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The Department of Politics and International Relations has a large number of research projects that cover a diverse range of topics. Many are interdisciplinary, shared with other departments and faculties in the University and with academics at other institutions.

Showcasing a Selection of Current Projects

The DPIR publicity brochures are created annually for the University alumni weekend, showcasing a selection of current DPIR research projects. Please open the file or click on the image for research projects for the academic years 2011-12 and 2012-13.

2011 - 12 2012-13

Past Projects

Confronting the limits of explanatory theory in International Relations (Dr Adam Humphreys). Funded by British Academy

Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in Southern Cultures (Dr Rama Mani).

Exit Strategies and the Consolidation of Peace (Professor Richard Caplan). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund, Carnegie Corporation and Folke Bernadotte Academy, NATO.

Global Youth and Media - Notions of Cosmopolitanism in the Global Public Space (Dr Sarmila Bose). Funded by Australian Research Council

Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in Global Governance: Reputation and Resistance (Professor Rosemary Foot). Funded by British Academy

The Great Powers and the Middle East since the First World War (Professor Avi Shlaim). Funded by British Academy Research Professorship

America's natural allies and adversaries: The role of identity in US-UK and US-China relations, 1900-1963 (Dr Yuen Foong Khong). Funded by Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Winners and losers: The politics of setting international financial reporting rules (Professor Walter Mattli). Funded by John Fell Research Development Fund

Emerging powers and international regimes: A comparative study of Brazil, China and India (Dr Amrita Narlikar/Dr Andy Hurrell). Funded by The Nuffield Foundation

Inclusion without membership: Bringing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus closer to Europe (Dr Roy Allison). Funded by British Academy Research Professorship

The international administration of war-torn territories (Professor Richard Caplan). Funded by United States Institute of Peace and the Leverhulme Trust

Protracted refugee situations and host state and regional security (Dr Gil Loescher). Funded by Ford Foundation / Nuffield Foundation

The consolidation of peace-building in Africa (Professor Neil MacFarlane).

Civic structures for Palestinian refugees (CIVITAS) (Dr Karma Nabulsi).

The anatomy of informal governance (Dr Jochen Prantl). Funded by ESRC First Grants Scheme

The Politics of WTO Reform (Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis).

Global Norms and Global Political Legitimacy (Mark Philp/Andrew Hurrell).

Rethinking Europe in a non-European world (RENEW) (Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Workshop: Peacebuilding and corruption (Dr Andrew Hurrell). Funded by World Bank

Disaggregating the globalized regulatory state: The cases of global regulation in food and transport (Professor Walter Mattli). Funded by British Academy

Regional Powers and Global Order (Professor Andrew Hurrell). Funded by German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History: Setting a Collaborative Research Agenda and Building Capacity (Dr Karma Nabulsi). Funded by British Academy

A single voice for effective multilateralism? EU foreign policy coordination and transatlantic conflicts over multilateral agreements (Caroline Fehl). Funded by VolkswagenStiftung, European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS) Programme

Argumentative encounters: international crisis management as European foreign policy? (Dr Markus Kornprobst). Funded by British Academy; John Fell OUP Research Fund

Conference: 'Arguing global governance: lifeworlds, power, reasoning, persuasion, and change' (Dr Markus Kornprobst). Funded by British Academy

A 'force for good in the world'? Europe and the use of armed force after 11 September (Aleksandra Krakiewicz). Funded by VolkswagenStiftung

Archives for twentieth century international history (Dr Anne Deighton). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund Small Award

Sovereignty as responsibility (Professor Jennifer Welsh).

Transatlantic relations and world order: Understanding US-European conflicts over multilateral institutions (Dr Caroline Fehl). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Governing the Globe? (Professor Andrew Hurrell).

Pakistan's North West and India's North East: Colonial Frontiers and Post-colonial Conflicts (Dr Sarmila Bose).

The political theory of politics (Professor Michael Freeden). Funded by ESRC Professorial Fellowship

The comparative study of political thought (Professor Michael Freeden). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Radical democrats: reconsidering US democracy (Dr Marc Stears). Funded by Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Modern Arabic Islamic Political Thought (Ronald Nettler).

Comparing Islamic Conceptualisations of Civil Society in Indonesia and Malaysia (Dr Carlo Bonura).

British political pamphlets of the 19th and 20th centuries (Dr Elizabeth Frazer).

European Election Study, 2004: Great Britain (Dr James Tilley and Dr Christopher Wlezien).

Social inequalities and why it matters for the economic and democratic development of Europe and its citizens: Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe in comparative perspective (Professor Stephen Whitefield). Funded by 1.2 million European Commission Sixth Framework

Campaign dynamics in the referendums on the European Constitution (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

Primary and Secondary Effects in Educational Attainment (Dr Michelle Jackson).

Social Organisation in the Former Soviet Union (Professor Stephen Whitefield). Funded by Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship

Reconsidering party divisions in Western Europe: Lessons from the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (Professor Stephen Whitefield). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund; Nuffield Foundation

Polling Observatory (Dr. Mark Pickup). Funded by Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen's University

Political attitudes of groups with knowledge-based disadvantages (Dr Gabor Toka).

Conference: The economy and vote choice in comparative perspective: The next generation (Prof Raymond Duch). Funded by British Academy

Religion, Euroscepticism and the Media (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by NORFACE REM Project

Social Capital and Small Worlds: theoretical and empirical advances (Professor Tom A.B. Snijders). Funded by ESRC First Grant

Voting Behaviour in Multilevel Elections: experimental evidence (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt).

EUREQUAL: Social Inequality and Why it Matters (Professor Stephen Whitefield). Funded by European Commission Sixth Framework Programme

Realising welfare rights (Dr Katherine Eddy). Funded by ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship

The use of 'Ideal Theory' in social justice debates (Dr Katherine Eddy). Funded by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship

Conference: Genetics and justice (Dr Colin Farrelly). Funded by Wellcome Trust

Global Justice and the Environment (Prof Simon Caney).

On Cosmopolitanism: A Defence (Professor Simon Caney).

Rescuing Justice and Equality: Celebrating the Career of G A Cohen (Dr Stuart White).

Festivals of Freedom: Culture, Democracy, and the Making of the Free World (Professor Marc Stears). Funded by AHRC

Family Values: A Liberal Egalitarian Theory of the Family (Professor Adam Swift). Funded by AHRC

Being and becoming ethnic in Europe and Africa: The politics of ethnic recognition in Nigeria, France and the UK (Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Democratic Accountability, Party Systems and Corruption in Democracies around the World (Dr Petra Schleiter). Funded by British Academy

Business to the Beat of the Drum: Chinese Agency and African Investment (Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Equity and Climate Change (Professor Simon Caney). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Identity, Citizenship and Trust in a Dividing State: The Case of Sudan (Dr Philip Roessler). Funded by British Academy

Immigration attitudes in British Electoral politics (Dr Scott Blinder). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Institutional designs in regime transitions: limits to party pluralism in Europe (Prof Giovanni Capoccia). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Knots of Ungovernability: Mapping Popular Contention in China over Time and Space (Dr Patricia M. Thornton). Funded by British Academy

Measuring Social Networks and Political Influence (Dr Meredith Rolfe). Funded by British Academy

Political Conduct Strategies of First-time MPs (Dr David Hine and Dr Mark Philp). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Reform Capacity in European Welfare States (Dr Johannes Lindvall). Funded by British Academy

The Effects of the Southern Sudan Independence Referendum on Identity and Citizenship in Khartoum (Dr Philip Roessler). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

The Emotional Voter. An Experimental Test of the Impact of Emotions on British Electoral Behaviour (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by British Academy

Electoral Competition and the Organization of Violence in Kenya (Adrienne LeBas). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

The Political Consequences of Inequality (Professor F. David Rueda). Funded by British Academy

The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Society (Chelsea Payne). Funded by Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand

The Theory And Practice Of Fostering Unity Amongst The Culturally Diverse Citizens Of Modern Polities (Dr Varun Uberoi). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Understanding Vote Choice in India: A new dataset on candidates for legislative office (Dr Adam Ziegfeld). Funded by British Academy and John Fell OUP Research Fund

William Godwin’s diary: Reconstructing a social and political culture 1788-1836 (Dr Mark Philp). Funded by Leverhulme Trust, British Academy and John Fell OUP Research Fund.

Perceptions of Power:Voter Attribution of Responsibility within the European Union (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Adolescent Peer Social Network Dynamics and Problem Behaviour (Professor Tom A.B.Snijders). Funded by National Institutes of Health

Ministerial structure and partisan competition for attention (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by Carlsberg Foundation

PIREDEU: Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt). Funded by European Commission

Peace Dividend, Angola-style: The New Business Class and the State after the Civil War (Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira). Funded by British Academy

Turkey: Illegal drugs, public policymaking and foreign relations (Dr Philip Robins). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

Democracy, parties and elections in Chile 1989-2005 (Mr Alan Angell). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

Anti-imperialist activity in Britain, 1900-1945, especially concerning India (Dr Nicholas Owen). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

Matsumoto Jiichiro and the making of modern Japan (Dr Ian Neary). Funded by British Academy Larger Research Grant

Measuring political repression in advanced democracies: A study of Western Europe (Prof Giovanni Capoccia). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund/British Academy/Nuffield Foundation

Militant democrats: Political repression in contemporary Western Europe (Prof Giovanni Capoccia). Funded by British Academy Senior Research Fellowship

Crisis management in Russian politics (Dr Paul Chaisty). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

China and Southeast Asia in Mekong River Basin: conflict, cooperation and security (Dr Evelyn Goh). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

The 'New Economy of Security' : Contemporary insecurities and the pluralization of coercive forces (Dr Sarah Percy). Funded by ESRC Research Seminar Grant

Measuring Power and Influence in Asia (Dr Evelyn Goh). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund Small Award; BA Small Grant

Countering Extremism: How can governments and communities be more effective? (Professor Hew Strachan). Funded by Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Cabinet Office

Particularism and Legislative Behaviour in the Russian Federation (Dr Paul Chaisty). Funded by Nuffield Foundation Social Sciences Small Grant

Democratic transition in the context of international administration (Oisín Tansey). Funded by ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship

The political economy of post-communist economic adjustment (Dr George G. Georgiadis). Funded by ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship

The challenge of religious accommodation (Dr Stuart White). Funded by Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Darfur in Comparative Perspective: Regime Crises, Political Exclusion and Civil War Onset in Africa (Dr Philip Roessler).

Specialisation in Types of Political Participation in Europe (Dr Eline de Rooij).

The politics of welfare reform (Dr Johannes Lindvall). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund; Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse

Coping with innovation: The political regulation of personal information in comparative perspective (Dr Andreas Busch). Funded by ESRC

The Fifth Republic at Fifty: Fifty Years of Constitutional Change in Britain and France (Vernon Bogdanor). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

The Politics of Restructuring: Agendas and Uncertainty in Japan's Electricity Deregulation (Dr Ian Neary).

The Mediated Economy in the 2008 US Elections (Dr. Raymond Duch). Funded by The Nuffield Foundation

The Invasion of Britain: 1793-1815 (Dr Mark Philp).

ESRC Public Services Programme (Professor Christopher Hood).

Contributing to a comprehensive understanding of the Balkan crisis: (Dr Ioannis Armakolas).

Ethnicity, Violence and Electoral Competition: Kenya in Comparative Perspective (Dr Adrienne LeBas).

The American State (Professor Desmond King).

The politics of inequality in advanced industrial states (Professor F. David Rueda).

Parliaments and majority rule in East Central Europe (Dr Radoslaw Zubek). Funded by British Academy

The Egyptian Revolution One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Progress (Dr. Reem Abou-El-Fadl). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Citizens, interest groups and legislative activity: A longitudinal study of interest representation (Dr. Heike Kluver). Funded by British Academy

External Actors in Conflict Management in the Post-Soviet Space (Dr Gwendolyn Sasse). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council

Post-War Reconstruction in Angola: Oil, the State and the Politics of Oligarchic Capitalism (Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira). Funded by Leverhulme Trust

History’s Rearview Mirror: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Dr Patricia M. Thornton). Funded by British Academy

Internal Party Democracy in post-Apartheid Africa (Dr Shane Mac Giollabhui). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Transnational Flows of Islamic Political Thought in Indonesian Debates over Liberal Islam: the Case of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (Dr Carlo Bonura). Funded by ASEASUK Research Grant

Taskforce on UK Energy, Foreign Policy and Development Assistance (Dr Ngaire Woods). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

The embedded aid system in Ghana (Dr Lindsay Whitfield). Funded by British Academy

Negotiating aid: how can aid-receiving governments expand their policy space (Dr Lindsay Whitfield).

Global Economic Governance (Dr Ngaire Woods). Funded by International Development Research Centre

Rolling out affordable health solutions for the world's poorest (Dr Ngaire Woods). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Joint initiative on the world trading system and economic governance (Dr Ngaire Woods). Funded by Ford Foundation

Global Economic Governance For Development: Finance, Intellectual Property and Trade (Professor Ngaire Woods). Funded by Ford Foundation

Global Migration Governance: Multiple and Contested Institutions (Dr Alexander Betts). Funded by MacArthur Foundation

The American State: An analytical narrative history (Professor Desmond King). Funded by Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy (Professor Nancy Bermeo). Funded by John Fell Fund OUP Research Fund

Humanitarian Ethics (Dr Hugo Slim).

The Responsibility to Prevent: Developing Ad hoc and Systemic Strategies (Professor Jennifer Welsh). Funded by AusAID

Why We Fight: The Purposes of Military Force in the Twenty-First Century (Dr Seth Lazar). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

Biafra - Crises of democracy and citizenship in Nigeria (Ike Okonta). Funded by Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

The politics of war commemoration in Mozambique (Dr Eric Morier-Genoud). Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant

Workshop: The politics of nations and nationalism in lusophone Africa (Dr Eric Morier-Genoud). Funded by British Academy

Democracy, identity and citizenship (Jan-Georg Deutsch). Funded by Nuffield Foundation

Sociological and Political Foundations of National Identity (Dr Sophie Duchesne). Funded by British Academy

Citizens Talking about Europe (Dr Sophie Duchesne).

The Renewal of the Sociology of the State (Des King and Patrick Le Galès).

Europe's Muslim Neighbourhoods (Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis).

French Politics (David Goldey and Pascal Perrineau).

Joint Doctoral Seminar in International Relations, Sciences-Po/Oxford (Andrew Hurrell).

Echoes of Imperialism (Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis).

Legislatures in Europe (Dr Katrin Auel).

Beyond the BRICs metaphor. Making sense of non-western power (Andrew Hurrell, Marie Mendras and Karoline Postel-Vinay).

Comparative Analysis of Elites (Jean-Pascal Daloz & Sudhir Hazareesingh).

Sequence Modelling of everyday activities (Laurent Lesnard (OSC) and Man-Yee Kan (Sociology)).

Electoral decision in France (Dr. Raymond Duch).

The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in the UK and France: A Longitudinal Approach (Christel Kesler & Mirna Safi).

The Dualisation of European Societies (Bruno Palier and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser ).

The European Union in International Security (Christopher Bickerton and Bastien Irondelle).

The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in the UK and France: A Longitudinal Approach (Christel Kesler and Mirna Safi ).

The Politics of Inequalities (Nonna Mayer and Nancy Bermeo).

Public services: Correlates of success in performance management (Professor Iain McLean). Funded by ESRC Research Grant

The performance assessment of local authorities in England (Dr Dirk Haubrich). Funded by ESRC Academic Placement Fellowship

Reviewing electoral boundaries (Dr David Butler). Funded by Committee on Standards in Public Life

Options for Britain II (Professor Iain McLean). Funded by Economic and Social Research Council; John Fell OUP Research Fund; Gatsby Foundation

Coverage of the 2011 Referendum in the Sudanese Media (Dr David Levy). Funded by Open Society Institute

Mapping Russia's internet for civil and uncivil society (Floriana Fossato). Funded by Open Society Institute Network Media Program

Money and the News (). Funded by The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd

Dancing with Democracy: Media-state relations in emerging democracies (David Levy/Adrian Hadland).

Axess research fellowship in comparative European journalism (Dr Henrik Örnebring). Funded by Ax:son Johnson Programme on Comparative European Journalism

Muslims and Islam in the European media & Europe in the media of Muslim majority countries (Dr Sarmila Bose). Funded by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Markets, morals and the media: Questions of ethics in business journalism (Dr Sarmila Bose). Funded by Nuffield College Politics Research Support Fund

News Media and Public Trust (Prof Stephen Coleman). Funded by Scott Trust Charitable Foundation

The Price of Plurality (Dr Tim Gardam).

International News: Provision, Trust and Consumption in a Rapidly Changing Broadcasting Environment (Dr David Levy). Funded by BBC, France24 and Carnegie Corporation.

Threats and Opportunities to the Business of Journalism and Its Role in Democracy (Dr David Levy).

Can It Tweet its way to Democracy? The promise of Participatory Media in Africa (Dr David Levy). Funded by Open Society Institute

Coverage of Major Infrastructure Projects in Britain and France (Dr David Levy). Funded by Isimm Ricerche

The Global News Challenge: Assessing Changing Provision, Consumption and Trust in International Broadcast News Supply in Africa and South Asia (Dr Anne Geniets). Funded by Green Templeton College

Coverage of the 2011 Referendum in the Sudanese Media (Dr David Levy). Funded by Open Society Institute

Trust in news media after the revolution: The case of Egypt (Professor Robert Picard). Funded by John Fell OUP Research Fund

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