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/

Recent research activities:

2010:

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, Aarhus University, Denmark, groupe de liaison conference: 'From crisis to new dynamics in the European Community, 1973-1983', keynote speaker, 'From crisis to new dynamics in the EC'

2009:

Institute of 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’).

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, and Lecturer in Further Education.

External posts held:
2010 March-April: Professeur invité, Sciences-Po, Paris; 2008 Nov-Dec, Visiting professor, Freie Universitat Berlin, Europawissenschaften Berlin; 2005-6: Professeur invité, Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes internationales, Geneva; 1997- : chaire Jean Monnet ad personam.

2005-, academic steering committee member EU Framework 6 GARNET network: ‘Global Governance and the EU’ network; 2003 – 2006: Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland; 1999-2004: British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, speaker; 2001: Chaire Walter-Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 1999: Professeur invité, University of Paris, I, France; 1998: Professeur invité, University Paris, III, France; 1998-2006 : Member of the Council, and Executive Committee (2000-2006), Royal Institute of International Affairs, (Chatham House), London, UK; 1991-  Member, Groupe de Liaison des professeurs d’histoire auprès de la Communauté Européenne,see: http://www.eu-historians.eu/Members

Teaching Responsibilities

Current: Course Director, European Politics and Society, MPhil course.

‘European Governance’, core course convenor, European Politics and Society MPhil; ‘European International History since 1945’, convenor.

Visiting speaker seminar series, 1998-2010.

Other teaching: Graduate and undergraduate lectures in International Relations; International Relations MPhil; graduate methods workshops.

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; JaaneTaalas; Paul Lettow; Andrea Benvenuti; Melissa Pine (Yaeger); Jelena Smoljan; Timo Noetzel; Aleksandra Dier (Krakowicz). Current doctoral supervisees: Kai Hebel; Tina Hansen; Alessandro Iandolo; Michael Manulak; Christopher Oates

Other administrative posts currently held: Chair Cyril Foster Committee, keynote visiting speakers: Karen AbuZayd (2008); William Burns (2009); Harold James (forthcoming, Nov 2010). Changing Character of War steering committee

Publications

'Ernest Bevin' in Mental Maps of the cold war, ed Jonathan Wright, forthcoming, 2010

'Berlin in Moscow. Isaiah Berlin: Academia, diplomacy and Britain’s Cultural Cold War', Melanges pour Gilbert Trausch, forthcoming, 2011

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

‘Germany and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990: the view from London’ in ed Vit Smetana, Iron Curtain, and East Central Europe twenty Years later, forthcoming, 2011

‘Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955’, for the 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, March-April 1949’, in JM Hanhimaki, G-H Soutou (eds), Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security, Routledge, 2010, 3-17

'La politique étrangère et de sécurité après la fin de la guerre froide’ in L’expérience Européenne: 50 ans de construction de l’Europe, 1957-2007, Des historiens en dialogue, eds Robert Frank et al., Bruylant, Nomos, 2010, 363-383.

Review article, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 20: 2, 2009, 368-371.

The EC/EU: a world security actor? 1957-2007, ED with Gerard Bossuat, Paris: Soleb, 2007, 432pp. pub in  French as ‘les CE, acteurs de la securité mondiale? Bilan de 50 ans de relations extérieures’.

'European integration history', Waseda Journal of Political Science and Economics, No.368, July 2007 (in Japanese)

Securing Europe? Implementing the European Security Strategy, Anne Deighton with Victor Mauer, Zurich: ETH Zurich, 2006

'‘A different 1956’: British responses to the Polish events, June –November 1956', Cold War History, vol 6 no. 4, 455-475, 2006. This also appears in Polish in 1956: Polski Pazdziernik, ed P Redakcja et al Warsaw, 2006, pp235-263.

'Entente néo-coloniale?: Ernest Bevin and the proposals for an Anglo-French Third World Power', 1945-49, Diplomacy and Statecraft, vol 17, 2006,

'Ernest Bevin and the Idea of Euro-Africa from the interwar to the postwar period', in L'Europe Unie et L'Afrique, eds M-T Bitsch et Gerard Bossuat, Brussels: Bruylant, Paris: LGDJ, Baden-Baden, Nonoms-Verlag, 2005.

New Dictionary of National Biography entry on Lord Strang, Oxford: OUP, 2004

‘Mitterrand, Thatcher and the Berlin Wall’, in Richard Mayne et al (eds), Cross Channel Currents: 100 years of the Entente Cordiale, London: Routledge, 2004
'Reassessing the fundamentals: the European Security and Defence Policy', Journal of Common Market Studies, 2002, now also published in, Integration in an expanding European Union: Reassessing the fundamentals, JHH Weiler, Iain Begg and John Peterson (eds),Oxford: Blackwell, 2003

'Vers un territoire sécurisé: la sécurité dans l'UE depuis le 11 septembre 2001', Vers les périmetres de sécurité? la gestion des espaces continentaux en Amérique du Nord et en Europe, eds M Fortmann, A Macleod, S Roussel, Outremont, Quebec: Athena editions, 2003

Dynamiques européennes: nouvel espace, nouveaux acteurs, 1969-1981, ed with Elisabeth du Réau, Robert Frank, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002

‘Minds not Hearts: British policy and West German rearmament’, in Debating Foreign Affairs, ed Christian Haase, Berlin: Philo, 2003

‘The Second Application for Membership of the European Communities’, in: Oliver Daddow (ed.), Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain’s Second Application to join the EEC, London: Frank Cass, 2002

'911 and NATO', Superterrorism: Policy responses, ed Lawrence Freedman, Oxford: Blackwell, 2002pp 119-134. Also appeared in special issue of Political Quarterly.

‘The Past in the Present: British Imperial memories and the European Question’, in Memory and Power in Postwar Europe, ed Jan-Werner Mueller, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp100-120

‘European Union Policy’, in Anthony Seldon (ed), The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001

‘Constructing a cold war peace’, Diplomatic History, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2001

‘Why St Malo Matters’, in The New Transatlantic agenda: facing the challenges of global governance, Hall Gardner & G. Radoslava (eds), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001

‘The second British application for membership of the EEC’, in Wilfried Loth (ed), Crises and Compromises: the European project, 1963-1969, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2001

'Britain & Germany, 1945-1972', in Uneasy Allies: British-German Relations & European Integration since 1945, Klaus Larres (ed), Oxford: OUP, 2000

'British Foreign Policy-Making: the Macmillan Years', in Wolfram Kaiser and Gillian Staerck (eds), British Foreign Policy, 1955-64: Contracting Options, London: Macmillan, 2000,3-18

'The European Union and NATO's war over Kosovo: towards the glass ceiling?' in Alliance Politics, Kosovo, and NATO's war: Allied Force or Forced Allies?, ed Pierre Martin and Mark R Brawkey, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2000

‘The Military Security Pool: towards a new security regime for Europe?’,The International Spectator, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October – December 2000

'The Remaking of Europe: 1945-1989', in Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis (eds), Oxford History of the Twentieth Century, Oxford: OUP, 1998, pb 2000

‘Labour, New Labour and European integration, 1945-1999’, in An Anglo-German dialogue: the Munich Lectures on the history of International Relations, A M Birke, M Brechtken, A Searle (eds), Munich, 2000

Before 2000 includes

Widening, Deepening, Acceleration, the European Economic Community, 1957-1963, ed with AS Milward, Baden-Baden: Nomos, Brussels: Bruylant: 1999

WEU, 1948-1998: From the Treaty of Brussels to the Treaty of Amsterdam, ed with Eric Rémacle, Brussels: Institut Royale des Relations Internationales: 1998

Western European Union, 1954-1997, Defence, Security, Integration, Oxford/ Reading: EIRU, 1997

'L'image de 1958 en Grande-Bretagne: changement et continuité', L'avenement de la Ve République, ed Maurice Vaisse, Paris: Fondation Charles de Gaulle, Armand Colin, 1999

'The Last Piece of the Jigsaw: Britain and the Creation of Western European Union, 1954', Contemporary European History, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 1998

‘Ostpolitik or Westpolitik?: British foreign policy, 1968-1975’, International Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 4, October 1998

‘The cold war in Europe, 1945-1947’, in Explaining International Relations since 1945, Ngaire Woods (ed), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996

Building Postwar Europe: National Decision-Makers and European Institutions, 1948-1963, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995/ 2003

The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, 1993 (paperback)

Britain and the First Cold War, ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990