School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology POSTGRADUATE BULLETIN 4 March 2004 1. New postgraduate completions in the Department 2. New research students in the Department 3. New Editorial Committee for Melbourne Journal of Politics 4. Postgrad "Global Political Theory Reading Group" (GPTRG) Meeting 5. Political Science/CERC Seminar: The EU and Global Governance 6. Monash University Seminar: Who is Running the War on Terror? Issues of this bulletin are archived on the web at: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/courses/postgraduate/bulletin.html *********************************************** 1. New postgraduate completions in the Department Congratulations to the following students who have completed their degrees: PhD Jeff Keddie - Inheriting Hilmer: competition policy and the regulation of professions. (Supervisor: Ann Capling) MAs Elisabeth Cowey - Government women's agencies, feminist policy networks and neo-liberalism: a case study of Victoria and New Zealand in the 1990s. (Supervisors: Verity Burgmann and Peter Chen) Meredith Martin - The impact of central Eastern European enlargement on the common foreign and security policy of the European Union. (Supervisor: Leslie Holmes) *********************************************** 2. New research students in the Department The Department welcomes new students commencing their research here: PhDs Valerie Ayres-Wearne - Refocusing the Australian welfare reform agenda through a commitment to sustainable development. (Supervisor: Jo Barraket) Adam Berryman - Islam and immigration in Europe. (Supervisor: Philomena Murray) Fiona Machin - The EU as a peacemaker for intra-state conflict? European integration and conflict resolution in Northern Ireland and Cyprus. (Supervisor: Philomena Murray) David Ross - Making a meal of it: Aid for food in a globalising economy. (Supervisor: Derek McDougall) Katrina Stats - Is the European union a cosmopolitan project? (Supervisor: Philomena Murray) MAs Jessica Brennan - Politics of democracy and sovereignity. (Supervisor: Michael Dutton) Viviana Cohn - The extent to which the IS principles of social psych rehabilitation reflect and inform the practice of social psych service delivery to people with a mental illness in Victoria. (Supervisor: Tim Marjoribanks) *********************************************** 3. New Editorial Committee for Melbourne Journal of Politics For anyone, who is interested in finding out what it takes to be an editor of a peer-reviewed postgraduate journal, a few of us are meeting for coffee in deedish (postgraduate lounge) at 1:00pm on Friday 5th. If you're interested in getting involved in the postgraduate community, and want to get some experience in the academic publishing world, this is a good opportunity; not to mention the abundant free books that come our way! If you have any questions beforehand, please contact mjp-politics@unimelb.edu.au. Nicole Boldt School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology *********************************************** 4. Postgrad "Global Political Theory Reading Group" (GPTRG) Meeting The GPTRG meets fortnightly and discusses, in an informal peer environment, articles of interest under a broad 'global politics' rubric. The next meeting is this Friday, 5 March, at 4:30pm in the Postgrad Room. We will be discussing: Anthony Pagden, 'The genesis of 'governance' and Enlightenment conceptions of the cosmopolitan world order' International Social Science Journal, Volume 50 Issue 155 Page 7 - March 1998 available online from http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1468-2451.00105/abs/ Hard copies will also be placed in the grey cabinet outside the Department Office. All welcome! Any queries, please contact Jarrod Lenne (GPTRG Convenor) jlenne@unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 5. Political Science/CERC Seminar: The EU and Global Governance presented by Dr Fraser Cameron (Director of Studies, European Policy Centre, Brussels) Tuesday 9th March 2004, 1.00-2.00pm CERC, Room 212, Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton The European Union (EU) faces a new geopolitical situation. The Iraq war and its aftermath plus the failure of the Cancun WTO meeting have triggered a new debate on global governance and international law. Kofi Annan has warned of the dangers of weakening the authority of the UN and other multilateral institutions. Romano Prodi has openly questioned whether thecurrent multilateral system is up to the challenges facing the world. At the sane time, the current US administration has openly scorned the multilateral system in pursuit of its one-dimensional security policy the war on terrorism although there are some indications that this approach may be changing as a result of the problems it faces in Iraq. In contrast, the European security strategy paper presented by Javier Solana to the European Council in December 2003 highlighted the importance of the EU working to strengthen the institutions of global governance. It implicitly called for a more active and effective EU role on the world stage. Dr Fraser Cameron will assess the prospects for the EU meeting its ambitious goals. Dr Fraser Cameron joined the European Commission in 1990 and has been closely involved in policy issues related to the external relations of the EU. From 1999 to 2001, he was Head of the Political and Academic Affairs Section in the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC. As an adviser in DG Relex he has worked on issues such as global governance, transatlantic relations, CFSP and enlargement. He joined the EPC on secondment from the Commission on 1 September 2002. Dr Cameron has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Canberra. He has lectured widely in the US, Asia, Australia and Europe. Dr Cameron is the author of a number of books and articles on foreign policy and European affairs, most recently The Enlargement of the European Union(1998) and The Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union : Past, Present and Future(1999). He has also written a book on US foreign policy after the Cold Warpublished by Routledge (2002) and edited a further book The Future of Europe Integration and Enlargement(Routledge, 2003). All welcome Presented with The Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) Enquiries: 8344 9502; cerc@cerc.unimelb.edu.au *********************************************** 6. Monash University Seminar: Who is Running the War on Terror? The Monash University School of Political and Social Inquiry extends to you an invitation to attend a seminar by Ms Yvonne Ridley: "Who is Running the War on Terror?" Yvonne Ridley is a Founder member of Women in Journalism, member of National Union of Journalists, British Association of Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists. She is an award-winning journalist of international standing who made the headlines in September 2001 when she was arrested by the Taliban and held for 10 days. Her journalistic career began in her native north of England in 1976. In 1996 she began working in London for the Daily Mirror and later moved to The Sunday Times, The Observer and the Sunday Express as well as other Fleet Street titles. She has also worked in Qatar as a senior editor for Aljazeera. Ridley has expanded into television and radio and presented TV documentaries and reports from Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan and has interviewed Yasir Arafat and Tariq Aziz in their private offices. Never far from controversy for her anti-war and humanitarian stance, Ridley was back in the headlines again recently when she embraced Islam. She says her unlikely journey began in the cell of an Afghan prison and one of her most popular talks is called from Captive to Convert - a story which appeals to all faiths and cultures. A promoter of women's rights and equality, she now spends much of her spare time talking about women in Islam and says the women's liberation movement actually started in the pages of the Qu'ran more than 1400 years ago. She has written two books: 'In The Hands of the Taliban' (2001) and 'Ticket to Paradise' (2003). Burchill Room, Performing Arts Complex (Bld.68), Monash University, Clayton Campus 1pm, Tuesday 9 March 2004 RSVP: Monday 8 March 2004 to Dr Andrew Newman (Andrew.Newman@arts.monash.edu.au)