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IBEI is awarded two research projects by the European Science Foundation (ESF)

	The IBEI has been awarded two research projects by the European Science Foundation within the framework of the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECPR). Juan Díez Medrano, Coordinator of the research program “Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy”, and Robert Kissack, postdoctoral researcher at IBEI, are the academics involved in these projects. Prof. Medrano leads the project “Toward a European Society: Single Market, Binational Marriages, and Social Group Formation in Europe” together with the Universität Zürich, University of Mannheim - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Groningen. Dr Robert Kissack participates in the EU-PERFORM: Assessing the performance of the European Union in international institutions, along with researchers from the University of Aarhus, (Denmark) and NUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs).

In this issue

• IBEI is awarded two research projects by the European Science Foundation (ESF)
• Martin Shaw, new Visiting Professor
• The selection process for Junior Professor positions begins
• 5th Barcelona Summer School in International Politics
• The admissions process for IBEI’s Master’s in International Relations is open
• IBEI participates in the 1st Postgraduate Forum
• Publications
• Forthcoming Activities

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Martin Shaw, new Visiting Professor at IBEI

Professor Shaw, a leading researcher in global politics, war and genocide, will be at the Institut until next June. Prof. Shaw joins IBEI under the Ministry of Education’s Subprogramme of Mobility Stays of Teachers and Researchers in Spanish Centres, researching the topic “The International Relations of Genocide: Genocidal Violence in Contemporary Conflict”.

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The selection process for Junior Professor positions begins

Mid-December 2009 was the deadline for applications for Junior Professor positions. The announcement was published on the IBEI’s website and was distributed on the electronic bulletin boards of major international associations of Political Science, Social Sciences and International Studies. IBEI has received one hundred and eighty-nine applications from twenty different countries, from people holding doctoral degrees from prestigious universities. During the month of March, the selection committee will decide the final candidates.

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

5th Barcelona Summer School in International Politics

The fifth IBEI Barcelona Summer School in International Politics will take place from 28 June to 9 July 2010. It will be taught by authorities such as Prof. Carles Boix (Princeton University-IBEI), Juan Díez Medrano (IBEI), Helen Milner (Princeton University) Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH Zürich) and Daniel Posner (University of California, Los Angeles). The Barcelona Summer School in International Politics offers five courses (10 hours each) on significant topics in international relations and international politics. 28 June - 2 July Development and Democracy in Today’s World, Prof. Carles Boix (Princeton University- IBEI) Globalization and Society, Prof. Juan Díez Medrano (Universitat de Barcelona-IBEI) The World Economy and International Politics, Prof. Helen Milner (Princeton University) 5 – 9 July Explaining Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars, Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH Zürich) The Political Economy of Development, Prof. Daniel Posner (University of California Los Angeles) More info

The admissions process for IBEI’s Master’s in International Relations is open

Applications for admission to both the full-time and the part-time programme for the upcoming academic year are already being accepted. Students who wish to apply for the programme should submit their CV, academic transcript, copy of university degree or diploma, proof of proficiency in English and Spanish, a motivation letter and two reference letters. More info

IBEI participates in the 1st Postgraduate Forum

IBEI participated in the first Postgraduate Forum held in Madrid in late February. The main objective of this initiative is to set up a scenario adapted to the new European Education Area and to know what is being done in education in universities in the Spanish autonomous communities and in other countries.

PUBLICATIONS

The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies: Channels of Transfer and Stages of Difusión Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur, Xavier Fernández 2009/28

A new IBEI Working Papers is available at IBEI’s website (research section)

FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES

04/03/2010 | 14:00 | Room 4 - IBEI

Rhetorical Entrapment', Arguing, and Bargaining in International Negotiations for Weapons Prohibitions
Margarita Petrova (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals)

18/03/2010 | 14:00 | Room 4 – IBEI

The Cost of Empty Threats: A Penny, not a Pound
Jack Snyder (Columbia University)

18/03/2010 | 16:00 | Room 4 - IBEI

Politics of memory in the EU or Transitional justice in the EU
Leonardo Baccini

08/04/2010 | 14:00 | Room 4 - IBEI

The EU and Sub-Saharan Africa: developing the strategic culture of the Union’s Foreign Security and Defence Policy
Richard Whitman

06/05/2010 | 14:00 | Room 4 - IBEI

Principal-Agent Theory and the World Trade Organization
Manfred Elsig

20/05/2010 | 14:00 | Room 4 - IBEI

Subnational Election Campaigns, Voter Uncertainty, and Volatility Spillovers in Multilevel Systems
Michael Bechteli