Professor Anne Deighton (BA DipEd MA PhD FRHistS)

Post: Professor of European International Politics, University Lecturer, Fellow, Wolfson College

Research Areas and Interests

My research interests centre upon the Cold War, the historical development of European integration, post-cold war security, and British foreign policy.

link to Oxford International History Research network:

http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/oihrn_about.asp

http://tcho.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

University Commitments

2009-12: Course Director, European Politics and Society, MPhil course.

‘European Governance’, core course convenor; ‘European International History since 1945’, option convenor.

Doctoral students successfully supervised since 1998 (IR, Politics, Modern history):Liz Kane; Renata Dwan; Piers Ludlow; Carolina Labarta; Lorena Ruano; Juhana Aunesluoma; Silke Skär; Tobias Theiler; Jaane Taalas; Paul Lettow; Andrea Benvenuti; Melissa Pine (Yaeger); Jelena Smoljan; Timo Noetzel; Aleksandra Dier (Krakowicz),  Kai Hebel; Alessandro Iandolo; Christopher Oates

Bermeo Commission, graduate review committee, 2012; Jenkins memorial studentship committee, 2012; Trudeau Scholarship committee, 2011, 2012.

Chair, Cyril Foster Committee, 2008-11: Chair and host for Cyril Foster lectures: 2 February 2011, Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon; 4 November 2010,  Professor Harold James,  ‘International Order after the financial crisis?’; 24 November 2009, William J Burns, USS, State Department, ‘America and the world in a new order’

External activities

Committee member of conseil scientifique de la recherche historique de la défense, Ecole militaire, Paris.

Member, steering group for research project, ‘Europe in Transition’, Research Board of the Division for Science at the Research Council of Norway.

Advisory board of NORCENCOWAR research project, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

External assessor for professorial and other appointments, in Denmark; Norway; Switzerland; University of Warwick, UK.  External referee for, inter al,  EU European Research Council.

Member of the Council, and Executive Committee (2000-2006), Royal Institute of International Affairs, (Chatham House), London, UK.

Member of the editorial/ advisory board: Contemporary European History; Cold War History; Journal of European Integration History, Twentieth Century British History

Professeur invité: SAIS, John Hopkins, Bologna, Italy, 2013; Sciences Po, Paris, France, 2010; Freie Universitat Berlin, Europawissenschaften Berlin; Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005-6. Also, Paris III, and Paris I, France; Chaire Walter-Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, ULB, Belgium

2012

June, University of Iceland, paper on ‘EU’s strategic crisis: temporary or fatal?’

June, Berlin, ‘1987 Der Ostblock vor dem Zusammenbruch’, paper on  PM Thatcher and the end of the cold war.

May, EEAS conference, St Antony’s, Oxford, discussant, ‘EU’s new international role’.

April,  LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme,10th LSE-GWU-UCSB Graduate Conference on the Cold War, commentator and presenter, ‘Did the Cold War Matter?’

April, keynote speaker, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center, Bologna, ‘Power Shifts’

January, IR Colloquium, DPIR, Oxford, ‘War, law, politics and the early cold war: UK and the making of the ECHR(1950)’

January, Wolfson College, Oxford, conference: Norm entrepreneurship: the Council of Europe in comparative perspective’, co-organiser with Prof Gwen Sasse; paper on ‘War, Law, and Cold War’

2011

May,  Swedish Institute of International Relations, Stockholm, conference: EU as a global actor: lessons from the Arab Spring. Paper, ‘Framing an EU foreign policy’

May, speaker, Oxford University Alumni meeting, Paris, école militaire

March, University of Reading, Dept of Politics and IR, speaker, Human Rights and the creation of the Council of Europe Convention

Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, Oxford, ‘Authorship, memory and manuscripts: writing political biography and memoirs’, co-organised with Helen Langley and Martin Professor Martin Ceadel, session chair 7 Feb, DR Thorpe, Peter Mangold; 21 Feb, Anne Perkins.

2010

November,  Ecole de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, L’Européen et la guerre: ‘The EU: a world security actor?’

October, Host and Chair for Geir Lundestad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Professor of International History at the University of Oslo., ‘The relative power of the US in international relations: from the cold war to today’, St Antony’s College, Oxford

September, organising host for the British International Studies (BISA) International History 22^nd annual conference, St Antony’s College, Oxford.

April, ‘From Empire to Europe: the strategic goals of British Foreign Policy in the 1950s and 1960s", Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center, Bologna

March, Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway. Symposium: Britain and Norway: contacts, networks and influences. ('Our Scandinavian Allies: Britain, the Council of Europe and the early cold war')

February, University of Aarhus, Denmark, keynote: "From Crisis to New Dynamics: the European Community 1974-83".

2009

Instituteof Contemporary History and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: conference on 'Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe twenty years later', (‘Germany and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990: the view from London’).

‘Mental Maps in the Cold War’, Christ Church, Oxford, (‘Ernest Bevin, 1881-1951’).

Aarhus University, Denmark, conference ‘Writing Transnational History’, ‘Cold War History and European Integration’

Institute of Contemporary British History, Malet House, London. ‘Britain and the Cold War’, keynote address, ‘The State of the Art: the United Kingdom and the Cold War’.

IHEID, (Graduate Institute), Geneva: conference, ‘NATO – sixty years, 1949-2009’. (‘Three men and the world they made: Acheson, Bevin, Schuman and the creation of NATO, 1949’).

St Antony’s College, Oxford University, conference, ‘The Changing Character of War’, (‘European Multilateral Institutions and the Changing Character of War’).

Publications, from 2010

‘Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of 1961’ in The Vienna Summit of 1961, eds Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx. (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Mark Kramer, ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books [2012 forthcoming] Published in German already.

‘From crisis to new dynamics in the European Community, 1973-1983’, in The European Community in the 1970s and 1980s, ed Johnny Laursen, Nomos, 2012, forthcoming.

 ‘Ernest Bevin and the promotion of human rights in Europe, 1945-1950’, in Living Political Biography: narrating Twentieth Century European Lives ed Ann-Christina Knudsen et al, Aarhus UP, forthcoming, 2012

‘Our Scandinavian Allies’, in Britainand Norway: special relationships? eds Helge Pharo and Patrick Salmon, Oslo, Akademika Forlag, 2012, 224-249, forthcoming

 ‘The EU’s strategic crisis: temporary or fatal?’,http://www.evropustofa.is/fileadmin/Content/Publications/PDFs/Anne_Deighton_Soguthing.pdf

'Ernest Bevin' in Mental Maps of the cold war, ed Jonathan Wright and S Casey, Palgrave, 2011, 52-70

'Berlin in Moscow. Isaiah Berlin: Academia, diplomacy and Britain’s Cultural Cold War', in Du Luxembourg a l’Europe:pour Gilbert Trausch, ed Monique Kieffer, Editions St Paul, 2011, 559-71

'The EU, multilateralism, and the use of force', in The Changing Character of War, eds Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, OUP, 2011, 315-333

‘Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955’, in Cambridge History of the Cold War, eds Melvyn Leffler & Arne Westad, CUP, 2010, 112-133

 ‘Three ministers and the world they made: Acheson, Bevin, Schuman, and the making of the North Atlantic Treaty 1949’, in Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security, eds JM Hanhimaki, G-H Soutou, Routledge, 2010, 3-17.

Previous Posts Held

1991-1997 University of Oxford, National Westminster Bank, University Senior Research Fellow, GB Fellow of St Antony’s College; 1987-1991 University of Reading, Department of Politics and International Relations. Lecturer; Tutor for Open University, Lecturer in Further Education sector.