, and these discussions will lead to a draft document that will be presented at the next Board meeting in June. |
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| IBEI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009 |
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| The Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals is offering aone postdoctoral fellowship for the 2009-10 academic year (starting in October), renewable for a maximum period of two years. Applicants for this position should have a Ph.D. in Political Science, International Relations or the equivalent, obtained within the last three years. Applications must be submitted by 4 May 2009. |
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| More info: Call for Applications 2009 |
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| New Visiting Researchers |
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During these two first months of 2009 three new visiting researchers joined IBEI.
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Alfred Tovias earned his Ph.D in Economics at the Université de Genève (1974). He is the Walter Rathenau Professor in European Economics at the Department of International Relations of the Hebrew University. In 2001, he held the Jean Monnet Chair at the same University, the first and only one in Israel. Professor Tovias has taught at the Université de Genèva, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universität Mainz, ESADE, College of Europe (Bruges) and the London School of Economics. He has acted as a consultant to UNCTAD and to the World Bank, and as a research fellow of the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. His current areas of interest are trade policy, Israel and the EU, the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, regionalism, the political ,economy of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. He is the author of Tariff Preferences in Mediterranean Diplomacy (London, Macmillan, 1977) and Foreign Economic Relations of the European Community: The Impact of Spain and Portugal (Boulder, Rienner, 1990), and co-author of The Economics of Peace‑Making: Focus on the Egyptian‑Israeli Situation (London, Macmillan, 1983).
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Jaime Lluch earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University (2007) His thesis is entitled ‘Shades of Stateless Nationhood: Explaining Internal Variation in the Political Orientation of the National Movements of Quebec and Catalonia (1976-2005)’. His current areas of interest are nationalism, nationalist and ethnic conflict, ethnicity/race and multiculturalism, and national self-determination. He is also interested in comparative federalism and comparative constitutionalism, and imperialism and nation-state formation processes. In May 2007 he was awarded a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2007-09. During the first year of his postdoc he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence), and now he has arrived at IBEI.
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Grace Huang earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago (2005). She is Assistant Professor in Government at St Lawrence University. Her current areas of interest are political leadership and its impact on politics, and Chinese politics. She is in a sabbatical semester and is working on a book-length manuscript on Chiang Kai-shek’s ‘politics of shame’ in confronting domestic disunity in China and external threats from Japan during the 1920s and ’30s.The manuscript is under contract for publication by Cambria Press in 2009.
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POSTGRADUATE STUDIES |
| IBEIMUN |
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Eleven current students of the Master in International Relations participated from 12 February to 16 February at Harvard National Model United Nations Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN). Under the name of IBEIMUN students participated in the international conference, which has been held annually for the last 50 years. 3,000 students from 30 different countries simulated UN activity, discussing the most recent issues in the field of the international relations.
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| The admissions process for IBEI’s Master in International Relations is open |
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Applications for admission for both the full-time and the part-time programme for the upcoming academic year will be accepted until 17 July 2008. Students who wish to apply for the programme should submit their CV, academic transcript, copy of university degree or diploma, proof of proficiency of English and Spanish, a motivation letter, and two reference letters.
Students who wish to apply for an IBEI grant should submit a completed IBEI grant application form and an application package by 22 May 2008. |
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| More information: http://www.ibei.org/web_new/eng/master/preinscripcion.htm |
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| Erasmus Mundus MAPP 2009-2011 |
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The Admissions Committee of the Mundus MAPP consortium selected students for the 2009-2011 call in a meeting in February in Budapest who will be notified of their admission to the programme within the next months. The six first Mundus MAPP students coming from Cameroon, China, Columbia, United States, Peru and the Dominican Republic are currently following the Master of International Relations at IBEI for their second year of this programme, whereas students from Argentina, Armenia, China, Colombia, Mexico, Nepal, United States and Vietnam have chosen IBEI for their second year which will start in September 2009. |
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